I'm Back! sorta...

Hi Everyone! I spent all of last week in the hospital and I was discharged late Friday night. I'm at home recovering and doing well. For obvious reasons I haven't been able to write but I wanted to let everyone know that I'm still here. It might be a little while before I post again as I haven't had contact with the outside world for a while now.

One thing though. I've been here so long that I've lost my ability to understand European accents. I've become so accustomed to Japanese accents that I couldn't understand one of my male nurses who had a strong Irish accent. Instead of hearing and comprehending actual words, when I first heard him my brain kinda shut down and all I saw was a bunch of pretty colorful swirls and curly lines like a girlie drawing in my head that went to the tune of his noise. And that was all before the morphine. I felt so bad. He was really nice but all I could do was smile and nod most of the time. It was truly exhausting. What's funny is that I remember a time when I thought I would never understand strong Japanese accents. And then I adapted without taking much notice.