Leveling Up For The Boss Fight - My cancer journey

Hello friends! Today is the anniversary of starting this blog, and my boss fight with cancer.  I have to admit, that's never a sentence I thought I would ever say. In fact, I never thought that I  would get cancer. I was an active, relatively healthy person (apart from my eating habits at work), and if I was unwell would try my hardest to work through it. Cancer is more common than we think, and with my blog I wanted to document my journey, and hopefully enable people to talk more freely about it. A year ago I received my cancer diagnosis. Which you can read my first blog post by clicking me (it will open in a new window),  shortly after lockdown started in the UK, due to the global covid-19 pandemic. I had been off sick from work for about a week at this point and from then onward, I was shielding for almost 8 months. Lockdown had eased for the summer, but I was still receiving treatment, and didn't get my "all clear" until November.  I returned to work in December,...

Hello friends! It's been a while since I gave an update, and today seemed fitting, as I had my 3 monthly review with the oncologist. More on that later. December I went back to work on a phased return, using my annual leave to plug the financial gap when I'm not working.  This was a combination of building stamina, and getting back into the swing of things.  To start with I was wiped out after 3 hours and the journey there and back.  I would end up having a sleep when I got home to recover.  As the weeks went on, the nap time would reduce to then not napping at all.  However, getting to sleep at night has been a struggle, but that's down to it being SAD season. At the beginning of January I ended up getting the flu.  It was definitely the flu, before anyone asks. My symptoms started and I was knocked out within an hour.  I had at least majority of all symptoms listed on the NHS website.  I was wiped out for almost a week, and was pretty much bed r...