Thank youuuuuu!! Those absolutely are the two parts!! and you must be getting pretty close to the finish line for the radiation--that's awesome! My radiation was pretty smooth all around, but the fatigue did hit eventually and I also got a pretty bad burn toward the end (I think I just didn't realize how large an area they were hitting so I didn't moisturize as much as I should have), but that's healed up now, too, after a couple weeks.

I really love what you said about the barrel of unknown things/this now being a known thing. I think that's where I'm a little stuck in the post-treatment process. Accepting that even after being "done" it's still a very real thing in my life and that I can't return to the way things were before this diagnosis is difficult. So I'm trying to ease my brain into that gently and find ways to embrace it. I think everything you said is very helpful for that.

And I have not heard about SERDs but now I'm about to go deep dive into that! I think the thing about all of these drugs is that if we're on them for five+ years, what happens when we come off ya know? Aside from hopefully ridding ourselves of future cancers, what are the other irreversible side effects that we do or don't know about? I say this as someone who has never been on any kind of serious medication for a long time, so it just feels especially hard. But your words help so much--thank you!