Blogs

Create a blog

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

Latest blog posts

  • Duchessx2's blog
    Finally
    Finally my Bobbie has had his last lot of chemo on Friday, he has been wonderful and made it through 18 sessions, now to face the radiotherapy in a few weeks time. He is not looking forward to this at all. We have also been given a wonderful surprise, our children have booked us a holiday to Crete (Greece) and they gave us the tickets yesterday and we fly off on Tuesday, not got a thing ready, but hey who cares, they know I am the worlds most unorganised person going, so its going to be all hands...
    Former Member
  • Sexy Voice Dawn's blog
    NEGLIGENCE
    Hi Everyone Hope you all having a decent long weekend xx I am in a real pickle at the moment. Need advice please. I have had 5 lots of bloods taken for thyroglobulin for the oncologist as they need to know levels. 5 times lab have now lost it or said they didn't get it or in wrong coloured topped bottle????? My endo, gastro and surgeon don't correspond with my oncologist or gp so know one knows what has been done or said. If i contact PALS at hosp they will all close ranks so should i go...
    Former Member
  • pam while's blog
    Advise and support needed!!
    Hi, I am about to have my third cycle of FEC on wednesday this week, but over the last few weeks I have developed very bad knee and ankle discomfort I am finding it very difficult to bend my knees and experiences pain in my ankles if I walk for more than 10 mins or so. Has anyone else suffered any of the these side effects from FEC? I don't know if it a side effect or something else, do I tell the oncologist or go to my GP. I would be grateful for any advise on what to do or if anyone else has had...
    Former Member
  • jgrubbs's blog
    3 years out and still having pain and itching
    My oncologist just released me because I'm doing so well (I'm 63) but my nipple has just started itching , is red and bumpy all of a sudden and I'm wondering if this is a come and go thing or if I need to get back in to see him. I went through radiation and have had some color change, hardness and shrinkage but this is all new. Anyone els had this problem?
    Former Member
  • sorted67's blog
    retail therapy...
    Friday 28th August Well,friend came and we ate in on Thursday - they had the most delicious looking steaks and I didn't, haha. I've gone mostly vegetarian through natural inclination not 'choice'. Funny how we're drawn to different things - I've had a fish in batter phase, a noodle and cashew nut phase, a pasta and tomato phase, a strawberry phase... and at the time, they've all made some kind of sense. At the moment I'm on a fruit phase so, by my reckoning, I get every nutrient I need over the course...
    Former Member
  • sarah61's blog
    Not a good day
    Im not having a very good day today. We went to order the flowers for Dad's funeral and one of the flowers I wanted one that Dad liked, Bella donna lillies, the florist had never heard of. How pathetic is that, although she did say she would speak to her boss. Took Mum to see Dad in the chapel of rest on Thursday. He looked peaceful but not entirely the Dad I knew and loved. I still cant believe he's gone really I keep expecting to see him walk by. I look at photos and see a different Dad to the...
    Former Member
  • lennard's blog
    Where did What Now go
    Hi What Nowers, what happend on friday evening. I could not get on here till nearly 2oclock this morning, thought i had been kicked out for some reason.Did the site crash, didn,t know what to do with myself not being able to read the blogs. So glad your all back. Redards Toffeeapple. xxx
    Former Member
  • carolannt's blog
    my mum
    just got back from mums funeral .it was a lovely service , i'm so glad it went so well . marc my son and i sat at the back of the church in our wheelchairs ,every time a tear escaped we held each others hand. we coped so well .now it's hit me how tired and exhausted i am. it has been a hard 6mths since dx , and this last two weeks has passed in a blur ? or fog ?. don't know how i have got through it .now i'm going to rest today , recharge my batteries . tomorrows a new day , and the start of a new...
    Former Member
  • carolannt's blog
    my mum
    just got back from mums funeral .it was a lovely service , i'm so glad it went so well . marc my son and i sat at the back of the church in our wheelchairs ,every time a tear escaped we held each others hand. we coped so well .now it's hit me how tired and exhausted i am. it has been a hard 6mths since dx , and this last two weeks has passed in a blur ? or fog ?. don't know how i have got through it .now i'm going to rest today , recharge my batteries . tomorrows a new day , and the start of a new...
    Former Member
  • sallycowan's blog
    New to this.....
    Hey everyone I am new to this. My dear mother-in-law has recently been diagnosed with bronchial alveolar carcinoma. She starts Chemo today. We have so far been given no real answers to the big question we all have - how long has she got and how sick is she gonna get with Chemo???? She seems so well (apart from a cough) so it is hard to get my head around it. I lost my own mum 3yrs ago to cancer of the endometrium and she was well too but had passed away within three months of diagnosis. My...
    Former Member
Help us do whatever it takes, because we’ve never been needed more.

© Macmillan Cancer Support 2026 © Macmillan Cancer Support, registered charity in England and Wales (261017), Scotland (SC039907) and the Isle of Man (604). Also operating in Northern Ireland. A company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales company number 2400969. Isle of Man company number 4694F. Registered office: 3rd Floor, Bronze Building, The Forge, 105 Sumner Street, London, SE1 9HZ. VAT no: 668265007