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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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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• Warm your teaspoon

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Latest blog posts

• Walt’s widow

  Day 7 of my husbands passing

  How do I start? well today is the first day I have been able to think  about writing anything down last Sunday 30 th June was the day my husband of 40 yrs died, he had been diagnosed 4 mths ogo with terminal lung cancer, the worst kind,most aggr...

  Jayneydee57 over 2 years ago
• Chubby Bladder Cancer Warrior 51M

  The last month - a bit of background

  So I'm a 51 year old male from the UK, overweight but generally well.  Yes High Blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes, but normally no aches and pains etc. During April and May I noticed a reduction in my urine flow, needing to pee more urgentl...

  JMo51Male over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  parkrun #250

  In the time before breast cancer, I was a keen runner. Never fast, I had probably started too late in life for that, but it was something that gave me a lot of head space. I had been able to complete events such as the ten mile Great South Run, and r...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• 

  One Life Live It

  The Annual Trip to the Hospital

  I always face into my annual check up and mammogram with a level of trepidation and a fair few “what ifs…..” on the few days beforehand.  Normally I am able to compartmentalise my thoughts of recurrence risk, but as the check ...

  Irishgirl16 over 2 years ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  Day 2 After First Chemo

  First things first. I obtained a print of my pre-chemo assessment blood test results. My referral PSA from January 24 was 2.07, having risen from 0.57 in January two years previously. I don't know what it was immediately before current treatment star...

  excavator over 2 years ago
• Peter's Blog

  March to July 2024 Scan Results

  In this blog entry I have broken things down a little bit, at the top I have a month by month breakdown of things, then at the end little sub headings “fatigue” and “random rant”. So as always, grab a tea (or a pillow if you r...

  HawkeyeBrown over 2 years ago
• It Cannot Get Any Worse

  04/07/24

  In my late teens my mum was diagnosed with CLL and as i was sitting in the back of the car eating a cheeseburger with tears rolling down my face - i thought “this couldn’t get any worse” but it did In my early 20s my mum was diagno...

  brokenrose24 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  London Calling!

  I am now well and truly in the clutches of a London cardiac team. I have described how what felt like imminent major cancer surgery was cancelled by the anaesthetist’s concern that my heart may not cope with the 15-hour operation. After several...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  4th July completion of 7th Radiotherapy treatment

  Only 2 more sessions to go!!!!!!! I have been fairly good with the last few radiotherapy sessions. I started taking 1 Benadryl antihistamine in the morning before my session, and made sure I didn't have any creams at all on my boobie beforehand. ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Do Bears Sh*t in the Woods?

  Well, it’s been nearly six weeks since I finished part four of this journal and quite a lot has been going on. We have just past the very middle of the year and Stonehenge has been temporarily defaced by the ‘Just Stop Oil’ group, I...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago