I am back at the new dialysis center here in PG. To be honest, after the last election—so painful and disheartening—I wasn’t feeling particularly pleased to be back here. I’ll keep my thoughts about that to myself for now. But today, I want to share something else—my experience after my fistula operation at NKTI. After the operation, I found myself in a room with about ten other patients who had also just undergone their fistula procedures. When I arrived, they were already talking, sharing stories, bonding over this strange new reality we all shared. The man next to me said he used to be a soldier and now manages a…