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Blogging can be a great way to journal your experiences and share with others. Why not create your own cancer journey blog, or have a read of other blogs created by our members?

Unsure how to get started? Take a look at our help pages on blogs. 

Latest blog updates

  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 14 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.
    Megan- Online Community Team 18 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 23 hours ago
  • Benign Thymoma
    Jenz 1 day ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 3 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 8 days ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 8 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 12 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 14 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 17 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • first chemo for my husband tomorrow
    first chemo for my husband tomorrow

    crossing fingers , toes and everything else for my husbands first chemo tomorrow , hope its a positive start to my husbands wonderful brave determination to fight this

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Life after my loss
    the tears that just appear

    Well third week back at work and fast approaching 2months since the death of my beloved husband. I still struggle to sleep i did think going back to work would make me tired, it has achieved that but as soon as my eyes begin to close my mind and body jumps to alert and races through like a whirlwind. I have managed though to get upstairs, after so many months of sleeping downstairs as my darling husband couldn't make it upstairs. I still feel closer to him down here sitting on the sofa but I had...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Mesothelioma and Asbestos
    Mesothelioma My Diary a day in Deal trying to do so much before i start Chemo again

    http://rayandmave.wordpress.com/

    locovan over 15 years ago
  • Working?
    chemo #3

    Hello you lovely lot

    Well, it all went well until they tired to get the stitch out from the Hickman line op thingy and a bit of it was stuck to the scab so it pulled - bit *ouch* but we got there in the end ;)

    Feeling WOOZY from piriton etc, but picked up afterwards by stepdad, mum here all afternoon to make me cuppas and cooked dinner when kids got in, so lolling on sofa is all I've done and all I'm going to do until I go to read my little 'un a bedtime story :)

    Thank you all for...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Good days bad days
    Staying sane

    I am new at this, but i think i am going to like having a place to vent both my frustrations and get advice and tips on how to cope.

    The past 3 years have been very hard on my family, Both my parents died within months of each other- my mum died in 2009, she had pancreatic and breast cancer and my dad had a lung disease and died last year so you can imagine the shock my family  and friends were in when 6 months later i was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. My friends and family keep saying i...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • feeling a little low and angery :(
    feeling a little low and angery :(
    First blog I done on here….. Feeling a little low today been another hard few weeks with more choices to be made. Annoys me these people at the hospitals make u feel like there is a little hope to be told that actually there isn’t and there isn’t anything that can be done. Why do they put you in these situations? Make u make choices about your life when actually it doesn’t matter anyways?!?!?. I am sick of seeing mum like this her feeling like she has given in by not having chemo again but what‘s...
    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Daisybun
    Professional head on

    Yesterday was not such a good day. Since the GP said it might be cancer last week - first day of new term I have been office based. I could hide behind my desk, not talk with anyone, look at computer and have headphones on to block out thoughts.

    Yesterday I had to 'go out into the world'. Get out of the car and say 'Right put professional head on'. Do the job, focus... First appt not too bad although feels a bit of a fog at first and names of pupils I would normally recall are a little slower in...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Testicular cancer experience so far
    Testicular cancer , our experience as a family

    Hi there , this is my husband ,Stephens story so far .......... At the start of this year my husband started complaining of a pain in his left testicle , at this point he didnt really feel a lump as such , like other people do , it was more that his testicle was the same size as the other but had become rock hard . Like most people , you dont think that it will be anything sinister , so we waited a few weeks , while life takes over and you get on with everyday life and raising three children and...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • chrisie's blog
    A very special friend......

    Hi everyone, may well be away for a few days, sat waiting for a phone call from my friends daughter, and needed to have a rant, went to see my friend on sunday who has sclc and at the end of this journey, she was in bed with cot sides and an alarm to detect movement as with the drugs she was confused and had fallen, but on monday they sat her in a chair without alarm and now a nasty fall and has broken her hip. Off to the main hospital and operation last night, but things do not look good, not that...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Bummer....!
    In which Little My experiences a Wet and Windy Day
    Thought I would risk typing a blog straight into the box for once and was scrolling down to press send  and somehow  ended up in the chat room which sounds fun but seems to be on speed....and lost the whole blog  Arrrgghhhh. (and you know how long my blogs are)
    So let’s see if I can remember... we have to go back in time now to yesterday... wibble wobble do do dooo doo.....
    Little My has gone back to work on a ‘phased return’ which seems to involve her going in, doing too much, coming home with...
    Former Member over 15 years ago
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