Something I didn’t expect is that when the surgery was done, even after the infection cleared, it wasn’t back to business as usual. And I don’t even mean that in reference to COVID. I mean, when you go to bed every night and watch to make sure the person next to you is still breathing, and you’ve got a surgery date in mind, and after that date you’ll maybe sleep next to your loved one again, maybe you’ll sleep next to them and they’ll have severe disabilities, or maybe you’ll never see them again, that feeling, all that weight, it doesn’t just go away. You don’t just wake up feeling pretty good once things are medically stable. You don’t wake up feeling pretty good months after that. Maybe you never wake up feeling pretty good again. I don’t know. I’m still waiting. Latest column over at @litreactor