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