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lag Member Posts: 209
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Returning to work
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  • lag
    lag Member Posts: 209
    edited April 2008

    Hi does or did anyone return to a job after surgery and treatment that required heavy lifting and strenuous work? If so, how did you do it?

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited April 2008

    My job requires mental energy, not physical, Lag.  I'm sure someone will be along who does have a physical job who can give you more insight.

    Has your doctor released you back to work to resume full duties?  If you're not physically able, will he release you to work but with restrictions with regard to how heavy you can lift, et cetera?

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  • lag
    lag Member Posts: 209
    edited April 2008

    goodmorning gsg

      No, my doctor has not released me back to full duties, I'm still off of work at the present time, he will eventually release me back to work with restrictions on weight limits but I already know that when (if) I get back the people at my work will not continue to follow doc orders-that i exactly why I am where I am at right now and going through surgery again, because after my first surgery 4 years ago upon my return to work they followed docs orders for about 5 minutes-out the door things went and I needed my job as I was a single mother raising four kids-recently decided to correct what was wrong and am being ridiculed by co-workers and people in town because I am NOT at work.

    Im getting so numb to all their ways-but it sucks as I most certainly did nothing to deserve their actions-ya know?

    Well too bad for them it is supposed to be very nice out today and I am not the one stuck in the store--ha ha  ha

    lag

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2008

    lag ....  I had a mast and work in an office.  It's busy work, lots of walking around on the showroom (I am a finance mgr at an RV dealer) but no heavy lifting, no driving for work (just the commute) and a lot of stress.  I only was off for 6 weeks and returned to work.  Even during chemo I worked. But that's what I had to do ... if I had another income (husband), I would have liked to have taken more time to be at home and rest up.  Because it was physically/stressful/emotionally demanding to do this (35 mile drive to and from work on top of the job) the days after chemo, it caused me to probably be more emotional and stressed out than normal!!  LOL

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