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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

  • Slightly Inconvenienced by Prostate Cancer
    Lemsip 4 hours ago
  • To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?
    Mr U 13 hours ago
  • "It's Only Skin Cancer"
    A cautionary tale of personal experience and common misconception
    dolphin99 1 day ago
  • Peter's Blog
    A blog about bowel cancer at a young age
    HawkeyeBrown 1 day ago
  • Wittering away...
    Rowan8a3264 1 day ago
  • Living with Desdemona
    Desdemona 2 days ago
  • Kidney Not
    Mmum 2 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.
    Lizzie - Online Community Team 8 days ago
  • Looking after Mr. B
    Miranda t 8 days ago
  • One Life Live It
    Sadly not a LandRover road trip, but my journey through breast cancer
    Irishgirl16 8 days ago

Latest blog posts

  • pinkvicki
    Getting scan results tonight.........worried now!!

    My beloved 49 year old dad is getting his scan results tonight .......my heart has been racing since i got up this morning....my children are playing in the garden i can see their happy faces and i just want to cry. I really hope the chemo has done something.......Please guys send us some good vibes..........i really really love my dad........today i want a miracle!!!

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • my mum and me
    18 days after first cemo

    mums hair has started to come out so i see a trip to the hair dresses to get the wig styled on our list of things to do.she's finely had a poo her words were that it was the biggest poo she had ever seen .problem was she was at the doctors at the time and worried it might block the toilet thankfully that was not the case lol.doc says she has a sinues infection and given her anitbiotics but is worried about her thyroid so more blood tests to day .still got a very low temperture but this could be because...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • WLE AND SPILT SKIN GRAFT (CONTAINS PHOTOS OF A GRAPHIC NATURE)
    THE ORIGINAL MOLE.(PHOTO NOT GRAPHIC)

    Good evening.

    I have managed to find a photo of the original mole. It look a big messy as its post biopsy but its not that different to how i presented it to my GP. I had split it open while getting out the shower before xmas last year and never really healed. 2 months ago i showed my GP... the rest as they say is history.

    Amazing how a mole the size of the average thumb nail can make a wound the size it has (for those of you who can bare to look at the photos!)

    Hope this is of help to those with...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Laurens Blog
    My Darling little angel.

    My darling little Angel,

    You were not meant to be, but i love you very much.....

    I wanted to be a mum, i wanted to hold you in my arms i am only sorry i didnt get to meet you, I miss you so much

    Sleeping safe in a dream world
    protected by all that surrounds you--
    a beating heart
    a gentle laugh
    the touch of loving hands
    And your future wasn't too far away.

    We longed to see your smile
    hear your cry and dry the tears
    We longed to teach all that we knew
    and hold your hand in ours
    But time has slipped ...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • My story
    my story

    Im a 40 year old woman who feels very lucky at her age to have a set of grandparents.......my nan is the type of person that if shes got a scratch she will go to the doctors, my grandad on the other hand hates doctors hospitals etc......my grandad started getting poorly a few years ago with his bowels and he went for tests and we thought that he had prostrate problems........over the last 6 months hes has got weaker and the doctors thought he had testicallar cancer ....he had a scan and all was good...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • My Dad's story so far
    Chemo round 2

    Today marks round 2 of Dads chemo.The first round was rough , he's alittle like me in that nausea is the worst thing ever . He found it so hard to deal with and we had to get a doc out to help one night .

    Side effects haven't been so awful as yet as it was the first round , who knows what this round will be like.

    Dad has on good days been out doing stuff like digging a veg patch , there really is no telling folks :) but its good and positive and normal to see him doing these things.

    Little...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Bowel C the fight, daily blog
    Post day 10..

    So, the triedness starts to kick in, totally knackered by 17:00, then always the dreaded sign at Radium treatment desk..DELAY , always 40 minutes...Only 16 radium treatments to go, slowly being crossed off, amazing how these seem to drag, when life seems to be flashing by. Had the review clinic yesterday, talking through any side effects...isn't it weird how you spend your life private on toitlery habits, then you speak so openly on most basic deatils to a complete stranger. Even the wife is unaware...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • Ramblings of a Bad Fairy
    Toxic burps....

    ..….how to clear a room in an instant! 

    Have you ever stood in a queue and just wished that everyone in front of you would miraculously disappear? I have, I’m not the most patient of shoppers at the best of times, shopping fights for the prized last place on the to-do list with housework. I now have a secret weapon which clears an aisle/bar/queue in an instant!

    The Toxic Burp. It’s a rather rank and putrid burp admittedly but it does a fantastic job so mustn’t be criticised too heavily...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • greybadger's blog
    family gathering

    We have just returned from a wonderful weekend in Dorset. My Ovarian cancer is back on the rampage again, and my one wish was to get my family united together  under one roof so the grandchildren could get to know each other, on "Grandmas holiday".  (One son lives in the states and always has to do the rounds when they come home).  It was everything I could have hoped for, even if I didn't have the energy to join in with all they did, (the hike across to the cliffs and the walk up Corfe castle...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
  • jo mac's blog
    Round two for Liz

    Hi Everyone

    Yesterday we got the news we had been dreading,   yet expecting that my sister Liz G has another tumour .  She is taking it as she takes every aspect of her life,  on the nose and is  dealing with it in her own way. 

    For those of you who know me and Liz from the old What Now site you will know the love and closeness we share and the past two years since she was given 3-4 months to live ,have been the hardest most emotional I have ever experienced with her and my family. 

     While I am writing...

    Former Member over 16 years ago
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