"My mom was right. I’ve lost count the number of times she used to tell me that “God blessed me with the gift of writing.” And while I’ve certainly never have taken these skills for granted, I truly appreciate them even more when they’re not being used, for whatever reason. And since Sept. 20, the keyboard on my iPhone has been largely silent. That’s the date — hard to believe it’s been this long — that I underwent surgery for a nagging bedsore that had plagued our backside for more than a year. Surgery was