Hi Ladies,
Although I now rarely post on here I still regularly browse the forums and know how vital and helpful they are to us all.
I was dx March 2005 and finished treatment end July 2005, now on Arimidex along with the flushes and sleepless nights that so many of us know and love and have never recovered my previous energy levels yet :).
Recently had my 6 month check and all appears OK but am currently waiting for bone scan as I have had some problems with back, hip and leg pain lately on same side as original tumour and also have suffered for last few weeks with severe oral thrush, nothing my GP has prescribed has managed to shift it, mentioned it to Onc at checkup but he seemed to feel it was not an issue.
I returned back to work in October 2005 full time and worked 3 days in office and 2 days from home as I have a 1 hour drive each way daily to get to work. Luckily, I am able to work from home as I work in IT and have secure link into our works network and my PC at work, so it is like sitting at my desk in office except that I am sitting at my desk at home.
After being back at work for 6 months, my boss asked me to start working in office for more days so we agreed that I would work in office 4 days per week and work from home 1 day per week as it would at least give me a break from the 2 hour drive mid week and thereby help a little with the tiredness.
I have been working on the basis of 4 days in office and 1 day from home for just over 18 months now, however following my latest 6 month check up, my boss asked how it had gone so I told him that nothing had been found but I was being booked for bone scan to check out the bone pain I have been suffering. He then very kindly advised me that as I had now been given a clean bill of health [his exact words], I needed to give him a date when I would return to the office 5 days per week as this now had to be done due to my good health.
Now working from home 1 day per week might not seem a big deal but it does allow me to get up at 07:30 instead of 06:30, it does save me a 1 hour drive to the office and 1 hour drive home, it is more relaxing and I am able to do everything from home for that day that I would if I was in the office .
In fact it has a certain advantage also handle computer programming as well as other IT areas and that day gives me the opportunity to concentrate on coding away from the normal constant interruptions that I would get in the office. I do genuinely work for that full day at home [and often longer] and can prove that I do so I am not skiving.
I wonder if any of you ladies have ever been in a similar situation and how you handled it, I also wonder if my boss can insist on my working in the office 5 days rather than allow me to continue working the 1 day from home, I have no idea of the legal position in this situation as obviously it would never have arisen if I had not been dx with BC in first place.
Any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Rgrds/Siggy