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• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 6 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 16 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 21 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 1 day ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 1 day ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Former Member 2 days 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.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 5 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 5 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 11 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

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

  Post 515: Too much for me at the writing club.

  Post 515: Too much for me at the writing club. A new printing cartridge and a new folder had me busy making an other 50 hard copies of the blog: binder 6, blogs 250-299. I’m getting there as I’m over half way through and I’m happy...

  Mr U 1 month ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 514: Two kids a dog and a bump.

  Post 514: Two kids a dog and a bump. I couldn’t carry on with my office work at home this morning for two reasons and the best reason was that I wanted to rest. It’s something when you actually want to do something but a health problem s...

  Mr U 1 month ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 513: A return to a little home-work and a salmon supper.

  Post 513: A return to a little home-work and a salmon supper. Starting at the end and not the start I had a great time with som U3a homework set for everyone’s entertainment; this week it was the creative writing group asking for a short story...

  Mr U 1 month ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  SABR side effects report

  I had SABR treatment that ended five weeks ago. I would like to report, for the benefit of people looking forward to this, that the side effects have been pretty much as predicted in terms of the nature, severity, and duration. The most noticeable on...

  Lemsip 1 month ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Biopsy

  Biopsy is a clinical term that sounds innocent enough, but it essentially involves sticking miniature drinking straws into your body and vacuuming out the contents. Since the MRI people had asked me along, I thought I'd better accept the invitati...

  Lemsip 1 month ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Be More Moira

  After noticing that there seemed to be a link between consuming Lemsip and peeing twice in quick succession I arranged to see my GP straight away. I resolved to cut out the narrative detailed above, and focus on the correlation between the consu...

  Lemsip 1 month ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Why "LemSip"?

  Lemsip because that was the substance that led me to discover I had PC. I should warn you that I am writing with a hint of a persona that might be fit a grumpy old man, irritated by trivia that other people can overlook. At the same time, I try to in...

  Lemsip 1 month ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 512: What did go bump in the night?

  Post 512: What did go bump in the night? The question was a good one and I was called in to get the answer, but that will have to wait. I woke up to another ok day and a quiet cat. Perhaps he’s feeling the changes of the seasons and feels lik...

  Mr U 1 month ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 511: The tattoo parlour and a wonderful tribute.

  Post 511: The tattoo parlour and a wonderful tribute. But first I should add to the replies yesterday about Doctor- locum’s and Patient notes which seem to be to separate worlds in the cancer arena. Overnight I had prepared in my head two dif...

  Mr U 1 month ago
• Eunice77

  Eunce77

  Two  days  ago  I was referred  for a agent suspected skin  cancer on my right leg 

  Eunice77 1 month ago