Day 47 October Sunburn

Radiation - What the heck is it?
When I googled radiation, the first several pages of web sites were all about the evils of radiation exposure and nuclear bombs. There are a significant number of web sites devoted to how awful radiation has been to lots of different countries and to so many people, how it has instantly and dramatically changed a place and the inhabitants.
It took me a few minutes to get down to the sites that talk about the "healthy radiation" - hmmm not really possible. Did you know that a person can only go through radiation treatment once? So, if I get cancer again, in 10 years somewhere else in my body, I can't get radiation again. Also, the 33 treatments must be some magic number of how many zaps a person can get that clears the cancer cells and just before the risk of cancer from radiation gets so high that you should have just lived with your original cancer to begin with. The cancer that you get from radiation treatments is much worse than most of the cancer that it is treating.
There is a rectangle appearing on my neck, its still faint except when I get out of the shower. Amy, the radiation therapist has assured me that it will get much worse... I have been using aloe vera gel and some natural organic oily moisturizer that S. got me. So far my skin hasn't bothered me any more that feeling like it is very hot. If that is the surface of my skin, I wonder what the inside of my throat is looking like?