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

  Mr U 13 hours ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 1 day ago
• Eunice77

  Eunice77 2 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 5 days ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  excavator 6 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.

  Emma - Online Community Team 6 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 6 days ago
• Cool Cap Relief

  TerryB 9 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 11 days ago

Latest blog posts

• 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
• My Hodgkin's story

  The B and the O, second and third weeks of BEACOPPdac cycle #1

  I have been on holidays and enjoying the Christmas period so wasn’t in the mood to write anything. Quite a difference compared to a year ago. Due to lack of movement with my GP and being refused a CT scan in A&E in early Dec 2023 (another G...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago