Chemo Brain. I've succumbed.
I'm so disappointed. I've had to defer from my studies. Having plowed through a double advanced dip in management and HR while I was in treatment I assumed, wrongly, that I could continue and do the ...
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Perfect description "The whole business of recovery eclipses treatment" - that's what those medical students need to understand. I was offered chemo with only 3% and I said hmm, what else is on offer? I was told if he had said closer to 8 or 9% he would've pushed me. My breast surgeon had said to me prior to seeing the oncologist that he couldn't see any benefit in putting me through chemo so I kept that thought as I went to see the Onc. Having said that my treatment process has been extremely slow, sending me into fatigue mode and feeling like I'm dragging the chain, only just finished treatment and I'm now at 7 years and 8 months to go on tamoxifen (unless they change it). My cancer was hormone positive hence the hormones are playing up and the endometrium lining is thickening more than they would like, under a Gynaecology Onc (never knew there was such a thing) so like a lot of others I'm in the "this BC keeps giving" category.Zoffiel said:The whole business of recovery eclipses treatment. You know, there have been a few ladies lately who have asked for advice about undergoing chemo when the stats don't seem very convincing. I always feel like screaming RUN AWAY! Of course, we shouldn't do that, but I sure as shit wish I'd taken my own personal council.
Geez don't we learn a lot of terminology and names of specialists that we had no need for and no idea how to spell their titles prior to all this. Give me back the days of the occasional Panadol!