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• One Step At A Time

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• 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.

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• Multiple Myeloma

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Latest blog posts

• My Hodgkin's story

  Ranting time - When diagnosis takes too long and other stories

  This morning I opened the BBC website and found this article GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload - BBC News Obviously a hot topic this week as the PM talked about how AI is going to help the UK and the NHS and what not... Will not get i...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  MacMillan bloggers, I thank you

  Hello, its been a while since I last posted here. December was a bit of a month and Christmas was a blur spent in the company of the ‘Cheese Eating Assassins’. I hope to do a longer post on these guys. And that’s not why I am writin...

  Dignahtee over 1 year ago
• Positive vibes

  Ovarian BRCA2 secondary in lymph nodes

  I have been through quite a lot to say the least but I’m still here I was on Olaparib parph inhibitors for 17 years unfortunately it stopped working last Jan 2024 prior to that I had 5 years of chemo  My only options now are to have pallia...

  Possitive over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Ambushed again

  So today was so frosty and black ice every where. I went out and did a little skid. I reached out laughing “Dont let me fall”  I crashed down. Not physically. with reality.  A little while ago I posted on the forum about little ...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Writing for mind and body

  One of the things I’ve really struggled with since my diagnosis, has been the way that my body had clearly been in trouble for a good while before I even had an inkling that something wasn’t right. How can that be? How can I have experien...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Week 15

  So today it is 15 weeks since my beautiful Valen was ripped from me. Ive started my blog today due to 2 reasons. First, my beautiful Valen loved Father Brown and a new series is starting. Secondly, we were due to fly to Singapore and Malays...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  When Positivity Hurts: Insights from the Online Community

  Online Community members share their personal experiences dealing with toxic positivity.

  Dylan - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Dear Shaka, it's ok...

  It really is ok: • To grieve the loss of life as you knew it.• To sorely miss your much loved African locs, which you nurtured for nearly two decades.• To miss your thriving private practice and financial independence. • To miss y...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Gratitude

  • I am alive • Successful mastectomy and lumpectomy in 2024, all margins clear • Survived 5 months of chemotherapy • Great breast prosthesis • I have the support of a loving fella, friends and family • I am managing part...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago
• Shaka For Life

  Happy New Year 6th Jan 2025

  2025 brings a new year, unlike any I've experienced before. In a few weeks it'll be one year since I went for 'that' mammogram. Tomorrow was meant to be the day of my 2nd mastectomy (elected), which would have completed my treatment f...

  Shaka4Lyfe over 1 year ago