Dearest Readers (I feel by now as if I am addressing beloved friends out there, like a letter-writer in an Austen novel) — I am home at last from the second hospital — the “vortex hospital,” the hospital of near-no-return — and, per the title of this update, I am: Not Dead Yet. I can’t yet describe fully what I experienced at the Vortex Hospital — since I am not yet entirely out of medical danger, and I still need their staff’s help in the near future in order to remove a device, the details of which I will spare … Continue reading Not Dead Yet