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.
Today we are excited to announce the second of our festive prize draws. Thank you to everyone that took part last week, we loved to read about your Christmas traditions.
This week we’re giving away two care packages which were kindly donated by Cancer Care Parcel.
These thoughtful care packages include both useful and fun things that anyone who may be having treatment or going through a difficult time may find comforting.
Included in the care package:
To enter the draw:
This week we want...
Well biopsy day arrived and the doctor explained he would be taking several samples and one for the trial. Last March I signed up to the mel resist trial when my lymph node increased in size last March and I’d been on Pembrolizumab for 9 months, so they could take my node to look at what was different about it that it wasn’t reacting. As this was a needle biopsy they were I assume taking extra fluid out of the node. The doctor commented that the node looked smaller than it had on the scan results...
Today we have the second instalment of our ‘What the Community means to me…’ series. This series highlights just how much support, friendship and kindness is shared on the site every day. Today we have two members, and Popgate sharing their stories and discussing what it means to them to be on the site. Why not take a moment to read through? Missed our first instalment? You can click here to read tvman's story.
Johnty's story:
'I was diagnosed 17 months ago with a rare...
I was given a piece of advice when I lost you - dont make any major decisions or changes for at least a year. Grief was so painful I ignored that advice....
Anyway it's not neat in a book where there are chapters... it's not the beggining of a story and the end of a story. Its forever threaded through my life like silver thread. Its changed me forever. I'll never be the me I was before. Life will not be neat little chapters and I wont be over it and it wont fade and it wont be ok with me - I'll...
Months down the line from first diagnosis, I am now at the radiotherapy stage. Up until now I had not asked many questions about my type of cancer, I have never researched it in books or on the internet & I could not even bring myself to even look at any leaflets (of which there are many as everyone involved in your treatment seems to want to give you a leaflet). You see, I just wanted to curl up in a ball & wish the cancer away.
Every time I had a hospital appointment or had to see a nurse...
As the nights draw in and each day ends, we get closer and closer to Christmas. It’s a time where we often look back and reflect on the year that’s been and think of the things we’re grateful for and we're grateful for you - the thousands of members who make this site the true community that it is. To mark that, we’d like to be able to give a little something back.
Throughout the Christmas period we’ll be hosting three prize draws which are all free to enter. We’ll be...
I can’t believe it has been a year since I last wrote on here! Life is completely back to normal, although what is normal? I feel great, my energy is back to what it was, I look well again, my hair is getting long (and gets greasy again!), my allergies are back (not so good), I have to shave my legs, lol!
Life is manic, work is busy, but it is all good. I was just trying to put my blog posts back onto the site, as I had to remove them due to being involved in a big court case. It is not easy...
It is now a little less than two years after my surgery for a mesenteric liposarcoma and I once again I have a mass in my abdomen: it has been confirmed as recurrent sarcoma. The alien has returned.
When I was first diagnosed I realised the tumour was very, very aggressive. So I wasn’t surprised that it had recurred. I felt like I had spent two years tied to the railway track knowing at some stage the train would come. Now I can see the train. I just don’t know how fast it is travelling....
Hi everyone,
We thought we would use today's Community News Blog to communicate an exciting new development on the Community. You may have already noticed this on your profile, but you should now be able to see a button labelled ‘Notifications’ when you log into the Community. This is our new notification button. This means that anytime anyone interacts with you on the Community a number will appear next to this icon and when you click on it the interaction will be shown. This is...
After being told by my surgeon that at some point through my treatment I would be prescribed Tamoxifen & because I take several other medications which include antipsychotics, antidepressants & tablets for anxiety, I decided to research whether my other medications would work well with Tamoxifen & the side effects of Tamoxifen.
There are lots of medical journals & research papers that can be accessed on the internet so I spent some time researching & found most of my information on...
