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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.

  Dylan - Online Community Team 13 hours ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Mr U 23 hours ago
• WJ grade 3 Astrocytoma cdkn 2a/b non-deleted

  W J 1 day ago
• Living with Desdemona

  Desdemona 4 days ago
• Multiple Myeloma

  Tess123 10 days ago
• Mumofcancer

  Mumofcancer 17 days ago
• One Step At A Time

  Phild26 18 days ago
• Cycle 19 and not working anymore

  Emotions 19 days ago
• 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. `

  Sierraoscar 20 days ago
• Pete's cancer blog

  Peterb 25 days ago

Latest blog posts

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

  Post 50: Complications & Compliments.

  Post 50: Complications & Compliments. My head’s swimming again—but now it’s with questions about the escalation of my AFib, and what that means for me, My Darling, and the cancer. Last night, just after my soup and toast supp...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• Welcome home

  Update on my husband's metastatic bowel cancer journey

  In the last 2 or 3 weeks we've received all the dates for my husband's treatment schedule. A second US guided biopsy was done yesterday which hopefully will find some cells this time. The consultant had requested CT guided but was overruled!&...

  Lizig over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 49: The Registrar calls.

  Post 49: The Registrar calls. BP: All over the place Flushes: Annoying as ever Anything else: The TV still works  We all need a dangling carrot to help sustain our mood and drive. With the thoughts of two cancelled holidays to Italy and I...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• My Hodgkin's story

  The emotional tolls of sharing

  Haven't been around here much this last few weeks. Busy with 2 different international work trips in the last 3 weeks. One of them involved meeting a lot of work colleagues who in some cases had not seen F2F since the start of treatment. Some of ...

  swift_dc over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 48: Unsure certainty.

  Post 48: Unsure certainty. The life we travellers lead gets all messed up when we’re waiting for tests and results. All our hardwired defences unravel, and our soft bits are laid bare. We become nervous and scared again—just like the la...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 47: Groundhog Day at A&E.

  Post 47: Groundhog Day at A&E. Yesterday was another long one. It started badly, became a great day for a walk, and then descended into a tiresome medical irritation. ——— My Darling looked at me with a strange seriousness in ...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 46: A More Restful Day.

  Post 46: A More Restful Day. The best medicine is good rest. Last night, my left arm—just below the shoulder where the shingles jab went in—was a proper nightmare. I woke early and, stupidly, didn’t reach for any paracetamol to e...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
• To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 45: The ugly truth.

  Post 45: The ugly truth. It’s not every day you hear the ugly truth and feel more confident because of it. ——— The blood test at the local surgery this morning was a good start. Instead of just the bloods, the nurse asked, ...

  Mr U over 1 year ago
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  Community News

  Awake and up all night? Get emotional support around the clock!

  Get help and support throughout the night from other members! Introducing the new “Awake and up all night” thread in the Cancer chat forum…

  Matthew - Online Community Team over 1 year ago
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  To Hop-on or Hop-off is the question?

  Post 44: Self advocacy.

  Post 44: Self advocacy. On the day Joe Root hit his 13,000th run in world cricket—only the fifth batsman in history to reach that milestone. Where do I even start to explain the everyday pain of self-advocacy? Today I’ve written around...

  Mr U over 1 year ago