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rose
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7 years ago

Newbie - and finding it hard to go back to work

Hi everyone First post and I'm glad to be here. I was diagnosed 2 months ago, had surgery a month ago, and am starting radiotherapy in January. I've been lucky as my cancer was caught very early. A...
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primek
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7 years ago
With my Dr we devised a return to work  plan. I started back at half hours. If I felt overwhelmed by workloads I talked to my boss. My memory was suffering and i got stressed much more easily. I took 6 months to get back to full time. I utilised our hospital Cancer Care coordinator to talk to my boss about the physical and psychological impact of breast cancer as I was too teary to manage that.