Hi Angiebobs, I'm sorry to hear that you are still struggling with these symptoms. I finished my treatment in June 2014, am about the same age as you and can relate to many of the symptoms you have mentioned. I forget words, appointments, names (well just about everything really) am not as quick thinking and get tired very easily. The conclusion I have come to is that these are mostly menapausal symptoms exasperated by the chemotherapy and now the tamoxifen. Many of my non BC friends are also going through the menapause too and quite frankly we're all as batty as each other forgetting all sorts. As for work, I took voluntary redundancy last year and am really glad I did. I feel like I would be a liability if I tried to do the job I had before, I don't trust myself to think clearly and quickly. Some of my BC friends also feel the same. The lack of brain function has knocked our confidence in the work environment. Local government pensions can be taken early or on the grounds of ill health but I don't know the process for this. I attended the BCC moving forward course last year and a finance person from BCC (I think) gave a chat on what benefits etc we might be entitled too - I'm sorry I can't remember exactly but if you contact BCC directly they would be able to put you in touch with someone to help. Big hugs BB
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