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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 17 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 20 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 1 day 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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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 160: If you’re already low; please skip this post!

  Post 160: If you’re already low; please skip this post! ——— After two days (and the night in between) of increased struggles with stuff like putting on my dressing gown and getting on and off the loo — due to throbbing...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 159: Another 29 days and this blog will end.

  Post 159: Another 29 days and this blog will end. That’s if the flipin’ chemo ever ends. ——— Four weeks — Monday the official end of the treatment — will herald a sigh of relief from my Darling and me, but...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 158: Rest, recovery and recollections.

  Post 158: Rest, recovery and recollections. I don’t often re-read the blog after it’s been uploaded, but sadly I did yesterday and got a real shock from its incoherent wanderings. Perhaps I was more ill than I thought I was, or perhaps I...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  Community News

  Community this or that quiz- Coffee morning

  We want to bring our Online Community together to connect and have some light hearted fun during September, as it is the hallmark month for Macmillan’s World’s biggest coffee morning. Find the coffee morning this or that quiz in this blog.

  Megan- Online Community Team 11 months ago
• Kidney Not

  Uh oh . . . . . . .

  I had my regular monitoring scan on 7th July and catch-up with my onco on 29th July.  There is no problem and we agreed to catch-up again in March 2026.  But wait! Two weeks later my onco phones out of the blue!  There is a problem.&nb...

  Mmum 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 157: Dr S and I have a frank and friendly chat — then a family ride out.

  Post 157: Dr S and I have a frank and friendly chat — then a family ride out. In the end, it’s great to know you can chat about anything you like and perhaps get your expectations out for a dust-off. ——— Last night wa...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 156: Alternative reality causes confusion.

  Post 156: Alternative reality causes confusion. Waking up in the darkness with a warm hand on my lower back suggests my Darling is already aware of my pains — so why am I so pained and confused? ——— After a decent day where...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Great centimorgan news!

  I was feeling very down in the dumps yesterday evening.  It's been a emotional time lately.  I was a teenager in the 70s. If you'd asked me then to name my favourite actor I would have instantly replied Robert Redford.  Ph...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Busy with the shredder

  I don't think I'm going to have time for very much blogging over the next few days.  Unanticipated problems have arisen which can be easily resolved by acquiring the following items.  If I get round to it one day...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 155: If I’m not feeling myself, who am I feeling?

  Post 155: If I’m not feeling myself, who am I feeling? The cuts and bruises are healing up fast from the feline attack, but the mental scars will be there for a long time to come. ——— This tangled web we weave has left me u...

  Mr U 11 months ago