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• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 15 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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 1 day ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 2 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 5 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 11 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 17 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 19 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 19 days ago
• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

  Sierraoscar 21 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 26 days ago

Latest blog posts

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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  491: I’m in hospital getting my lungs sorted.

  Hi, I’m in a hospital with water in the lungs. It’s too noisy here and the WiFi is not good even standing on the bed waving the phone around. So I’ll remain in radio silence for as long as it takes to get home. I’m sorry about...

  Mr U 16 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 490: A walk too far & Dahlia’s in the jar.

  Post 490: A walk too far & Dahlia’s in the jar. A massive plate of halloumi salad arrived at my table and was put down in front of me. The other side of the table, my old work colleague and good friend sat opposite, and his plate was a hug...

  Mr U 17 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  My daughter has cancer

  I really don’t want to be here. I guess none of you do. I don’t want a reply or sympathy or empathy. I just want to write and vent. My brother in law died, my ex husband died, my current husband was diagnosed with life limiting disease ...

  Mumofcancer 17 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 489: Boots are sending me for a blood test.

  Post 489: Boots are sending me for a blood test. I thought I’d check my blood pressure with our checking machine to see if there was a problem there. I haven’t felt myself lately and I know my oxygen levels are 93–95, but I was blo...

  Mr U 18 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  Ill health retirement

  I tried asking for help in filling in a form for Ill health retirement. I visited my local hospital that has MacMillan help. But they were unable to help at all, only able to refer me to tenovus who also could not help. I know there are exemptions in...

  W J 19 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  Groups

  I see that chat has vanished with new/diagnose/etc. seems a bit off and people I guess can only rely on blogs I guess

  W J 19 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Fifth Cycle, Week Two: Desdemona's On My Mind

  As far as side-effects go, week two has been quite straight forward. The anaemia is something to keep in check – I still struggle with estimating how much I can do before the inevitable breathless ‘wall’ hits me and I have to lie do...

  Desdemona 19 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 26 — Don't Poke the Bear

  I'll be honest — I've been avoiding writing this one. Not because there's bad news. Quite the opposite. I've been superstitiously, irrationally terrified of jinxing it. Because as of today, the 20th of August, I have been out of...

  Phild26 19 days ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 488: A little rain and don’t we need it.

  Post 488: A little rain and don’t we need it. During the night I heard the rain. That’s a noise we haven’t heard for quite some time but I didn’t see it so does it count? Ha ha. But now the leaves will fall all the more and t...

  Mr U 19 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Time for the next chapter

  Since Monday 17 August, my journey is going to change. I was told that my current treatment is no longer effective and that the cancer has spread further in my spine. After 18 or 19 cycles of treatment, hearing those words was incredibly difficult I ...

  Emotions 19 days ago