This is an episode of On the Couch with Wendy. That's me. This is a podcast which we usually put out behind the Patreon paywall. But in this instance, I'm putting it on the main podcast feed for reasons I'll come on to in a moment. The concept behind the podcast is that we have a really fascinating Discord community. And so I'm kind of working my way through

them one by one interviewing them, talk about their lives. And in this case, I spoke to Dakota,

who has had some major health troubles in the past year. And I felt like it needed to be heard

by a wider audience. And the reasons for that will become clear as we speak.

There is a trigger warning for people who have health-related anxiety.

I can imagine this could be a tough listen for you if you fall into that category.

So listen with caution.

If like me, you are moved by Dakota story, you might feel like you want to make

a charitable donation after listening, so I will put the details of relevant charities in the show

notes. I hope you enjoy this as much as you can, enjoy listening to something of this subject

matter. Dakota tells the story so brilliantly. He's a great person and yeah,

I'm just so the couch once more. This time it's a slightly different episode because we have a narrative, which is intriguing. I'm with the Cine Man. Hello. How's it going?

It's good. It's doing good. I don't know if I already mentioned this to you, but I'm getting married on Saturday. So I've been kind of like running around like a chicken with my head cut off doing last minute.

Wedding things.

I just got my hair.

I was a little late responding to you because I just got my haircut and it took longer than anticipated.

And we're, you know, trying to figure out how to get guests to and from the venue and, you know, figuring all the last minute stuff out.

So that's a lot, a lot less, uh, less fun than I anticipated.

You've got a lot going on. Now, I mean, yeah, oh yeah. It just means that I appreciate you taking

the time to do this even more than I would have done. Oh, no. More than happy. It's great to have you

on. Um, are you happy to say what your, your actual name is? Yeah, so my name is Dakota, silly man, which is my real last name.

It's not a joke.

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