Hi Graywolf, I don't know much about the seriousness of your cancer and the intensity of the treatment. For me a stage 4 cancer patient being treated with radiation and chemotherapy concurrently managed to resume my full time job six months post treatment. Before that I have thought of an early retirement but that decision didn't make me feel any better and led me to depression. What I thought I could never do at that time can be done today. So things can certainly turn better. Take care.

Karen stage 4 tonsil cancer diagnosed in 9/01.