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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

  • Wittering away...
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    Mr U 6 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.
    Lizzie - Online Community Team 2 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
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  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 3 days ago
  • Silly
    Bbbb 3 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 4 days ago
  • Speaking to an empty room
    RedTree26 4 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 4 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 6 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Knocked Sideways!
    My Kids are Amazing!!

    Both kids back to school now, Grace into year 10 (starts her GCSE's) and James into the sixth form, I feel so old!!!!!

     They never cease to amaze me, its been a tough year for all of us but they have, at such a young age, really so supportive and just wonderful!  James did really well in his exams in May even though having to hear me throwing up after chemo and trying to revise and making sure I was alright bless him.  I know I'm rambling but wanted to write these thoughts down.  Grace has been...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • jenni b
    thanks 4 being you,

    I am writing this blog to thank my many mac friends on here i cant name you all as would be here forever :) , as keezer pointed out in a blog earlier theirs been a lot of sad posts recently ,

     I myself have had a tough few days , but after few hours sleep feel much better today , but its not just that thats helped me ,its the support and kindness and love from my friends on here , i was talking to a friend last night who has such family support and i realised i havent ,which is sad really but something...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • The day of Val's funeral
    It was Val’s birthday Saturday
    Some reminders of our loved ones are almost inevitable, especially during the first period after a death. That's when we all face a lot of "firsts" — those first special days that'll pass without our very special loved one.
    As the weeks and months go by, I’m sure that I will have to face other significant days or celebrations without my beloved Val and that will trigger my grief again. Some of these "firsts" and other special occasions that I sure will reawaken that grief...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • New and feeling a little lost
    New

     

    My dad had the camera's down him belly and also up.. with in a few minutes we knew  they had found something  as the Dr could not  go any further. right there and then he said it was "Cancer" Like that no explanation just the big C. biopsies where taken and were sent off to check but was told surgery would be happening by the 16th. Waiting is the hardest bit. and to be told that hen to be left hanging there. dad was then send for a CT scan a weeks later that was  30/08/10 and he go the...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • pinkvicki
    Tears from nowhere!

    I don't know what's happening to me today, i feel sad, empty and kind of lost. I have taken myself up to my bedroom for 3 hours this afternoon because i could feel all these strange emotions bubbling to the surface (and to read 'breaking dawn')

    I wish there was a way to control how i feel and when i feel it. 

    It is my brothers birthday on tuesday and he wants us to go for a meal. This will be the first of our birthday without dad here. If it was today i wouldn't be going... hopefully...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • 3 month anniversary
    3 month anniversary

    today is our 3 month wedding anniversary and i have been a widow for 7 weeks now.

    13 1/2 years, finally we got round to getting married and thinking about family to have our lives shattered so rapidly by cancer. A diagnosis that no one thought of. The Gp will freely admit when ordering the ultra sound that showed the terminal widespread disease, he thought he had a relatively minor liver problem. Mark was so brave i think no one realised just how much pain he was in. including me. I can not forgive...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • orange123
    it does get better

    hi to all the wounderfull friends i have made on here and there are lots more people joining every day with one form of cancer or another or like me looking after someone with it just to say a few months ago i felt like not carrying on let alone what my husband must be going through,life seemed so daunting but to all friends and who ever is new to the experience of cancer ,you get good days and bad days but life is what you make it and im going in the right direction now so that my husband does he...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • jenni b
    lack of sleep is sending me bonkers

    Well as im on my 3rd bucket of decaff tea today , i thought id do a blog as im so grumpy and snappy its stupid , i had a better day yesterday and even popped into chat for a bit and got such a lovely welcome, so left early for an early night , but damn suprise suprise i couldnt sleep again ,and yes last night i tried a herbal sleeping tab as have worked before but it didnt help, i have got a lot on my mind but i just wish it would switch off for a few hours , trouble is the more tired i get the more...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • thebeckenator's Blog
    That's What I'm Feeling Right Now - Part IV
    Hubby finally let some feelings out this morning. He says it he is so upset and frustrated. He almost wishes that the consultant had waited until after the blood test/MRI/laparoscopy to perhaps say, “Hey, I’ve got some good news for you. The cancer diagnosis is incorrect.” 

    Hubby says that right now he has to endure the next 4 – 6 weeks with three choices. 

    1. The diagnosis is correct and I am going to die.
    2. The diagnosis is correct but it looks like I will have more time before...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • veekay
    Feeling a bit lost and lonely

    Hello to every one, I'm not sure what is going on with me, but I feel that I'm not much use to any one on the site. I've tried to help anyone I can with comments which I thought would be of help but I'm not sure I have.

    I am having a lot of emotional times, when thinking , talking about my cancer and answering questions from other people about prognosis etc. I don't know it's never been spoken of when I see my oncologist. He says we'll deal with each spot as we need to....

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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