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

  Mr U 3 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.

  Lizzie - Online Community Team 3 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 4 days ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Coddfish 4 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 8 days ago
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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 11 days ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  excavator 13 days ago
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Latest blog posts

• Metastatic Oesophageal Cancer

  I hope this can help others....

  Hello, I recently lost my dad to stage 4 metastatic cancer and I am hoping I can help others with questions or concerns. My dad was 73 and diagnosed with met oesophageal cancer in May this year and passed away September, he lived for approx. 4.5 mont...

  Shanley816f287c over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 161: No real post today.

  Post 161: No real post today. ——— Life is cruel. Metaphorically, I’ve been hit by the bus . ——— All of my body feels like I’ve been in a severe accident — bruising across ribs and chest, back...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  Checking in, reflections post summer...

  It has almost been three months since my last post, wow! I haven't been that active this Summer. The rest of the year you spend more time at home, more time inside, and I think you generally lean more towards spending more time in front of the sc...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 160: If you’re already low; please skip this post!

  Post 160: If you’re already low; please skip this post! ——— After two days (and the night in between) of increased struggles with stuff like putting on my dressing gown and getting on and off the loo — due to throbbing...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 159: Another 29 days and this blog will end.

  Post 159: Another 29 days and this blog will end. That’s if the flipin’ chemo ever ends. ——— Four weeks — Monday the official end of the treatment — will herald a sigh of relief from my Darling and me, but...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 158: Rest, recovery and recollections.

  Post 158: Rest, recovery and recollections. I don’t often re-read the blog after it’s been uploaded, but sadly I did yesterday and got a real shock from its incoherent wanderings. Perhaps I was more ill than I thought I was, or perhaps I...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  Community this or that quiz- Coffee morning

  We want to bring our Online Community together to connect and have some light hearted fun during September, as it is the hallmark month for Macmillan’s World’s biggest coffee morning. Find the coffee morning this or that quiz in this blog.

  Megan- Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Kidney Not

  Uh oh . . . . . . .

  I had my regular monitoring scan on 7th July and catch-up with my onco on 29th July.  There is no problem and we agreed to catch-up again in March 2026.  But wait! Two weeks later my onco phones out of the blue!  There is a problem.&nb...

  Mmum over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 157: Dr S and I have a frank and friendly chat — then a family ride out.

  Post 157: Dr S and I have a frank and friendly chat — then a family ride out. In the end, it’s great to know you can chat about anything you like and perhaps get your expectations out for a dust-off. ——— Last night wa...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 156: Alternative reality causes confusion.

  Post 156: Alternative reality causes confusion. Waking up in the darkness with a warm hand on my lower back suggests my Darling is already aware of my pains — so why am I so pained and confused? ——— After a decent day where...

  Mr U over 1 year ago