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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
    8 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

  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 16 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 18 hours ago
  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 1 day ago
  • Peter's Blog
    A blog about bowel cancer at a young age
    HawkeyeBrown 2 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 3 days ago
  • Kidney Not
    Mmum 4 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.
    Lizzie - Online Community Team 9 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 9 days ago
  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 10 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Terri75's blog
    Trying times

    Dad seems to have taken a turn for the worst, he took ill on Sunday and went to his bed early and didnt want visitors that night.  Yesterday he was sleeping again when I was in, he just wasnt himself and we left early to let him settle in bed and sleep.  I called the hospice this morning as usual and they said he was worse he was now hooked up to a drip and on antibiotics for a infection he also said that the doctor needed to see me and mum today which I found unusual because we had a appointment with...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Cella113
    Cheating

    I made a quasi mince pie...no raisins...okay, pears and apples but I get to call it mince because I made it and I needed to think I did something different.    And when I get off here I have to wrap gifts.  If my family comes to see us sooner than I expect, I won't be ready.  But then who am I kidding??  I still don't have my tree up.  By the time it goes up it will have to come down...but then...if I am the one putting it up,  it can stay up as long as I want.  I actually don't have the energy for...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Terri
    Telgirls dance with cance.....23

    Today was my pre chemo visit and it wasnt as bad as I had thought it was going to be.

    The staff were all lovely and the nurse who talked me through the procedure and side effects was brilliant. I mentioned that the oncologist had said that the chemo could start after christmas and she said she would have a look and see what she could do. I mentioned that the site of my operation was a bit sore and weepy and she managed to get the oncologist to have a look and he confirmed that there was a slight...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Debi09
    Mesothelioma

     Hi all,

    After months of my dad suffering dramatic weight lost, getting lost and confused whilst driving and my brother and sister having to go and collect him because he didn't know where he was - we finally managed to get him to go to the doctors.  Following further blood tests, x-rays, lung biopsy and a CT Scan, my dad was diagnosed last week Tuesday with Lung Cancer and we have been told that it has also spread to his Lymph Nodes, stomach (Kidney and Liver) and that the fluid around the lung...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • beanpole's blog
    downhill

    Clive had some friends over on Friday and since then has been feeling much worse. His back ache has moved to the shoulder blade again, and keeps being sick, he has been unable to evenkeep water down at times. We have phoned the oncologist today and will see him tomorrow. He can't go on like this. One weetabix is about all he has eaten each day for the past 3 days.

    My insides are permanently in knots and I am so scared he will have to go in hospital and not come out. What am I going to tell...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Ramblings of a Bad Fairy
    (11) All I want for Christmas ....

    ... is my bubble back!

    It's gone. Don't know where but I wish it would come back. Maybe it hasn't gone completely and is just deflated and sulking under the sofa or something. But I want it back please.

    It's a very useful bubble. Some days it's a bouncy hopper type bubble and we just bound through life together. Other days it becomes lots of little bubbles that fizz around and keep me laughing. Occasionally my bubble acts as a cushion and takes the edge off the not so nice stuff that...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Buzzie
    There is a Vibe in the Soup: Part III

    There’s a Vibe in my Soup III: 
    The Meddlesome Wife is having a little problem knowing what to do with herself.  Having practically polished off everything in the fridge in a fest of guilt-free, fast and furious eating, she is twiddling her thumbs. There is no soup-stirring going on.  The house is still.  The dogs snore.  The rain, depressingly, falls ...
    Where is our hero? 
    Our hero has gone back to our ‘expert’ in the not-so-exotic South.  He is to have some tests that...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • _Pansy_'s blog
    Time goes by....

    Well as christmas looms ever closer I feel like my heart is breaking without Bill. We really thought he was going to beat this disease, but it was not to be.My life is now a lonley and dark place with no light at the end of the tunnel.I will never hear his voice again it was  big deep sexy ,that was the first thing I fell in love with ,then his sense of houmor funny and twisted in the way only a man you love get's away with like the time he called me to say get dolled up we are going out for dinner...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Natalie85's blog
    Thought for the day...1"

    "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

    Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Stop fighting for critical illness pay-outs
    Stop fighting for critical illness pay-outs
    When Macmillan Cancer Voice Inga McVicar was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she expected her critical illness insurance policy to pay her bills until she could resume her self-employed career as a marketing consultant.  But her insurance company refused and it took Inga thirteen months of argument before the Financial Ombudsman told her insurance company to pay up.
    Macmillan hopes that people will no longer need to fight their insurance companies. Today, the Law Commission will reveal its proposals...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
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