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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

  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 11 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 2 days ago
  • Eunice77
    Eunice77 3 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 4 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 5 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 6 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.
    Emma - Online Community Team 6 days ago
  • WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted
    W J 7 days ago
  • Cool Cap Relief
    TerryB 10 days ago
  • One Step At A Time
    Phild26 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • One Life Live It
    Hormone Treatment - how long???
    Picked up my prescription today for my hormone treatment, Letrozole. The label on the box says it all really - one to be taken each day, for ten years until Sept 2031. TEN YEARS!!!! In a weird and strange way, I am actually more worried about this th...
    Irishgirl16 over 5 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    Words about Weirdly Wonderful Wonky Wigs
    I cannot keep my new hair on. No matter how gently I tweak my wig first one way, then another, then another, then another. I have been told that once I have no hair, apparently, the situation will be “better”: the wig should (somehow) att...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • It's Gone Tits Up
    Take me to my beach
    Since all of this cancer malarkey started back in April, my routine has been shot to shit. To most that wouldn’t be so bad but I’m little creature of habit and love my ordered life. I like to know what I’m doing when how, who with a...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • One Life Live It
    And back to work
    I took 5 weeks off post surgery, the first time since maternity leave (and that was certainly not a holiday either) that I have had such a long time off and I've just had my first week back and I am absolutely knackered! Alarm clock wakening was ...
    Irishgirl16 over 5 years ago
  • Facing the future: Together
    Scan 16th September

    We didn't expect a phone call from the hospital so quickly after the scan yesterday, 16th September.

    This afternoon Dal was called and informed that although it doesn't look it is too much to worry about, but they have noticed some spots on his lungs. Although they do not think that the spots look like cancer, they need to have the images looked at further by a lung expert, they believe that it may be an infection.

    So off Dal went to have a full Covid19 test at our local test centre and also...

    Lowedal over 5 years ago
  • Cancer just messed with the wrong boobs!
    Feeling down :(
    I don't have many down days, 99% of the time I'm positive, upbeat and very practical in how I think. Cancer will not beat me and I'm going to survive this and come out the other side.  Yesterday I had it confirmed that my teaching sa...
    Jacala over 5 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    CT Scan Results – I Only Like Supermarket Scanners Now
    The results from my first CT scan are back and they were not exactly good. Not unless a lot of findings are considered at least ‘interesting’ (which presumably they are, in a way, to technicians and researchers). Before I had the CT scan,...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    MRI: Not Waving, Not Drowning
    One thing that I didn’t mention earlier about my first MRI scan was my weird anxiety over the ear protection. Since I was already lying face down with my arms above my head, it didn’t occur to me – until it was too late – to t...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • A booby is a seabird with blue feet
    My New Wig: Hope, in a Box
    Yesterday I had my first ever wig fitting session. To be honest, it all felt pretty unreal to me. I am still going through the motions of another person’s life. (A person I don’t even know yet.) The experience was another small but signif...
    Former Member over 5 years ago
  • Community News
    Can we talk about vulvar and vaginal cancers?

    A close up image of an orchid type flower

    Can we talk openly about vulvas and vaginas?

    It’s Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month and we’re taking the opportunity to raise awareness of the rarer gynae cancers.

    We understand that many people find sexual organs to be an embarrassing or awkward subject. Many people might not even know the correct names for these body parts. So what happens if you get diagnosed with cancer (or a pre-cancerous condition) ‘down there’?

    We’re highlighting how women, trans men and non-binary...

    Steph - Online Community Team over 5 years ago
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