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And, you know, navigating people thinking it's stress and thinking it's a period and thinking it's everything else except for the diagnosis.

And so we have a diagnosis, you know, but the short term, she's going on short-term medical leave.

So kind of mourning the next month, but not knowing if this is something that's going to respond quickly to therapy or if we're looking at years.

And this is somebody incredibly healthy, no medical problems, works two jobs, stepmom to my two beautiful kids, best woman I've ever met in my life.

And we're kind of having to deal with the hand grenade dropped a little bit.

Yeah, man.

We sit on a big couch every night, and we talk through...

All of the stuff.

I call it a doom castle.

We sit in a doom castle and we worst case for a second and then get out and we shut the door and try to focus on the treatments and how early we're getting workups.

Very high.

Okay.

Very high.

All right, perfect.

The first night she was having... She actually...

Um, she had passed out on me and I, I, I thought she was gone for a second, which is therapy for a long time.

Yeah.

Um, my work in healthcare is very scary.

And we got to the ER and he asked, you know, Hey, what'd she look like when she woke up?

I said, well, she looks like Michael J. Fox.