Covid kids and treatment

Hi Cheesewell welcome to the forum. I suppose it depends how much learning  that your daughter would miss if they didnt go to school and what age they are as to how this may impact on them.

If it was me I wouldnt send her and I can appreciate what you are saying and you need to get that chemo started when you and your family are well.    

Thanks for your reply. She is on year 10. Just finishing her mocks. They only have a few weeks left till the end of the year. 

Just don't know what to do for the best. 

Hi,

Feel for you, so very difficult. I am a teacher ( am about to retire). I have finished my treatment chemo/mastectomy/Herceptin target injections and now aromatase inhibitors currently exemestane. You are clearly younger than me but it might help if I told you that the Occupational Health Doctor before the May Half term prevented my request to return to school for the final half term because he used an algorithm that calculated my covid risk as being too high to be returning to a school environment. Schools, especially secondary schools, are risk areas. Part of my vulnerability comes from being overweight and from my age. I am doubly vaccinated but even taking that into account the OH doctor would not agree to my requested desire to return. You, I would think would be as vulnerable if not more so, especially about 4 days after your chemo (at least I was with my treatment) .

On the other hand, I can guess how much your daughter wants to be in school. Leaving the learning aside, it is important for her social wellbeing.  As to the learning aspect yes feedback from mocks is important but can be got around eg would the school let her join the lessons through teams, would the teachers give her more written detailed feed back and is there a possibility that the school provide her with some one to one help in school or via teams. She could be seen by vaccinated teachers or teaching assistants away from the unvaccinated children. Apart from going through the mocks, I doubt academically she will miss that much. Things, even when so much school has been missed, will be winding down as summer approaches and students doing "fun things". At this time of year children's concentration goes and teachers, recognising this, don't tend to push too hard for the last weeks of the summer term. Personally, I would say don't worry too much about her missing out academically (She should be eligible for those catch-up sessions the government keep saying children will get). I would be considering how great her social need is to be in school and weigh this against 'What would she be like if anything happens to you?'.  

Just my opinion and very generalised You know your situation and your daughter's. The chemo nurses I found were good to talk things through with.

I feel quite strongly that they should be considering vaccinating secondary school children especially those with vulnerable parents. If you are happy for your daughter to be vaccinated it might be worth asking about this. 

Good luck to you and your family x