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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

  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 14 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 16 hours 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 2 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 3 days ago
  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 3 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 4 days ago
  • Speaking to an empty room
    RedTree26 5 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 5 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 6 days ago
  • My mum 86yrs
    Julie17 7 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • veekay
    Hysteroscopy

    Hi all,

    Just wondering if there is anyone who has had an hysteroscopy done, as I have to have one on Tuesday and it sounds horrific. I am also worried about how I'll get into the right position because of pain in back due to tumour on the base of my spine and sacrum.

    Would really appreciate any information anyone has.

    Thanking you all.

    Best Wishes. Vee.  xx

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Lucy
    cervical/peritoneum terminal cancer

    Hiya guys,

    I was wondering if any of you are able to give me some advice and help regarding my mums condition.  My mum is 53 years old and was sadly told she had terminal cancer about 6 weeks ago and had months rather than years.  It started off as cervical cancer which has spread to the peritoneum cavity. Around 4 weeks ago she started getting a pain in her lower back and she and the nurses just put it down to her syatica, anyway over the past few days the pain has become unbearable and she is now...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • mums lung cancer
    Tears & Rain

    Well there you have it, last night was the first night that I truly cried. Maybe bottling it all up finally came to a head.

    I think I knew it was coming when I re-read my latest posts.

    So what happened last night to make this sudden summer shower appear from nowhere?

    I don’t know , my sister came, she had picked mum up from the chemo. She had a load more appointments for me to write down, and then said that they had told her that they were only going to do 4 cycles of chemo, I asked ‘then what?’ She...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • jujuc
    Remission/Cure

    When does the 5 years begin when a person is then considered in Remission/Cured.

    Is it from the moment the cancer is removed from the body?

    Is it from the end of treatment.

    What if the treatment is adjuvant ( back up after surgery)

    Do's anybody know?

    Love Julie X

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • rosie0207
    cytoscopy bad result

    Had cytoscopy last monday. Told had one large tumour removed again and two red patches. Have to wait four weeks for results and what is going to happen next. BCG treatment stopped last december because of severe reaction. Had reaction this time to anaesthetic, kept in for four days with severe dizzziness and sickness, then had another reaction to mytomicin. So glad to be home. Just hoping it hasnt spread any further. Got to the point where I think maybe I have a better chance without a bladder. Just...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • dollybean's blog
    years on and still issues after Breast cancer

    Hi to all , 6 years on you might say hoorah but still issues i think its luck how life turns out . its never been easy for me 3 boys and still single. more im on own the harder it is. really firghtens ofmeeting anyoneone. but the joke of it is its really hard now days let alone haveing illness. gosh im a good catch. And the thing is oh boy ive tryed even on dateing sites and then without telling anyone its hard. but their is No q of it ive realy changed my whole outlook on life is diffrent. And i...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Jan
    LIFE BEGINS AT 60

    JUNE,M

     

    NICE TO CELEBRATE SOMETHING FOR A CHANGE.  NOT THAT YOU WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW JUNE LOL BUT HAVE A REALLY FAB DAY.

    HAPPY 60TH BIRTHDAY 

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Coping with Caring
    It hasn't worked

    We were told the bad news that the chemo hadn't worked again, although we are getting a second opinion hopefully, to be honest I am not hopeful.  The prof is a good doctor, he has tried everything.

    My partner is now a wheelchair user.  He is going to come home for as long as possible, if he gets an infection that will be the end.  If we are lucky he has weeks.

    Don't think I'll be blogging for a while, gonna be busy for a while (long while I hope).

    Love and good luck to anyone reading...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • CaroleDico's blog
    Julia (Jools) Irving

    It's a long while since I have been online, so apologies if I have posted this in the wrong arena.  This is something I need to make everyone aware of.

    Julia (Jools) Irving passed away peacefully earlier today with her daughters, Jenny and Jade and close family around her.

    Many of you whose lives have been touched by Jools, as indeed mine has, will share a great sadness from this news, but also thankfullness that her pain has gone, she was dignified to the end.

    It is difficult for me at this...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Carol's 2010 Blog
    Reluctant - Surgery - biopsy taken.

    Hi everyone,  I am back home and happy again, although I felt like I was in a Hotel at QA on D7 ward.  I had my own room and an en suite bathroom.  I had my tele paid, so while I waited for the afternoon surgery I had something to try and concentrate on.  I had a book to try and read but I couldn't see the words!  I had my glasses on, so no excuse.  I was supposed to go to Theatre at 1.30pm.  It was to be almost 2 hours later when the Surgeon Mr Walmsley was found!  He had finished surgery on E level...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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