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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

  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 6 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 16 hours ago
  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 1 day ago
  • Peter's Blog
    A blog about bowel cancer at a young age
    HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 2 days ago
  • Kidney Not
    Mmum 3 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 8 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 8 days ago
  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • blueb
    After he's gone..

    Four days have passed and it doesn't doesn't feel real that my dad is no longer here.  The tears have flowed (alot), but in the back of my mind I still can't quite grasp that he's gone.  This feels a strange emotion considering I sat in the hospice room with dad a few minutes after he passed.  I didn't want to leave him, because it felt like I'd be leaving him forever.  The hospice staff were brilliant, the support they gave to my mum and I was perfect - caring, compassionate, thoughtful...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Karen
    Avist-m Study

    Well....I done it now.....I have ask to be in the Avast-m study.......will have more scans, bloods, urine....and all things horrid. Not sure which I will be given, the drug or not (that is the question).

    So will try to let all and sundry know what happens next.....

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • pinkvicki
    8 weeks

    Hi Guys, I hope you are all doing as well as possible.

    So today it is 8 weeks since i lost my dad............how do i feel?

    Well this week i have actually felt much better, I have done lots with the kids and am now really looking forward to them going back to school on Wednesday lol.

    I have tried to keep myself occupied as much as possible because at certain points in the last few weeks i have been very very close to cracking. I have been reading a book called 'a time to grieve' that was...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • ready to share my thoughts.......
    so im a little bit lost and a little bit scared....

    Its been a cupple of days since my last blog when i found out my cancer was terminal and being offered a clinicaltrail to prolong and increase my quality of life...i still dont really know how i feel,ive taken care of most of the practical issues...i.e thinking about the future, talking to my daughters dad whom i am no longer with and now what? ive got nothing left to do for now....and i think i think about it more when i yhave nothing to occupy my mind....i have has a long telephone conversation...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • non-hodgkin Lymphoma.
    Chemo.

    Had a lovely nurse ring me yesterday to say my chemo has been brought forward to this Tuesday 7th so the waiting has been reduced thankfully!

    Now as the sun is shining im off for a cycle

    laters Pete.

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • mums lung cancer
    Being Silly

    I'm pleased to say that mum seems to be doing well this week.


    She stayed at home on Saturday as these weekends after a cycle of chemo just are a non starter really.
    We all went round to her house on Sunday and had a really good day, a good laugh too, though I think it took it out of her in the end, all the laughing. It was just all a bit silly really. Laughing at a blow up chair that had started to deflate and my boyfriend sat on one side and I jumped on the other, as I am significantly...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • I never expected that
    Ups and downs

    The good news is: I have only five radiotherapy sessions left to go with this phase of the treatment. The bad news is: it ain't half sore.

    Anyway, it's been a busy time since I last posted (yes, I know, meant to be taking it easy so shouldn't be busy). As I was feeling OK towards the end of last week we decided to take the opportunity presented by the three day holiday weekend to go away for a night. I rested in the car, and lounged around on sofas but in truth it probably wasn't a brilliant...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • pulley
    lost

    thats how i feel, LOST.......i spoke to my mum, every day..we loved to moan!!! i miss that so much.  i can see her now, sitting in my gardan, laughing and joking,, I WANT THAT BACK , RIGHT NOW...PLEASE......WHY  WHY  WHY . I THOUGHT ,you would always be here ,right here....but no,  you really have gone.    not in my heart, never ever but in every other sence....i hate it when the sun shines. i hate it when it rains, i hate it when the day brakes,,and my pain starts all over again...........missing you....

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • The day of Val's funeral
    How to Talk to the Broken Hearted

     

    After losing my Valarie, my world has completely fallen apart. As I gingerly attempted to reintegrate my new, raw reality with the life I used to know, I often find it jarring.  Friendships that used to just work feel awkward.  Sometimes words that are meant to comfort feel like sandpaper to my soul, and surprisingly, people I barely used to know became life-long friends.

    My loss has made me an outsider to many.  While friends and family want to support me, they didn’t know how.  How do you help...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • thebeckenator's Blog
    That's What I'm Feeling Right Now...Part Duh.
    This is my second blog post. I have been a little reluctant and a little scared too. But I decided that oh well, I am going to take the plunge. I am just going to write how I am feeling. Good, bad or indifferent and I hope I don’t offend anyone.

    The reason I joined is because I need support. I am a wreck. I also want to help others if I can. If it also helps someone to read my loopy ramblings that is great. I am off work this week and have a little extra time to do it as well.
    Heck, if we were...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
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