Nurse

I worked as a RN for about 40 years prior to not working, due to side effects of my metastatic breast cancer of a PE and TIA. I would love to work, but fatigue won't allow for my 7-on, 7-off, on-call schedule as a hospice nurse. I was diagnosed in 2015 de novo with bone mets to one site right iliac crest and have been NEAD since March 2016.

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If I could supplement my SSD with some type of nursing and have it not affect my benefits it would allow for a better living situation. It has been difficult during the pandemic; where others are getting extra allowances, those of us on SSD with a terminal disease get no assistance. For a nurse who worked about 40 years and put into the system, it has now failed me.

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The side effects of the treatment of ABC (metastatic breast cancer) have caused so much change in my physical, emotional, social and economic health and there isn't anything I can do about it.