Thank you very much for the kind thoughts and words, everyone. The reaction of friends & family helped greatly and I appreciate it.

Thank you also, as coordinated by Lilith, for the beautiful flowers. I'm sorry the picture of them included that beat up patient, but the nice words about that were very encouraging too. I don't like the current condition of my right eye but am told it will heal in time.

Very lucky to be alive, and to have such thoughtful friends.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.