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• time for a cuppa....

  hugs 8 hours ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  RedTree26 10 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 19 hours ago
• Wittering away...

  Rowan8a3264 22 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 1 day ago
• My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story

  GaryG298207 2 days ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 5 days ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 6 days ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 6 days ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Former Member 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Grief is so damn hard

  You knew didn’t you?

  I had a crash day today after my first counselling session yesterday.  I came away from it knowing it will be of benefit and went to our cafe to tell our 2 best friends all about it. A few tears but was ok. Ok when I got home. Ac...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• After the cancer took dad

  Unimaginable

  It's nearly been 2 weeks since my dad has passed. The house is quiet. I stayed to take care of him since his diagnosis around April 2024. Chemo seemed to work slightly, and every month his body would lose vitality. To be honest, I saw he was hidi...

  Tuesday2Tuesday over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  New Year, New Dates - Local Cancer Community Meet-ups 2025

  New January and February dates for our latest round of Local Cancer Community Meet-ups. If you're in Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Dundee, Glasgow Coatbridge, or Rochester... read on!

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  My daughter s 3 yr anniversary

  Hi everyone just feeling very lost and very alone. It's her 3rd anniversary next week. I keep breaking down sobbing  and no matter where I am I can't hold it in my partner goes quiet and doesn't know what to say I keep thinking about...

  Shellyanne63 over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  Ranting time - When diagnosis takes too long and other stories

  This morning I opened the BBC website and found this article GPs turn to AI to help with patient workload - BBC News Obviously a hot topic this week as the PM talked about how AI is going to help the UK and the NHS and what not... Will not get i...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  MacMillan bloggers, I thank you

  Hello, its been a while since I last posted here. December was a bit of a month and Christmas was a blur spent in the company of the ‘Cheese Eating Assassins’. I hope to do a longer post on these guys. And that’s not why I am writin...

  Dignahtee over 1 year ago
• Positive vibes

  Ovarian BRCA2 secondary in lymph nodes

  I have been through quite a lot to say the least but I’m still here I was on Olaparib parph inhibitors for 17 years unfortunately it stopped working last Jan 2024 prior to that I had 5 years of chemo  My only options now are to have pallia...

  Possitive over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Ambushed again

  So today was so frosty and black ice every where. I went out and did a little skid. I reached out laughing “Dont let me fall”  I crashed down. Not physically. with reality.  A little while ago I posted on the forum about little ...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago
• Words, Pathways, Journeys

  Writing for mind and body

  One of the things I’ve really struggled with since my diagnosis, has been the way that my body had clearly been in trouble for a good while before I even had an inkling that something wasn’t right. How can that be? How can I have experien...

  Writing Lola over 1 year ago
• Grief is so damn hard

  Week 15

  So today it is 15 weeks since my beautiful Valen was ripped from me. Ive started my blog today due to 2 reasons. First, my beautiful Valen loved Father Brown and a new series is starting. Secondly, we were due to fly to Singapore and Malays...

  MrsVT over 1 year ago