Joanna Robinson

doesn't necessarily change any of the reactions that I had to it last week, but does sort of deepen my understanding of why they would really specifically want to delve into this particular storyline.

Of course.

That's really beautifully said.

The reports that we're getting that Alex Preddy, who was an ICU nurse who worked with veterans,

that his last words were, are you okay, is just extremely devastating as we think no one should have lost their life that way.

I think as we've been thinking a lot about the pit and what the pit has to say about the medical community and how they care about the most vulnerable around them, I've been thinking a lot as I've been watching the medical community, the nursing community, specifically in Minnesota or just around the world,

talking about Alex Preddy as we've seen footage of the work that he did inside of hospitals, you know, circulate and stuff like that.

It's just like, it's really enhancing, that's the wrong word, but it's deepening my relationship to this show and what it has to say about these people.

Since we and I watched,

the first thing to the pit, cover the pit.

I had a very serious medical issue last year.

So my relationship, and I had never had like surgery in my life or anything like that.

So my relationship with medical community has, you know, I grew up as a daughter of a doctor and a nurse.

So like I was sort of in that world, but I wasn't ever like really a patient in that world.

So to go through that system

It was in this episode when, you know, Emma has to take some blood from Joy, and Joy's like, I'm a tough stick.

Like, I am a tough stick.

And so, like, all the nurses who sort of, like, were just trying to find veins on me, taking time to, like, comfort me, make me feel okay about what I was going through.

Like, I have a very different appreciation for that.

I like to think I already appreciated them, but having experienced it firsthand—