Chemo brain

Thank goodness for this forum.  I am sitting here struggling to get through my preparation work for next week's lessons. Of course it is all more complicated because I need to repurpose my normal lesson material into online lessons.  I am just about to jump up and down (if I could actually do that at this point in time) because I am just so slow and I think I have done something and I have not.  I am making copious notes on my preparation sheets and ticking things off just to try and reduce my stress. Now that I have read the above posts I realise that it is still chemo brain (five months after finishing) plus tamoxifen brain (just started last Thursday) combined. It makes me feel a lot better but my colleagues just don't understand and I don't really want to tell them, I am over them looking at me sadly....poor Kay - just not the person she was - no I am better than before with greater depth and certainly better understanding.  I am missing a breast not missing a brain! Thank goodness the deputy principal has had breast cancer and a little group of us BCs laugh at these strange happenings but gosh they can cause emotional distress. I was Head of Department but someone else is doing that job til I am back full time next term. She is young, ambitious and looking at me as if I am from another planet.  I just need to keep on adapting and finding strategies that help keep me productive without the stress of worrying that I have forgotten something.....