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• 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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 6 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 16 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 10 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 17 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 18 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 19 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. `

  Sierraoscar 20 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 25 days ago

Latest blog posts

• SgtL

  How it all began

  06 Oct 23 in January 2023 I noticed that I was having toilet issues by needing wee more often than normal. I was feeling very tired all of the time. by March I had my first blood test which showed low iron so was put on iron tablets. Yip this worked,...

  SgtL over 2 years ago
• 

  Community News

  Supporting friends - how to ask for, or give support when you or your friend has cancer

  In this Community News Blog, we're discussing how to best support your friend when they are diagnosed with cancer or how to ask your friends for support when you are living with cancer. Find tips from Community members and support from Macmillan.

  Steph - Online Community Team over 2 years ago
• MM uncertainty

  Sep 2023 - Palliative care at home

  September has been another learning experience. Having decided he would like to die at home if possible, my husband is now under the care of the local hospice, with weeks left. Infact, there are three main organisations now involved in his care: hosp...

  motherofboys over 2 years ago
• Poetry ABT

  For Roy

  I look at the sky - I see you there I look at the moon and the stars - I feel you are near I notice the sound of the river - I can hear your voice I feel a sensation of warmth - I remember the laughter I see a smile in someones eyes - I remember you ...

  AliceBT over 2 years ago
• But I can’t have breast cancer, there’s nothing wrong with me!

  Stage, Grade, Treatment ….. Mindf**k!

  At this point I’m getting used to the obligatory “clinical groping” of my breasts and have a certain fondness for my superhero breast cancer cape (would like the additional superpowers…. Laser vision? Invisibility? Alas none ...

  Kfletch over 2 years ago
• But I can’t have breast cancer, there’s nothing wrong with me!

  Appointments….. more peopling than strictly necessary!

  Roll on a week of sleepless nights and going down the rabbit hole of Googling “will writing services” “am I going to die” and the suchlike and acceptance began to set in. As much as I dislike the phrase “it’s is wh...

  Kfletch over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Serious adverse immunotherapy reaction - the outpatient phase

  It’s helping me to write this all down whilst it’s still quite fresh. I am discharged from hospital on the Friday evening. I am set up with 3 appointments in the acute oncology service - Saturday, Sunday, Monday morning, for IV steroids, ...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Serious adverse immunotherapy related event - the in patient experience

  As a brief recap, I am currently experiencing the (very low likelihood) downside risks of being treated with a PD-1 inhibitor. Essentially my immune system trying to wreck my previously healthy kidneys. As an aside, as I write this, the immediate cri...

  Coddfish over 2 years ago
• Look out for new "ImperfectionS"

  Turn stumbling stones into stepping stones - Keep looking for new imperfections!

  I collected these stones whist on Chemo for Breast Cancer when I walked my dog!  30mm in breast and four lymph nodes.  Now, (hopefully) cancer free. Keep checking for new imperfections! 

  Elizabeth M over 2 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Responsible Adults and a Big Knife

  Friday 18th August is biopsy round two. A second visit to the rectal verge to collect tissue to enable an accurate diagnosis and decide on the medical approach. Last week’s attempt using gas and air for pain relief failed to gather enough mate...

  Dignahtee over 2 years ago