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Finish Line
Ok so what do I do, go back to work or just enjoy this period of recuperation of energy and mending my body from BC? I have income protection so I don’t financially have to return but I do have to fill out forms to prove why I cannot start work. It’s a hard one. What do I do? I feel a cheat. Am I? Or is it the most sensible thing to do and just recover and go back to work in the new year?
I have over the long haul of last 11 months having a broken humerous and then BC with 3 operations and 5 months of chemo and 25 daily zappings of radiation two infections and still doing herceptin every 3 weeks. I have lost both breasts and my hair, my confidence and concentration.
Most days I feel good but every 2 days of doing normal stuff I just collapse in a heap on the 3rd and if I get out of bed all I am capable of doing is watching DVD’s but have no concentration what so ever. Making a choice and then the huge job of putting the DVD into the machine is sometimes too much so I just watch telly or stare into space. For a few days after my herceptin I will spend at least one day in tears. I have now identified with it’s the “herceptin” and have two days of very bad bone aches. Extreme hot flushes and just in general very off colour.
I am at high risk for reoccurrence
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated
Hope everyone is travelling well and here comes “summer”
Sarah
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will the income protection cover you if you do a gradual return to work. you do lose work conditioning as well as what you have been through. if you could start doing 1 or 2 days per week and gradually build up to full time work might ease you in. your doctors will be guided by how you feel.
You are not cheating the system - I get tired from being at work.
Marg xx
I have just returned to work this week it was hard but for me it was time to try to go back. It is your decision when you go back listen to your body and your head only you know when it is right. As women we always put everyone else first and us last, this whole experience has shown me that I need to put myself first more., so even though I have returned to work. if I wake up and dont feel up to going then I will not be going, so try and relax and dont feel guilty, you have nothing to feel guilty about, you are important keep smiling and take carex
