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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 12 hours 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 14 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 18 hours ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 6 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 8 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 13 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 14 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 15 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 16 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 21 days ago

Latest blog posts

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

  Post 326: South West Dorset Here We Come.

  Post 326: South West Dorset Here We Come. My Darling poked her head around the door and said, “I’m off to drop the key off to Mazda.” “I’m coming too — wait for me” I replied in a don’t-leave-me-here ...

  Mr U 5 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 325: Eeek! I’m in pain again.

  Post 325: Eeek! I’m in pain again. With a clean white shirt and my lovely old three-piece suit hanging up ready to be squeezed into, I head to the shower before getting ready for a day out at our great pals’ wedding. I know this day wil...

  Mr U 5 months ago
• My Journey So Far

  I Knew Something Wasn't Right

  “I Knew Something Wasn’t Right” I wasn’t expecting to hear the word cancer. Not at 36. When the consultant said, “It’s high-grade DCIS,” I nodded as if I understood. Inside, my mind was scrambling. I’d...

  Fran89s 5 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 324: Weeding Together, a Rare Occurrence.

  Post 324: Weeding Together, a Rare Occurrence. With my last tearful episode a long while back, am I better than I used to be and technically not depressed? That’s not a question I expected to be asking myself, but at the moment it seems like ...

  Mr U 5 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 323: Hard graft in the garden and the far north.

  Post 323: Hard graft in the garden and the far north. When it comes down to it there’s nothing like a bit of fresh air. I had heard my Darling go to work in the dark this morning at silly o’clock so I knew I could do pretty much what I ...

  Mr U 5 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 322: Chilling out in the car with automatic everything.

  Post 322: Chilling out in the car with automatic everything. We both saw the laundry basket overflowing with clothes again and although the washing machine was crying out for a rest, there was only one solution. But in a way both my Darling and I w...

  Mr U 5 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 321: Clean Teeth and Travel Frustrations.

  Post 321: Clean Teeth and Travel Frustrations. He said my teeth were good, unchanged, and to see him again in six months. I’ve kept up with his advice on how to keep my teeth forever, even though he knows my situation regarding my health. The...

  Mr U 5 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  Results

  Well it’s been seven months off chemo, and my bloods are still lowish for chemo but the MRI show it stable which is nice. June next  hope everyone is ok  please leave a message rather than just visiting x

  W J 5 months ago
• Life After Cancer: The Part No One Warns You About

  The real battle begins after the treatment ends.

  When people hear the word remission, they believe the story has a happy ending.They imagine that once the treatment is over, life simply returns to normal. That you pick up where you left off. That everything goes back to the way it was before.But n...

  Kel13 5 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 320: Another holiday?

  Post 320: Another holiday? Sleeping throughout the night is such a rarity that it’s so long ago I can’t remember doing it — but today I did. The 07:00 alarm woke me up. Yesterday we dragged ourselves into the travel agents to hav...

  Mr U 5 months ago