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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

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    Lemsip 10 days ago
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    Eunice77 11 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 12 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 15 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 15 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • My cancer story
    Diagnosis

    My name is Jenny and I am 26 years old from Scotland. I have never written a blog before and don't really know where to begin or what to include but I have a story and its one I would like to share.....

    I was diagnosed with Cervical cancer stage 2b in Septemer 2012 (not long after my 25th birthday). The irony here is it was my mothers gynaecologist,when she was having me, that diagnosed me. He helped to bring me safely into the world and now he is telling me news that could end my life at the...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Smashing The Stragglers...
    Sad Sleepless Nights
    Some 5 months on from completion of radiotherapy I have made much progress. Finally weaned off pain relief and anti sickness meds, now just gargling salt water and aspirin constantly and on antacids. The major problem I have is that of a dry mouth due to saliva glands being destroyed during RT and this is stopping me from sleeping. I have tried temazapan to no avail. I manage 20 min bursts of sleep at best and then lie awake for up to two hours trying to get back to sleep, due to the dry mouth...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Just been diagnosed with cervical cancer.
    Been diagnosed with cervical cancer just 2 hours ago, help!!!
    Hi, don't know how I feel at the moment, still trying to get my head around this, waiting for my partner to come home from work, results came back I had cancer cells on biopsys on cervix and also from my smear, got an MRI next week and hoping its not spread to any other places, doctor said I'll need a hysterectomy, going to Addenbrooks as well at one point to start treatment.
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • 3rd dance with germ cell cancer
    People say

    This always gets me people say don't worry about the future you can't predict it, Well actually with cancer treatment I feel like a mystic meg but always right. People say you can't be sure what your doing next weekend let alone a years time, Um yes I can, I be in a hospital bed having poison pumped though me. People say you can't predict the side effects, Um bet I can ,pretty certain my hair will fall out again, Can guarantee once again wine will taste naff, People say look you could get hit by...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Dear Husband, I will be there for you, every step of the way, right by your side.
    Our final journey has begun.

    The cancer has overwhelmed us.

    Weeks maybe months if we are fortunate.

    No treatment.

    We are utterly devastated.

    My heart is already breaking and we have yet to tell the family. I want him to live forever.

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • poetry
    May 2014, secondary mets - 2 years on
    Two years on, I hear us say "Here we go again",
    Tests and scans completed it really is a drain.
    Now in his liver we were told two mets, or possibly three
    "A liver resection to remove the parts then you'll be cancer free."
    35 staples, a few more holes his tummy is a sight
    A treasure map, one good man and a nasty pirate to fight.
    The kids now talk of Thomas Tank riding on the track.
    "Choo choo" they say, repeatidly whilst Daddy lies on his back.
    ...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • poetry
    May 2012, the journey begins with Stu and Colin
    My Daddy has a stoma, I think we'll call him Stu
    And a little bag called Colin who collects up all his poo.
     
    My Daddy started bleeding when he went to use the loo,
    So he went to see the Doctor who decided what to do.
     
    "An operation is best I think to sort this tumour out
    Mr Harmston is the best there is of that I have no doubt”.
     
    The operation went very well where Stu and Colin arrived,
    My Daddy stayed in hospital to rest his weary eyes.
     
    As days went by the pain grew less and...
    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • Dear Husband, I will be there for you, every step of the way, right by your side.
    Utterly numb

    The news isn't good at all. It seems that there is a tumour on hubby's brain now, confirmed by the mri scan from last week.

    I have no feelings to express, no words, no nothing - just tears and more tears. I'm utterly numb and the very person whom I would turn to for comfort and love is still reeling from the news too. My gentle giant, my good and wonderful husband. The love of my life.

    We are good people, all our lives together doing the right thing by our family. Leading a simple life...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • After he has gone.......
    Slammed by the grief monster today

    Doug would have been 54 today, we always went away for the weekend for our birthdays and I cannot help but wonder where we would have travelled this time.  Two years ago on his 52nd we had a wonderful weekend in Brighton of course last year he was not here and little can I remember anyway.

    Today I was expecting to spend time remembering in my own way this morning and then to potter on into today as I usually do on days I don't work.  What I was not expecting was the overwhelming feeling of being...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
  • A Walk down memory lane
    Junior Favourites

    I feel its time for another walk but am too unwell at the moment for the real thing.  So I thought one or two of you may enjoy a Saturday morning walk in the early fifties down memory lane.

    So switch the Radio on...that's the one that does not have a screen..wait for it to warm up and then retune it from Radio Luxemburg (That's Keynsham K E Y N S H A M Bristol, Horace Bachelor) to the BBC Light Program.

    The first tune that comes to my mind is probably a Freudian slip.  Tick tock tick tock...

    Former Member over 12 years ago
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