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Well, I have. First e was working from home. Um, I wasn't going out anywhere. I was taking precautions. And, um, I wasn't even walking my dog. On April 26 I went to the emergency room. Everything happened so quickly, they took my vitals. My oxygen pool was very low. Um, they were rushing me to change within 10 minutes. I only had, um a couple of minutes did content my family toe. Let them know that I was to be intubated. I was ask toe have someone of pointed Azaz a designated person to make medical decisions for me. So I pointed my mother and my older sister. Um, after that, um, all I remember was being put to sleep as I was being intubated, and then six weeks of complete nightmares. Um, it's hard to distinguish what was reality and what actually happened. Um, some of the nightmares consisted a lot of drowning, and I attribute that to not being able to breathe and struggling to breathe. Um, during that time, um, you know, I in Spanish, the word better later means like Mindy leveller like a fan. I didn't realize the severity of the situation to me a fan just means like they're gonna, you know, help me breathe. Give me some air, and I would be OK. So I was anticipating maybe at the most, a three day stay. Um, not six weeks on the event as I ended up, um, being on And, um, my family was called, um, they'll live in North Carolina. Um, I do. I was with my boyfriend at the time. Um, he's the one that dropped me off at the emergency room and was there every day, Um, you know, checking in on me. Um, but other than that, my family really was in the dark about everything. They were vindicated on phone calls, um, daily to see how I was doing. And then one day they were told that I wasn't gonna make it past the night and to, you know, make the decision whether or not they wanted to fly up. Just say goodbye, because before this do to cope in 19 restrictions, the hospital wasn't allowing family member, so I wasn't or anyone at all, So I wasn't it. Hold them or see them more. They weren't able to e um, we so that night. Um You know, my family took the first flight out of, um there from Clinton, North Carolina, where I am as well, but they took the first flight out of North Carolina to to come see me. Thankfully, I was able to get stabilized. Um, So by the time they got here, they were explained the option of lung transplantation because my lungs were, you know, irreversibly damaged. And a last option from either was in anything else, but they could do. My other organs were starting to fail as well be as a result of my lungs failing and, you know, 48 hours later, received by lung transplant on June 5th, I had no idea that I had received a lung transplant. Um, I just knows in the hospital I looked at myself. I couldn't recognize my own body. I couldn't talk. I could barely lift a finger. I couldn't move. Um, I was in a lot of pain. Um, I was very confused. I was very thirsty. All I could think about was that I wanted her. I couldn't process Oh, my mind didn't have the ability, Dio, I think because of the sedation, um, I lost a lot of cognitive abilities as well as physical village. I'm still in a lot of pain. I'm very weak. I'm working on my endurance and strength. Um, I'm still struggling to breathe and learning how to use my new lungs. Um, I feel that my message to people is to understand that this is not a hoax. This virus Israel. It happened to me. It can happen to them. Um, I know some people are asymptomatic. You should still be careful for those and be considerate of those more vulnerable around them. Also, I want other centres to understand that lung transplantation is an option for eternally ill Kobe patients, and I want to be an example of that.