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

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Latest blog posts

• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  No relaxing today

  I'd been hoping for a relaxing Sunday but it soon became clear that there was little chance of that.  First H needed his hair cut.  Then I thought I had better tackle my fringe.  Next was the laundry and bed linen changing.&nb...

  Margaret853 9 months ago
• Hpv and no immune system

  Help

  I have no immune system have just been told iam high risk hpv with normal cells but havnt had any it her information and there isn't a lot on Google can anyone else shed some light on this for me 

  381 mefe5318 9 months ago
• (Cancer) Garden journey day by day

  Blue sky inspiration

  Look up, what is the sky today telling you? It's bright, it's blue (the mood-lifting one, not "the blues"), it's brilliant and inspirational. First, a vapour trail created what I imagined as an ethereal centipede, it's little legs carrying it upward...

  WalkerGirl 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 218: Pains for My Sins

  Post 218: Pains for My Sins I have stayed in the house today, all day, with my pains. Unfortunately, I’m in so much pain I can barely hold this phone, propped up in bed. It starts with the neck (right-hand side), shoulders, the whole right...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Young Survivor

  A letter to cancer.

  Dear Cancer, I am writing this letter in the hope that by doing so, I can let you go and move forward with my life. It’s been nearly a year now since you shocked me with your introduction and changed me forever. All of a sudden, I was ripped ...

  Xcy56b673 9 months ago
• Distracting myself, hopefully!

  Hospital transport Friday woes

  I had a long early morning hospital appointment yesterday.  It turned out to be the perfect example of how hospital transport can be a nightmare.  Especially on a Friday.  This is a quick explainer for anyone not familiar with how the ...

  Margaret853 9 months ago
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  One Life Live It

  Pinktober and Movember

  There's not much more powerful than sharing stories and at a recent event of c30 colleagues, they did just that.  A colleague and I hosted an event to discuss cancer at work, leading with him talking about the challenges of losing one of his...

  Irishgirl16 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 217: Chats in Two Places and My Cardi Unravels.

  Post 217: Chats in Two Places and My Cardi Unravels. With one eye on the Baz-Ball capers down under, I started the day somewhere between 8 and 8:30 — hopefully. But as I looked out the kitchen window to the front (with Mr Vicious already ringi...

  Mr U 9 months ago
• Stoma reversal

  Stoma reversal

  Hi In may of 2024 I was diagnosed with cancer of the rectum and was given an emergency stoma. 18 months on after 10 rounds of chemotherapy and a week of radiotherapy and the tumour being removed, my surgeon has now given me the option of a stoma reve...

  TinkaT 9 months ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 216: A Busy Day and happy tears.

  Post 216: A Busy Day and happy tears. Getting up for counselling isn’t a chore, and after Mr Vicious was fed, he was informed that his dinner might be late tonight due to the CT Scan. He replied — quite reasonably — that it was fin...

  Mr U 9 months ago