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Blogs

Create a blog

Blogging can be a great way to journal your experiences and share with others. Why not create your own cancer journey blog, or have a read of other blogs created by our members?

Unsure how to get started? Take a look at our help pages on blogs. 

Macmillan Information Blogs
  • Random act of kindness
    Random act of kindness
    7 months ago
  • The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    The Changing Faces of Cancer- Scalp cooling, Hair loss and Regrowth.
    over 2 years ago
  • If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    If I could go back to the day of my cancer diagnosis
    over 2 years ago

Latest blog updates

  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 13 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.
    Megan- Online Community Team 18 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 23 hours ago
  • Benign Thymoma
    Jenz 1 day ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 3 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 8 days ago
  • A trip with triple negative breast cancer
    Coddfish 8 days ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 12 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 14 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 17 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Living with Desdemona
    Post-Chemo – Watchful Waiting No Man's Lands: Desdemona Is Sleeping – For Now!
    Two weeks since my last consultation and I now have my next consultation booked in for two weeks from now. So, I’m in a ‘no man's land’ between ending chemo and moving onto ‘watchful waiting’. It’s a little fru...
    Desdemona 13 hours ago
  • Community News
    Join the Autumn spotting festival 2026

    Today we are launching the 2026 Autumn spotting festival. It is a dedicated space to share seasonal joy. 

    This discussion is a space to connect with others during the cooler and darker evenings through a shared appreciation for seasonal crafts, recipes, and hobbies. You are welcome to share:

    • Craft and creative projects 
    • Self-care tips 
    • Any pictures of the autumn season you may have taken 
    • Hobbies you like to do during the autumn months 
    • Recipes- it is the season for comfort food, after all. 
    • Poems and...
    Megan- Online Community Team 18 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 524: It feels like a Friday, midweek.
    Post 524: It feels like a Friday, midweek. White Rabbits. Sometimes a simple suggestion on a day with nothing happening is something that ushers in a pair of smiles that we just can’t shake off. Today is a good day and it’s just started. ...
    Mr U 23 hours ago
  • Benign Thymoma
    Just been diagnosed with Thymoma
    Hi, i have been diagnosed with Thymoma, possibility type B. I will be having a sternotomy in a few weeks, the cancer is partially encasing the brachiocephalic and cartoid vessels which makes surgery more complex. I'm terrified. Im 42, have teenag...
    Jenz 1 day ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 523: I am a thicko, I forgot my thread.
    Post 523: I am a thicko, I forgot my thread. Yesterday’s blog (title) heading was about a call from a doctor about my written complaint about a blood review results from the previous week in which I was told I was diabetic and I needed statins...
    Mr U 1 day ago
  • Community News
    Blogging on the Online Community

    Have you set up a blog and need help managing this? Have you been thinking about setting up your own blog but not sure how? We wanted to let you know there is step by step information and video tutorials to help you.

    In our Help Pages, the ‘Blogs’ section has step-by-step instructions and short video tutorials to help you set up your blog. Recently, we have added a new page to help you manage your blog. This includes easy access to revisiting your blog and how to manage your blog post drafts...

    Megan- Online Community Team 2 days ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 522: The phone rang “Hi, it’s Dr Erasmus from your GP…”
    Post 522: The phone rang “Hi, it’s Dr Erasmus from your GP…” On a morning of no rest I should have heeded your advice about having a calmer day but after all the work I earned my lunch. Monday for me is not the horrible day...
    Mr U 3 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Chapter 28 — Nearly There (Again)
    Three weeks since the last update. Time has flown by — which is either a sign that life is getting more normal, or that I've been asleep for most of it. Possibly both. The headline is simple: I thought I was nearly off the steroids. I wasn&...
    Phild26 3 days ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 521: Printing 9th folder up to blog 450.
    Post 521: Printing 9th folder up to blog 450. It’s not been fun but as the busses become fewer and the issues which are more chronic are repeatedly reported I find that it’s still a wonderful refuge. This place has become my space and l...
    Mr U 3 days ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Post 520: The smell of tattoo goo is rather nice as it happens.
    Post 520: The smell of tattoo goo is rather nice as it happens. Rather like a winter nasal tube clearer the special goo like Vaseline in thickness and in a similar small round tin, which is being applied three times a day after washing the tat. The ...
    Mr U 5 days ago
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