Macmillan Cancer Support - Not Alone 

Same here, exactly the same here...stay strong, your not alone

Hi @PlagClawsOut, we are trying very hard to be there for as many people as possible affected by cancer. I'm sorry to hear about your Nana, and I'll leave our Breast Cancer information and support pages here in case she'd like to take a read: www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/breast-cancer. If you would like more information or support, or just to chat to someone, our Macmillan Support Line is open from 9am-8pm Monday to Friday on 0808 808 00 00. Please feel freeto give them a call if you'd like to. Take care, Becky

Dear Pilgrim - I'm very sorry to hear about your experiences. You needed support and could not get it - that should never have happened. We take feedback like this very seriously and try to use it to make sure that we do better in future. Would it be possible for you to send me some more details about what happened - when this took place, who you emailed etc? Just send any details you can to community@macmillan.org.uk, I'd be very grateful. Thank you and best wishes - Carol

Macmillan Cancer Support I don't have the energy to write anything more than copy you in on the email I just sent to Macmillan Cancer Support. My brother Jeremy Lives in Reading is 52 years old and suffers with several cancers, Lung, Spinal and Bone, the lung cancer is terminal. He can barely walk and, despite the large daily dose of morphine, is in constant pain from the spinal cancer which is the size of a small football and eating into the bone marrow of his femur and is the cause presumably of his bone cancer. He has been told by his doctors he has about six months to live. Jeremy has been made homeless and is currently in a disgraceful B&B, in which Reading housing placed him, for which he is expected to pay nearly £900.00 per month. He can't cook in his room, he can't make a cup of tea in his room, he can't have visitors in his room, he can't smoke or drink alcohol in his room. What he can do is live on expensive takeaways and sit and muse on his impending death in his room. Reading Housing have banded him "F" the lowest priority banding possible and are processing his application. He might rise up the banding a little if his application to be accepted as homeless is accepted. Reading housing have just told him that he is in arrears and is now being dealt with by a debt collection agency. He may even be evicted from the B&B. This is despite entering into an agreement with Reading Council to split the cost of the extortionate rent. They claim to have no record of this agreement. I live hundred of miles away and have a young family of my own in a small home. His mother lives hundreds of miles away and lives in a tiny one bedroomed flat. I am at my wits end. I have spoken to G P’s, Housing officers, Macmillan nurses, Sue Ryder nurses, Social Services and nobody can tell me why they can't help my brother from ending his life destitute, homeless and without adequate social care. I am bombarded by advertisements on TV and in the newspapers telling me how much our society cares for people in Jeremy's position and how there are people there to 'pick him up when he falls' and support him through his nightmare but so far nobody has stepped up. Please, please, let me know what it is that I need to do to try to give my brother some vestige of dignity and self worth in his final weeks of life. Respite care, sheltered accommodation, hospice care, anything. Thank you Graham Coulson

Graham Coulson That's a horror story, I can't belive your brother is being treated like that, so sorry. Just goes to prove, macmillans wants people to donate money but gives nothing in return.

My brother died in hospital on Saturday 11th. To my knowlwdge he hadn't had a visit from Macmillan or Sue Ryder in months.

Graham Coulson very sorry to hear that. It's such a sad and horrible story, macmillan's don't give a shit.