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

  Mr U 17 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 1 day 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 1 day ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 7 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 14 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 15 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 16 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 17 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

• My Hodgkin's story

  Appointment - review week

  Haven't written anything this month. Been busier at work, Champions League and other football events have taken up many of my evenings, I went home for Easter and I also needed a little break from checking this website on a daily basis. I am plan...

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

  Post 18: The Overnight Bag.

  Post 18: The Overnight Bag. Vital statistics: Temp: 36.4  BP: 128/77/52 Weight: too many treats Hair: who cares  Anything else? I want to go home? ⸻ Lately, I wasn’t thinking about an overnight bag unless it was for the, now ca...

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

  Post 17: “Go straight to A&E”.

  Post 17: “Go straight to A&E”. Vital statistics: Temp: 36.4 BP: 107/61/60 Weight: stable  Hair: Still all there  Anything else? Embarrassingnessness  Yesterday’s pains are today’s nightmare. I wake up ...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• Spirituality as therapy

  A Point of Order

  When I created this blog I was unfamiliar with the structure for separating one subject for another and posted what are now separate subjects as Replies to previous Replies. I had a sequence in mind that has been lost in recreating the subject matter...

  Auldheid over 1 year ago
• Spirituality as therapy

  A Message from late Pope Francis from hospital in March 2025

  A Spiritual Message from the Pope in Hospital in March. I read the thoughts of Pope Francis reflecting from his stay in  hospital in March and thought they were more of a spiritual nature than religious, but of particular relevance to thos...

  Auldheid over 1 year ago
• Spirituality as therapy

  Schoenstaat

  Schoenstaat This resource I want to draw to attention is about a beautiful place with beautiful grounds where there is a small chapel that when visited together can set minds in turmoil at rest. I used the term beautiful place because the resource I ...

  Auldheid over 1 year ago
• Spirituality as therapy

  Lanarkshire Cancer Care Trust

  Lanarkshire Cancer Care  Trust   To continue with my " I have sent you nothing but angels" theme although only for patients who live in South Lanarkshire:    I would have found it costly and difficult to get to Monklands...

  Auldheid over 1 year ago
• Spirituality as therapy

  Grounding Spirituality

  Spirituality is all very well but it has to be grounded in some form to make it real. I found the following story about a man stranded on the roof of his house as flood waters rose helped make that connection in a relevant context. A firm believer i...

  Auldheid over 1 year ago
• Spirituality as therapy

  Grieving Cancer

  Grieving Cancer. In a previous blog I mentioned The Beginning Experience, an organisation setup to help folk negotiate their way through the grief that follows the loss of a loved one through bereavement or divorce. ( Beginning Experience Great Brita...

  Auldheid over 1 year ago
• Wessexchorister

  Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST)

  Has anyone in their 70's experienced a GIST in the stomach and had it removed. My wife is currently being assessed for a GIST and would like to know how others have got on during and after removal. Thanks.

  Wessexchorister over 1 year ago