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

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  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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• Multiple Myeloma

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• One Step At A Time

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• 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. `

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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

• 2025 Not a good year so far

  15. Week 3 Post Treatment 13th to 19th September 2025

  Saturday 13th September Continuing to drink the drinks normally but taking the meds through the PEG. Managed to eat a yogurt at mid-day and had a small amount of scrambled eggs but no toast, this was ok on my throat but the top of my mouth was a bit ...

  NorfolkBor 9 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  14. Second week Post Treatment

  Saturday 6th sept / Sunday 7th September Throat doesn’t seem to hurt as much this morning but that may be the morphine kicking in. And the other good news is that I am having “movement” each day, which is a relief, so have stopped t...

  NorfolkBor 9 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  MRI scan yesterday

  Yesterday was a long tiring day.  I went to Nottingham for my MRI scan.  It reminded me a little of the sort of hectic working days I had when I was many years younger and a lot fitter.  It was exhausting then, goodness ...

  Margaret853 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 214: Twenty Minutes of Hell.

  Post 214: Twenty Minutes of Hell. All day today, from the frosty white morning to the cold breeze of dusk, I stayed in bed. I didn’t go downstairs once. I only went to the loo — which is in the next room. The foreman told me to rest aft...

  Mr U 9 months ago
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  What the UTUC!

  The Date is Set.......Nephroureterectomy on 30th December

  I haven't posted in a while, and a lot has happened........ So after many months, I had a meeting with the urologist last week at the hospital where I will have my surgery.  My surgery will be on December 30th, 2025.  I could have had a wee...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 213: Home, work and uncertainty.

  Post 213: Home, work and uncertainty. Although the green wheelie bin is jammed full of hawthorn and bramble with a sprinkling of wild garlic — which sounds more like a gastronomic delight from Clarkson’s new venture than a heap of garden...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Fed up today

  We had a lovely weekend, it felt like the good old days, we hardly thought about cancer for two days.  Today I came down to earth with a bump.  Woke up feeling very fed up and grumpy.  Went for a blood test this morning which prob...

  Margaret853 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 212: Spring bulbs and clever stockings.

  Post 212: Spring bulbs and clever stockings. Reviewing the patient status right now, I’d say things are medium bad, but there are glimmers of hope. ——— After two days where my emotions stayed firmly in their cubby hole, tod...

  Mr U 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 211: A better day, hip hip hurrah.

  Post 211: A better day, hip hip hurrah. I slept on it it helped me see That one and one sometimes makes three ——— My Darling was going to get up early so I could stay in bed, but I got up my usual time and helped myself to brea...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Peter's Blog

  May 2025 to November 2025

  Following on from the results in May 2025, I had my next treatment the week after the results and it was interesting to get the nurses opinion on the Nivolumab jab as her understanding of it was that it might speed up the process slightly but that a ...

  HawkeyeBrown 9 months ago