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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 6 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 9 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 17 hours ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 19 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 5 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 6 days ago
• One Life Live It

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

  Irishgirl16 6 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 7 days ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  RedTree26 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

• 2025 Not a good year so far

  13. Week Seven and the first Post Treatment week

    Saturday 30th August. My routine in the morning is now to use numbing mouthwash, give that 20 mins to work, and then dissolving paracetamol and drinking it. Struggling due to pain in mouth and throat, taking soluble paracetamol really makes b...

  NorfolkBor 11 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  12. Sixth Week of Treatment (and the last)

  Over the weekend my throat gets a lot worse, ulcers in the top of my mouth and sides of my tongue now which isn’t helping, still no taste. But just 5 days of treatment left…… not that I’m counting !   Monday 25th August...

  NorfolkBor 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  It never rains but it pours

  You know that old saying that it never rains but it pours?  Or perhaps trouble always comes in threes?  H and I are not having a good week. H went for his annual routine check up at the doctors surgery last Monday.  He's always hea...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 186: Lovely Flowers and a Lost Week.

  Post 186: Lovely Flowers and a Lost Week. I can’t ever remember my last bouquet, But I will buy the two today. One for my Darling forever beside, The other for Sis, for gifts supplied. ——— It’s Friday! That’s ca...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  MRI scan today

  I went for the MRI scan today.  It was at the local diagnostic centre again, the same place I went for the CT scan last week.  I thought I was all organised for the MRI.  I had a short sleeved top on ready for the cannula, I didn't...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
• Journaling my cancer journey through poetry

  Journaling my cancer journey through poetry

  Hello everyone, I've just joined this Community Forum so I hope you find my first blog, useful.  My story in brief, is that I was diagnosed with a T3 oesophageal cancer spreading to my clavicle lymph nodes in April 2024 and I've been on...

  Twin Castor57b5d5 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 185: House boats and natter.

  Post 185: House boats and natter. Living on an island just beside the sea It’s easy to forget all they mean to me ——— After the good news yesterday from Nurse T, I awake in a healthier and happier mood than usual. It’...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 184: I Feel Free at Last…

  Post 184: I Feel Free at Last… A lucky break is all I need The rest is fully guaranteed I can do more than I thought Gone are harmful words like distraught ——— Round two of the cake making today was a joy, and being two ho...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 183: A Lucky Break and Greased Paper.

  Post 183: A Lucky Break and Greased Paper. Largely our garden’s been neglected, But my Darling’s now detected A bloom of immense rarity — It’s more like a celebrity. ——— I listed at the top of the blog yes...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Prickly and painful underfoot

  Paying attention to underfoot – where our feet tread, in my pre-chemo life something I never thought twice about, apart from when picking my way across a pebble beach to reach the sea. Now, though, nature created a perfect parallel to the sudde...

  WalkerGirl over 1 year ago