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

  Mr U 3 hours ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Fati 17 hours ago
• Wittering away...

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• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day 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 11 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 12 days ago
• Kidney Not

  Mmum 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Early start today

  We went to bed at 9.30pm last night in readiness for an early start this morning.  We left at 7.15am to get to the hospital for H's pre op assessment appointment at 8.30am.  It's only 20 miles away but we don't have an...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  TikTok versus K-Drama

  I am excited and grateful!  A few people have been reading my blog, and I only started posting a week ago!  And a couple of you have actually left comments too! I might even get a few followers, like my wife has on TikTok!!!! Now my wife is...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 11 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  My wife, my brother and a doctor walked into a bar..........

  Ah!  The good old three people walked into a bar joke....... So before you consider me frivolous, or inconsiderate, on starting with a joke line on a cancer blog, let me elaborate. When delivering a joke, there are key fundamentals to communicat...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 201: Green Leaves.

  Post 201: Green Leaves. Autumn sadness fills the air Showers of rain with deep despair Fallen leaves are orange and gold Reminding me I’m getting old On days like this I stop and think Of winters left time gone too quick With words unsaid the ...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Pre-Op Assessment

  H tells me he's had a text this morning saying he has a phone appointment this afternoon to do his pre-op assessment.  He's very pleased as he thinks it will save another hospital trip.  I'm a bit baffled by ...

  Margaret853 11 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  UTUC Symptoms - It wasn't the Ribena Berries!!!!!

  Is it a general human trait that we can excuse or pass off symptoms as something else?  Is it an auto denial response, or a fear of a symptom being something more sinister?  Or maybe it is an alpha male issue.  (But girls - even for al...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 200: Taste Cumbria and the Mighty Hike.

  Post 200: The Mighty Hike My Eldest surprised my Darling and I this evening after supper with an announcement of some magnitude. He will be walking on next years MacMillan Mighty Hike June 6th 2026 and both of us couldn’t be happier and more...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• Journaling my cancer journey through poetry

  New poem - 'Well' and what it means

  Hello everyone, I hope this post finds you all doing OK?  My thanks to folks who have provided feedback and encouragement regarding my last poem called It’s All in Your Head.  This feedback is very much appreciated. As promised, pleas...

  Twin Castor57b5d5 11 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 199: Rest day for me, but not for my Darling.

  Post 199: Rest day for me, but not for my Darling. Stood on a bridge made to last Water white and very fast Dreaming of a cup of tea But first I need another pee ——— For me, it was a rest day at our hosts’ house to get my l...

  Mr U 11 months ago
• What the UTUC!

  Never quit quitting.......

  Yes, I am a smoker..........or was! I was advised that I should stop smoking to enhance my recovery after surgery.  It is advisable to quit smoking at any time, but for those of you that smoke, or used to smoke, it is a difficult thing to do. It...

  Toulouse4ff1cd 11 months ago