Katee Sackhoff
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but 42 years old without realizing how many things can kill you, I think, because I'd lived a pretty blessed life.
Of course, I'd had some health struggles of my own, but they were thyroid cancer in 2008, but I call it a baby cancer.
I'm trying to dismiss the fear of it, of course, at the time, but it was never life-threatening.
It was life-changing, but never life-threatening.
So the fear was situational, and it was not lifelong fear.
You know, when our daughter got sick and spending as much time as we did in children's hospitals, when you see the diseases and the illnesses that afflict so many children, it amazes me that we made it to this age.
Absolutely amazes me.
And that is a realization where I finally at like, you know, 42 realized how important every day was and how much of a gift every day was, even that we have her, you know.
But that came to me through circumstance, not because I woke up one day and had an epiphany and went,
We're so lucky to be alive.
It didn't really happen until that was threatened to be taken away.
You're going to have one guy that like emails you and says, I'm happy as shit.
I'm popping bottles on a yacht.
And see if he's really depressed.