dreaming

I am dreaming of a world where surgery is not hanging over me.

Is it really possible that I've arrived in that world? That all I need to do now is heal, and then I can go about my life? That I can train for runs, that my back won't hurt from having expanders stitched to my muscles, that I can just move forward?

WOW.

It's sinking in that this may be my new reality, and I can't begin to tell you how happy it makes me.