MM, you learn to make the most out of your one arm while you have to. Not fun, but doable. I try to hold fast to the notion that you never know what the future holds.
As for what my S said, still processing - and maybe I look to hard for some kind of divine peace or symbolism in the melee that I am in, but it really was strangely comforting even if it was just a toddler babbling.
