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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world, it's

time for us all to step out onto the high wire.

You know, today's show, a lot of it is about looking back and seeing how far we've come,

how many things have changed, have we made a difference in this world, and sometimes

when you look back, you can look back at some of the tragic moments in your own life

and say, my God, I'm glad I'm still here.

And that is the case, the first story today, it really starts for me in a personal level,

which is if you've been watching the high wire for over two years, then you know that

I had sort of a major health crisis that happened one Thursday morning, I was supposed to be

on this show back in May of 2021, and suddenly I got a call that morning, I'd gone in for

some tests and I got a call saying you better get to the ER because your hemoglobin level

is at 4.8, supposed to be somewhere between 15 and 17, that's the amount of red blood cells

carrying oxygen through my body and it had all but almost disappeared.

It was a very scary moment, but the first thought that I had since this was in the middle

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