Timing for rads after chemo?

I just finished chemo on 3/2 and was scheduled to start rads first week of April. When I met with RO, I asked if I could start sooner than 4 weeks, as I felt fine. He explained that the body needs to recover fully from chemo as rads takes a lot out of you, but, if my WBC was good (checked on 3/19), he would start me earlier. Unfortunately, even though I felt normal, my WBC was only 2.9 on Monday (the 19th). Had it checked again today and it is now in the normal range, so I'm waiting to see when they schedule me.

I did do the simulation on Monday and the technician told me that it takes about a week from simulation to develop your individualized rads program.

So, I don't think it's as simple as "wanting" to start early (as least for me)... I didn't know that they check your WBC before starting. As for waiting, I don't know. My RO told me 4 weeks was the optimum time, just enough to recover from chemo,

I feel for you. I believe I will most certainly miss a planned trip to Florida near the end of April, and boy do I need a vacation!

I wound up waiting just about nine weeks also.  I, too, had chemo first, finished five months of it about July 7.  Then I had my surgery, modified radical mastectomy, August 2.  Then when I finally recovered from that, my rads started about the end of the second week in September.  So, that was right about nine weeks, so I imagine your "wait" on rads will work out fine.  I'm five months out from my last rads treatment and I feel great.  But I would suggest, of course, checking with your cancer doc and again with the radiation doc and see what they say.  If one of them says no, then hopefully you can reschedule your trip for later in the summer, this is the nature of disease, it doesn't come in a timely manner.