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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
    8 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 3 hours ago
  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 5 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.
    Wayne - Online Community Team 21 hours ago
  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 1 day ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 3 days ago
  • Peter's Blog
    A blog about bowel cancer at a young age
    HawkeyeBrown 4 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 5 days ago
  • Kidney Not
    Mmum 6 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 11 days ago
  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 12 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Terri
    Telgirls dance with cance.....23

    Today was my pre chemo visit and it wasnt as bad as I had thought it was going to be.

    The staff were all lovely and the nurse who talked me through the procedure and side effects was brilliant. I mentioned that the oncologist had said that the chemo could start after christmas and she said she would have a look and see what she could do. I mentioned that the site of my operation was a bit sore and weepy and she managed to get the oncologist to have a look and he confirmed that there was a slight...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Debi09
    Mesothelioma

     Hi all,

    After months of my dad suffering dramatic weight lost, getting lost and confused whilst driving and my brother and sister having to go and collect him because he didn't know where he was - we finally managed to get him to go to the doctors.  Following further blood tests, x-rays, lung biopsy and a CT Scan, my dad was diagnosed last week Tuesday with Lung Cancer and we have been told that it has also spread to his Lymph Nodes, stomach (Kidney and Liver) and that the fluid around the lung...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • beanpole's blog
    downhill

    Clive had some friends over on Friday and since then has been feeling much worse. His back ache has moved to the shoulder blade again, and keeps being sick, he has been unable to evenkeep water down at times. We have phoned the oncologist today and will see him tomorrow. He can't go on like this. One weetabix is about all he has eaten each day for the past 3 days.

    My insides are permanently in knots and I am so scared he will have to go in hospital and not come out. What am I going to tell...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Ramblings of a Bad Fairy
    (11) All I want for Christmas ....

    ... is my bubble back!

    It's gone. Don't know where but I wish it would come back. Maybe it hasn't gone completely and is just deflated and sulking under the sofa or something. But I want it back please.

    It's a very useful bubble. Some days it's a bouncy hopper type bubble and we just bound through life together. Other days it becomes lots of little bubbles that fizz around and keep me laughing. Occasionally my bubble acts as a cushion and takes the edge off the not so nice stuff that...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Buzzie
    There is a Vibe in the Soup: Part III

    There’s a Vibe in my Soup III: 
    The Meddlesome Wife is having a little problem knowing what to do with herself.  Having practically polished off everything in the fridge in a fest of guilt-free, fast and furious eating, she is twiddling her thumbs. There is no soup-stirring going on.  The house is still.  The dogs snore.  The rain, depressingly, falls ...
    Where is our hero? 
    Our hero has gone back to our ‘expert’ in the not-so-exotic South.  He is to have some tests that...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • _Pansy_'s blog
    Time goes by....

    Well as christmas looms ever closer I feel like my heart is breaking without Bill. We really thought he was going to beat this disease, but it was not to be.My life is now a lonley and dark place with no light at the end of the tunnel.I will never hear his voice again it was  big deep sexy ,that was the first thing I fell in love with ,then his sense of houmor funny and twisted in the way only a man you love get's away with like the time he called me to say get dolled up we are going out for dinner...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Natalie85's blog
    Thought for the day...1"

    "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

    Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Stop fighting for critical illness pay-outs
    Stop fighting for critical illness pay-outs
    When Macmillan Cancer Voice Inga McVicar was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she expected her critical illness insurance policy to pay her bills until she could resume her self-employed career as a marketing consultant.  But her insurance company refused and it took Inga thirteen months of argument before the Financial Ombudsman told her insurance company to pay up.
    Macmillan hopes that people will no longer need to fight their insurance companies. Today, the Law Commission will reveal its proposals...
    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • lawrie's blog
    feeling fine!

    hi there - hope all is well for everyone - well the weekend is over and what a good one it has been - i managed to get all the washing and ironing done on saturday and went to my sisters house for tea - well i invited myself - you dont get if you dont ask -  lol - we got there and while i was having a coffee at the kitchen table i could feel myself falling off to sleep - so i was ordered off to bed while tea was being made - the little one was fine playing with her cousins so off i went - the next...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • One Day At A Time
    Advent Update

    Well, it's been a bit of a mixed bag, as these journeys often are.

    Round four was a few weeks ago, and round five was due on Friday. However round four had been a very rough ride, and my darling has been very sick and not eating much. The consultant could tell that he had had a rough ride and was concerned about his weight loss and so has given us a fortnight off chemo to recover and gather strength.

    We have the dreaded review scan on 15th December, and final chemo of the year is scheduled...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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