Andi: I had to do a lot of research on my own life. I had to look at medical notes from doctors' visits. I had to look at the CT and MRI and other procedure results and interpret those. I had to look back on emails I'd sent to my family in moments of lucidity just giving them updates. I had some text messages I'd saved. When I was trying to look for clues about what exactly I'd experienced, I even came across some writing I'd tried to do, which was completely nonsensical. I didn't even remember having done it. I had to do a bit of investigation. Out of these breadcrumbs, I had the dates and times of appointments, and emails to friends and family about the results, and some other things that I'd jotted down at the time. I was able to kind of recreate that journey. It was tricky. For me, it called into question what I think is the real fundamental question of memoir anyway, which is, who is telling this story? How much of it is true? What is truth? What is the self? Who's the I that's doing this storytelling? I talk about that a lot in the book because it's so interesting to me and because my experience was very much about that, that questioning of, who am I if I can't think, if I can't use words? I'm a writer. Who am I? If I'm not there, who am I?