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• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

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• 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.

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• Multiple Myeloma

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• Mumofcancer

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• One Step At A Time

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• 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. `

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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 38: Its a Lovely Day, Nearly.

  Post 38: Its a Lovely Day, Nearly. Things That Matter: • It’s the weekend soon. • Positivity. Facing facts is right and necessary. Positivity can’t change the facts — but it does shape how we live with them. The truth...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 39: Convalescing.

  Post 39: Convalescing. Losing last night’s sleep wasn’t the horror it could have been. Although today will obviously be very short—due especially to waking up to a small but perfectly formed porridge brought to me around mid-after...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• What the ecky fump?

  So... Scheduling chemo & chauffeurs & babysitter

  Jeez, what a palaver. Because I live a simple sounding journey away from the hospital BUT several hours on various public transport ways and have mobility issues I need to be picked up from chemo. I'm fine getting there, it's the after they (...

  JH70 over 1 year ago
• Weaving stories

  Weaving stories - moments of calming creativity

  I recently participated in a well-being enhancement creative workshop, entitled 'Weaving stories'. We were encouraged to explore the simple art of weaving with mixed yarns and found materials, perhaps with a story in mind. I found myself weav...

  Ilexmaria over 1 year ago
• Peter's Blog

  From November 2024 Results To May 2025 Results

  Following on from the results in November 2024 the couple of weeks after I had the usual mixed feelings about anniversaries, the 11th signalling three years since we were told that my cancer was back and that it was incurable, on the one hand with th...

  HawkeyeBrown over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 37: A Scolding at the scan.

  Post 37: A Scolding at the scan. Appointments: Zoladex (3-monthly) AM Echocardiogram PM ⸻ The cut flowers in the lounge are looking well past their best — and I’m feeling a bit like that too. The day actually started well. The HT inj...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 36: Moaning and groaning.

  Post 36: Moaning and groaning. Vital Statistics Mood: Frustrated with my weakness’ Anything else: Bi-weekly AFib returns with a vengeance. I didn’t help myself by getting into bed after midnight last night, following a marathon blog edi...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 35: Tiredness, tea and travel.

  Post 35: Tiredness, tea and travel. Vital Statistics Mood: Mostly at ease  Anything else: Bloomin’ roadworks ⸻ I’m very tired today — but I don’t know why. This morning, I drove My Darling into town for my reschedule...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
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  Still enjoying life with cancer

  Scansiety

  This is a term my wife came up with to explain how she'd been feeling for the last week. Tomorrow I have a consultant meeting when I hope to hear the results of the MRI Head scan and CT body scan. I realise that she's more worried about it th...

  Slartybartfast over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 34: Raining while pausing.

  Post 34: Raining while pausing. Vital Statistics Mood: moody Anything else: rain at last  ⸻ A great early start to the day when My Darling’s 4am blood pressure check, before she heads off to work, is a perfect reading (117/77/50) whi...

  Mr U over 1 year ago