Sid Sijbrandij
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Also because your lungs are very tiny vessels, so they get trapped, the cells get trapped there the fastest, but also because it's kind of a similar cancer that can grow there.
So we were watching for that.
And at a certain point, I did a kind of a regular PET scan where you look for activity that is out of the ordinary.
And I remember vividly, I was talking with my direct reports, and I get a message, a text from my GP, and he says, it's positive, not subtle.
And I'm like, it's positive, okay, great.
And I'm like, oh, no, positive in a medical setting, that means something else.
It means positive for cancer.
And not subtle, that sounds bad.
And I opened up the report, and I read my death sentence.
It spread to 50 sites in my lungs.
My lungs were lighting up like a Christmas tree.
And the radiologist gave an undifferentiated diagnosis.
Definitely cancer.
It spread to the lungs.
Way metastatic.
50 places means like surgical, your host.
There's no way to do it with surgery.
And so walked out of the room, collected my thoughts for 10 minutes, called my wife, called in my CFO, CLO.
I mean, this is the situation.
What do we do?