I'm not quite sure where to start this blog post, but then that's not really surprising because I'm not really sure of anything at the moment. I think I mentioned 'chemo brain' before and I can tell you it's a real thing and it's not just a problem during chemotherapy! Some days I just find it so hard to concentrate or focus on one thing. I find my mind drifting off but I have no idea where to. It probably doesn't help that my sleep can sometimes be disturbed, which is quite a common side effect of various cancer treatments added together with stress and grief you can probably understand why I'm not totally compos mentis! It's for this reason that I finally had to take a break from work. At the beginning of radiotherapy I was trying to continue working but it felt like a battle every day just to get myself into the lab never mind concentrate on any kind of work. Eventually I had to admit defeat as I realised forcing myself back when I wasn't...
A blog about life during and after breast cancer treatment, dealing with grief and trying to find my new normal.