what a fantastic outcome for you and your family.
I just hope that if anything a fraction as risky as your problem, ever happend to me ,that I react with your courage and calmness.
It probably didn't feel all that calm at the time
A lady flight instructor who flies from our strip recently had a canopy smashed,possibly bird impact but not known.
She was covered in blood and could only see properly from one eye,but managed to land in a field unhurt and aircraft undamaged apart from what happened in the air.
Perhaps ladies are better at it than us chaps when the chips are down?
Lister