After the usual initial discomforts of a major operation, I bounced back joyfully. By the end of the year, my treatments were finished. I was declared well. Medication, however, continues indefinitely. Regular checkups since then have been satisfactory.
Life goes on as before, but with a fundamental difference.
I am older and wiser, rather fearless, and much more concerned with all of suffering mankind. I feel an overwhelming identity with a might force of commiseration and kindness, never experienced to such a degree before. My own troubles have shrunk to insignificance compared to some of the others. I had thirty-six treatments. Each was a time of great blessing and communion with God.