that's when i started typing, working on my scripts. and that was like the first in a series of tiny little battles that got me through this year. kind of one challenge to conquer at a time. >> were you nervous about doing this? to interview somebody who is a friend, who you know, it's a whole different thing. >> yeah, i was nervous. i think it sort of morphed into what it was as well. i remember originally when miles and i were talking, i was so interested, you know, in the science, the things that we always had in common, the prosthetics and how that was all going to work for him. i remember when i was talking to him in the first interview, and i was learning things that, you know, in medicine we like things in these nice, neat, tidy packages. we like to assign tables. you're now in denial phase, now acceptance, all these things. and, you know, during that interview and then certainly in the months that followed, i realized that things are messy. they're sticky. they don't follow rules.