Thanks, Colin. I’m lucky to have been born when I was, and lucky that the damage has been basically ‘invisible’ thus far.

I’ve struggled a fair amount, though, rationalizing how I feel about each part of the diagnosis. I know, intellectually, that things could be much worse, and I dodged several bullets along the way. I didn’t say much of anything about it to anyone other than Irene for most of the year because it was just a sequence of tests with no conclusions.