The cognitive problems I had fell into 3 categories:
1. When I was treated in 2002 and asked about chemobrain, my onc said "in 25-30 years of treating patients, I can count the number of patients on one hand who were
totally disabled mentally by treatment". Because I could not get any scientific answer to my question, on my own dime I had a standard mental testing done at the time as a baseline. For cost reasons I have not had testing repeated. But my point here is, why hadn't it been similarly investigated medically BEFORE exposing patients to such treatment in the adjuvant setting? If
I could think of it with my puny brain, why hadn't it been done?
2. I had some problems during treatment and in the "recovery" period afterward.
3. I too had to give up working 10 years after completing treatment when such things as multitasking and executive function were involved.
Hopeful posted this article link recently, and although my ability to find an earlier article she posted about the impacts on work doesn't seem to be functional enough for me to find that article, maybe she will see this and post it for us again:
http://her2support.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62037