And

AndI just thought, "Oh, he's a good person.

He's really smart." There was a huge round of redundancies going on, so it felt like every three months we'd be in the pub saying goodbye to a bunch of people, and then we kind of built our relationship from there.

And everything changed, you know, as you know.

Um, it is a...

Even if it's done amicably, which mine was, it is such a dislocating thing to live through-

Yeah.

And, and yeah, he, he, he has been...

Did you?

I...

Yeah, I think, like you said, our parents did the best they could with the knowledge they had at the time, and my mom was very young, as was my dad.

My mom was 19 when she had me, so I totallyGet.

Also, they were broke, so they had to work.

So, but, uh, if I'm honest, I would have liked to feel less lonely.

Mm.

Yes, yes.

Mm.

And then they said, you know, "We're very sorry, but this is the case.

He, he has absolutely no hearing." And I wish I had known then what was going to happen, because a few weeks later, Lou contracted an antibiotic-resistant bacteria in his ear, and we think it may have been on the back of these hearing tests.

And the weird thing is, when I went to the doctor, they tested it, and then she rang me up, and she said, "This is very odd.

It's called Acinetobacter baumannii, and it's only [chuckles] found on the battlefields of Iraq." It was so random.

But I panicked because she said it was antibiotic-resistant.

So I, being a journalist, started to just ring round every top consultant because I thought I've got to...

Mm.