I sat on that bench, leaving Purdue, just finished up with drawing from the semester. Cheers ran down my face. I was at Purdue University. It was my full semester of my sophomore year. And I was feeling a sore in my mouth. I had it for quite a while. And it just kind of got kinkered sore. They got me in the next day. Performed by Opsi sent it out to the pathology lab. I went in. The whole office was on a room. They were pretty serious about it. And that's when he told me, we got your results back from the biopsy told me. It came back positive for cancer. Take a medical withdrawal from school. I don't know how I'm going to break the news to my mom. Once I saw my mom try, that's when it hit me. This one will be a long road ahead of me. And I read about Tyler Trent. And then he went to Purdue University. I even have the Tyler Trent book where I've marked with sticking out certain things that happened to him. They were very relevant to what I went through. It was fascinating to keep reading and seeing how much Tyler and Dyer were connected through our journey. I was able to connect so much with him that at the end of the journey, I wanted to be able to tell my story and advocate for these types of cancers. I had to go through speech therapy, physical therapy. Speech therapy was a big one. I learned how to talk and eat, drink, life after admission. It kind of sounds like easy, nothing to really worry about. But there's still a lot involved. I wasn't supposed to start for the eightth of August. With me, I contacted Purdue. I was like, hey, this is what happened. I wanted to enroll full time. I let my doctor's knowledge enroll in full time. They're like, Eric, it's probably not the best idea. You know, it should really take it easy. Well, I didn't really listen. I enrolled full time after you. And since then, you know, I've been shadowing Dr. Murray and I'm over dental. Dr. Murray is my mentor and any type of break here at Purdue I would go and help out there. I think you need to have a passion for denture. You know, with everything in my story, there's a chance I might go into oral surgery. I would love to help individuals with any type of oral cancer, any type of disease in the mouth that gets unnoticed. Receiving this type of treatment award means so much because I've always had a word to put myself to college. I'm a first generation college student and it helps me focus more strictly on school and reaching the end goal of becoming a dentist.