That was the real recovery, and it did not photograph well, and it is still, in some quiet ways, ongoing.

Six months on, Guerra Cyber Defense is whole again and still standing.

The employees kept their jobs.

Andres, legally free of my sister now, runs the finance department, and I trust him with it completely, which is a sentence I could not have said about a single member of my own blood family.

I set up a fund for patients facing financial or domestic abuse during long hospital stays — because I had learned, the worst possible way, how invisible a person becomes when a machine is breathing for them, and how much depends on one nurse choosing to believe a blink over a husband.

When Rocio refused any reward, I funded nursing scholarships in her name instead.