Ciara McGeehan

Like I had a pretty emotional interview with you whenever I came back.

And

And like that was, I was clearly still raw and processing it.

And it's not necessarily a very good trait that I have, but I just threw myself into the surgery and focused on that and focused on coming back and really parked that.

And suddenly opening up about it and actually having to put it on paper is, it's a really jarring thing.

It's really like, oh, okay, I have to, and I have to talk to Kleena about it.

And I have to verbalize it to Kleene in a succinct way whenever I haven't even got it like that in my head.

So Kleene was wonderful.

There was a couple of drafts where I'm saying the first few were probably a bit more raw about things.

And then I revisited them after a bit of time.

And I'm like, it's really amazing.

Like even in the journey of writing the book,

the second draft of something or the third draft of something, you could see even myself processing it and my opinion of certain things changing or just my emotion towards it not being as raw.

And then in between all that is obviously my cancer journey, which was extremely raw.

And I think that's probably why it's so...

like moving for people and so emotional because actually I was I was coming back and telling Cliona in real time and she would find out things before my family necessarily we were talking about it and writing it down and because I was like well I'm waiting for my family to come together and I'm going to tell them this but like this this happened and then sometimes actually I wouldn't tell Cliona and then I'd be like oh this is what happened two weeks ago and I just wasn't ready to say um and putting putting all that down ah

Leclina is a fantastic writer and so, so kind.

Whenever I talked to Maliki, she was like, she's the best of us.

I think I made a very lovely choice in the person that helped me write my book.

But yeah, the waves off it all.