Angie,

I was a Chief Financial Officer and I worked up to the 7th week of 9 weeks of radiation and 3 rounds of chemo 3 weeks apart. I had a lot of accounting and computer work plus I was directing a consultant on setting up some product costing for a process manufacturer. Our company processed a million pounds of catfish a week! I lost touch with reality because of the "chemo brain" as the nurse called it just between the second and third round of chemo. I did manage to close the books, review financials and have daily conference calls with the Board of Directors until about the end of treatment, Oct 8 and I went in to work after two weeks, Oct 22. I worked about 400 miles from home so I spent the entire week in a hotel and a lake front house of one of the owners. I worked for about 8 weeks and the owners started fighting with each other and it looked like the company was going under so I took disability January 11. Initially I drove the 400 miles the first couple of weeks so I could take an inhalation therapy machine, a cooler full of TPN bags for IV feeding and enough fluids to give myself 2-3 liters per day. I did it mainly because they were grumbling about cutting my pay in half and I needed the money to pay the $10,000 in medical bills.

It can be done but you have to have the resolve to make it happen and I personally don't think it was good to have to push that hard so soon.

Ed