I have gone back to my 2-day a week job (and I do quite a bit of voluntary work the other days) after 10 months off for chemo last year. I work in a small team, two colleagues are very good friends and one of the admin staff was diagnosed with bc just after me. We are all women and it’s a healthcare environment. I tend to tell my two closest colleaguse when there’s news and they pass it around for me. Everyone has been really supportive, but don’t bother me with lots of questions. Not sure how aware the others are of the implications…
I waver between thinking i want to pack it all in as I have limited time left and what am i doing going to work of a morning!, and thinking that i may have quite a few years to go and work keeps some sort of normality to life, and structure to my week.
I agree work helps you forget about cancer for some of the time.
love Jacquie