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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

  • Megan's Macmillan blog example
    Moderator - Macmillan Community 5 hours ago
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    Mr U 20 hours ago
  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 3 days ago
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    Eunice77 4 days ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 5 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 7 days ago
  • Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy
    excavator 8 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 8 days ago
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    W J 8 days ago
  • Cool Cap Relief
    TerryB 11 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Suspected Breast Cancer
    Pre Radiotherapy

    Another few weeks has flown by! I am ‘sort of’ back at work! I love my job and as I work from home, it is a very easy transistion to make. I feel extremely well, both physically and mentally and have good energy levels again. I started my Herceptin injections last week, but was fine, aside from being sick just afterwards, then again a few days in. My Magnesium levels have finally settled down and I can now take sachets as opposed to infusions. I start radiotherapy on Tuesday, for 15 sessions and...

    JoDec over 8 years ago
  • Should I Go
    Should I Go ?

    I do not mean to sound selfish in this blog, I more confused with emotions.

    At the beginning of 2018 my father was unwell for several weeks, thinking it wasn’t anything serious he went to his doctor to see if there was anything they could prescribe him. They checked him over and suggested the he give blood and urine samples, which he did. When the results came back pointing that there might be something more serious than originally thought. He was sent for several MRI and CT scans, plus more...
    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • A Miracle Journey
    Day 9 Round 4

    My wbc seems to drop very low, .6 this time, and then takes a long time to rebuild, leaving me very weak. Able still to shower each day though.

    All symptoms I have described to the doctor do not seem alarming to him, but I WISH so for a key to building more energy.

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Warriors battle
    Diary

    TUESDAY 12th JULY 2016

    ok so here goes nothing, I'm going to start a new diary on my phone so that I can update it as I go, I'll print it off then add it to my real diary, just not got the time to sit a write without the girls screaming at me to draw on it lol!

    So to get u up to date my dad 6 months ago started to pee blood, he went to the doctor and was referred for the camera up his arse.  So he went to larbert hospital for this very routine operation to inflate his bowl and put...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Everyone's different
    Everyone's different

    Hi everyone, I recall reading some time ago that if someone found the treatment process for breast cancer fairly easy that they wouldn't be using this site to say so. Well I am one of those people who had an easy process during treatment. I put this down to early diagnosis and excellent care by the medical team that looked after me. I hope this doesn't sound smug because I don't mean to, but everyone's experience is different.

    My breast cancer was found by a routine mammogram (thank...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • The Singing Biker
    Singing, expressing the unexpressible

    I've mentioned that I play the ukulele. It's become one of life's pleasures. I have no formal musical training and it has been quite challenging to learn to play *and* sing at the same time.

    I have a few songs on the go (learning and improving) at the moment, and one I love is Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". I sing it in a gentle style at the high end of my vocal range and with a very simple ukulele strum... I think this suits the mood of the song. Here's a link to a recording I made recently...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Fertility after treatment
    Fertility

    I have finished tnbc treatment indec.2017.Had chemo,lumpectomy with all clear and radio.I was having Zoladex injections to shut down my ovaries during chemo.I was coping ok except the mental state.And I had my first period back last week.Even i am 40 we want with my husband a family so I have something to enjoy.The doctor say to wait 2 years but I want to take the risk.It means for me everything.If it comes back at least my husband will have my child.I was optimistic but i went to check my ovaries...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • diagnosis of melanoma
    Melanoma diagnosis

    Hi my names Emma and I’m 26 years old, i was recently diagnosed with melanoma after having a mole removed off my ear... for the last week or so I have been suffering with constant headaches and am feeling sick all the time also feeling very tired.. I am wondering if any of this is connected? and if I should get hold of the hospital

    When I went to the hospital I expected for them to discharge me I never thought it would be melanoma at the time I was in shock as I had gone on my own and had received...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
  • Knitting and breast cancer
    Spinal Stenosis, emotions and side effects.

    Well I last updated 3 days ago and thought by now I would be feeling better, no, how wrong am I . When I said this has hit me harder this time it is also going on for longer. Previously I have felt fairly good as taking the steroids, finish them have a major meltdown for a day or 2 and then back to normal (well, as normal as you can be with this poison through your body).

    Not this time the emotional side of it has JUST about subsided but the physical side is still well and truly there.

    I have been...

    taralou over 8 years ago
  • Partners Perspective
    Exploding Head

    Not even sure I have the right to post on here as my wife hasn't officially been diagnosed with Cancer and I have always thought that Macmillan was meant for terminally ill people  .

    But since they have found a "Lump"  on an endoscopy to see what was causing her Anemia we have been dealing with Macmillan Nurses and Cancer Surgeons.

    How do you "Deal" with it ?.

    I have always managed to face everything that life has thrown at me and keep getting up and going forward, this news...

    Former Member over 8 years ago
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