Letter No. 2: The Day the Floor Dropped Out

After five years of silence, the story of the aneurysm that nearly killed me — and the peace that didn't leave.

I had a sinus infection.

That part wasn’t unusual. I get them. Bad ones, sometimes. But this one came with something I had never had before — odd little neurological symptoms I couldn’t explain. Stumbling when I walked. Trouble finding ordinary words. Moments of confusion. The strange inability to hold more than one thought in my head at a time. It troub…