I purposefully waited a little while prior to answering this, and the tl;dr; version of this is I'm a sympathetic ear that thinks the question block worked in your favor. I'll address the suspension at the end of this post.
Background
Some years ago while our daughter was still quite small, she developed a hell of a fever. It was 108 (F), we took her straight to the E.R. and were sent home with antibiotics and other things. A few days later, it was still really high and our digital thermometer died. I went to the drug store and bought a replacement, but the only thing I could find was the old style mercury type, it had to do.
It broke, quickly, and I had a mercury spill on my hands. I cleaned it up properly, but I wasn't sure how to dispose of it, so in my desk drawer it went wrapped in cellophane until I could figure that out. It went there because it's one of the few things I can lock. Months went by, and it spilled, again.
I am a smoker. I'm not proud to admit it, but I am, and I'm cutting down to the point where I can go cold turkey (again) successfully without blowing my top ten times a day due to nicotine fits. I know there are 'quit helpers' that will do the same thing cigarettes do, supply me with a calming amount of nicotine for a price, I choose not to use those. Due to a very unfortunate chain of events, I ended up smoking mercury vapor because I am quite careless when it comes to where and how I store things.
I went bat s*** nuts for weeks, so did Qun Shi Huang (but longer) due to the effects of mercury poisioning. Inside me, I knew something was wrong, yet I could not stop irritating and confusing everyone that I could with inane, irrational ramblings. One day I woke up and everything was back to normal. I then endeavored to explain myself to all I had befuddled (mostly) and those that I offended.
Why the ban worked in your favor
The question block prevented you from having to do what I did on a larger scale, and I think you should actually be glad that it kicked in. I'm contemplating a feature request that would raise moderator flags when a user is acting 'uncharacteristically' based on their previous history so we could intervene on the occasional (breakdown | tumor | too many beers | etc) but I'm not yet sure that such a thing is necessary. You regained reliable cognitive function and the ban quickly went away. I'd call that status-bydesign. It's an algorithm that examines a specific set of data, it has no concept of tumors, mercury poisoning, intoxication or terminal apathy. It just takes action on what it's fed, and you can't take that personally.
Regarding the suspension
Given the data available to me as a moderator, I consider your suspension to be extremely excessive, I would not have made the same call. However, it's done .. and can't be retracted, so we may as well move on. A discussion among us has been raised regarding the length of your suspension. Yet, it did prevent you from typing in a text box once again while not quite cognisant of your actions. In other words, that complaint has been heard.
What to walk away with
We can appear to be a bunch of insensitive clods, but in fact we're just endeavoring to keep the quality of the resource that we created high. Every user that cast a down or close vote, or even the mod that suspended you was just trying to protect the resource that we created. Please don't infer malice, at best it may be confusion and misunderstanding. At the time, you were quite difficult to figure out.
What remains is you're back for now, and that's a good thing. On a personal note, good luck with that surgery. I can't begin to imagine letting a doctor do stuff to my brain, much less the possibility that I'd lose the ability to do what I love doing.
