Courtney

And I remember somebody saying, are you sure you're able to park there?

And you look fine to me.

And I was just like...

I'm like, I don't need to explain something to you because I don't even know you.

Cause like before the stroke, I had, I heard nobody, nobody my age have having a stroke ever.

And then after, then I started to hear like so many other people, like, yeah, like open, like opened up like a major door to me, me feeling I'm not the only one out there.

Cause at the beginning I was like, I know like this happens to like,

Nobody.

Yeah.

Like this should like, well, this happens to nobody.

And then like after time goes on, like after like time went on, I'm like, oh, there's so many other people out there that I didn't know about that.

have had the same thing happen to them and that made me feel made me feel peace yeah and like I'm not like not saying like I'm so grateful that you had that happen to you and like we're able to share that but like I'm just grateful for you to like be to be able to share that with me yes and

I'm very glad to like, you know, make you feel comfortable enough to, you know, open up to me too.

Cause it's just not something that you want to like share louder than the world most times.

But like, for me, I'm like,

I do, because I'm like, I- It's part of your story.

Yeah, it's my story.

And I want people to know that I didn't just get here just because I got here from work, hard work and determination.

Mm-hmm.

And I just know that not having like the competitive nature that I did have, like, you know, playing sports and all that.