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

  Mr U 14 hours ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 1 day 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 1 day ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 7 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b HD

  W J 9 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 14 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 15 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 16 days ago
• 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. `

  Sierraoscar 17 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 22 days ago

Latest blog posts

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  Thriveandbehappy2theend

  Sharing My Journey - I'm Sarah, I'm 36, and I've battled with poorly health since I was 14

  Hi  Everyone.  My name is Sarah I’m 36yr old. Battled with poorly health since 14yrs old. Various operations and diagnosis. Im Wanting to write  ︎ to share my journey, to meet new friends, support others through being a listeni...

  Thriveandbehappy81e8f2 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 163: Observations of Mr U and his ups and downs.

  Post 163: Observations of Mr U and his ups and downs. ——— I’ll take over from here. I’ll keep an eye on him until he’s fit enough to do this himself. ——— The hop-on, hop-off part of this stor...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  A day in A&E

  It was all going so well.  Felt fine yesterday, mouth now fully healed from the emergency gum incision 2 weeks ago, swelling right down.  Woke up this morning to find the lump on my gums had doubled in size overnight.  Pins and needles...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
• Tunnel

  End of Bravado

  I’m near the end of a metastasis chemotherapy treatment and my bravado is long gone, replaced by the despair created by the internal and external side effects left in its wake. They are in my awaken or sleeping mind, my psyc...

  Elis6d0975 11 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  11. Fifth Week of Treatment

  Over the weekend there has been no change with regards the constipation, despite taking the capsules. On Sunday woke up to being a little light headed, so waited to see if this went by mid morning, which it hadn’t, so I phoned the hospital tria...

  NorfolkBor 11 months ago
• 2025 Not a good year so far

  10. Fourth week of treatment.

  I’m continuing to take paracetamol each morning before breakfast as well as half on hour before my evening meal, which I am finding helps with the swallowing of food. Also using the Benzydamine Hydrochloride mouthwash every morning and evening ...

  NorfolkBor 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 162: Happy days are here again.

  Post 162: Happy days are here again. ——— Some days it’s better to go back to bed, but that isn’t the easy option now — and the odd lie won’t hurt. (The happy days are certainly not here yet.) —&mdash...

  Mr U 11 months ago
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  One Life Live It

  A chance to share

  Ahead of Pinktober next month, our workplace “Gender Alliance” asked if they could interview me to talk about breast cancer in a work context, so today was a flurry of filming as I revisited my active treatment, now 4 years ago. I was ask...

  Irishgirl16 11 months ago
• Metastatic Oesophageal Cancer

  I hope this can help others....

  Hello, I recently lost my dad to stage 4 metastatic cancer and I am hoping I can help others with questions or concerns. My dad was 73 and diagnosed with met oesophageal cancer in May this year and passed away September, he lived for approx. 4.5 mont...

  Shanley816f287c 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 161: No real post today.

  Post 161: No real post today. ——— Life is cruel. Metaphorically, I’ve been hit by the bus . ——— All of my body feels like I’ve been in a severe accident — bruising across ribs and chest, back...

  Mr U 11 months ago