Hey, everybody. Welcome to the virtual couch. I'm your host, Tony Overbay. And today, I think I will actually be laying down on the couch and you will be my therapist. I'm not even quite sure where to start with today's episode, but I guess I can start with what I know best, which is my own experience. Saturday, this last Saturday, just a few days ago, my wife, Wendy and I were out car shopping,

and that is a long story in and of itself. We just left a dealership so incredibly frustrated

for every reason that you can probably think of that has to do with trying to buy a car,

especially in the current market. But we move over to another dealership and a salesman is just

starting in, and I'm noticing that I'm starting to go flat. My affect is

starting to go flat when I get a phone call from my son-in-law Mitch. And Mitch is an amazing person.

We are growing closer and closer. He and I text. We have family group texts, but he doesn't normally

call, so I immediately take it. And I will never forget the feeling that immediately welled up inside of me,

as he shared that our oldest daughter, Alex, his wife, had been in a very serious car accident.

And I was terrified that the next words were going to be that she hadn't made it. And even talking about

this right now causes my heart rate to elevate and tears to well up in my eyes. And he went on

to say that someone had run a red light and had hit her and she had been rushed to an emergency room

somewhere, I believe, outside of Phoenix, Arizona. We're in Northern California and my wife, Wendy,

could tell at that point that something was wrong and we headed outside. And I tell her that Alex has

been in a car wreck she's alive

but it sounds like she's in pretty bad shape and initially we hear that she has a collapsed

punctured lung bruised kidney lacerated spleen which we still are not quite sure what a spleen is

but it may need to be removed and her pelvis has several breaks and there's going to be a lot of work

done and Wendy and I immediately just

start driving home and we both start sobbing. And I've never felt so helpless about anything

in my entire life. I've never felt like I wanted to trade places with someone more. I've never

wanted to figure out a way to rewind time. I've never felt so much gratitude that she was alive mixed with with honestly

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