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Short term sick leave around chemo

Styles100
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Hi there,

I’ve already had 6 cycles of EC chemo and now on chemo tablets and back to working 34 hours a week.

I may need to start IV chemo again and am wondering if anyone has experience of having ‘pre-planned’ sick leave around each chemo session? I was off work for 7 months last time but I’m hoping to be well enough with 5-7 days of each session to work again (clerical work from home).

Anyone been able to do something like this?

Thanks

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    Hi Styles,

    I hope you're coping OK with treatment and going back to work.  I know it can be tough.

    I always had my chemo for breast cancer on a Tuesday every three weeks so I was self-reporting sick absence on my employer's HR system for Tuesday-Friday and then back to work on Monday working from home.  It worked well for me.  I found that I could do work that was very familiar to me, but I couldn't do any cognitively demanding tasks, like learn complex new information or multitask.  Saying that, my brain never went back to what it could do before the cancer treatment.  

    I hope that helps!x

  • Offline in reply to ChrisPMK

    Thank you so much - that is very helpful!

    My chemo was on a Wednesday before so that could work.

    x

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