We learned that various legal proceedings have determined that cancer, itself, is not a disabling condition, but chemotherapy is disabling. Don't we know it!

It was clear that Corinne wouldn't be able to do her strenuous job of cooking during chemotherapy. Linda was unable to work during her treatments even though she was a legal secretary: far less physically taxing. We do know some people who work through chemo, though. I'm not sure how they do it. Everyone who has been through this knows about "chemo brain," a side effect that impairs short-term memory and sometimes cripples the ability to process information.

It is frightening – and humiliating – to lose your ability to think and to remember. Especially if you have learned to depend on your thinking ability to get along in life.
One thing that makes all of this bearable is that the knowledge that the condition will go away after the chemo treatments stop… at the same time the hair comes back.

And, sometimes, it's really funny.