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• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 5 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 7 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 3 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 5 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 8 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 13 days ago
• One Life Live It

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

  Irishgirl16 14 days ago

Latest blog posts

• APR Surgery with Sharon (August 2023)

  FRIDAY 11th AUGUST 2023

  My muscles are seized up after sitting for so long in the car yesterday. (Over 4hrs while driving home from the hospital) I wonder do others get really tired after a busy day before. It was never an issue for me prior to cancer but I do very much loo...

  Shalaway over 3 years ago
• APR Surgery with Sharon (August 2023)

  THURSDAY 10th AUGUST 2023

  On the way to the hospital we had the strangest experience. I should say at this point although we live in Inverness, our youngest daughter 21 began her degree in Glasgow during the pandemic so is about to start her 4th & final year in September....

  Shalaway over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 8 after Surgery, Chemotherapy

  Session 2 of the first cycle is done, that is 25% of the killing of the Cancer! This blog might be a little bit of a ramble … Chemo fogs the head a little Next week involves no treatment, a chance to get over the last two weeks and regroup rea...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 7 after Surgery, and start of the next phrase - Chemotherapy!

  Chemo is the scary period, it comes across as a blackhole of information because there are so many variations, and everybody deals with it in different ways! Unknown side-effects (2 pages of possible symptoms), fatigue, sickness, isolation. Basically...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 6 after Surgery!

  This was a week to take stock of all of the changes that have gone on in the last six weeks. Gym on Monday with Fit4Surgery felt good, something to do with blue skies and sun ... starting to push the numbers up, although these trips will be short liv...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 5 after surgery!

  Following the trend from previous weeks, mostly positive, but with a couple of challenges, and no tears (but there was one explosive outburst of anger!), and a resigning! Operation Debris (My nickname for it) continues and is becoming quite draining...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 4 after surgery!

  Most of this week has been positive, although there have been challenges and a few tears. Operation Debris (My nickname for it) started last weekend, which has been uncomfortable, yet honed my running skills. Basically (sparing the gruesome details) ...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 3 after surgery!

  This week has been a rollercoaster of emotions ... from a rather robust positive approach last weekend, to a midweek crash of positivity. Today I got to meet the man that will manage the Anaesthetics when the operation is done in 9 months time. Basic...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 2 after surgery!

  Well today wasn't the answer I wanted, but it was the one I got. At the moment I am cancer free ... but we knew that, they removed the two tumours that were found in the TurBT! It will come back, and the options are fluid ... both tumours were ca...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  "Not enough people of colour are going onto that register"- Wilfred's Acute Myeloid Leukaemia diagnosis and treatment story

  Wilfred was born in Jamaica and is part of the Windrush generation. He came to the UK around the 1960s and settled in Birmingham. Wilfred was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia and shares his reflections post-diagnosis, treatment, and the challenges a black person needing a stem cell transplant can face.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 3 years ago