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• 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 38 minutes ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 8 hours ago
• Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  Beesuit 23 hours ago
• A trip with triple negative breast cancer

  Coddfish 1 day ago
• Megan's Macmillan blog example

  Moderator - Macmillan Community 1 day ago
• Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer

  Lemsip 5 days ago
• Eunice77

  Eunice77 6 days ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 7 days ago
• Prostate Cancer Recurrence - Triple Therapy

  excavator 9 days ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 10 days ago

Latest blog posts

• Is it just me or is everything different?

  Why must it be different?

  Did anyone wake up one day and think the world now looked different somehow? Not necessarily different good or different bad, but as if the colour palette or spectrum had shifted slightly?  I did.  The first time you hear those words, &qu...

  Kll over 3 years ago
• Dignity Pants and other misnomers

  Taking Stock, and an update on the heart

  Last weeks biopsy failed to gather enough tissue to progress a treatment plan and this afternoon I am off to day surgery at Musgrove Park for another go, this time under general anaesthetic. This will allow a surgeon to remove what they need without...

  Dignahtee over 3 years ago
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  Community News

  “The biggest shock of my life." Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer to the bones: Karin’s story.

  At 51, Karin received the biggest shock of her life when she was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer to the bones. This all took place after her first routine mammogram. In this blog, we share some of Karin's story, 4 years after her diagnosis.

  Dylan - Online Community Team over 3 years ago
• The start of my breast cancer journey

  Feeling insecure upset and angry

  I was diagnosed with breast cancer in my left breast in march 23 I had a lumpectomy in may 23 but they found more cancer further round my breast so I had a mastectomy no reconstruction in July 23 I’m due back in 2 weeks as I’ve got an iss...

  Plummymummy over 3 years ago
• My journey with Bladder Cancer

  Update week 14: Chemo cycle 3 - 75% of treatment now complete!

  Sunday through to Tuesday was a lot tougher than previous cycles had been. The fatigue was horrendous and although I had a few things I intended to do, I had to cancel everything just through a lack of energy. I had been warned that each cycle is a ...

  kaspont over 3 years ago
• Losing my partner of 22yrs

  Losing my partner of 22yrs

  I've had a lot of upset in my life but nothing ever compared to losing my partner after battling for 3yrs after being diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer.  I have never had to deal with someone being so ill to where you see physical diffe...

  Dora223 over 3 years ago
• Losing my partner of 22yrs

  Losing my partner of 22yrs

  I've had a lot of upset in my life but nothing ever compared to losing my partner after battling for 3yrs after being diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer.  I have never had to deal with someone being so ill to where you see physical diffe...

  Dora223 over 3 years ago
• Candid with Cancer

  Candid with Cancer #2

  Following on from my first blog, having been told I could have cancer, I was then moved onto a ward, until they got the results. We were waiting for ages, as you often do in hospitals. I remember telling my mum, that I hope I don’t have to stay...

  Tashley99 over 3 years ago
• Neurodivergent Adult only child or parent with Terminal Cancer

  More info and Chemo

  So when we met the chemo Dr (oncology) again with the lovely Natalie, they explained the prognosis, there is a 4cm tumor in her pancreas and has wrapped around a main blood vessel.  My mum by this time had spoken to one of my cousins who's m...

  Lanamer over 3 years ago
• Neurodivergent Adult only child or parent with Terminal Cancer

  Learning about the cancer... 23rd January 2023

  So the day my world fell apart I was at work on a normal day struggling to focus on my work, when I got a message from my mum asking me to drop in and see her on my way home from work, I walked into my work kitchen to refill my water bottle and then ...

  Lanamer over 3 years ago