LIFE LESSON: Never underestimate the degree to which serious illness affects you

LIFE LESSON:

Never underestimate the degree to which serious illness affects your temperament and reasoning ability. Nor the degree to which your body is attempting to communicate with you with primitive and incomprehensible signals. Nor your incredible capacity to either ignore or misunderstand them.

I had no idea. I thought I was holding up reasonably well. In retrospect, the absurd physical and mental pain tolerance that I cherish was a debilitating liability.