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@Joannie It truly does. My sister ran away from her first one. I was with her and a nurse was unpleasant and it was enough to make her pull out the canula and run away (literally; we didn't see her for several days, no one knew where she was). I spent the next few hours dealing with the hospital's complaints people. Outrageous that they couldn't be kinder to someone in such a fragile state as most of us are on the first chemo.0
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If you feel like going to work today Jenny, go for it, even if it's just a couple of hours. It's so much better, in many ways, to keep a little bit of normality in your life. I used to joke during my first experience with chemo that decades of hangovers were excellent training when it came to going to work feeling less than optimal. I think I only missed 8 days, sometimes it can work out like that.
If you can, you can. If not, don't.
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For me it was doing laundry (there's always laundry here!). My husband would get cross watching me struggle to do it but I insisted on all but the days when I couldn't get up and down the stairs, and until my hands gave up the ghost. It was a sense of achievement and normalcy. That and walking every day helped a lot during chemotherapy.0
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Its nice to be able to do what you can to "feel normal" when everything around you and happening to you is as far from normal as possible.0
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I woke up feeling pretty ordinary this morning so slept for most of the day. Trying not to worry about the tiny pay I will get next week
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If you can sleep through it, that's brilliant - believe me, better than being awake and feeling lousy. You'll probably have a couple of days that are bad, a few that are pretty ordinary and then a couple of weeks where you're feeling better (just be aware that the good weeks are also when your immune system is pretty shot).1
