Radiation, BLAHHH

Tomorrow I go to start RADIATION.  I am not so excited about this.  I hope that I don't glow at night.  I have been feeling so great.  I have been doing my reconstruction in Salt Lake City, every week.  It has been a lot of traveling but I feel better, like a normal person.  Tomorrow brings a lot of unexpected things.  I don't know what to expect from the radiation.  Will I feel tired?  Will I feel sick?  Will I hurt?  It is a lot of the unknown.  I think I will get some more tattoos (from the dr)...why can't they just tat me with a pink ribbon while they are at it.  I really like some that I have seen.

This is the information I found on radiation therapy...

Radiation therapy — also called radiotherapy — is a highly targeted, highly effective way to destroy cancer cells in the breast that may stick around after surgery. Radiation can reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence by about 70%. (That's a lot!!!)  Despite what many people fear, radiation therapy is relatively easy to tolerate and its side effects are limited to the treated area.
Your radiation treatments will be overseen by a radiation oncologist, a cancer doctor who specializes in radiation therapy.

Here are some side effects:  The most annoying and uncomfortable side effects of radiation therapy involve the skin of the area being treated. In many ways your skin reaction will be like a sunburn, with a mild to moderate pink color or redness, with itching, burning, soreness, and possible peeling. But unlike what happens with a sunburn, your skin will react to radiation very gradually and possibly only in patches.