Uncooked pasta. It sits in boiling water for quite some time, seemingly soft enough to eat. Yet once you take a bite, you realize the core remains hard and unchanged. Aiming for that ideal al dente texture, we often underestimate how much time it actually takes to cook through. Over the past few days, I realized this is exactly what has been happening to me. I thought my healing was going well—with ups and downs, of course. But that was only on the surface. Beneath it, my mus