Can I carry a heavy things after my mastectomy without reconstruction?

Hi, first of all I hope your recovery is going well and your ongoing treatment is manageable. 

Please take care and take all the time you need to recover before going back to work. Your medical team will be able to give you personalised advice about what is right for you. 

This is my second go at posting a reply, not sure what happened to the first one! I am a SENCO with responsibility for managing situations like you described in school. I was a bit worried to read you are taking the weight of the child in the toilet process as the hoist should be doing that for you. It is still a physically demanding task but shouldn't involve weight bearing but more manoeuvring. When it is time to go back to school please ask for a return to work interview and risk assessment to be done so that arrangements are out in place to make this work for you. Schools have to provide manual handling training for people doing this and your trainer should be able to personalise the advice for your situation. I know that staff working with children will put the child's needs first but this is a time to think of your needs too. You absolutely should be able to go back to school in your job and your legal rights in that regards are protected. 

I have had the same surgery as you and I am being given physio to help me get flexibility and strength back so that might be worth looking into too.

I hope all goes well for you and your school are as supportive as they should be when it is time for you to return. 

Thank you darling for your advice, I really appreciate it.