This is Jocko Podcast Number 412 with echo Charles and me jocko willink good evening

I go good evening things changed suddenly on January 20th 2016. It was a Wednesday

and we had taken our four-year-old daughter, Ava, to the doctor.

She'd been experiencing pain in her legs. At first, we thought these were growing pains, something every child experiences.

But soon after she started to experience severe bruising,

that just didn't make sense.

She'd also had a series of ear infections,

bad ear infections. The doctor told us that one of these infections was the

worst they'd ever seen. It was pretty ugly stuff. I started to think something was really

wrong.

At around 2 p.m. the nurse drew blood for a test.

They thought that Ava might have some sort of significant deficiency

that was throwing her system out of whack like a lack of iron. They put a rush on the samples and sent them to the lab.

While waiting for the results, we had gone back home.

My wife Ashley was making dinner when the lab called at about

6 p.m. They reported that there was something irregular in Ava's blood work and that we

should expect a call back shortly.

This was not the kind of thing we wanted to hear.

Five minutes later, Ava's doctor called.

You need to take Ava's doctor called. You need to take Ava to the Stanford emergency room right now, he said.

That was all he told us, but the urgency in his voice told us not to hesitate.

We didn't have to be told twice.

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