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Erie, welcome to the program.

Hi, Doc.

Hello, I want to talk to you.

Thank you.

I was blessed to talk to you four years ago. I'm sorry to interrupt. I was blessed to talk to you four years ago and tell you how wonderful my wife was on one July second.

It was amazing call.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

I, I'm sure you could try not to drop any bombshells on you. I can leave things out. I do have a slight brain injury that allows me to talk.

Not very clear sometimes.

I was a little bit worried about it. But back to it. My brother and sister and I are very close. We were treated differently as we grew up.

My mother who's failing in health now from dementia. I was very abusive towards me and basically me only.

I was raised to my little brother as far as cooking meals, cleaning house, all that. My mother was too busy off in the world.

And doing her thing.

And I debated on whether or not I'm restrained for my mother. They're not there.

I was in the respect I mother and all that. But I had to go different way and they understand that respect that.

When my aunt passed away, all my extended family cousins, brother and sister all wanted me to go down to the funeral.

And I wanted to go. But I knew I had to face that I would have to look at my mother again. And it took years and years and years to put the nightmares and the feel feelings away.

And the minute I laid eyes on her, she didn't know who I was. She's got dementia. I had dementia at the end. This was a year ago, January.

And it just brought back a way. I'm sorry about this speech. A wave of feelings. And it was horrible. I'm.

I'm what you call an alpha male. So I mean, you face it. You do with it. I still have nightmares.

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