TahB: I am also very sorry hear about your dx. I am also in a similar situation with 7 month old baby and my wife being a homemaker (I am 37 years old). Families, friends and boards like this play a great role in helping to tackle the early blues and panic. I also turned to spirituality, which I found very helpful as well.

I finished my six-week chemo-radiation just couple weeks ago, will undergo surgery in about a month. Please get a good diet book for cancer, healthier you go into the treatment, easier it will be on your body. I experienced some nausea from chemo that was kept under control by anti-nausea medication (try Zofran). Well into the third week of my radiation, I start having some side effects, but it was still not too bad. My fifth and sixth week by far were the worst, with intense pain in my back during BM. I was given some pain medication and suppositories to control the pain, but it just helped a little.
Now it's been two weeks since the last day of chemo-radiation and I feel almost as well as I felt before the treatment. I do have darkening of skin that started to peel off, but no bleeding or pain.

Hope your treatment goes well. Please keep us posted on your situation.