[quote=undiagnosed]I was just wondering. I know it's never a good time to get cancer, but why does it have to happen while I'm starting my new graduate school program? It's bad enough I have to go through these horrid treatments, now I have to figure out whether I have to postpone school for another year (which I've already done), or try to slog through it. But, anyways, is it possible to hold down a job or go through school while going through TX? Has anyone done it? What would you guys recommend? I can try and work with my professors to see what they say as well.



[/quote] [quote=undiagnosed]I was just wondering. I know it's never a good time to get cancer, but why does it have to happen while I'm starting my new graduate school program? It's bad enough I have to go through these horrid treatments, now I have to figure out whether I have to postpone school for another year (which I've already done), or try to slog through it. But, anyways, is it possible to hold down a job or go through school while going through TX? Has anyone done it? What would you guys recommend? I can try and work with my professors to see what they say as well.



[/quote] [quote=undiagnosed]I was just wondering. I know it's never a good time to get cancer, but why does it have to happen while I'm starting my new graduate school program? It's bad enough I have to go through these horrid treatments, now I have to figure out whether I have to postpone school for another year (which I've already done), or try to slog through it. But, anyways, is it possible to hold down a job or go through school while going through TX? Has anyone done it? What would you guys recommend? I can try and work with my professors to see what they say as well.



[/quote] I, like you was diagnosed at a really inconvenient time. I was a full time preschool teacher and in a musical ( I do a lot of theater). I worked for about 3 weeks during treatment then one day got really pale and faint and started vomiting and I didn't see my job again for 6 months. I had no energy and was steadily losing the ability to eat normally and then for 5 months after treatment I could only force boost shakes with added fat.
But everyone is different. A phrase, like someone else said, you're going to hear over and over again. I was considered an anomaly. I was the first patient my very experienced oncologist had seen who took so long to recover. I had really awful Micositis and was bed ridden. Towards the end before I inadvertently found out I didn't need to hold the magic mouth wash in my mouth all day by a small accidental overdose on pain meds (I was on so many and so high in the sky I couldn't remember if I had taken them or not) I looked like an anorexia patient.
But I've spoken to people who worked right thru the whole thing.
I'm still recovering a year later. I can eat way more normally than I could in the beginning but they're are still those foods I take a risk on and injure my tongue or my mouth feels like I coated it in gasoline and lit a match.
My personal advice would be to just put everything on hold until you're into the treatment for a while and know what you have to work with.
When I wasn't going mental I utilized my time to do thing my full time job and theater wouldn't allow me to do.