Knowledge is power! Arm your self with information and take responsibility for your health, you sound like a determined hard worker getting better (sorry you are not sick!) is another job. It is great you don't have to have chemo, radiation is easy and quick just everyday. I didn't feel like I was having any side effects but when it was finished I was very tired but that could have been the chemo and the tamoxifen, hard to know when one side effect finishes and the other starts! You need a sense of humour (and a house keeper) to get though this. I found an all consuming new hobby is good to take your mind off yourself. Rant and rave we all have.