Ah @Tasia the old shifting goal posts switcheroo.
Being told you might need to take a year off is confronting, but it is the reality for some of us. I really struggled financially, but in the end I really didn't have a choice if I was going to go with the recommended treatment. I'd been made redundant a few weeks before my second diagnosis, so I had a payout as back up but wasn't able to get at my income protection insurance because I didn't have a job. In the end I was on the dole. I ended up going back to uni while I was having treatment. Which may sound like a weird thing to do, but I wanted a career change. I could study when I was up to it and it worked out ok.
Follow your gut feeling with the reconstruction decision and don't worry about feeling zombie numb. It's how our brains process this shit.
I turned up for my tit lopping with a huge suitcase full of stuff because I couldn't figure out what I needed to take. It looked like I was going on a cruise. Too bad. Mxx
