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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 12 hours ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 13 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 22 hours ago
  • Megan's Macmillan blog example
    Moderator - Macmillan Community 1 day ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 4 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 6 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 6 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 9 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

  • im new

    im 33 and im worried about the scars that will be left down my neck and chin when they break my jaw plus im getting a temp tube in my throat and will be fed through a chube for about a month or more.

    has anyone had the same thing done ?

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • My Mastectomy Journey...
    When is right to return to work!?
    Hey. Well my op was four and a Half weeks ago now, I am getting stronger each day I am now managing to do light bits of house work etc but in still shattered. I have to doctor again this week but when is right for me to go back to work? I don't feel ready yet but I also don't want it to look like I'm taking the piss. I don't know of I should just go back and get on with things. :(
    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Carboplatinum Diary starting 22 Sep 2013 / 20 Oct 2013
    After 24 hours

    I slept ok last night maybe not the whole 6-7 hours but did sleep.

    It is going well for me for  the time being. if i feel a bit sick i pop in a few ginger cubes w/o sugar and it stops the feelings. i am taking besides my usual meds all my natural supplements. added pomegranates and turmeric with piperine and bio-25 too. all to help the body cop with the chemo. i am eating well light stuff, nothing heavy like rice or potatoes or meet or chicken. i eat graines and pulses and vegetables. i bought today...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Carboplatinum Diary starting 22 Sep 2013 / 20 Oct 2013
    After over 12 hours - 23:30

    i feel great

    trying to doze off. my tummy hurts a bit,

    i have taken ginger in tea and dry ginger helps the tummy to calm down a bit

    didnt eat heavy, drank plenty of water.

    had tablets pomegranate extraxt, curcuma extract, and bio-25 probiotics

    i think my good feeling right now are due to high moral and the intake of foods and meds.

    i have a bad taste in my mouth during the day,  but it is tolerable.

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Carboplatinum Diary starting 22 Sep 2013 / 20 Oct 2013
    Day 1 10:00
    Good morning Got to the hospital at 0800. Did a blood test, blood count. Everything fine. I forgot the meds at home so I had to drive back home to get them. No worries live only 10 minutes away. Took the first tablet called Emend. 10:00 Plugged into the first bag, and then the treatment itself, and last but not least the third bag that had i.v meds instead of me taking tablets (Setron , Dexamethazon) Setron has got steroids. All tablets are for the sickness. By 1130 I was out of there. My mom...
    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Holding on tightly to mum
    On Wednesday we found out mum had cancer in her lung. That didn't mean anything to me. It was just a word. We went to a meeting at hospital and she had a biopsy on the Thursday. Afterwards I popped in to see the family dr and he told me it had spread through mum and gave me a time on how long she had left. That has sent my world crashing in. I have gone through hours of crying. Started to last at in rage at my poor husband and then surreal moments at feeling ok. My go is not a specialist and yes...
    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Dealing with the inevitable truth
    Feeling Strange

    So basically on Thursday I finally told my tutor about everything that's been going on with my mum. I don't think he was expecting to hear that my mum was dying. Academically, I'm going to be monitored until my January exams, if things go bad in January I can either defer the exams until august next year or take the year out. Not exactly a great selection of choice.

    He also told me about the counselling service which I'm just signing up to now. My tutor was quite helpful and I think I...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Salvage radiotherapy - another journey
    In the beginning

    Early in 2004, when I was 58, I went to see my GP about my twice nightly visits to the toilet. I knew that it is a common occurrence amongst men of my age and expected to be referred for ‘a simple procedure’ to the prostate gland to fix the problem. First, as a routine, I was asked to have a blood test. A few weeks later, I happened to be at my local surgery seeing the nurse for something trivial so mentioned I hadn’t had the result of the blood test. “No problem”, she said, “let’s look at your computer...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Best friends
    The start

    I posted about my situation in The Room. I have now decided to give the subject the space I feel it deserves and give it a blog of it's own and a full airing and ramble on in an attempt at some closure.

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Best friends
    Former Member over 13 years ago
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