Dear Calewark-
Your poem was truly moving. Your new friend stim unit, as yet unnamed, IS there and awaiting permission and timing to shake your hand and touch your tender face. When you look in a mirror, you ultimately know your new found friend is helping to relieve your pain in a new way. Time will bond your friendship into a lasting walk managed better than ever before.

Being moved to poetry, you may want to have a name for your new friend which reflects the friendship bond you will form. In the Greek, you may know of the word Fileo, meaning love as between deeply bonded friends or family members. Maybe your new friend would be well to be named Fileo. Not as stylin as T-Rex nor as evocative of Jurassic impressions, BUT everybit as strong, since it will be born out of friendship. Your reference to your friend on the shelf awaiting that first meeting with you brought this to mind.

ASAP,
Mark56