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

  Mr U 21 hours ago
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• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 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 2 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

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• Mumofcancer

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• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 16 days ago
• 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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• Pete's cancer blog

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Latest blog posts

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

  Post 400: Da-dada-da-da Da-da.

  Post 400: Da-dada-da-da Da-da Four hundred posts. Wow! I just can’t believe it. I started this blog as somewhere to get rid of my worst thoughts of either pain or depression during the approach to the chemotherapy (Carboplatin). I was pro...

  Mr U 3 months ago
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  The Vanquishing of The Insidious Octopus Gunther

  Introducing The Insidious Octopus Gunther

  The first thing I thought, sitting 32 weeks pregnant in the hospital, when I saw the ultrasound of my newly discovered breast cancer tumour with its central mass and invading tendrils was “That looks like an octopus”. Thinking how I was o...

  Nitch 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 399: Second Doctor’s Appointment This Week — Surely Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice

  Post 399: Second Doctor’s Appointment This Week — Surely Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice Today is just another Friday which starts with a kiss and ends with a beer, but has an altogether better feel than terrible Tuesday I get read...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Chemo Impact, Week One: Dancing with Desdemona

  Day 1: 24 hours after the treatment and physically, I’m feeling much the same as immediately before the treatment; I am surmising that this is down to the ‘Dexa’ steroids I had in advance. So, I have taken advantage of this and just...

  Desdemona 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  An Update — This Week

  Immunotherapy is confirmed for Tuesday. That’s about as quickly as they could have started it given everything that’s happened over the last few weeks — the Gamma Knife, the seizure, the steroid reduction — and the fact that i...

  Phild26 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 398: Another Gulp of Oramorph Spells Danger.

  Post 398: Another Gulp of Oramorph Spells Danger  ️ I got up for the hungry horror downstairs — no, not my Darling, silly. Mr Vicious. I’m trying to teach an old cat new tricks. It’s only the “away” command to kee...

  Mr U 3 months ago
• Active surveillance a journey to where…

  The hardest week

  I thought this update would be about settling into active surveillance gaining confidence in my decision and getting on with life. That was the plan. Instead, everything changed in a way I can't see a way past. Three weeks ago, my wife died very ...

  JohnPM 3 months ago
• Speaking to an empty room

  A Week On

  Dad feels like shit He's in a lot of pain...the consultant did warn him ,after his surgery he asked,are you in pain ? And Dad replied ...No...Don't worry you will be....I guess Dad was warned.Dad's face where they did the partial parotidectomy ,I thi...

  RedTree26 3 months ago
• One Step At A Time

  Chapter 14 - The Guilt and The Plan

  When the critical illness payout was confirmed, my first feeling wasn’t relief. It was guilt. Which is, when you think about it, completely absurd. I’d paid £18.99 a month since September 2017. Eight years of premiums, nearly &pound...

  Phild26 3 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 397: My Hip Joints Click Like They Dislocate.

  Post 397: My Hip Joints Click Like They Dislocate. After yesterday’s fooling around in the mizzle I have to thank you readers for your replies. You nailed it with the advice that I should get on to the practice manager to let he/she/it know th...

  Mr U 3 months ago