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  Rowan8a3264 8 hours ago
• "It's Only Skin Cancer"

  A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception

  dolphin99 9 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 12 hours ago
• Looking after Mr. B

  Miranda t 13 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 1 day ago
• My BCG Therapy

  Aurelius 1 day ago
• Pedalling through this journey

  Former Member 3 days 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 6 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 6 days ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Two Year Anniversary

  January 23 2021 Today has been a day of contrasts. A bit like the last two years; not much to say except to leave a few snaps MORNING community.macmillan.org.uk/.../Dani-vid.mp4 AFTERNOON I thought I’d simply paste the post I put&nbs...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  The future of follow up

  January 17 2021 As I hadn’t had a nasoendoscopic exam for 8 months I asked that my next appointment wasn’t over the phone and was a F2F. I was looking for that reassurance even though I felt well. Dr Banner and I talked about follow up. I...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  A quick review of the year

  Jan 4 2021 A Snapshot Light at the end of the tunnel? I’ve seen a few lights already. Some of them have been oncoming trains BUT After Lockdown we got away a few times. Still enjoying a beer Then out of the blue came...

  Beesuit 1 month ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Living life as a statistical outlier with metastatic tnbc

  I have just been for my 6-monthly oncology review following my most recent CT scan. The ablated tumour sites remain stable with no new metastatic disease noticed elsewhere. Nothing of concern in the blood screen. So I remain in the state of being inc...

  Coddfish 1 month ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 516: Lymphoma therapy day 12, done and dusted.

  Post 516: Lymphoma therapy day 12, done and dusted. So the feast and famine of constipation and diarrhoea has turned full circle again and I’m left with a big protruding belly and an uncomfortable feeling of fullness, but I can’t stop ea...

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

  Post 515: Too much for me at the writing club.

  Post 515: Too much for me at the writing club. A new printing cartridge and a new folder had me busy making an other 50 hard copies of the blog: binder 6, blogs 250-299. I’m getting there as I’m over half way through and I’m happy...

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

  Post 514: Two kids a dog and a bump.

  Post 514: Two kids a dog and a bump. I couldn’t carry on with my office work at home this morning for two reasons and the best reason was that I wanted to rest. It’s something when you actually want to do something but a health problem s...

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

  Post 513: A return to a little home-work and a salmon supper.

  Post 513: A return to a little home-work and a salmon supper. Starting at the end and not the start I had a great time with som U3a homework set for everyone’s entertainment; this week it was the creative writing group asking for a short story...

  Mr U 1 month ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  SABR side effects report

  I had SABR treatment that ended five weeks ago. I would like to report, for the benefit of people looking forward to this, that the side effects have been pretty much as predicted in terms of the nature, severity, and duration. The most noticeable on...

  Lemsip 1 month ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Biopsy

  Biopsy is a clinical term that sounds innocent enough, but it essentially involves sticking miniature drinking straws into your body and vacuuming out the contents. Since the MRI people had asked me along, I thought I'd better accept the invitati...

  Lemsip 1 month ago