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...
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Hey Katherine,
As all the other lovely ladies have said, like everything while navigating through this, it's whatever you feel you should be doing.
Personally I am 45 have 4 teenage daughters living at home a part time job and a home business. My personal goal was to come out of this mess looking and feeling the same as before BC. Basically to keep my life as normal as possible.
We were really busy as a family at that time too with my twin daughters 18th birthday 3 days after my diagnoses, sons 21st 2 days before surgery, a formal , a graduation, christmas and another milestone birthday. I didn't know how I was going to get through it but we ended up having a fantastic time at all the events. There was a no BC talk ban put on at all those times by myself.
I took two months off work after surgery and did what I could on the farm business. I found whilst fixing fences, playing with horses etc a lot of the time I could just forget what was going on.
I went back to work two days a week after my first round of chemo. I used the cold cap so kept my hair, nobody that I didn't want to know knew what was going on. I was just me at work. Round 4 of the AC knocked me around for about 10 days but I was able to work all through the 12 weekly doses of paclitaxel. That, however, made me super sensitive to sunlight so working outside was a no go, so I decided to renovate my dining room instead.
Having projects along the way really helped me and the exercise sanding walls, painting etc strengthened my arm back to normal, I also found while I was busy I didn't get tired which I though was a bit weird but it worked.
I finished radiation about two weeks ago and am back on track just doing what I've always done but taking a little more time than I once would have appreciating the small things. I am not really the sort of person to make drastic changes but I do find myself saying yes to oportunities and invitations a lot more than before.
All the best
xoxoxo
As all the other lovely ladies have said, like everything while navigating through this, it's whatever you feel you should be doing.
Personally I am 45 have 4 teenage daughters living at home a part time job and a home business. My personal goal was to come out of this mess looking and feeling the same as before BC. Basically to keep my life as normal as possible.
We were really busy as a family at that time too with my twin daughters 18th birthday 3 days after my diagnoses, sons 21st 2 days before surgery, a formal , a graduation, christmas and another milestone birthday. I didn't know how I was going to get through it but we ended up having a fantastic time at all the events. There was a no BC talk ban put on at all those times by myself.
I took two months off work after surgery and did what I could on the farm business. I found whilst fixing fences, playing with horses etc a lot of the time I could just forget what was going on.
I went back to work two days a week after my first round of chemo. I used the cold cap so kept my hair, nobody that I didn't want to know knew what was going on. I was just me at work. Round 4 of the AC knocked me around for about 10 days but I was able to work all through the 12 weekly doses of paclitaxel. That, however, made me super sensitive to sunlight so working outside was a no go, so I decided to renovate my dining room instead.
Having projects along the way really helped me and the exercise sanding walls, painting etc strengthened my arm back to normal, I also found while I was busy I didn't get tired which I though was a bit weird but it worked.
I finished radiation about two weeks ago and am back on track just doing what I've always done but taking a little more time than I once would have appreciating the small things. I am not really the sort of person to make drastic changes but I do find myself saying yes to oportunities and invitations a lot more than before.
All the best
xoxoxo