BACK TO WORK - fitness campaign and sensory awareness
In two weeks (minus a day), I shall be returning to work....... this is with very mixed feelings! I shall have been off work on long-term sick leave for six months, and my pay will have dropped to half this week. I have thought about retirement - but I had always given myself the age of 65 as my time to go - and I don't want to be defined by having cancer, so I shall go when I plan to, rather than because of having had cancer. I'm cutting my hours down - and shall be working 25 hours a week - the long term plan is for 2 days one week and three the next - but this is open to alteration and adaptation, and I'm lucky that our NHS will allow me to use up annual leave in a phased return..... In the run up to this momentous date, I had determined to try to get work-ready, fitness wise. I've put on loads of weight (sitting around on one's backside eating cakes and chocolate contributes enormously to this). We had planned to do the Marsden March in March, but as m...