Bloody Surgery Recovery.

My continuing Adventures with Breast Cancer.

Fuck Cancer.

Like all the way off.

It sucks.

I have had surgery before. I have had to rest to recover before, but this feels different. Why?

I just got the call that I have a radiotherapy oncology appointment in a month. Not a start date, a first appointment to see the doctor date. I still don’t know when my treatment will start, how long it will be for or how much it will disrupt my life and my work. Right now I am still at home. I am at that point where I am starting to feel better which only makes the deficits in my recovery more noticeable. The particularly fun part of this hormone receptive cancer in a woman who was on HRT and now isn’t is that it is impossible to know what symptoms are caused by what. Is it my normal hangover from anesthesia or is it my body working overtime to heal the massive internal surgery wounds? Or for bonus symptoms, is it menopause? My Brain is foggy and I get tired very easily. If I overdo it the pain in the surgery areas let me know about it. Not straight away mind you, a little while later, making sure that I can always overdo it a little so I can pay the price later.

My energy levels are sporadic, I can do a few things and then suddenly my battery is empty, meaning…