I know what to do now.

For someone who went into this kicking and screaming,

when I got better, I didn't want to stop coming.

I didn't want to stop being there.

But she prepared me very well, and I know what to do now.

I know what to do, and I have to do it right away.

It's kind of like when you get a stye in your eye

and you know it's coming, you don't wait

until it's a full-blown stye to start soaking your eye.

You start soaking your eye right away.

So when my symptoms start back up for whatever reason,

I know what to do.

I mean, yesterday was a perfect example.

I've done a few other interviews for the VA,

and I've gotten a little stirred up.

And so yesterday, I thought, "OK, now today is a day

when I don't have to do anything for anybody except myself."

So I'm going to get dressed, I'm going to go to lunch

with a friend, I'm going to call him right now and say,

"I don't know what you're doing, but I need to have lunch.

Let's go have lunch."

I'm going to come back home, do a little work.

I'm going to get in my car at five o'clock and go down-

town and go to a knitting class -- I can't believe I knit,

but I do -- and I'm going to have dinner with my girlfriends,

and I'm going to feel better, and I do.