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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

  • time for a cuppa....
    hugs 8 hours ago
  • Speaking to an empty room
    RedTree26 10 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 19 hours ago
  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 22 hours ago
  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 1 day ago
  • My Mengioma Brain Tumour Story
    GaryG298207 2 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 5 days ago
  • Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica
    Beesuit 6 days ago
  • My BCG Therapy
    Aurelius 6 days ago
  • Pedalling through this journey
    Former Member 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • Burkitts
    Burkitts

    Are there an more Burkitts widows out there????

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Seizure Poem
    Seizure

    Seizure

    I’m all right. I have more highs than lows, it comes and goes. Walkin’ down the street with aching feet and my antique laptop, in a strop. Started a fit that didn’t fit; it just kinda hung. I didn’t have time for it or to sit on the floor for more so I kept on walking, and talking to myself for good health. One foot in front of the other. What a mother! People stare, in a blur, but I only care about her; my kid in school’s no fool………………...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Trishka's blog
    Coming Home

    Hi everyone,

    It's our last full day today and I really should be packing. Somehow or other we have alot more 'stuff' than we came with... can't blame it on the shopping expedition to the biggest Mall in America either as it didn't materialise. The trip takes about 1 1/2 hours and the bus didn't have a loo so we could not go. Restrooms (American word for loo) have become quite a priority in our lives - we know every one of them within a mile radius of the condo. I worry about becoming a restroom...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • deejay's blog
    Roll-calls pain and being bolshie?

    Hi everyone - now I know I don't blog on here that often, but I do catch up with people at least every other day. But... I too, am missing certain people and wonder if they're ok? I'm frightened to ask about them in case I've missed some bad news, but I don't see how I could have done.

    So i suggest a fortnightly roll-call? I'm reading a book about Japanese POW camps, and their obsession with 'Tenko' or roll-call. What do you think, ha ha?

    The main issue with me...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Thymoma anyone ?
    Slowly back to the daily grind

    Spent two days in work this week, and will very gradually ramp things up over the next couple of months. Only catch is I keep thinking I can do more than I actually can ...

    I find that I am getting a little breathless again because I am scared to breathe deeply in case it hurts (it used to - not any more though thanks (?!) to 6 litres of cisplatin). Have been advised to take up Yoga to try and fix this - I must have been carrying the condition around for many years as taking shallow breaths has become...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • shannock
    ps

    ive just read through yesterdays epic  --i didnt say what a lovely lady she was .the best mum,nanny.friend  & my wife for 37 years & im missing her so much

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Babybear's Blog
    Day 52 Bertiebassetts return Journey.

    Friday morning we got the date through for admission for Bone Marrow Transplant, it is the 7th December. Now I have mixed feelings about this transplant. Firstly Bert needs to be in remission and we wont find that out until nearer the time, he also has to have a variety of tests on his heart,lungs, kidneys & liver oh and they also have to make sure he has no STD's or HIV..Before they do the Aspiration to find out if he is in remission.

    They have a flat n the Beatson so I am going to try...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • emmac
    this is so hardthisis

    this is my first entry. my mum was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer last october and is currently on her second course of chemo, she does not seem to be responding, she has also has radiotherapy on most of her spine to treat tumors there. she has a visible lump on her throat which does not seem to be getting any better and i am scared that the consultant will soon say that they will stop treatment. my emotions swing from positive, seizing the moment, to utter despair and loneliness. i feel like...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Terri75's blog
    Ups and downs

    Wow this rollercoaster we are on is bumpy.  I was saying to my husband that dad is like that Forrest Gump saying 'like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get next'.  From the sheer frustration and rage he was feeling the other night to last night when he was feeling a great deal of pain and not good at all to tonight, well what can I say about tonight.  He was sleeping when we first went in so I figured he was quite sore again he woke up and we said hi then he fell asleep...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Terri
    Telgirls dance with cance.....8

    Hi Everyone,

    Firstly great news about Andrew...way to go hun.

    Just got back from hospital and the op is all done, thought I had got my head round the mastectomy...how stupid of me.

    Spent this morning sitting on the floor in the shower room in the hospital sobbing my heart out. When the nurse came round to change my dressing ready to go home she asked if I wanted to look at the op site and again sobbing began, I couldnt do it, couldnt bring myself to look because then it would be real and I would...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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