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• Pedalling through this journey

  Fati 12 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 15 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 19 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 22 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.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 3 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 3 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 9 days ago
• Peter's Blog

  A blog about bowel cancer at a young age

  HawkeyeBrown 10 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 11 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

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  Community News

  Online Community downtime: Monday 1st Dec 10:30 pm -Tues 2nd Dec at 9am.

  There is some planned maintenance taking place on Macmillan’s website overnight on Monday 1st Dec from 10:30pm. During this time the Community will experience some downtime. This means that members will not be able to log in, or join the Online Community, between Monday 1st Dec at 10:30 pm-Tues 2nd Dec at 9am. We know how important the Community is as a source of support for our members, so we will do our best to ensure the site is not unavailable for any longer than necessary. P...

  Moderator - Macmillan Community 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 222: A long day that never ends.

  Post 222: A long day that never ends. ——— It’s raining hard this afternoon as the sun sets on a beautiful day. It should be a hip hip hurrah, But of all the feelings I have seen, Pain is the King and tears are his Queen. ...

  Mr U 10 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  RIG Feeding tube operation

  Went to hospital on Monday to get my RIG feeding tube put in.  I was nil by mouth from 9am that morning.  They didn't collect me from the ward for theatre till 2.30pm and there was a lot of paperwork first.  Wheeled me into theatre...

  Margaret853 10 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 221: Laxido and the Lesser-Sipped-Morphine.

  Post 221: Laxido and the Lesser-Sipped-Morphine. By midday I’d given up hovering over the phone waiting for a call from radiotherapy. I needed to get on with other things — I can’t spend the whole day imprisoned by an 8:30–5:...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  Bloods

  25/11/26  had bloods today to check my platelets. Results Thursday most likely

  W J 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 220: Ever Increasing Weakness and a lovely snuggle.

  Post 220: Ever Increasing Weakness and a lovely snuggle. I slept well last night — 8.5hrs of bliss, no nightmare and no issues. I’ll have a few more like that please. ——— There’s a creeping understanding of my...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Journaling my cancer jouney

  Journaling my cancer journey - my next poem: The Paranoia Battle

  Hello Everyone,   I hope this post finds everyone doing OK / getting through it?  My apologies for my tardiness in getting this next poem out to you but I’ve had another stay in hospital with my 2nd infection since I started on my ste...

  Twin Castor57b5d5 11 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  Cycles

  I keep reading people stop their cycles of chemo after 6 months. I’ve been on mine since I started. Is that normal. I had tremazadol and that didn’t work at all. They then started me on lomustine. I’ve been on that ever since. They ...

  W J 11 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  Checking in

  Nov 2025 - so I’ve been having blood test and everything has been down for the last few months; so no chemo for me. All but my platelets have returned to normal, and I’ve found the lumps on my left hip. I’ll get these checked by my ...

  W J 11 months ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  White cells

  Nov 2025 - so I’ve been having blood test and everything has been down for the last few months; so no chemo for me. All but my white cells have but returned to normal, and I’ve found the lumps on m left hip. I’ll get these checked b...

  W J 11 months ago