 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Results will take a week to come back. Try to stay busy to keep your mind off worrying.
You will learn that with cancer, every person is different. Everyone responds in their own way to treatments, medications, etc. Some of us have worked right thru radiation while others have been home from work before we even started. Some people have surgery and will miss 2 weeks of work while others need 3 months or even more for extensive surgeries. You may be fine with having 12 weeks off from work. Try not to get ahead of yourself with this, take it one step at a time and when you get your results back and have a treatment plan in place then its time to plan for taking time off from work. You are young and should have an easier time of it than someone say in their 60s.
Right now, make the most of every single day. Eat like crazy, go out and have fun with your family. You do not even know if you have anything serious yet so dont let cancer win by keeping you down. Take some pain meds and think positive. If anyone asks what they can do to help you write their name and number down in a book and tell them you will let them know when the time comes. If that time does come and you need a hand dont be afraid to call every single person who offered to help.
Hoping its not cancer! Good luck!!!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
