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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.

  Megan- Online Community Team 16 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 1 day ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 1 day ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Coddfish 1 day ago
• Megan's Macmillan blog example

  Moderator - Macmillan Community 2 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 5 days ago
• Eunice77

  Eunice77 7 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 7 days ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  excavator 10 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

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Latest blog posts

• Kidney Not

  Four Years On

  Today is 24th November 2025.  Four years since my urology appointment informing me I had incurable metastatic kidney cancer. I don’t feel like I have incurable cancer any more and it’s not a worry.  It does inconvenience me.&nbs...

  Mmum 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 219: Another Day in Bed.

  Post 219: Another Day in Bed. There’s nothing to say that I didn’t already say yesterday — I’m in bed and pretty much stuck here. The pain is now more focused on certain muscles and joints mostly on the left, sitting anywher...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  No relaxing today

  I'd been hoping for a relaxing Sunday but it soon became clear that there was little chance of that.  First H needed his hair cut.  Then I thought I had better tackle my fringe.  Next was the laundry and bed linen changing.&nb...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
• Hpv and no immune system

  Help

  I have no immune system have just been told iam high risk hpv with normal cells but havnt had any it her information and there isn't a lot on Google can anyone else shed some light on this for me 

  381 mefe5318 10 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Blue sky inspiration

  Look up, what is the sky today telling you? It's bright, it's blue (the mood-lifting one, not "the blues"), it's brilliant and inspirational. First, a vapour trail created what I imagined as an ethereal centipede, it's little legs carrying it upward...

  WalkerGirl 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 218: Pains for My Sins

  Post 218: Pains for My Sins I have stayed in the house today, all day, with my pains. Unfortunately, I’m in so much pain I can barely hold this phone, propped up in bed. It starts with the neck (right-hand side), shoulders, the whole right...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• Young Survivor

  A letter to cancer.

  Dear Cancer, I am writing this letter in the hope that by doing so, I can let you go and move forward with my life. It’s been nearly a year now since you shocked me with your introduction and changed me forever. All of a sudden, I was ripped ...

  Xcy56b673 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Hospital transport Friday woes

  I had a long early morning hospital appointment yesterday.  It turned out to be the perfect example of how hospital transport can be a nightmare.  Especially on a Friday.  This is a quick explainer for anyone not familiar with how the ...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
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  One Life Live It

  Pinktober and Movember

  There's not much more powerful than sharing stories and at a recent event of c30 colleagues, they did just that.  A colleague and I hosted an event to discuss cancer at work, leading with him talking about the challenges of losing one of his...

  Irishgirl16 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 217: Chats in Two Places and My Cardi Unravels.

  Post 217: Chats in Two Places and My Cardi Unravels. With one eye on the Baz-Ball capers down under, I started the day somewhere between 8 and 8:30 — hopefully. But as I looked out the kitchen window to the front (with Mr Vicious already ringi...

  Mr U 10 months ago