Max Lugavere

I was going to say like your photo reel must be like traumatizing to the uninitiated.

I remember once a couple, well, a decade ago at this point.

I was in my, I was probably in my 20s actually.

And I went to the bathroom and my BM was like a dark like red color.

And I called my mom and I told my mom I thought I was dying.

Yeah.

And then she asked me, did you eat beets within the recent?

Yeah, like vicinity timeframe.

And I was like, yes, actually yesterday I had a lovely beet salad at this restaurant that I frequently went to, but it was the first time in my life that I'd ever actually like noticed the color.

and it was like dark red, and I breathed a very relieving sigh of relief.

Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about that, actually, because, you know, it's been a week or two since the wonderful, the amazing James Van Der Beek passed away.

And I actually knew him and he was just we weren't like close friends or anything, but I've interacted with him and he supported my work at one point.

And I was just such a huge fan of his.

And it was such a gutting loss.

I mean, I I'm also friends with his with his wife.

And I know that one of the things that he noticed early on was changes in his bowel habits, predating his diagnosis.

What might some of those changes have looked like?

But is it a constellation of symptoms that might necessitate a call to one's doctor or is it a single change?

Because like occasional diarrhea, I feel like is like normal.

I mean, I've had diarrhea at certain points in my life based on what I've eaten or a shift in my ability to use the bathroom in accordance with my regular schedule.