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Years ago, I spent a month on the same floor in intensive care, at the MGH, after a sudden and nearly total speech loss. Since then the awful, scary tests, and related treatments have advanced, making them much easier, to endure. I eventually experienced full recovery.

2 yrs later, I was asked to speak at a breakfast on Atlantic Rd., Back Shore, at the then Easterly, (Melissa Smith still running it,) which I was able to do, having fully recovered my lost speech. After the breakfast, drove 2 miles back to Rocky Neck, only to discover in our driveway that the speech was totally gone again. I was asked how it went, and tried to answer, but nothing came out. The brain didn't like the public speaking, and completely shut down that function for another long while. Very selective, our wonderful brains. But 2 yrs later, it was as if nothing had ever happened, and I'm still being asked to speak before groups, still on the Back Shore.
The human brain is a wondrous organ and is definitely IN CHARGE! (Thinking of and praying for you, Senator. Your own brain is truly gifted, and hopefully will surprise us all.:)

Well, a lot of it is just plain attitude. My mother had breast cancer, from the time I was 8, until her death in her late 80's. She also spent lots of time at the MGH, where she was a "teaching case." She endured 52 x-ray treatments, in those awful primitive blackened x-ray chambers, on Blossom St., lost both breasts. The next summer she was on the beach every day, feeling very self conscious and letting people know that she didn't want them noticing it, in her bathing suit. A chain smoker since her teens, she couldn't stop smoking, and in her 80's also lost a cancerous lobe of her lung. She's up there, routing for the senator and many others. Also wishing everyone could give up smoking, probably the root cause of hers and many others' cancers.