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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 11 hours ago
• Community News

  This is a place where you can read about everything that's happening on Macmillan's Community. From guest stories, to sharing awareness months, here is where you'll hear about all of the latest from Macmillan's Community.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 14 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 18 hours ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 6 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 8 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 13 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 14 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 15 days ago
• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

  Sierraoscar 16 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 21 days ago

Latest blog posts

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  One Life Live It

  Pinktober and Movember

  There's not much more powerful than sharing stories and at a recent event of c30 colleagues, they did just that.  A colleague and I hosted an event to discuss cancer at work, leading with him talking about the challenges of losing one of his...

  Irishgirl16 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 217: Chats in Two Places and My Cardi Unravels.

  Post 217: Chats in Two Places and My Cardi Unravels. With one eye on the Baz-Ball capers down under, I started the day somewhere between 8 and 8:30 — hopefully. But as I looked out the kitchen window to the front (with Mr Vicious already ringi...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Stoma reversal

  Stoma reversal

  Hi In may of 2024 I was diagnosed with cancer of the rectum and was given an emergency stoma. 18 months on after 10 rounds of chemotherapy and a week of radiotherapy and the tumour being removed, my surgeon has now given me the option of a stoma reve...

  TinkaT 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 216: A Busy Day and happy tears.

  Post 216: A Busy Day and happy tears. Getting up for counselling isn’t a chore, and after Mr Vicious was fed, he was informed that his dinner might be late tonight due to the CT Scan. He replied — quite reasonably — that it was fin...

  Mr U 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 215: A Letter That Suggests Honesty Soon

  Post 215: A Letter That Suggests Honesty Soon I’ve been frustrated lately — properly frustrated — and all it’s got me is closer to chasing my own tail like a confused dog. Running in circles, watched, fed, watered… but...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Morning glories

  The cancer journey was always going to track the changing seasons; now it is really showing, always in the most beautiful and surprising way. Waking up each morning, after I've wriggled fingers and toes and stretched the limbs, it's time to draw the ...

  WalkerGirl 9 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  18. Week 6 Post treatment, 4th to 10th October

  Sunday 5th October 3 days of antibiotics and no change to the lump in my arm. Still eating ok, albeit smaller portions than what I used to have before 2025, but getting slightly bigger each week. Still only taking paracetamol first thing in the morni...

  NorfolkBor 9 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  17. Week 5 Post treatment 27th September to 3rd October

  Saturday 27th September My routine is now mouthwash in the morning followed by flush and twist of the PEG, paracetamol 4 times a day and 8, or as close to 8 Fortisip drinks per day.   Sunday 28th September Same routine, but I have decided to cut...

  NorfolkBor 9 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  16. Week 4 Post treatment 20th to 26th September

  Saturday 20th September I stopped taking my ibuprofen today as my pain levels are ok and I don’t think its adding anything, but will carry on with the paracetamol as well as the 8 bottles of Fortisip drinks a day. For dinner had another ready m...

  NorfolkBor 9 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  15. Week 3 Post Treatment 13th to 19th September 2025

  Saturday 13th September Continuing to drink the drinks normally but taking the meds through the PEG. Managed to eat a yogurt at mid-day and had a small amount of scrambled eggs but no toast, this was ok on my throat but the top of my mouth was a bit ...

  NorfolkBor 9 months ago