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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?

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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

  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 3 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 15 hours ago
  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 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.
    Wayne - Online Community Team 2 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 5 days ago
  • Peter's Blog
    A blog about bowel cancer at a young age
    HawkeyeBrown 6 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 7 days ago
  • Kidney Not
    Mmum 7 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 13 days ago
  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 13 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Noj's blog
    Radiotherapy Planning Session Questions

    When I had my first discussion about Radiotherapy I was told that at my hospital there are two schools of thought on the impact of different time cycles.  One Doc likes to use a shorter cycle whilst the other prefers a longer cycle.  I had gone in thinking that a longer cycle could be gentler on the body but was unsure of whether in fact it just means that it takes longer to do the same amount of good and damage.  When questioning the oncologist he told me that 2 large international studies had shown...

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • The London Marthon 2010 - My diary
    Progrss!!!!!!

    Abosolutley fabulous!!!! After going out last night for the first time in a while with my friends to celebrate my success on sunday...I now have a venue for my fundraising event!!! A friend of mine is a bar manager for one of the busy bars inthe town were i live and he is letting me the have the veneue for a Sunday to do whatever I want!

    Extremely happy...and tired it was a long a night so I am going back to bed!!!!

    Watch this space!!

    Much love

    Katie Lou x x x x

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • Terri
    how funny are kids....

    My girls are so different its unreal, they are 15 and 16 going on 40 and now know what is going on. They both sat on my bed last night for a girlie chat.They both said that they knew something was going on all week because it felt strange (obviously didnt do too good a job of keeping everything normal).

    The 16 yr old pipes us that she thought I was gonna tell her I was pregnant again (i have a 3 yr old son) and said that she now wishes that I was pregnant instead of having a lump and as quick as...

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • Babybear's Blog
    day 19 Bertiebassetts Return Journey

    Much better day today and he does not know anything about what happened yesterday although he remembers that I was there until very late.

    The confusion is not nearly so bad today at least he knows who everyone is and where he is.

    A CTscan has been arranged so check that there is no spread to his brain.

    Teri

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Myelodysplasia
    Hi everyone

    Hi welcome to our  group I am hopeful that we can offer each other support as we fight this disease

    Love Teri

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • skipper
    yellow stone steps and red draws 3

     of nine to about twelve, every Tuesday and Saturday I had to Yellow Stone Grandma’s steps.

    I don’t know where the idea of “yellow stoning” steps came from but I often wished it far enough away. However it was done it left your hands a nasty pale yellow.

    The “Yellow Stone” was a brick made of a yellow stone material which was soluble in water and to yellow stone a step it had to be soaked in a bucket of cold water and rubbed against the house steps. Now if this wasn’t bad...

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • skipper
    where did it all go 2
    Well I got to know that silver cross pram quite well over the next two years sometimes I had to share Top to Toe with a later addition of mothers team but it was a tank of a pram built to last one hundred years; or fifty kids!, whichever the sooner. It once saved my life when the brakes disengaged at the top of Castlegate and it went charging down this one in five cobblestoned hill towards the seafront. It never negotiated the bend in the road at the bottom and shot into Mr. Evens shop at a speed...
    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • skipper
    where has it all gone 1
    I suppose I had better write something of me so here goes
     
    I was born very young; in fact it took me a year to get a number because until you have had twelve months you’re not even one. So I started with Nowt
    Launch day was January 8 1936. at 12 noon exactly, I was launched by my aunty Jill who was married to a sheep farmer in the dales and used to come over whenever mother was “having her time”, Mother had “her time” over the next fifteen years, ten times, it was her ambition to have a...
    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • skipper
    thats all for now folks

    guess that will keep you going for a while

    skipper/pete

    Former Member over 17 years ago
  • skipper
    washing days
    Washing day
     
    Mother rarely gave in to the Skelping temptation, she would use the brush, the mop, the “posser” anything to hand really and which armament breached the natural safe zone one had believed in place.
     
    I can tell you that a good swing with the mop catching you round the ear would bowl you over and give her a chance to get within reach before you got up again. her intention was to bowl you over so she could pounce on you; before you could go into flight mode
     
     Mother swung...
    Former Member over 17 years ago
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