AbstracTyler

To piggyback on this comment, my question is this; Are there other avenues NASA is exploring for planetary defense, and if so what are they? Of course I want to understand DART specifically, but also I want to get an idea of the context of where this system falls in the umbrella of planetary defense.

It almost seems to me that challenges are opportunities to show strength. It's like . . . people talk about being brave like it's glamorous, but it's not. You can only be brave if you're afraid. That's the only time you get to be brave; if you're not afraid, there is no cause for bravery.

I've never had cancer so I can't speak to the challenges of it, but I've had other significant challenges in my life, like so many other people. Those challenges can destroy you, if you let them. It takes strength to struggle through them and come out the other side. Sometimes it just takes a stubborn, sheer force of will. Depressed people might know what I'm talking about. You just gotta be obstinate about staying alive until medication or therapy starts to work.

Anyway, congrats on the mastectomy, OP. I wish you well in your recovery, and hope that you come out the other side of this with some new insight into who you are, and what it means to be alive.

I want to know more about the love story between you and your wife. What was it like to be in a relationship with her throughout your recovery and learning how to live your life without sight?

"The EPA hates him!"

I can tell you that it's pretty obnoxious. People have nowhere else to go though; it's an unfortunate side effect of the broken health care system in the U.S. If someone doesn't have insurance, they can't go see a primary care physician, which would be ideal for a lot of these people and their problems. So what's left is the E.D. It's obnoxious but understandable at the same time. What really gets annoying is when those people complain loudly about their wait times, when really what's happening is that the E.D. staff are taking care of people with actual emergencies, life-threatening emergencies.