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Halfway through treatment
Hi all I finally have the courage to contribute here after skirting around the edges for the last few weeks. In late July I felt a thickened like a small swollen area in my right breast. I kne...
Hey SJ. It really is the pits. I've been off work for just over a year having treatment for a recurrence. Prior to that I'd been in a busy job for 15 years--i was made redundant during a restructure a month before my (re) diagnosis.
I've managed to do a double advanced diploma while I've been sick which, though exhausting, helped keep me sane. Sort of. At one point I resorted to knitting beanies. I can't knit for shit and the majority would only have fitted Jabba the Hutt or mini me. A complete waste of time as were dozens of crosswords and hundreds of novels. I've avoided the perils of daytime tv, thank god, but that's probably because I hang out on line reading newspapers.
Keep plodding. Which is incredibly frustrating when you have always been more a hare than a tortoise. Best of luck with the rest of the chemo. Marg x
I've managed to do a double advanced diploma while I've been sick which, though exhausting, helped keep me sane. Sort of. At one point I resorted to knitting beanies. I can't knit for shit and the majority would only have fitted Jabba the Hutt or mini me. A complete waste of time as were dozens of crosswords and hundreds of novels. I've avoided the perils of daytime tv, thank god, but that's probably because I hang out on line reading newspapers.
Keep plodding. Which is incredibly frustrating when you have always been more a hare than a tortoise. Best of luck with the rest of the chemo. Marg x