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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 3 hours ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 5 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 13 hours ago
  • Megan's Macmillan blog example
    Moderator - Macmillan Community 1 day 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 9 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 9 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • From Stomach Cancer to survival
    part 2.......
    Well here we go AGAIN.... Just discovered that I have now got Cancer in the abdomen though this time, it's inoperable and incurable! But the good news is that it should be manageable with chemo! I was gutted (for half an hour!)  when I was told.
    Then I dusted myself down and got my sights set to determinedly fight this thing all the way.
    And though it looks like a long and hard road. I shall do my best to get the very best out of my life, for myself and for others.
    So smile along with me and...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • My Pensive
    Quotes on Loss

    Hello,

     

    I am sitting in bed, at 4.15am and I am not the remotest bit sleepy and my heart won’t stop pumping in over-drive so I think that I’ll write in here for a while. I hope it calms me, I am not even sure what I am exactly stressed about – all I know is that right this instant nothing will distract my brain or calm me so I thought I would just run with it. Like if you’re riding a horse that is chomping at the bit and spooking a lot, it’s really scary but sometimes if you say ‘go on then, just...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • I need to get it out
    Day 2 of a blog that I never imagined I would ever do, even before all this started.

    We went to the head and neck cancer support meeting last night and found a precious soul, Mike, who has been through it his self 3/4 years ago. It is sooo lucky we found him after our last encounter and not the other way around but maybe it was meant to be, to let us realise that we may have rough times ahead how ever much we try to kid ourselves that we will sail through it.

    The tiny tiny hole that K has in his right nostril keeps blocking up already and when it does he says he feels so depressed...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • surviving and waiting to thrive!
    Alive but not kicking!
    I have reached the "Five Year Mark". This is GOOD news. This is most excellent and I am so pleased. I am alive and have been living, a trip to the Far East, a big family celebration, a promotion, a zero birthday! So many things that could have been missed but I am alive and here to enjoy these things. So why the "not kicking" comment? Because those events listed above are the one offs fitted in between resting and aching and managing life. At the five year appointment I asked the onc "when...
    4367ebaa12c54746933001f22875b941 over 12 years ago
  • OK, so this is how its going to be
    Nearly a week after (almost) diagnoses-this is another world.

    Ok-so here I am, on this site, blogging about stuff that a week ago I had no idea about. But first a little background history....

    Im 38, mother to three kids,One sadly born sleeping at 19 weeks pregnant.

    I'm an only child, with slight anxiety issues, partner to a wonderful man for 16 years who suffers with his own issues of Aspergers syndrome, as does eldest son,

    Being an only child, I was always the apple of my dads eye, this was compounded 38 years and 4 months ago when i was born, during...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Pazopanib user experiences and coping strategies
    Coping with Renal Cancer

    I take pazobanib and would like to find out how other s cope. For instance I feel the cold a lot.

    Quartz 4

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • I need to get it out
    This is the first day of the rest of my life

    In my ignorance I thought it would be a good idea to get someone to talk to my husband about how they had got over their RT and got on with their life. How wrong could I have been. He and his wife came over and - as if we weren't scared enough - they have made us so bad. I have been doing quite well but even I have a "hurt" between my ribs now and as for my dear sweet sensitive husband... he says he can't go through it now and I have NO idea what to say to him. Where do we go from here?...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Emma's Blog!
    Radiotherapy!

    Hi Everyone

    My mum went for a spine scan last Tuesday. Results came back yesterday....

    They have found a mass in the soft tissues in her shoulder, this is obviously what has been causing her so much pain.

    They have said she can have radiotherapy and booked her in for a consultation in December. We are happy they can finally give her something however we are all still a little apprehensive, scared and nervous as we do not know what to expect as we have always been told there is no treatment.

    Can anyone...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • A Brand New Me
    The perfect seduction music

    A few posts back I told you about D and the problems he was having with his love life.  He’s making another appearance today because sadly he’s still having difficulties.  I’ve had an email from him with a suggested topic for the blog.  D wants to know what the best seduction music is.  He tells me that he’s not a “pour the wine and pounce” type of guy.  He wants some sophisticated music to create the right sort of mood.  He agrees that the wrong music can definitely...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • I miss you
    Yesterday

    Yesterday would have been your 77th birthday. It was also Remembrance Sunday.

    Happy Birthday Grandma. I love you, always.

    P.S. Thank you for being there on my Wedding Day. x

    Former Member over 12 years ago
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