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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

  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 14 minutes ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 2 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 10 hours ago
  • Megan's Macmillan blog example
    Moderator - Macmillan Community 21 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 4 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 5 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 6 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 8 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 8 days ago
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    W J 9 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Smashing The Stragglers...
    Day 12 - Downs and Ups
    The most efficient trip to the Oncology department saw me arrive yesterday to a comparatively deserted waiting room? Within 5 minutes of arriving I was called forward for treatment. A bit confused I asked where all the patients were. I was told that my first 8 days of a cram packed and somewhat apparently chaotic RT department was not the norm. One of the four RT scanners had been getting fixed and now it had been half of the patients had moved to another ward. All being well my average hour trip...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • I need to get it out
    At least it takes my mind off it.

    I find this so difficult to locate..... finding how to put a blog up, but at least it takes my mind off everything else, at least on the days that I can face the hunt. In fact it has taken me so long that I am off to do something else now.

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • My New Fight With Cancer 2013 Nov
    Well A new Day

    Well  I dont know if you have been following my ,blogs this is about the worse and the one which i have written, with no information I think this is what is making me so down in the mouth,even if they had phoned and said that they were still deciding then that would have been better than nothing,my head is pounding and the pains are back in my sides,i dont know what to do for the best,there seems to be know where to sit or lay to relax,this is nothing to do with me not getting any info today. I know...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Getting my head around it
    Blogging again

    Why do we blog?  Who is going to read the stuff we write anyway.  And does it matter?

    I don't get many replies to my blogs so I have no idea how many readers have read and passed on to the next thing.  Just now I came across someone else's blog and it touched my heart.  Different subject entirely but I felt I might have something to say. So I replied to the blog entry.

    Yesterday was a good day, less pain, walking around the house without a crutch and doing more generally.  Today not good at...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Smashing The Stragglers...
    Day 11 - Good News and Bad
    yesterdays chat with the dietitian went well - despite eating for England I had still lost a kilo, but no panic just yet. Some milk shake mixes now on order (400 calories a pop!) which will see me straight for next week if needed. Had started chewing sugar free gum to take taste away. This worked for short periods which was good. Had a couple of welcome visitors last night, bit of light relief and good to talk about other more positive things rather than my illness. Bad news is that last night the...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • OK, so this is how its going to be
    Well, that was unexpectedly bad news

    votes are in, and well its not good news.

    cancer in liver,spread to lungs

    treatment= no treatment.

    life expectancy months if lucky

    was told to expect him to go downhill within the next couple of weeks

    My life is shattered, he is my dad, and he is dying

    A part of me died today as well.

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Smashing The Stragglers...
    Day 10 - Is a Change as Good as a Rest?
    Yesterdays chat with consultant was positive, all seems on track with no complications. Apart from feeling as though I have someone elses mouth and a lack of taste the dryness wasn't as bad last night (must have been the pepsi cola). Will have a chat with the dietitian in southampton later today to see if there is anything that can make the bad taste in my mouth be a bit more bearable. Well yesterday had a slight change to routine as I went in to work to 'firefight' a couple of issues. This resulted...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • My New Fight With Cancer 2013 Nov
    Hello Day three

    HGello all

           This is the third blog of my new fight with cancer,todat the District Nurse came,and then a little while later thy Physio came and she showed me some Breathing exercises and some others about getting out of the bed/chair saftly,also some other exercises to strengthen my leg muscles,I found it all very helpful even though after she left i found my self really hurting and having to lay down for a while she said that i probabaly would,,I cant wait to get some information on the meeting...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • OK, so this is how its going to be
    Todays the day for the final diagnoses and care plan (I guess)

    Phew, Ok In three and a half hours time, we will know for sure what it is and what they can do about it.

    Endoscopy last week, drs reported a normal pancreas,normal bile ducts,Lyphomatous nodes not carcinomatous,6Cm diffuse mass adjacent to liver region

    presuming they took biopsy of the liver mass,but report didnt go into details of where the biospy was taken.

    Dad now doesnt believe it is cancer as he thinks they would had him in by now and "cut it out"  Im thinking he may be slipping...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • My Pensive
    Disbelief

    Evening All,

    For me I have to say that the hardest part of this whole shitty journey is the fact that nearly three months later I am still completely confounded by the whole thing. I am suspended in this foggy painful disbelief that makes moving on completely impossible. It sounds normal doesn’t it – ‘oh, she’s in shock poor dear how could she comprehend such an awful thing’ but it feels different in reality, not nearly as simple and clean cut.

    When someone you love...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
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