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• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 13 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 23 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 2 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 3 days 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 8 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 8 days ago
• One Life Live It

  Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer

  Irishgirl16 9 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Wife's Cancer

  25/02/2025 - Colonoscopy Procedure

  Today I drove M** to her appointment at Burton Hospital, where she had a colonoscopy procedure.Nurse Kelly M** may have bowel cancer, and took 8 samples, to be sent away for testing (a biopsy). Nurse Kelly said at this stage they are going to assume ...

  Hubby_And_Wife over 1 year ago
• Wife's Cancer

  About My Wife

  My wife's name is M** (Am I allowed to say? we don't mind). M** is disabled and unable to type this, as she doesn't have full use of her hands. So, this is M**'s story, told by me. M** was born in Walsall, West Midlands, in September ...

  Hubby_And_Wife over 1 year ago
• Hubby's Cancer

  About Me

  My name is M*** (Am I allowed to say my name?), I was born in January 1972.It’s easier saying that way, otherwise I’d have to update this every year.I have been very happily married since September 2004.everything you're about to read is ...

  Hubby_And_Wife over 1 year ago
• Welcome home

  A tough week

  I had a strong reluctance- fear almost- of sitting down to write this. The fear of remembering how we'd felt now that things ate calmer.. But I think its important to record and share that even if facts themselves can't change, that the mind ...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
• LindaA24 Cancer

  Cancer and Friendships: Who Stayed, Who Left, and Why It Matters

  By Linda A When I was diagnosed with cancer, I expected to fight for my health—not for my relationships. But one of the most unexpected and painful parts of my journey was watching certain friendships fade while others grew stronger than ever. ...

  LindaA24 over 1 year ago
• Endless Uncertainty

  I'm so fed up

  I'm so sick of waiting and waiting!!  I thought i had been "lucky" with my cancer as the first time round I didn't even know it was cancer until I'd had surgery to remove it! (We'd thought it was benign) then for 5 year...

  Halz over 1 year ago
• 

  Community News

  Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Meet Laurel, writing for release and renewal.

  It's Bowel Cancer Awareness month in April and we are sharing Laurel's story. 

  Laurel, known as 'Writing Lola' on the Online Community has been using writing to help cope with and navigate a bowel cancer diagnosis and treatment. 

  We really appreciate you sharing your words, Laurel, so we will hand over now to your voice.

  In the city where I live, the marking of the Chinese Lunar New Year came with a riot of colours and costumes, lanterns and illuminations, dances of lions and dragons...

  Steph - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  'You are only as good as your last scan / test' and other bits

  Exactly 365 (or 366) days ago I was at the chemo ward ready to get that first dose of doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide and the other bits. It was my girlfriend birthday and that's how we spent her special day.  So, it's now been a litt...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Welcome home

  Waiting on scan results..

  Last week 2 things happened- first we got a date for the MRI scan results (this Thursday) and then we got initial approval for a mortgage. Both good news I guess you'd say. We'd been hanging on for the DIP for much longer than suggested and i...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
• Final Countdown!

  Five Day Ward song

  This is penned tongue in cheek to the Rolling Stones " Dead Flowers" music for those old enough to remember! For info I'm on 7th Cancer treatment from November 2019 Bowel, Liver, Bowel, Throat, R. Lung, L. Lung and FINALLY CHEST LYMOH NODES. (Apparen...

  Ando over 1 year ago