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• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

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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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 5 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

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• Mumofcancer

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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Latest blog posts

• Picc Line

  Picc Line

  Before the procedure the nurse will sit down with you and have a chat with you, you can bring someone with you for this bit, she should explain everything that is going to happen and you to sign some paperwork to give her consent to proceed with the ...

  Positive thinking over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update week 13: Chemo cycle 3 - the start of the 75% phase

  Back here again. The anxiety that builds during that 3rd week of a cycle when you have no treatment and focus on building your strength up again creates a palpable sense of dread that something will delay the next cycle! Blood test first thing Mond...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Lump-Gate - the hernia that wasn't

  The benefits of hindsight eh? 2023 started to shape up between Christmas 2022 and New Year. Number one son was heading back to Cardiff after spending Christmas with us. The now normal rail strikes destroyed the timetable for his return journey, and ...

  Dignahtee over 3 years ago
• Chondrosarcoma of the Rib - a journey

  Some of the little but worst things

  I'll add to this list as I think of them but the treatment and operation are only one bit - there were small things that sometimes could just make me low; disproportionately it seemed, but often because the small thing was the last straw.  H...

  NetTiger over 3 years ago
• 

  Community News

  Coffee, cake and catching up with the Community

  September is the month of the famous ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ where people all over the world get together whilst fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Support. In celebration of coffee mornings everywhere, in this Community News Blog we will be exploring the Community’s love of baking and getting together.

  Steph - Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update: Week 12: The Chemo cycle 2 complete - 50% of the total treatment complete!

  This week is treatment free, and the focus is getting the body on track for blood tests on Monday to see if cycle 3 can be started. The Filgrastim injections came with a massive bite last week. Late Saturday afternoon I had taken a nap, when I wo...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• I don't want to be an orphan ..........

  Chemo eve

  So tomorrow is the day my mum starts her chemo .......im scared what it's gonna cause  My mum has decided to give chemo a try and we start tomorrow 3pm that's when the war starts against the big c  The orphan references the fact tha...

  orphan reds over 3 years ago
• My esophageal journey.

  Well, here I am!?!? ¿

  What an extraordinary few months. Back in March, was the horrible diagnosis of an esophageal tumor, that was inoperable and I needed........ The blur starts.... Looking at my partner, my heart broke, she doesn't need this. My daughter.... Oh god....

  WelshMan over 3 years ago
• MM uncertainty

  Aug 2023 - end of treatment

  After a full set of scan - PET, MRI head+neck, Brain MRI we finally had that meeting with the consultant. We've tried everything and it's not worked. There were no tears initially, we could see the new lumps that told us treatment was not wor...

  motherofboys over 3 years ago
• Candid with Cancer

  Candid with Cancer #1

  Where to start really? No one can teach you how to circumnavigate cancer. You can read, read and read but at the end of the day, all you can do is experience it and learn. A unique experience unique to everyone, no two stories the same. I need to wri...

  Tashley99 over 3 years ago