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Blogging can be a great way to journal your experiences and share with others. Why not create your own cancer journey blog, or have a read of other blogs created by our members?

Unsure how to get started? Take a look at our help pages on blogs. 

Macmillan Information Blogs
  • Random act of kindness
    Random act of kindness
    7 months ago
  • The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    over 2 years ago
  • If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    over 2 years ago

Latest blog updates

  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 17 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 2 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 3 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 4 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 6 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 7 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.
    Emma - Online Community Team 7 days ago
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    W J 7 days ago
  • Cool Cap Relief
    TerryB 10 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Asking all the wrong questions
    Finding out more

    My husband seemed completely numb to what she had to say and was being a little strange. After the doctor left us he seemed very confused and angry and quite horrible.  I figured it was understandable but I was reeling especially as I had received a text from my sister to say mum had only a couple of hours left.  I went to the quiet room to had a quick cry and pull myself together, I asked to have a quick word with the nurse and told her my husband was acting very out of character.  She said she wouldn...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • Asking all the wrong questions
    Finding out.

    My husband Karl was admitted to hospital after 18 months of seeing various specialists to find out why he was in pain, losing weight and vomiting.  He was admitted on New Years Eve 2014.  My gp called an ambulance because at this point he was very weak and the vomiting was so bad he couldn't hold anything down.  About three weeks previous to this a rheumatoid consultant that we had been sent to had asked for a full body scan for him under the two week rule so we knew cancer could be a possibility...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • Non Hodgkin Lymphoma - One Careful Owner
    New Year, New Worries, New Age Counselling

    So it's been a while since I last posted. If I am honest I think the idea of coming back to my blog seemed a little too scary. When I read my blog, I remember all the appalling feelings I had several months ago and it seems somewhat masochistic to put yourself through that. What's happened since November? Work is really busy but generally things are going well.

    I'm trying to help fellow cancer people as best I can. I've supported the NHS Help with Health Costs #NHSHWHCHero campaign on their...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • Coping when you lose someone you love from Cancer. Friend/Relative.Partner.
    The loss of someone you love.

    When somone passes away peacefully and at home. I had a visit the following day to see how I was coping.

    After that day I have never recieved a call but I did recieve a sympathy card.

    Has anyone had the same experience and if so would you like to share your views. I want to help those who are left behind dealing with the loss of your best friend. family. loved one.

    I hope to set something up soon specially in the North East.

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • You've had a really bad afternoon haven't you?
    Chemotherapy has started...I really have cancer..

    My first chemo session went well apart from having to have a sedative before because my BP was high. I have mastered being able to inject myself for five days, the first one it took me a good half hour to muster the courage. The first four days I was ok and carried on normally (well what is normal now) On the fifth the fatigue set in and the next day I could not get out of bed. I have never felt so low. My mouth was disgusting all dry and wrinkled inside and the taste unbearable and no amount of...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • Whims and Wishes
    assumptions...

     

    "shows us your boobs"

    they shout for a laugh,

    a pub crawl,

    a street brawl,

    not funny by half...

    I'll lift off my hair

    and lift up my top,

    then you'll blush,

    your friends hush,

    'cause your joke's a flop...

    I am very happy with being me, probably happier than most, but one thing that I still find hard is the get your tits out joke (and I have also been a party to other women who know I had a mastectomy joking that they flash their cleavage!).  I remember a long...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • 3rd dance with germ cell cancer
    3rd or 4th dance

    I a bit confused wether to rename this blog , the confusion being is there is a suspect image in my left lung which may be cancerours or scar tissue from the operation in October,

    if by a miracle it is scar tissue and i only need one final operation to my right lung then all good then the name of the blog is correct and it is a third dance with germ cell cancer,

     

    but if its new, which is really worring ,is it a 4th dance with germ cell cancer, i hope not as this could it going to keep coming back...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • 3rd dance with germ cell cancer
    Im back

    Well managed to get a holiday over xmas just, gee is post cancer travel insurance a rip off,

    but back to the marsden friday for scan results

    one confirmec nodule on right lung, can be operated,

    but one on left that probably needs operating as well

    so two more lungs ops, but its still with intent to cure, so hopefully by april i mat be happy and disease free

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • feel like my life is on hold!! :(
    Kidney cancer and possible hip(bone cancer) advice desperately needed!

    ok so back in 2012 my mum got diagnosed with kidney cancer and at that ver same time also got told she only actually had 1 kidney! Total shook to her! Her tumour was around 7-9cm and had stayed within the kidney! She had her only kidney removed and was put onto dialysis. They also found a very small lung nodule which they kept an eye on, just before Xmas she had a pet scan to check the lung nodule and to maybe get some kind of answer as to whether it was CANCER nodule. She went back last week for...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
  • Isolated
    Misfit

    In April I was given a second lung cancer diagnosis - so for some in the on-line community my situation is not helping their first diagnosis. 

    I cannot post in the after treatment community as the 13 years in remission is rather seen as a boast.  

    There is no where to post Ist lung cancer diagnosis used by my ex husband to end our marriage. 

    No-one appears to have had stereotactic radiotherapy to their lung

    I have been living with lung cancer since I was 37 and am now 62 - I have the slow growing...

    Former Member over 11 years ago
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