Melissa,
you young kids have such optomism - I love it - hold onto that thought!

The conventional wisdom however, dictates one month of recovery for every week of radiation. I fought it (and was in good health going into it) but found that the foregoing formula was pretty accurate.

We all respond differently to treatment and a relative few here have gone back to work early (and some wishing they hadn't). There are many variables involved, including, but not limited to, your immune system status (you are at great risk in the early post Tx, from colds and viruses that can quickly morph to pneumonia which can be life threatening), secondary infection issues, thrush, pain levels/meds, eating, drinking, swallowing and even speaking, not to mention emotional, like depression, etc.

It's very hard to predict and it's better to roll with it than set unreasonable expectations for yourself that will ultimately frustrate you and make you feel worse about an already bad situation.