Raanan Hershberg

She's gotten used to seeing out both eyes. But when she closes one eye, it's like your forehead would be a little whited out. Oh, wow. And I don't think it's going to come back. She's doing great. She's handled it very well. But yeah, it was sad. We left the hospital after a couple days. And the saddest part is we went outside and there was a sunrise or a sunset. And she was like, I can't.

It doesn't look very pretty to me. Oh, no. Yeah, it was awful. But she's gotten a lot. I think she can see a lot. She's more adjusted to it. But I feel so old. I'm like, my girlfriend had a stroke. I got a pastrami sandwich for her there, and I felt like just an old Jewish couple just eating a pastrami sandwich.

After one of them had a stroke. Like, here, take your pastrami. Oof. Yeah.

But, you know, I never thought in a million years I'd be the healthier one in the relationship. Yeah.

It's nice. It evens out. Like, when she had open heart surgery, we were both, I make a bit about this, but we were both kind of equally out of breath after that. We'd go up subway stairs, and we'd both just be, like, fancy.

Yeah. But she's doing great, and she handles it very well. She's, like, a better person than me, which is kind of annoying. So even in the hospital, she was, like, super worried. She's a therapist. She was super worried about, like, her patients while she was having the stroke.

It's kind of annoying when people are like that good. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Not yet.

Oh, yeah, and she sees people like, it's, you know, she helps, she's a social worker therapist, so she helps people who have, like, you know, typically can't afford, like, so it's not white people problem therapy. Right. It's like, you know, safety planning. Yeah. You know, how do I, you know, that kind of stuff. Right. It's not like, I feel unhappy.

It's like, your husband beat you, how do we get you out of the house kind of stuff, you know? Yeah, she has an intense life. But it's nice to date because to me the hardest part about dating someone is their job. They have to tell boring work stories and you just have to deal with it.

But her stories are never boring. They're always like insane shit, you know?

I mean, it's better than pretending you care about like her friend being mad at her at the, you know, whatever.

Yeah.

I like heavy.

I think so. Even when she told me she had about to get open heart surgery. I mean, I like to get excited, but I was like, I'm not I don't I don't like shy away from that stuff.

Yeah. Yeah. No, it feels like we've been married for like 25 years now. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. React to it in the hospital when she had it. Have you ever been to the hospital and someone gets surgery? There's a giant terminal thing that shows everyone's names, and it says if they're in the middle of surgery or not. And then sometimes it'll just flash canceled. And you're like, did that person die? But I think they just signed up. But yeah, it's intense.

But I got a couple good bits out of it, and that's what's important.