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OK, sure. That makes total sense. What what was it, though, that really got you involved in the caregiving space or that led you to feel like you wanted to help support family caregivers? Is there an experience or a story that goes along with that? Yeah, I feel like most great things come from personal pain. I think most families kind of went through the pandemic and to some capacity. We all learned something and there was unexpected change there. For myself and my family, this was a journey that we never imagined. You know, I, I didn't imagine getting into caregiving, certainly not in this decade and had gotten a call. And we're in California. I've still got family back on the East Coast. And so when we had gotten that call, there was an accident. And then, of course, in most crisis situations, you got a short period of time to kind of figure out what do we do and. You know my grandmother, I had the opportunity of growing up in a multi generational home. And so when we got the call from my grandmother, it felt very easy to figure out yes, OK we can, we can jump in, we can help. But when we learn that it will be require 24/7 care and she was already there helping my uncle. Who was navigating cancer? So we knew that there was a contingency. We knew that those two were working closely together. And he needed her. And so now with the care that she needed after the dementia diagnosis, it was a scramble. I mean, like most people, you don't know what to do. You're, you're given limited information and you do the best that you can with what you know. And so we couldn't kind of uproot and move back east. So we moved them across country.