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... um, education and resources or supporting the, like, Parkinson's nurses who are going out into the community and doing incredible work, like hands-on work in the community.

Um- There are some trust, uh, c- CAN trust up in Auckland, charitable trust in Auckland.

They, um, provide like subsidized physio services, um, as well neuro physio services.

So there's a lot of great, um, things that are being done in New Zealand.

And I've-

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Yeah, I have heard of it, but I don't know a lot about it.

Yeah, it's a pretty ruthless autoimmune disorder that primarily attacks the peripheral nervous system.

Right.

And this meant like it manifests so differently in so many different cases and everything, all the information that I've got, I had to learn very quickly on what it was.

I remember hearing about it thinking, I have no idea what that is.

And when his process of, you know, being diagnosed to being unwell to coming out of the other side was really looking like months, if not a year.

And yeah, his wife came back to me and said look he's been given the all clear for movement and he really wants to be moving again um and I was quite honest with her I said like I would love to and I've connected with him I've got that relationship with him but to be completely transparent I know nothing about this condition yeah um and she said not many people do so I kind of went away and figured it out and I mean figured it out as much as you can really um and connected myself to, uh, his neuro physio, um, and did a lot of my own research and was meeting with her, I think every two or three weeks on, you know, where his condition was at.

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