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Laurie,
Radiation will be a breeze in comparison to chemo. Fatigue will become an issue just due to the fact that you must go every day. My radiation oncologist gave me aloe vera cream to use starting day one. Make sure you use cream everyday but not right before treatment. My last five treatments were boosts and that's when I developed some real soreness in the area. I then got a prescription cream from radiation oncologist and it cleared it up in a few days. About a week after I was finished you couldn't even tell what side of the chest had been radiated. You'll do fine. Just listen to you body and rest when you need to.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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