I did tell a few people who asked me why I wasn't writing R C, but Katie wasn't one of them. I just used her daily word gratitude.. It was pretty confronting,to be honest, and in order to move on I did lots of research. Many people who had survived the same diagnosis simply didn't enjoy the same quality of life, and the journey to wellness was gruelling. He would have had to learn to walk again, he'd have been on dialysis, and the possibility of his dying one month later, was a distinct possibility.