and going around on a little cart and collecting quarters from the laundromat. And there was no map. And it was a different route every day. But because of the tools that we have and Google maps and because he's really intelligent, he figured out a system to make that work. So in a way, it doesn't really matter to him whether, you know, Boston is north of New York or not. But he did feel like people at the senior center wondered why he was constantly taking notes. But that's what he needed to do to remember the rules, to remember who was who. Yeah. So I did ask you, and I am curious how he copes with this emotionally. You said he feels gratitude, but is there a heightened, would he say that he's more anxious or would he be described as being more anxious now post injury than he was prior? I don't think so. Because part of what really fed into his substance use disorder was obsessive compulsive disorder. So his, what he refers to as memory hoarding, his list writing and journaling was (28/37)
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