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• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 10 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 11 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day 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.

  Wayne - Online Community Team 2 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 4 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 6 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 7 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 7 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 12 days ago
• One Life Live It

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

  Irishgirl16 13 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Just started EC Chemo

  Monday 15th January day 12

  I decided to have a nice shower and wash my hair lastnight, before I went to bed. What a struggle that is! It takes both my husbands hands and my one hand to get the Limbo on my arm. Then I am walking around the room making robot sounds lifting my ar...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Being kind to yourself on Blue Monday

  Come and tell us what you do to improve your mood. All the tips shared may help someone be a little kinder to themselves today or help turn someone’s day around.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• Triple positive breast cancer stage 1 grade 2

  15th January 2024 first round of taxol - allergic reaction

  Fast forward now to last Wednesday my first round of paclitaxel and herceptin. My regime is Paclitaxel every week for 12 weeks and herceptin every 3 weeks for a year then radiotherapy. I arrive at the chemotherapy suite feeling very anxious, it&rsquo...

  Keeping smiling over 2 years ago
• Triple positive breast cancer stage 1 grade 2

  14th January 2024

  I was diagnosed with my breast cancer on 27th September 2023 after having my very first routine mammogram at the end of August 2023. I was recalled and asked to come back for further investigations which was a 3D mammogram followed by 3 biopsies as t...

  Keeping smiling over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Sunday 14th January day 11

  Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you're all doing well.  I had a fairly good sleep lastnight, I'm not sure if it's just me but I have some very strange dreams since all this chemo journey started, lastnights dream was to do with losing my hair, whi...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Saturday 13th Jan day 10

  I started off before the birds again, this is getting be a bind. We even stayed up later lastnight, I made it till 1am before turning over and falling to sleep, and that's with no naps or anything since getting up yesterday morning. I'm like every re...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Friday 12 Jan Day 9 post first EC Last Filgrastim this session

  Well I have started this a bit earlier today, as woke early and decided to get up.  Hubby came home yesterday, and we went to go for a walk, but managed about 400 yards in total. He's done something to his knee and if he trys to walk on it i...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Just started EC Chemo

  Thursday 11th January day 8 after first EC

  Well I had a really good night, only waking to the call of nature but I managed to get back off to sleep quite easily I eventually woke up at about six and just laid waiting for my husband to make me a cup of tea. Which he did around 7.30am. I notice...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Disassociation, a blessing?

    Definition; The action of separating or disconnecting. A quick google tells me that there is a psychological condition called ‘Dissociation Disorder’. I am not going to delve into complex conditions about which I have no knowledge....

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  “Am I the only one awake?” Cancer and sleeplessness

  Have you been up in the early hours of the morning because of your cancer diagnosis? We often have members writing about their struggles with sleep. In this blog, we want to feature some of those discussions and highlight insightful experiences and wisdom shared.

  Dylan - Online Community Team over 2 years ago