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• Speaking to an empty room

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

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 16 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

  GaryG298207 2 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 5 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 6 days ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 6 days ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Former Member 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Shaka For Life

  Signs of Life...

  It's been 3mths since I last posted here. Sorry if that sounds like I'm in church! I've no idea where to start. These past months have been hard. I finished 5 months of chemotherapy a month ago. 4 rounds of EC and 12 of Paclitaxel. The s...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The start of chemo - getting to know the E, A, C, P and Dac in BEACOPDac

  This is about the first few days of chemo. I will try to be very detailed and a bit explicit with some stuff. Before I got chemo I didn’t want to read or know anything about what the expect, so if you are reading this and think the same way, pr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Sid The Stoma

  Welcoming Sid The Stoma

  So my journey started way back in the early months of 2023 when I started loosing blood in my stools and on exploration the hospital discovered I had a polyp in my bowel, this was swiftly removed and all confirmed as benign. However bleeding continue...

  Char Cad over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The days leading up to the start of chemo...

  So, this entry is about the days leading to the start of the chemo. I am writing the entries in a very casual way just as thoughts come through. It must be a bit annoying to read but I think this is the best way I can fully express what was going thr...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  How did it all start

  Coming to terms with writing the story of my diagnosis and treatment has taken some time. Some days you really want to sit down and write it, other days you just want to forget everything and kick the ball forward. Without making this too personal, I...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• agressive recurring cancer

  recurrent cancer

  Hi, I have had aggresive stage 3 breast cancer 6 times now including lymph nodes and pectoral muscle. On pension credit and would like to know if entiled to any benefits as well though resonably well i am definatly slowing down and my walk has change...

  laid back over 1 year ago
• Joining the (ovarian) cancer club

  Hit by a train, run over by a bus

  I hadn't felt right physically for around a month. I'm a 58 year old nursery teacher who is always busy outside of work too. I have a fantastic husband and 2 amazing daughters who I am very close to and we spend lots of time together. My elde...

  Ritaginger over 1 year ago
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  Hair care, hair loss and styling tips from the Community

  Megan- Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Cervical cancer 2a2 adenocarcinoma im 38

  Intro, smear, colscopy and doagnosis

  Hello my name is Mel, I am 38 years old, single, work in mental health. in oct 2023 I hadnt found my person, i always wanted children and for about 2 years had been working to get a house, stable job and car secretly to try and get ready. In Nov 2023...

  Mcdb over 1 year ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  To die or to 'assisted' die?

  That is the question or will be this week for our elected representatives. I now fall squarely into the category of people that the proposed legislation is intended to apply to. Two weeks ago my palliative chemotherapy was stopped. The drugs did not ...

  Dignahtee over 1 year ago