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  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.

  Wayne - Online Community Team 12 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 18 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 21 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 3 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 4 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 5 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 6 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 11 days ago
• One Life Live It

  Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer

  Irishgirl16 11 days ago

Latest blog posts

• 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  14. Second week Post Treatment

  Saturday 6th sept / Sunday 7th September Throat doesn’t seem to hurt as much this morning but that may be the morphine kicking in. And the other good news is that I am having “movement” each day, which is a relief, so have stopped t...

  NorfolkBor 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  MRI scan yesterday

  Yesterday was a long tiring day.  I went to Nottingham for my MRI scan.  It reminded me a little of the sort of hectic working days I had when I was many years younger and a lot fitter.  It was exhausting then, goodness ...

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

  Post 214: Twenty Minutes of Hell.

  Post 214: Twenty Minutes of Hell. All day today, from the frosty white morning to the cold breeze of dusk, I stayed in bed. I didn’t go downstairs once. I only went to the loo — which is in the next room. The foreman told me to rest aft...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  What the UTUC!

  The Date is Set.......Nephroureterectomy on 30th December

  I haven't posted in a while, and a lot has happened........ So after many months, I had a meeting with the urologist last week at the hospital where I will have my surgery.  My surgery will be on December 30th, 2025.  I could have had a wee...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 213: Home, work and uncertainty.

  Post 213: Home, work and uncertainty. Although the green wheelie bin is jammed full of hawthorn and bramble with a sprinkling of wild garlic — which sounds more like a gastronomic delight from Clarkson’s new venture than a heap of garden...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Fed up today

  We had a lovely weekend, it felt like the good old days, we hardly thought about cancer for two days.  Today I came down to earth with a bump.  Woke up feeling very fed up and grumpy.  Went for a blood test this morning which prob...

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

  Post 212: Spring bulbs and clever stockings.

  Post 212: Spring bulbs and clever stockings. Reviewing the patient status right now, I’d say things are medium bad, but there are glimmers of hope. ——— After two days where my emotions stayed firmly in their cubby hole, tod...

  Mr U 11 months ago