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

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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 3 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 3 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 16 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 17 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 18 days ago
• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

• Bladder Cancer Journey

  6 week induction course finished now the wait

  The six week induction course is now finished. Quite a few side effects: fatigue, irritated prostate, frequent urination day and night, slight pain in liver. Doses 1-5 went ok, but dose six hit me like a train. Nearly 3 weeks after last dose very fre...

  Leo1 over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Sunday 28th April 3 days post final Paclitaxel chemo

  Day 2 Yesterday was a fairly good day apart from waking at 3.15 am, but I was expecting that after all the gubbins that were pumped into me on Friday. I had the Filgrastim infection lastnight and was given the single dose pegfilgrastim again. I took ...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Thoughts and musings on living with cancer from Brighton Biker

  1 - The start of an unwelcome journey

  My name is Andy, I am 45 years old, and I have f***ing prostate cancer. Somewhere in the fog of doubt, worry, and the attempt to carry on with life as normal, I am here, floundering and trying to make sense of it all. It’s been nearly four mon...

  BrightonBiker over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Friday 26th April 4th and FINAL Paclitaxel Chemo Day 1

  I had a fairly restless nights sleep, mainly because I noticed a district nurse appointment for Monday. I was fretting that it meant they were going to prospone my Chemo today. But they didn't:)  In the post today a lovely surprise arrived f...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  DEVASTATED!

  Apologies Not my usual tone of post at all. My trip to London next week has now been cancelled and surgery kicked into an unknown future date by a ridiculous oversight by the London team. Way back last summer, as part of the investigations into the l...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
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  Community News

  Feeling the need to scream and shout?

  Read this blog to find out how we are marking 'National Scream day'

  Megan- Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• A Blip...

  Follow up

  I went for my follow up appointment with the surgeon and - of course - the first thing he said was 'You're looking well' and the second thing he said was 'Good news! You won't need a second operation and you're cancer free&#39...

  Caz 17 over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  But it’s not like that on the TV when it’s cool for cats

  Life is getting a little hardcore out here on Exmoor. In ‘Chop, Chop’ I described the massive Total Pelvic Extermination surgery that I am being lined up for. Now, one month after the initial video consultation with the surgeon, I am gett...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago
• My Journey on Paclitaxel

  Thursday 25th April, 14th day post 3rd Paclitaxel

  I'm sorry I haven't posted much recently but I have been feeling a little low. I should have finished my Chemo 2 weeks ago but with my bloods playing up has postponed 2 of my sessions.  I had bloods taken on Monday, but when I had my spe...

  Alison218 over 2 years ago
• Kicking My Cancer's Arse

  Part 6: Playing for Time

  This is the sixth of my ongoing series of posts about my latest adventure – being diagnosed and treated for bowel cancer.  It follows on from the previous post published here on 19 March. It is has been another interesting month for n...

  Phil42 over 2 years ago