A man who has seen his own mortality is...
As a postscript to these events. Three weeks after I'd regained consciousness my son, almost in passing. Was the first, whether by design or accident to inform me that I'd spent my first five weeks in hospital in a medically induced coma, a salient fact I'd been unaware of until then.
After he'd gone I was returned to my room and placed in bed. Using the remote lifting device I managed to raise the bed to a point I could look out of the window across the hospital grounds. To life going on , as it had done all the time I had been comatose and would no doubt going on doing so...
Which caused me to think and later pen this, 'A man who has seen his own mortality is no longer a slave and is beyond externals.'
A thought, even though my time in recovery hasn't been easy,that has and will continue to, stay with me...