While I am getting stronger, neuropathy in my hands and feet continues to be bothersome. My hair is growing back (yeah!) everywhere. My nails are still baby fine and continue to shred and catch on everything.
I am now off hormone replacement therapy and experiencing most of the symptoms of menopause - a double whammy - I don't know if I'm coming or going, or just stuck in a funk.

I am still unemployed and not strong enough to look for work, maybe part time IF I can find work. That has changed for the worse. I am now thousands of dollars in debt. At this time I am fearful of many things in life. While I am blessed to be alive, I can't AFFORD to live. I am not alone is this, I know. I know what it is to face death - has this made me stronger? I don't know - time will tell. My confidence is low.

My hair is growing back. I am in bloom in that way. My friends that have been by my side once diagnosed are still here. The others have fallen by the wayside and though that was painful, it was real and helps me to sift and sort through what is real and present in my life.
My energy is coming back.

Financially - I'm thousands of dollars in debt.
I have no job prospects.
Physically - neuropathy continues in my hands and feet preventing me from returning to the work I had once done, i.e. keyboarding as part of being a biller or claims rep/customer service rep.
Emotionally - since getting off estrogen (in late Dec. 2009) I am extremely emotional and cry easily. How much of that is hormones and how much is all the other stressors in my life as well as the toxins exiting my body?
Spiritually - I try to put my faith in a higher power and to take one day at a time - it is really hard.

Fatigue for one. Thinking about the real possibility of dying. Accessing financial resources, some of which I have found (thankfully). Also the non-support of those I could swear would have been there for me. An all too common story so I hear from others.

I contact 1 of 2 close friends; attend cancer support group weekly; or I isolate.

Yes. To be of service to others going through cancer and/or in remission. Though I do volunteer I need to support myself financially, thus would love a profession helping cancer survivors that pays.

I am unemployed. I will become homeless in the next 2 or 3 months if employment or perhaps Social Security Disability benefits become unavailable. I've been denied once already by SSDI. I don't qualify for regular medicaid as I don't have a specific cancer. It's pretty scary.

Same thing, looking for work again, thousands of dollars in debt.

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Please reach out to others, even if all you do is cry. Isolating (on occasion OK) is not the answer as you will get in your own way very quickly. Find a support group - it's not all about sadness and fear - there is laughter as well. Press your doctor if your questions are not being answered to your understanding. It IS your life. Watch movies, sit in the sun, sit and do nothing.

Hot baths, medication, having someone rub my back or feet, prayer, throw something (not at anyone though)!

Going through the chemotherapy is easy compared to getting on with the business of living. Reach out to others and let others help you.