Postby MadMed » Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:01 pm
I worked right through chemo and am working through radiation. I actually switched jobs for better benefits between chemo and radiation!
I did disclose to both managers. Once you disclose you become protected under ADA, so while I understand not wanting to disclose but there are benefits to doing it too. The job was ok with me taking 2 days for treatment every 2 weeks. It was a large tech company and i had a really nice manager.
Now working was not easy during chemo. Working from home and having a very understanding manager was great. I find that with Radiation, so far, it's a lot easier. With chemo i was down for a couple of days.
Fortunately, my treatment was every other Thursday which made is easy, Saturday and Sunday allowed me to start the week somewhat ok and get better from there.
For surgery, i don't think i'll work, others can share how practical that would be, i'll be interested since I have not gone through that yet. Also, my DX is RC, i imagine that for CC it's different, at least the order is not the same.
I did chemo, then radiation and surgery will be next with three months between CRT and surgery.
52M DX: RC lower rectum, guessing now 2cm from AV 4/27/2021
T3N0M0 adenocarcinoma with signet ring cell features
Tumor size 30mm
Tumor grade: G3
Baseline CEA 1.0
MSI status: MSS pMMR
Started Folfox 5/12/2021
Switched to FOLFIRINOX from session 2. 8 rounds total.
CT+MRI tumor contained shrunk 80%, no spread to other organs.
CRT started xeloda + 28 days Radiation 9/27-11/04
NED as of 4/06 CT/MRI/sigmoidoscopy
On W&W 04/06/2022