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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

  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 3 hours ago
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    Desdemona 18 hours ago
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    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.
    Megan- Online Community Team 22 hours ago
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    Jenz 1 day ago
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    Phild26 3 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 8 days ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 8 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 12 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 14 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 17 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • After he has gone.......
    Day 30
    Thank goodness the weekend is over, I find them difficult. Had to drag myself to get my hair cut on Saturday as it was long overdue. I am trying to find new things to do but that is hard work also, today I am going to visit colleagues at one of my two jobs to see if a return is likely next week. My other job I have been going in for a couple of hours a few days last week to see how that feels, I am lucky I can do this as I have been off for 7 weeks now. Not looking forward to it but here goes.....
    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Living with incurable cancer
    Waiting for Knowhow

    Weird isn't it how you can be so ill and still life goes on I am waiting for my new fridge and freezer to be delivered, normally I would be given the late slot and would be upset that I had to wait around, now that I have a stinking cold and my partner is in bed with the flu I have been given the 7 to 11 slot so I had to get up dead early this morning.  I know they will probably come nearer 11 than 7 but can't take the risk, partner is absolutely laid up or she would  be doing it and I had...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • My chemotherapy journey
    The bad with the good
    Morning folks

    Well as the previous post said until Thursday evening I felt fine, a bit weak but generally ok.

    Throughout the Thursday night I woke up a few times feeling nauseous but managed not to actually be sick, until the morning. At 6:30 I couldn't hold it anymore and was quite sick. I took the anti sickness pill and actually felt a bit worse, at 11:00 I took the daily medication I have bed given with a glass of water and it was like a comedy sketch from little Britain the sickness...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Why does no one see what i see??
    How it all began...

    It is actually strange how this all started, because at first it had nothing to do with cancer at all, well so we thought. Just before xmas 2012, my gran had a stumble down a flight of stairs, bumping her head,face and pride. After hours of speaking to her i eventually managed to get her to go to the doctors to be checked over. At the doctors after investigation the doctor decided to send her home to rest and make an apt with the optician as he thought she was showing signs of having a cataracts...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Oesophageal Cancer - the truth
    It's been a while.........

    It's been a while since I started with all best intentions.....so here I am back again to share with you where I am now.........

    The last month has been awful. Delays in hospital treatment have meant that they had to forcibly insert a stent and now I can't eat normally and it's hard to find the positive things to focus on. I was in hospital for a week as I just couldn't stop being sick and when I was home the drugs were all getting too much. I got my daughter to look at the side effects of the...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Warm your teaspoon
    Appetite

    Husband is hungry tonight. Had his brekkie and lunch. Tea tonight (fish, oven chips, peas (lazy I know but had been at work too)) then fresh fruit with custard, capec and now mars bar. Says he feels stuffed but still hungry. I say go eat. While you can. 

    Not sure how or why this has happened, maybe because the sun came out today?????

    Or he had his hair cut for first time in ages ?????

    Or he stopped taking the wellman vitamin couple of days ago (contains folic acid - bad for the tingle feet /hand...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Living with incurable cancer
    Wobble Over

    Right apart from a stinking cold I am back to my old self again, feeling a bit more positive, thanks for all who have made me feel better with their advice.  So I start radiotherapy next thursday and in theory I should be still on a treatment break but feeling quite rough with this cold which isn't like me, but then I'm not me anymore I am the new cancer me.

    Well I will still try to shake this off and go out for a couple of meals or something and then the daily grind of travelling from Southend...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • DFSP... Nope can't say as I have heard of it.
    Life is not as I knew It.

    The hardest part for me is the speed with which life was turned up side down once the true diagnosis was reached. The brutality with which DFSP smashed into my life and wrenched out of my hands so much of my life,(maybe for a period of time)  its mind blowing.Its hard to express this to loved ones because they are all willing you better, hoping its all going to be alright, and its not that I am not a fighter but there are times when I just want to scream 'this is awful!' .I have never been in hospital...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • Living with incurable cancer
    Got Scan Results :(

    Just got back from the hospital with not good news, my pelvic tumour has more than doubled in size to 8cm in 6 weeks and is what is causing my bladder not to work, my lung mets have grown but not as drastically.  I am now booked in to start 4 weeks of radiotherapy every day at London on the pelvic growth, after that i will be going on Votrient (pazopanib) a new drug.

    Trying to stay positive but man it is hard, i feel like crap, have got a stinking cold to boot.

    Just can't help thinking this is the...

    Former Member over 13 years ago
  • DFSP... Nope can't say as I have heard of it.
    Its Not A Keloid Scar

     For so long nearly two years, the diagnosis had been simply a harmless keloid scar which was growing and angry, YES a nuisance, the size of my fist,ugly and painful but nothing sinister.

    However it became apparent by the look on the medic's face that he profoundly disagreed, at this moment I felt sick, I thought  'if it is not a keloid scar, then what is it?'

    Soon I would learn the term DFSP!

    Former Member over 13 years ago
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