Day 50

Hi Annie, it's a varying journey for each of us, but I did manage to keep working through my chemo on slightly flexi hours, I'd time my chemo to fly up the night before and have chemo the next morning, fly home Friday night and recover over the weekend...worked well most of the time.

Hair loss was hard, I had long hair and we cut it short before the first chemo, it was all gone by the next chemo but I just made sure I bought a new hat every trip for treatment...so I had some fab styles and colours to wear to work and around the place.  It grows back.

Nausea, they have some really good drugs to help with this now...and try to have some fav foods on hand when you are home so you don't have to wait for cooking, you'll have changed your mind by the time it's ready otherwise.

I also had a tissue expander, I ended up having my other breast reduced and lifted to match my new smaller reconstructed one...took nearly 2 years because of the unexpected chemo & rads after the immediate recon but they are pretty well matched now and I've got the tattoo nipple too:)

There are lots of studies going on in regards to exercise during treatment and they are all positive so hopefully you can still get some gym in, but if not not a worry you catch up later.

Life after treatment, well I am now 10 years from diagnosis, I am different but really perhaps 10 years on I would have been anyway...I think I'm better different and I really enjoy so many things others take for granted...little things make me smile and feel good...like floating in the ocean on a summer's day ...

All the best x Sharon