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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
    8 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

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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.
    Emma - Online Community Team 1 hour ago
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  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
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  • time for a cuppa....
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  • Speaking to an empty room
    RedTree26 1 day ago
  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 2 days ago
  • My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story
    GaryG298207 2 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 6 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 7 days ago
  • My BCG Therapy
    Aurelius 7 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Soup Dragon
    getting it right

    Only found out over the summer that Mum has kidney cancer - in operable & she's in denial.

    I'm managing to get by keeping busy - when is it going to all come tumbling down? Is there a time when you suddenly hit a wall?

     

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Terri
    Telgirls dance with cance.....9

    Had a fantastic nights sleep on Friday and woke feeling a lot more positive, spent the day just mooching about in my new jim jams watchin telly and catchin up on all the blogs I had missed while in hospital.

    Round about 5ish needed the loo so off I trotted, reached round for the loo roll and OMG...the pain was unbearable, managed to make my way back to the bed (if I can just lie down it will all go away) had to pant as pain was worse if I tried to breath normally and the pain didnt magically disappear...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Lorraine
    * Lost *

    I had breast cancer 2 years ago. I was 32 weeks pregnant when I found out, I had also just come out of hospital a few days before I found out with phnumonia and a collapsed lung.

    The day i found out I had breast cancer I was on my own, and instantly threw up.

    I wasnt scared as I had the new baby to think about.

    I moved 150 miles the same week to be with my new partner, ( babies father )

    From there things went from bad to worse.

    I feel I have coped well, but now 2 years down the line, I am really...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Cella113
    Gonna pop

    I'm really not liking this...I'm getting fatter and fatter!!!  I just bought new clothes so I could be comfy with my new and improved bod (the thinner version), especially during chemo.  I hate that bound up feeling while havng tubes running in and about me.  But I am slowly and surely putting on weight!!!  I guess I was having too much of a good time with my food since I had been deprived of so much of it so often (intestinal obstructions, nausea, surgery, blah, blah, blah)...<sigh>......

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • lawrie's blog
    mia and my wonderful nephew

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Scared Win
    First Appointment with Oncologist!! Today

    Well went to my first Appointment Today and feel better now i know what i am dealing with, basically i had lung cancer six and half years ago Adenoma Carcinoma it is now as far as we know in my lymphnodes in neck, So i have to have a pet scan first to see if has spread anywhere else and a ct scan of the head to make sure not in brain as it is in the neck, as soon as i have pet scan i will be having chemo at the QE Hospital in Birmingham i will have to stay in overnight to have it,  i think he said...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • padders
    a walk along the prom...

    hey everyone,

    woke this morning feeling very lethargic, looked outside and it is a beautiful sunny day here in blackpool so i forced myself to get dressed, went for a walk along the prom down by the pleasure beach, what a lovely walk it was, a few people out doing the same, im so glad i went the sea was so calm and i stood looking out across the beach for a while watching people doing normal things like walking dogs and going for a walk, it brings evrything back into focus, im on my 3rd week now...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • chrissiQx2's blog
    Happy Monday!

    Hi all,

    Hope everyone is feeling good on this lovely wintery Monday morning. I had a fab weekend with family and friends round Saturday night to watch fireworks and a little BBQ. I live right by the Abbey Gardens and they have a wonderful fireworks display which we get to watch for free in our own garden. So we lit the barbie and did sausages, burgers and baked potatoes to keep us all warm. Then did some marshmallow kebabs for the kids and yummy hot chocolate.  We ended up having a few drinks and...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Angie's thoughts
    The saga goes on...

    Yet another bad day in my household - what a surprise! Got to go pick up my 73yr old father this afternoon after he has had a basal cell carcinoma removed from his forehead. Also just found out that my brother has found a mole on his chest that has changed & he is waiting for an appointment with the specialist - he had a dysplastic mole removed 8 years ago. Now I have just received a call from my GP with the results of my spine xrays last week. Nothing was found on my spine, GOODY, however 2 swollen...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • jujuc
    Funny but great

    Well what a funny treatment this time. I was sooooo ill more or less from the outset right up until saturday when I felt very tired and sick. I went to bed after X factor and had the best nights sleep I have had in ages. ( My boyfriend had gone home the day before he only stays if I am unwell) I awoke sunday morning to a beautiful sunny day. My friend (who is a widow too ) rang and suggested we ventured out for a walk and had sunday roast somewhere. So at 1-30 we set off and did a bit of a pub crawl...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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