Julesx2's blog

Hi Have read on this site and others about the many side effects that Tamoxifen can cause. I have been quite lucky with this drug I think and have not had many effects. However I am struggling to cope with a problem back and am now beginning to wonder if this drug may in some way be contributing towards it. I have always had bother with my lower back but a month or so after starting Tamoxifen it flared up and I have…

Am off to OH this morning to discuss a phased return to work again. Tried before the summer hols to get back but after being back for a few days came down with a bug wich floored me- I guess this has knocked my confidence. Still trying to be positive but some days its hard as I feel I will never get back to the way I was before my diagnosis. Ive come through the worst ( I hope ) so why is everything so difficult now?…

Hi Returned to work part time 3 weeks ago. Unfortunatly caught a tummy bug and was off Mon and Tuesday this week. Monday was to have been my first full day back, Tuesday I was just meant to be working in the morning. Said I would do full time next week as its the last week before the school holidays- Im a nursery nurse. I love my job and have missed it for the last year. Did a full day yesterday and today and am exhausted…

Today was another milestone in my journey. After almost a years absence from work I finally returned today and am phasing back in to the daily routine over the next few weeks. What a welcome I got, from my work colleagues, from the children and from their parents (I am a nursery nurse) it was better than any medicine! For the last year my life has been taken up with treatments, hospital appointments and the turmoil of…

Eleven days ago I was due my last chemo and all was going well till the day before when wham I came down with an infection- the third.I ve spent the last 11 days in hospital being pumped full of anitibiotics, sounds like a disaster but the good news is my oncologist decided first to remove my Hickman line which this time tests proved was infected and secondly not to give me the last dose of my chemo. She felt that on…