The last illusion of control dissolves

Whoa. Big whoa. Who is the lecturer to tell you you won't cope with one unit? How does she know?

perhaps call her back and say you at least want to give it a go.

i don't know how long your chemo treatment runs for, but mine was for four months.

I am not superwoman. But I run a small business. And I had to fight for it to survive as much as I had to fight for me to survive after diagnosis.

As soon as I awoke from surgery for a mastectomy I asked for my phone so I could check in with staff n a project going ahead that day without me. 

A week week later I was back on the job and put in a 20 hour day with my clients none the wiser. and I actually felt great.

I organised my chemo to happen on Friday so I could have a long weekend and be back at work tuesday.

The morning after my first chemo I was swimming laps in an ocean pool.

The fatigue of chemo is cumulative so it does start to get wearing as the months go on but I worked a full time job x 5 (the joys of small business) through the whole treatment period.

Diagnosis was three and a half years ago. I haven't stopped since.

I'm not going to lie to you. There's all sorts of challenges and fears and doubts you'll probably wrestle with in the months to come, but it's doable, and if going to uni is this important to you how dare someone say you can't try?

Taking a year off would have been lovely in some ways. But it just wasn't an option for me.

I would have ended up bankrupt, unemployed as well as one boobed and hairless! ??????

you do what feels right for you.  If it is too hard you drop out. Thousands have before you for much less honourable reasons.

thinking of you.