Shawn (host)

And so, you know, not just for people that don't have the means, but I mean, how do people find a real doctor, you know, when they, when they have, you know, terminal illnesses come up and it's, I mean, it's,

I would imagine you're in a hurry to find somebody.

Could you elaborate on that just a little bit?

I mean, for those of us that have very limited knowledge in healthcare at all, let alone specific diseases, I mean—

Is that a Google search?

Is that an AI search?

I mean, how does an uneducated person in the healthcare industry know what they're looking at?

I mean, where do they even start to find a good doctor?

Let's move into your story.

We do.

So what was going on when you got diagnosed?

That's right.

When I lived in Florida, I came home from a deployment when I was contracting for CIA, and I had a neighbor.

Her name was Wendy and a beautiful woman, beautiful person, uh, two twin boys that were graduating, getting ready to graduate high school.

And, uh, she came over and told me that she had brain cancer.

And I was like, I didn't know what to think, you know, I was like, oh, you'll get through it, you know?

And, and, and, uh, I mean, went on a deployment again, came home two or three months later.

man, she was like a totally different person.

I just, that was the first time I realized how bad a brink, this is where my fear that I was just telling you about derives from.

i remember you know watching her she gained a tremendous amount of weight lost all her hair and it got it got so bad that you could go talk to her and you knew that she could unders i it looked like she could understand what i was saying but she she couldn't formulate the words and get them out to me and you could just see like tears building up in her eyes because it makes me