Side effects of radiation therapy will depend mainly on: size of the area being treated; specific area or organs being treated; total dose ; treatment schedule; whether or not chemotherapy is given during the same time period as radiation therapy (called chemoradiation) whether or not you smoke; Side effects tend to be worse when chemoradiation is used.
Mardi Gras celebrations first came to what is now Alabama with the early French explorers, who were led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. He recorded the first observance of Mardi Gras in Mobile in his journal in 1699. Men in the camp marked the occasion with feasts, dancing, and a night of masked revelry.
Later, Rex would parade with an actual bull, draped in white and signaling the coming Lenten meat fast. This occurred on Fat Tuesday. New Orleans was established in 1718 by Bienville. By the 1730s, Mardi Gras was celebrated openly in New Orleans, but not with the parades we know today.