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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 7 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 2 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 4 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

  • Dear Husband, I will be there for you, every step of the way, right by your side.
    Tis only upon the doorway of death that true love reveals its identity.

    I am so very fortunate to be loved so dearly by my darling husband. We have so much to be thankful for. We are saying our slow goodbyes, reflecting on our lives together and gaining strength from one another on this our final togetherness. We talk much of love, our love, still "in" love after all these years.

    My wonderful brave soldier. My comforter, my advisor.

    How I will wake each day without you I do not know.

    You are still hanging on in there, some hours better than others. But I...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • 3rd dance with germ cell cancer
    Last weekend
    Of feeling normal,i have now managed to eek out enough stem cells for two transplants So on thursday i enter hospital for a long stretch My afp is on the way down,so my tumours are responding to chemo. So come august they all be dead,or i will Such fun
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Challenges
    Hi

    New to the site following recent diagnosis of Breast Cancer and treatment with surgery, awaiting results

    I was wondering if there was anyone out there newly diagnosed with Breast Cancer?

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Mum's Cancer Journey
    About us
    my name is Jodie and my beautiful mum has been diagnosed with terminal Lung cancer. It has spread but to what extent were not sure the main tumour is in her right lung and we know it's in her lymph nodes above her left collarbone. She is having another CT scan next week so we may know more then. She also starts chemo therapy on Monday 3 or 4 sessions 3 weeks apart. She has youth on her side (she is 54 and loves the fact that the doctors keep telling her she's young) and she is fit and well so she...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Dyad's second time around
    Birthday poem - a work in progress

    My blog today is a poem which I've been working on for some days (and it's still not finished - the ending is particularly weak).  Now, I haven't written any poetry for nearly fifty years, and it's taking me a while to find my voice.  I didn't trust myself to free verse - need a bit of structure but not too much - so I chose blank verse for this.  It's about the amazing spring we've had and all the wonderful wild flowers, and also about being glad that I'm still here to see them....

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • I'm Getting There
    Cruton / Jenny

    I have just been reading the comment's from Cruton and Jenny. thank you lady's something I never expected. regarding the advert's. I feel that they are detrimental to people who are suffering from cancer. all I want to do Is forget the last seven month's and try to regain at least some of my life. I used to practice yoga and did so for five year's. I love to read. I never read anything while going through the treatment's. I now dread night time. not because I hardly sleep because of constantly needing...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • I'm Getting There
    Depression

    I find that whenever I visit the Macmillan web site I get depressed. reading all those stories. especially the " I've just been diagnosed" entry's. It set's me off thinking about my own Illness. I have Bladder cancer. or rather had. I have just finished six week's of radio therapy. I still have trouble urinating. It's slow and the night's are spent visiting the toilet on average 7 or 8 time's so I get little sleep. In myself I feel fine. everyone tell's me how well I look. and I try to avoid thinking...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Dear Husband, I will be there for you, every step of the way, right by your side.
    His 59th Birthday.

    Today is his 59th birthday. Most likely his last.

    We had our three sons and a dear friend around the table to help celebrate the day.

    Friends had provided all the feast, the trimmings, the cake and a whole lot of goodwill.

    He was able to chat and laugh and smile and listen and comment and tell his stories and hug us all and kiss us all and blow out the candles and toast our lives and make some jokes and reflect and relax and feel the love we have for him. I think he found it easier than we did...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • 3rd dance with germ cell cancer
    Hmmmm
    Things don't seem to be going my way, Back in july 2012 when i was diagnosed with germ cell cancer a nice big 19*10 cm mass in my abdomen a couple oy chest lymph nodes and lung metastsis,was only a tad concerned as i was told it was treatable and required 16 weeks of chemo, 16 weeks, but i got tickets for the olympics, oh well i suppose 16 weeks isnt that long, could do with a rest. Well 16 weeks came and went woohoo i though,done it thats job done, Nope You require an operation to remove that...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Wife of cancer sufferer
    Wife of cancer sufferer

    My husband has recently been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer. this was picked up during his two yearly scan because he has a condition called A Barretts's Oesophagus. In March of this year, they took four biopsies and one was found to be suspicious, which led to other tests to find out more.  He then had a P.E.T. scan, an Endoscopic Ultrasound and Keyhole surgery. He has a T2 tumour in the Oesophagus. He also has Parkinson's disease and Chronic arthritis. These last two conditions, according...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
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