Thank you, everyone, for all the encouragement and well-wishes. Further updates (so far really good, but I don’t really want to type it all out again) can be found here [url][/https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=387950&p=8589384#p8589384[/url] (thread titled “Dragonsanddemons’s health diary,” in case I messed the link up, I’m on my iPad and don’t know how to do everything properly on it).
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Yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage. For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"