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• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 4 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 9 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 19 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 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

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Latest blog posts

• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Second GP

  The rest of 2023 went by in a bit of blur because I left England to join my son and his family in Northern Ireland. What a beautiful place it is and you wouldn't find friendlier folk anywhere on this planet. Then 2024 left me equally dazed but I ...

  dolphin99 9 hours ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 551: The holiday is officially postponed, it’s a bit of a blow.

  Post 551: The holiday is officially postponed, it’s a bit of a blow. With the news of our choice to abandon the holiday up north my feelings of the walls closing in are increasing. My world is shrinking steadily but the recent changes are sig...

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• My BCG Therapy

  My Journey So Far...

  Hi all, I first noticed blood in my urine towards the end of June 2026. After 48 hours of continuous blood in my urine, I contacted my GP. She asked me various questions and asked me to drop off a urine sample at the surgery the next day. I did as re...

  Aurelius 19 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  Can't help myself now I am so excited, if everything continues on track we are going to the beach, with the flask and most importantly my best mate. My dear Jeff. My base lines are pretty much the same, so that's good, yesterday's jaunt h...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Did it, bloods successfully taken. Getting to the car and back in the house was awful painful but doable. Being in the car and in my chair was ok.  This has reduced anxiety about how I am going to manage to get to appointments and deal with it a...

  Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
• 

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

  Post 550: A day of tv and showers.

  Post 550: A day of tv and showers. The was little to do on my Darlings birthday and with the choice of what to do in her hands it was a day of tv and snacks. But first I had an early start at the Hospice for session four of counselling. These are g...

  Mr U 1 day ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Let's start

  For a long time, I’ve been looking for a community I could connect with. Unfortunately, where I live, people speak a Slavic language, and after 13 years as an immigrant, I still don’t feel as comfortable expressing myself in a Slavic lang...

  Former Member 2 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  The leccy supply is not quite as secure as I thought when I woke up yesterday. I slept through some outages and we are still going off for a while. It's a big clear up out there. The wind is still very strong. Original back pain has toned down. Yeste...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Second Dermatologist

  The next NHS letter I received came as quite a surprise. It hadn't come from the bots. Instead, I'd been given a Dermatology outpatients appointment, where presumably I might even encounter an actual dermatologist. Things were looking up. Was...

  dolphin99 2 days ago
• 

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

  Post 549: Let’s talk it over a pint of mild.

  Post 549: Let’s talk it over a pint of mild. The bumps on the way to the pub made the journey very uncomfortable but the warm welcome from er, Brian and Lorraine was enough to ease any pain I had, and the table we reserved for dinner became al...

  Mr U 2 days ago