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Contemplating the future!
Hello Lovelies, im thinking about work and life after this horrible nightmare that is Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy and wanted to know what everyone did post treatment. did you go...
I LOVE my job. I love the people, the stimulation, the challenges. I tried working through chemo and radiation but it was a bit of a disaster as I was sooooo tired and I ended up taking 5 months off work. I went back three days a week in January (11 months after chemo and 6 weeks after Herceptin finished) but it wasn't really until I was strong enough to go full time in April that I began to feel like I was truly recovering. Still, it took time for me to ease back into it and get my head in the game and many times I thought I'd never get there. Since, then I have been promoted and am back in charge of a fast moving high profile project. Be patient with yourself. It might be a struggle, but hang in there. Even on my worse days now I am so glad I made it back full time. Being back at work helps me to forget that I am a cancer patient.