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Its a different life now , it has been now since the 16th september 2010, my darling husband was diagnosed with cancer. i wish i had joined this site earlier.i have been on here almost daily for months now reading other peoples experiences. i realise we are not alone in this nightmare and indeed there are many that are worse off than us but the one thing that strikes me is how kind and supportive everybody is, even in their darkest times they take the time to listen and respond to others going through...
Well hello again :-) thought i would give you all an update as i aint been on here in a while.... Im so pleased to say that i do still have a full head of hair after finishing the scalp cooling while having epirubicin, i did however on my last epi loose most of my eyelashes. I found this a bit upsetting but to be honest just using top liner made them not to obvious.
My first round of cmf went rather to well and i moved house the very next day after treatment... day 8 of cmf though was a different...
My husband has NHL which was diagnosed in February 2010 this totally devastated us and our daughter !!!!!! but we got on with it and he now has had 8 r-chop chemotherapy treatments everything went well pet scans came back good with vast reductions!!!!! :) ( We actually got to see the scans couldn't believe something so huge could now be down to next to nothing ) The last pet scan results we got in October were not exactly what we wanted to hear ' Nothing has changed since the last one in July'...
I was discharged from hospital 4 weeks ago after a 3 week stay!
The Dr said they would see me in 4 weeks in the clinic.
No appointment as yet!!
I have been having trouble with my illiostomy stoma and rang the colorectal nurse for advise.
The nurse asked me if I had seen anyone since I was discharged? My answer was no!
The nurse said that she would get my surgeons secretary to send me an appointment, now that was over a week ago!
Why when they say 4 weeks don't they stick to it? It is more than...
Well here I am, 6 sessions into my radiotherapy and not a bit how I planned to be! My life for the last few months has been a rollercoaster to say the least...
Since having my operation just before Christmas and being diagnosed there have been some ups and lots of downs and I'm not just waiting for everything to even out! But 6 out of 20 sessions is progress, and I'm not on countdown to the half way mark. So far so good with the side effects, but I know it's still early days with that....
Just thought I would share my morning, I decided to catch up on some phone calls today, I needed to ring my life insurance provider as I had made a claim under the terminal illness clause in the insurance and was promised weekly updates, well its been 5 weeks and nothing. Rang this morning and had a nice conversation with a lady who said various things like waiting for GP report, also that they had sent various update emails, none of which I had recieved. Well I was just sitting down to a cuppa when...
Fife Council have seen sense, lo and behold the have came up with a decent care package. I wonder if it's because I threatened them with contacting my local M.S.P?
So Mum will come home on Monday. She seemed to brighten up a little when we told her she was coming home. Fingers crossed she makes it to Monday.
my husband was diagnosed with bowel cancer in january 2010 he has had chemo and radio and nothing has worked with mets to both lungs.. and a terminal diagnosis!!! he also had a 'op and had a colostomy bag on for 7 months he had a reversal 7 weeks ago the op went brilliantly and his bowel is now almost back to normal but am afraid he has deteriated badly he was fine before the op he has now lost weight and is very weak and just last week we found out he may have a tumour in his right eye ...very unusual...
Hi everyone. Firstly, I regret not being able to come on here more often. I have been so busy recently with work and generally keeping myself occupied. I think that I keep myself occupied because it gives me purposes and helps me not to think about what has happened in my life over the past year.
Monday 14th March was the six-month anniversary of my mum's death. I cannot believe it has been six months already. I get on with my life, but I think about my mum a lot. Her passing seems like it...
I have decided to create this blog as much to make sense of things for my sense as to get it out there in the chance it may help others, or you may even have similar experiences that we can share!
It all started in August 2010 when I went to visit my GP because I 'just wasn't right'. I had no pain but had gone off my food - only cornettos had any appeal! I had slight discomfort in my left side which I put down to constipation (I am no stranger to this anyway). As a teacher i was used to feeling...
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