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• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 5 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 10 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 20 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

  HawkeyeBrown 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Quite a wait, but not the worst given the clock going back. My only options for pain and nausea now is codeine and the oil I get on private prescription. I tend not to take these together but today needs must. I' m not too wobbly on my feet and m...

  Rowan8a3264 2 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

  So my phone call on Thurs will be the results of my bloods, which I do fret about, and then check list of has anything changed or been different since the last time, of which there has been quite a lot.  Mandy is blunt and she steam rolls throug...

  Rowan8a3264 3 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on some more

  The leccy came back after a couple of hours or so and so far has stayed on. Not counting any chickens yet still a few more hours to go. I felt quite rough this morning, I decided that as it was already ropey and am grounded anyway I'd take a bigger h...

  Rowan8a3264 3 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 548: Weeeeee’re all going down the pub…

  Post 548: Weeeeee’re all going down the pub… With the only really useful thing I did today being a phone call there was a real feeling of hiding from the storm and resting to get out and about later, I didn’t like it but it had to...

  Mr U 3 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering away

  Ooof, it was a wait for the meds for nausea, I felt quite sick. Baseline pain levels are reduced, this is now a sustained improvement. It's windy out there, gusts sound like small booms of thunder sometimes. The lamp post is doing a lively jig. A...

  Rowan8a3264 3 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The Second Nurse (again)

  The bots must have been keen to see me because I had an appointment with the second nurse in no time at all. The small hospital in the rural market town was just as quiet as I remembered it. I checked in with Reception and took a seat to watch the wo...

  dolphin99 4 days ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  The First GP

  The new year started off well but when the euphoria of my new scalp wore off I spotted some imperfections. A couple of months post-Efudix and I wondered if it needed a repeat performance. I'd registered with a different GP practice that was close...

  dolphin99 4 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 547: Back ache has risen to the neck, oh hell.

  Post 547: Back ache has risen to the neck, oh hell. With the back ache becoming a real nuisance now it only gone and moved to my neck, the right side of my neck in particular which is gruesome. I definitely couldn’t drive today and as for the...

  Mr U 4 days ago
• Wittering away...

  wittering on

   A short wait until meds this morning and I am now beginning to believe there has been an improvement in my back, as well as an improvement in management so feeling chipper about this. Very wet here yesterday. Storm Boelo due mid-morning so the ...

  Rowan8a3264 4 days ago
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  Community News

  Taking a break from thinking about cancer

  Thinking about cancer can be exhausting. In this blog, we discover Online Community spaces where you can take a break and enjoy chatting about something else.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 5 days ago