Side effects

Since I had done radiation with my first bout of cancer - I thought maybe the symptoms would show up in about the same way this time - not until the treatment was almost through. 
Well, I was wrong about that too! 
Actually the side effects started showing up about halfway through the radiation & chemo.  Diarrhea was the first thing to show up (that was a side effect of both) - and I found that Immodium might be a very good friend to keep on hand.  The couple of times that my mouth started getting a little "tingly" I rinsed it with some baking soda - I never did get any sores in my mouth.  Some of the other side effects were skin irritation (this might not be for the squeamish among you) - when that started to happen I used baby powder and preparation h to take care of that.  Believe me, you don't have to have hemorrhoids to use preparation h.  Dr. H had prescribed some anti-nausea pills to take if I needed, but I never did.
This is not really one of the "side effects" of the radiation treatments - but when you start receiving your treatments, you are "marked" with some "tatoos".  Now these are not tatoos like you would think - but actually little round black dots that they use to set up the lines for doing the radiation treatments.  So I now have approximately six tatoos (three from the first time around and three from this time) at various places on my body.  So I guess if I am asked if I have tatoos - I can say yes!  I'm just not going to tell you where - or let you see them!