odd.

Usually there's more kind of a gradual process, but they think it was vascular dementia from the stroke.

So, um, so anyhow, so it was kind of juggling, you know, I left work and I was sort of overseeing my parents care, raising my son.

My poor husband kind of was just sitting there going, what about me over here? But I just was consumed with everything.

But even though I wasn't physically doing the care, the stress level was just through the roof because I was always worried about what kind of phone call I was going to get about something or another happening with one of my parents.

And so it was about an eight-year period where it was really stressful.

And then they passed away five weeks apart in 2010.

So, Suzanne, why is it important to start long-term care conversations earlier than we think we need to? And I think you partially answered that with the age you were when you started your journey.