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Living with Cancer

links to information and experiences

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Welcome to my site.

I hope that you will find some information helpful and that you will perhaps wish to offer something of your own. Write with any offerings or chat and tell me if you want to add to my pages.
Meg Heggie

The experience of cancer is one that many of us will experience either first hand or second hand. There are many ways to help. The support available on-line is one way of helping our loved ones, friends and ourselves. It allows access to information and comforting words from the safety of home.

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A new site is added to info2. This is a UK site for Asbestos /Mesothelioma victims. It looks to me to be very helpful.

I have been away from my site for months as I was unable to upload changes. SO HELLO AGAIN I have updated information pages with thanks to Michelle and Shelly. I have added two more works by Mike Hall. One is a word to cancer in Heart and Soul and the other quirky verses are from Cancer Free. Thank you again Mike.
I have been very busy with my history studies and loved and hated my way throughout the course. Having signed up for next year, this is my respite time - until February 2010! Angela continues with her blog and her writing. Great Angela.

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 I have been at a weekend affair to celebrate the Winter Solstice and feel much refreshed and ready to enjoy Christmas. I wish everyone who finds themselves here a happy Festive Season. I hope that nobody is alone who is not happy to be so. If you are alone really spoil yourself.

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I am very happy to report that Mary West has had good results from her tests and she is well and healthy. Great news Mary.

Tina at Redmoss Hotel has sent me a photograph of stooks on the island of Barra. Thank you Tina. I have put a wee bit in chat about this.

I have heard from Mary West (poetry 7) that she is going for a biopsy next week. Mary has been clear of cancer for over four years and it will help her to know that we think of her.

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New photographs are in friends' gardens. I am linking to another mesothelioma site. Lauren Hasha lost a friend to this disease many years after exposure.

I have added a new poem to Poems 5. This is a poem in memory of Stuartie Brown, a regular at the Burns Tavern in Leslie, Fife. Stuartie died recently of an asbestos related cancer. He will be sorely missed for his cheerfulness and his voice. He sang a wonderful rendering of one of my favourites, Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon, by Robert Burns. I'm afraid I do not know the author of the tribute.

I have added a link to CancerSavvy where you will find podcasts by Cheryl Currier. The site is great and I did spend time listening to Cheryle. I was really pleased to note that like myself and others I know, Cheryle considers that  experiencing cancer not only changes your life but can change it for the better. Cheryle gives us her simple survival strategies under CancerSavvy - Episode 1, Simple Strategies. I reall recommend looking and listening and hope that you will pass comments as requested.

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Last updated 25 November 2009