Welcome to the site. 8 months in the hospital, WOW! You should get a medal for having to eat their food for so long. What you have been through is truly horrible. I hope you find the comfort and friendship here that I have found. May today be a little better than yesterday for you, and tomorrow a little better, still.
Love,
Lynda M. in AZ
"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one." - Socrates