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• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

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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.

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• Multiple Myeloma

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• One Step At A Time

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• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

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• Warm your teaspoon

  Mrs of husband with bowel cancer - T3 N1 - chemo to be followed by radio then anterior bowel - depending what they find. Oxaliplatin and Capecitabine being the prescribed drugs. `

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Latest blog posts

• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Second Cycle, Week One: Desdemona's Second Date

  Preparation: my Dexamethasone (or ‘Dexa’) has been consumed on schedule and I’m ready for the next cycle. The symptoms from my infection have all subsided, but my gorgeous wife is suffering from a proper bout of flu. She has a very ...

  Desdemona 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 420: Sis & Bro Pop By and Where Are the Darn Bags?

  Post 420: Sis & Bro Pop By and Where Are the Darn Bags? There are some things that somehow don’t get onto the page and I have no reason why. Like the printing of the 400-odd blogs or the sale of my truly lovely Volvo Olive. My Mum’s...

  Mr U 2 months ago
• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  My first ever Cystoscopy (Part 2)

  So I enter the treatment room and what can you do but go with the flow? You are in the hands of people who do for a living what you’ve never had done to you before. ‘Name?’, ‘Date of birth?’ ‘Hospital Number?&rsquo...

  Doug07 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 419: Physio Appointment PM Follows a Runaround.

  Post 419: Physio Appointment PM Follows a Runaround Although later today there’s going to be a therapist delve into my right shoulder, which is easing nicely since my little operation five or six weeks ago. But before that I had a possible ph...

  Mr U 2 months ago
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  Community News

  Improvements to the Online Community search function

  The Online Community search function has received an upgrade. It’s now more powerful, and even easier to use. Learn about the improvements in this short blog.

  Matthew - Online Community Team 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 418: The Realisation…

  Post 418: The Realisation… The U3A is a national organisation offering daytime (evening) classes for those who are no longer full-time workers. In my case—and I bet you’re hoping it might help—I’m going to sample a Cr...

  Mr U 2 months ago
• Willy Wonka’s Nemesis

  My first ever Cystoscopy (Part 1)

  So, because of hematuria, I find myself taking my trousers and underpants off in a small cubicle attached to a waiting room, placing them in the plastic bag provided and donning two hospital gowns, one with the slit up the back and the other more lik...

  Doug07 2 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 18 — Another Week in Castle Hill

  There is a particular kind of frustration that must only exists in hospitals. It isn't the frustration of pain, or fear, or uncertainty — though all of those are present too. It's the frustration of a system that is simultaneously extra...

  Phild26 2 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  Just bloody ring instead of tex links !!!!

  I know it's the modern way but mum and dad aren't modern ,they don't even have the bloody internet ...they're smart phones are crap and don't connect correctly when they're dependent on signals in the atmosphere...but despite ...

  RedTree26 2 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 417: First Day Back at Work.

  Post 417: First Day Back at Work I have been purposely avoiding any chatter about the dreaded time it takes me to get through the admin surrounding my new issue with worsening AFib. It remains to be seen how AFib will affect my life, especially as ...

  Mr U 2 months ago