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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

  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 6 hours ago
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    Desdemona 21 hours 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.
    Megan- Online Community Team 1 day ago
  • Benign Thymoma
    Jenz 2 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 4 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 8 days ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 9 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 13 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 14 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 17 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • WLE AND SPILT SKIN GRAFT (CONTAINS PHOTOS OF A GRAPHIC NATURE)
    INFECTION

    Hi everyone

    Unfortunately I have another infection. went to gp on thursday after work and he has put me on co-amoxyclav and also metrosa gel for in the wound.

    photos 1 is saturday and photo 2 is today

    still feeling under the weather and there is pain, redness and heat coming off the wound.

    hope everyone is ok....

    peter

    SATURDAY

    SUNDAY

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • leeset
    tonsil cancer....our journey...the update!

    hiya all

    not posted for a while... dont know why...think it was coz we were just dealin with it all ourselves and just sorta got on with it! well trev eventually finished his chemo cycles.....3 cycles....one week hooked up 24/7 for 5 days.....2 weeks off then start agen. did realy well....first cyle he breezed thru...tumour began to shrink immediately....second cycle...again really good but caught a sickness bug which floored him for a week..but agen bounced back....held onto his hair til the eve...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • I never expected that
    Doing OK. I think.

    It's been a bit up and down in the past few days. I think I had been doing very well since coming home, but somewhere along the way I overdid things. On Friday I was looking pale, feeling cold, needing extra rests again and in more pain than for some time. I guess it wasn't a good idea to try and start reducing the pain killers I was taking but I had been feeling reasonably well up until that point. Especially after the stitches had been taken out from round the stoma as they were painful and pulling...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Charlie and Me
    I started a blog

    I started a blog online before I new of this site so I will post it here instead of re-writing it all again. I did it for family so they could see what is going on instead of having to repeat myself over and over and live every moment.

    http://her2-negative.blogspot.com/

    Ill write here from now on too and hopefully people will see we are all in the same boat

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • My new life
    Got the results of CT scan today

    I got results of CT scan today, thankfully the scan is clear and my consultant is happy with my progress.

    I told him that I am still going to the loo 3/4 times a day rather than the 1 time a day before the cancer. He said that it is normal because the colon is normally three and a half feet long and he took about a foot off so it's only 75% of what it used to be, so it has to go somewhere.

    There was an issue with my bloods, my hemoglobin level is high - 17.2

    I am going back for more blood tests...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • My new life
    Cancelled Holiday to New Zealand

    We have had to cancel our holiday to New Zealand, my mother in law has been diagnoised with multiple brain tumours. (primary)

    The diagnosis in not good, weeks or a few months to live

    She has become extremely confused and does not really know where she is any more. We are having quite bizarre conversations which for now add a bit of humour to the situation.

    Luckily for now she is not in any pain. She can not use her left arm or left so the symptons are like a stroke. She is in hospital at the moment...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • cookiemeg
    what a week

    A week or so after the stent was fitted things started to settle down for my husband. he found himself able to drink the super-calorific milkshakes with relative ease and managed a bowl of soup at the same time and speed as me. it felt like happier days were on their way.

    Three days later it all went belly up. The acid from the stomach now has a clear passage way to erupt into and the fast tabs hubs was on were creating mucous and making him sick. The pain he has been in has been unbearable to see...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • blackbun40
    home

    steve came home from  hospital today after having  stomach drained. he s very poorly doc said go home and enjoy what time you have left,.no more hospital appts. steve being cared for at home by the mac nusrde abd distric nurse, just hope he makes it through xmas.  it's saw awful to watch him slowly deteoratting. what a waste of a life

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • Cervical Cancer
    Hello and Welcome

    Hi,

    This group has been created and welcomes anyone affected by Cervical Cancer.

    It is a place where we can offer support, friendship and answer any questions.

     

    Former Member over 15 years ago
  • baps54
    a new phrase has entered my life!!!!!

     

    well ive been in hospital 3 times in 2 weeks! they tried doing a colonoscopy but had to stop just short of blockage because it was too painful. my duodenal cancer has grown slightly but they have decided they wont do a bypass on this as it isnt causing me a problem so far. as they couldnt do a biopsy on my blockage theyre going to make decision on ct scans, blood markers etc. so at this point im am to have an op, it could go either of two ways,1) a bypass 2) a stoma. what do you think asked my...

    Former Member over 15 years ago
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