Ever the blind optimist, before the surgery began he assured me that in a few years, the aneurysm would just be a memory, a footnote to my much longer, larger life story.
However, in the context of capturing work-related communication to facilitate collaboration or create an audit trail, face-to-face communication has a few weaknesses (my ability to accurately capture notes and mymemory of the myriad conversations I have about work every day being just two of them).