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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.

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Latest blog posts

• A booby is a seabird with blue feet

  The MRI Washing Machine

  The cheerful poster on the changing room wall claimed that the MRI scan would be just “like being in a washing machine”. This got my attention: I had never had an MRI scan before and I had never been in a washing machine either! The poste...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• A booby is a seabird with blue feet

  Maria von Trapp did not mention any of these in her song

  Hello everyone! I have not yet even started my cancer treatment as such, so I am getting prepared by 'learning the language'. It looks like I will be learning at least one new word every day. I am so worried about 'chemo fog' and the ...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• A booby is a seabird with blue feet

  Hearty Heart Ultrasound

  Hello everyone! Another recent first for me has been the heart ultrasound. I had not expected one, as I do not have any history of heart problems. But then these words popped into my mind: “not that I know of” and “yet”. (That...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• A booby is a seabird with blue feet

  The Giant Doughnut

  Hello everyone! Well, my first experience with the ‘giant doughnut’, the CT scanner, is now behind me. Admittedly, it is the only doughnut in my life that I haven’t been entirely overjoyed to be offered. But it was still actually qu...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• My bowel and other parts

  Chemo first cycle started 3 September 2021

  On four 21 day cycles of Xelox.  I was impressed by the chemo unit, care was excellent and other patients on the whole friendly, I’m not a great chatterer anyway. Fingers became sensitive to cold before I left the unit, I nearly dropped my...

  Jopeg over 4 years ago
• Mandy

  10 weeks, so much has happened, now post op

  Wow! What a time this has been…….so much has happened, my dad is now post op! It’s now 10 weeks since my dad was referred by the dentist for an emergency appointment at the hospital The appointments include….. Consultants, ...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• Found on my first Mammogramme!

  Thoughts and feelings

  I have finally had it confirmed , after weeks of waiting for test results and MRI dates, that I have stage 1 breast cancer along with some califications that are a bit concerning. I am sure that most will agree that part of the agony in getting a dia...

  Former Member over 4 years ago
• It's Gone Tits Up

  Standing in the way of control

  Another day and another situation that I don’t have a say in. Cycle 6 didn’t happen today. After doing everything I could in 2 days to have no signs of dry or swollen skin, my bloods showed my liver was running at very risky. At my last c...

  Former Member over 5 years ago
• Community News

  Alone in this, together. Blood cancer awareness.

  
  
  Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be an isolating experience.

  "Im just feeling so lonely because I cant talk to my loved ones about my fears because I know how much it will make them be afraid!" 
  julielovesGoats, New to the Community group.
  
  This can be even more true for those who receive a rarer cancer diagnosis, like some blood disorders.  In today’s Community News Blog we’re hoping to create a space where those diagnosed with a rarer cancer can come together and share their experience. We...

  Tom C - Online Community team over 5 years ago
• It's Gone Tits Up

  Thanks for making me, a fighter

  Cycle 5 was very different to my previous cycles. Friday I did ok and went to bed with no symptoms after my treatment. Saturday and Sunday, I went out for a little walk with very little sickness. I did feel very drunk. Like a had had one too many gin...

  Former Member over 5 years ago