Sorry to hear that about your medical condition, Belloc. 
Improved, but will likely, never get back the gift of writing I enjoyed so much....its frustrating to not want to write or, sitting there and cannot put things together you see in your mind. Embarrasing the word finding thing, you go to say something and it comes out either wrong or not what was intended. Makes you feel like an idiot and angry too.
Physically, surgery corrected the problem, but I still cannot get back the sharpness of writing, thinking that I had prior. Give me a topic and I coul coherently, logically and persuasively, write more then Hobbles or Neil usually do.
many wanted me to go to law school.....perhaps I should have, but then, would be up a creek now......
Thanks for your kind response, gotta go, work is piling up!!!