This awareness, it shows my 11-year-old self or another 11-year-old, another 12-year-old, that they will not have to go through what we went through. Seven to ten years of not being diagnosed is crazy, right? And so I'll be honest, I know it's a room of doctors, but I'm gonna be honest with y'all. I lost hope in the medical. Like, I was just over it. And a lot of the times where people will start, going to other ch-- like chat rooms, other places to find their care, that can be helpful, it can be hurtful, right? And so it just takes that one doctor, that one doctor to show that they care about you.

And for a HS person, I will say, like, help-- If I was talking to someone, help is here, right? Like, help is here. You do not have to suffer anymore in silence. If there's a doctor that you're just like Because you get to a point where you're in debilitating pain, you just wanna get out of the pain. You don't care who it is. You don't care if the doctor don't like you, just help me get out the pain, you know? But that becomes a reactive treatment where there were so many doctors that were treating the symptoms of HS. But my girl, Dr. Kyaz, she got it. She got it. I'm like, "I don't wanna have to wait until the flare is horrible." She understood.

It became proactive treatment. And so I think we're living testimonies, liv-- that evidence that it is real. and now it's a re-- it's a proactive treatment where we're, we're trying to minimize the flares. Like for example, knowing-- I know, I've learned to know my body.

Stress is one of my triggers, so I've had to learn how to s-- "You need to stop. You need to go get your nails done." "You need to just like Your husband can feed himself. Your son can feed himself. Just leave." I've learned to choose me. Yeah. So in HS, choose you.