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That night when I got diagnosed was traumatic.

But then the morning of the 14th day when I got in the shower and all of my hair

was coming out, that was probably more traumatic than even what had experience when I first got

diagnosed. Hi, welcome back to the Unine Therapy podcast. My name is Kat and I'm the host and well I am literally recording this at

it's 10.30 p.m. Sunday night and this was not the way that I planned doing this intro, but nothing I

planned for this episode is going the way I planned it. So basically, I had recorded with my sweet roommate a whole Q&A episode from questions that you guys had sent in.

And as soon as we were finishing recording it, the thing that I record on shut down.

The files said that they were damaged and we lost the hour of content we had made

and you know, there's, that's life, there's life, real, real life. So I had to do a little bit of a

pivot because I was not about to make my sweet roommate do that again and I honestly didn't

want to record it again because if we were to do those same questions over, it was not about to make my sweet roommate do that again. And I honestly didn't want to record it again

because if we were to do those same questions over, it just wouldn't have been authentic and it

would have felt like rehearsed. And I don't think that's fair. So I'm releasing to you guys an episode

that I was saving. And I was saving this episode because it's really special and it's really good.

And I was saving it for something that you guys will find out about in the next couple of weeks, if not week, which I'm really excited about and I can't wait to share.

I feel like I keep being like, we have surprises.

This one is really cool.

So anyway, you're getting an episode with me

and my friend Emily Riley, who so graciously agreed to come on the podcast and share her story. And I

don't want to really give any of it away because you're about to listen to it. So we're going to make this short and sweet

because I want to go to sleep. But here is my conversation with Emily. I met you. It would

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