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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 21 hours ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 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.
    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 9 days ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 9 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 13 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 15 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 18 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • What part of my body is this?
    Chemo Cycle 1 not much fun x

    Hi guys, havn't been on here for a while so thought i'd stop being lazy and update. We had the most fantastic holiday in Italy and it was so what we all needed. I felt completly recovered from the surgeries, relaxed and got a lovely healthy looking tan. Most importantly we had so much fun together as a family. If anybody wants an Italian reccomendation let me know. The only problem was that we had to come home.....Boooo!

    6 days later was the 1st chemo, i was nervous but yes not nearly as...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Carol's 2010 Blog
    My Reluctant Journey continued

    Date 20th July 2010.       Hello to Everyone and a massive Thank You to the people who wrote after my first Blog.  I really do appreciate the help that you Guys and Girls give.  It is not easy as well you all know.   The Spinnaker Tower was on the menu for me today, being a belated Birthday treat.  The three of Us went, the three being Me, Mike(Hubby) and my Cancer!  It really has taken over everything.  I am walking along and I almost want to scream to everyone that I am walking around with my Cancer!  What that...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • sally mo's thaughts for the day!
    life after cancer!!

    just to reasure any "young" cancer patient that there is a huge light at the end of the tunnel!! my appearance has totally changed after a mastectomy & chemo ( long brown hair all gone!!) i now am waiting for reconstruction to level everything out and have a fond affilliation with my chicken fillet ( does the job!! ) i refused to wear a wig and after having my head completely shaved in march i am now sporting a chic pixie crop ( salt & pepper), grey & white mix but rather fetching or so i am told...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • dieulidou sue
    out on my pink bike!!

    i've finally got out on my newly painted pink bike, wow what a fab feeling. there have been times when i thought today would never arrive and it was a waste of time my ol' man doing the paintwork, BUT I'VE DONE IT - alright only about 10km lol crikey am i ever on a high, better than any medication lol. now very tired and achy had to not take my painkillers lunchtime so i could ride. now sat on sofa with big smile on my face!!!!  love and hugs to everyone xxxxxx

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Ramblings of a Bad Fairy
    Animals do the.....

    …….naughtiest things!

     

    Who said pets are good for you? Therapeutic? Reduce stress levels? Excuse me whilst I splutter into my cup of tea.

    The Bad Fairy household is a bit of a zoo. Not a proper zoo, we don’t have a giraffe, a hippopotamus nor an elephant. (Although the jury is out on the elephant after a rather large hole appeared in the bottom field…..suspicions have been voiced that a rogue elephant may be trying to break in!)

    We did have some orphaned lambs that...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • TheBFG
    Treatment: A happy tale with laughs

    If anyone with rectal cancer would like to hear about my tretment and experiences just ask.

     

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Getting concerned now
    Confusion - getting concerned

    My partner goes in hospital on Friday for a lymphendectomy. He has had melonoma outside the body for the past 5 years on and off. The news that it had spread to the inside left me with a feeling in the pit of my stomach I cant explain. I have read many stories on here about this operation but none about follow up treatment or possible outcomes. We havent been told anything other than the biopsies and CT scan show it has spread to the lymph nodes in the groin and under the armpits. The consultant just...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Patient Mutterings
    Just a month, wow!

    Just worked it out and it a bit over a month since the operation, blimey doesn't time fly!  Knowing, that I'm pleased at the progress I'm making in getting back to normal, everyone was telling me it would be so slow.  Hopefully it just means I am doing well and I won't get a big suprise later on that I will regret.

     

     

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • My breast cancer chemo diary
    Well into CMF now and started Herceptin.

    Hiya all, well I feel icky this morning.  Had a weekend of 'excess' as went to a wedding and had lots of food and some beers on the Friday.  Didn't feel too bad while there but got home last night and - bleugh - out it all came!  Since I haven't thrown up in years I found this mildly concerning, but apart from a tight tum this morning it's not reoccurred.  Rather annoyed as had had some good fruit and stuff and it was all wasted!

    I did wonder if it was a reaction to the Herceptin...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Jim's Blog
    A good weekend

    OK, three weeks to the SNB, WLE all being well - not actually got a date, but that's the list I'm supposed to be on, max. Had a good weekend, though I had to get up at 5:00 a.m. Saturday as I'd got my thoughts in a loop. as soon as I wa upright I was fine - listened to old radio programmes on Radio 7 - "Listen Again" a fantastic blessing in the night. Got all my ironing done before Penny got up at 8:00 (My grandfather was a ship's steward, my mother expected men to look after themselves :0)...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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