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LinkedIn was literally the way that my life got saved. I basically got came down and got diagnosed with cancer out
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of the blue. You know, I was just feeling a bit under the weather and went to the doctor and it just escalated
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really quickly to I think I've got the flu to no, you've got quite severe
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cancer. And so my life just changed like radically in a really short amount of time. I I've always wanted to be
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creative. So I thought what am I going to do? I started writing and I wrote a column every day every every week and
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stuff published it which was cool. But it did get to the point where the treatment just we ran out of options.
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And this is why this is such a thing that's close to my heart is because people are still getting this kind of
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message in New Zealand. We just don't have the treatments you need. Like we can go this far, but we can't afford the
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treatments that are now available. You know, there's so many of this these stories that are still in our media all
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the time. I wrote about that. I said, you know, we're at the end of the road.
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Things are looking really bleak. We've just had, you know, the tumors have come
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back. And this guy who had been reading my column, Mike, um, sent me a message on LinkedIn, uh, out of the blue again
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and just said, "Look, you don't know me and I don't know you, but I've been
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reading your story and I'm I'm sort of working in the medical field and can I
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help?" >> What is he like vice president at? >> Yeah. He turns out to be the senior vice
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president uh for immunology at at FISA. You know, with his connections, he was the type of person that absolutely could
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help me. And he put me in touch with people, you know, within a few literally a few hours of me going, "Yes, I need
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help." He'd said, "Right, here's a person. Here's three people you can talk
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to. This one's doing this trial. This is this. Call this guy.