And I think I sobbed in his office for a solid 30 minutes.

I think that is a totally normal and human reaction.

One of the hardest parts of getting the diagnosis is grappling with the uncertainty.

It's just in grieving, you know, grieving a future that you thought you had, grieving a retirement that you thought you were going to have just is such a life changing thing.

Um, you know, my, my initial approach is usually to give some space, um, kind of stay in the room, but not, but stop talking because, you know, kind of let it absorb a little bit and every, and it helps me then to kind of get a sense of, of how a person is going to react because everybody is a little bit different.

You know, some people just internalize it right away.

Some people were expecting it, you know, some people, some people are more emotional.

I think sometimes, I don't