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Section 4: What I have learned This is how I saw my experience - what it is really like and what actually did happen.  And most importantly,
this is how I have changed, both physically and mentally.
Here were my hopes, expectations, what I have learned and the changes that have (and I hoped would) come over me. 
This is what I thought would happen, and this is how the events had been colored by my fears
These were my nightmares, the things I dreaded, thoughts that tormented me on the eve of my surgery
These were my nightmares, the things I dreaded, thoughts that tormented me on the eve of my surgery
This is what I thought would happen, and this is how the events had been colored by my fears
Here were my hopes, expectations, what I have learned and the changes that have (and I hoped would) come over me. 
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Section 4: What I have learned This is how I saw my experience - what it is really like and what actually did happen.  And most importantly,
this is how I have changed, both physically and mentally.