Nina Funnell

But my lips still had feeling and I would just kiss the back of his head constantly.

Like in every photo, my lips are on the back of his head because that's where I could still feel him.

Yeah.

So I had to really, really step back in 2021 for health reasons.

And then it's sort of only been in the last few years that I've been able to get back to work.

I feel like a lot of people won't know that context.

So thank you for sharing that.

Yeah.

And I still, again, like big thanks to everybody who donates plasma or blood products.

I get every four weeks, I have a four to five hour plasma transfusion to manage my illness.

And that's why I'm able to walk again.

And yeah.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Like I've had to relocate back to Sydney.

I, you know, because there's better hospitals here.

I've it.

Yeah, it impacts my movement, my day to day physicality and so on.

But thankfully, because of plasma transfusions.

So it's called chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, which is a bit of a mouthful, but CIDP for short.

And it's been its own journey.