Bleeders Have Dreams Too

We sit down with Rocco Weber to connect sprint car racing, hemophilia, and the mindset it takes to live with purpose instead of fear. We dig into community, access to care, and why peer support and better tools can change what’s possible for people with bleeding disorders. 

• Rocco’s vision for a first annual hemophilia racing community event in Knoxville, Iowa 

• Connecting “horsepower and awareness” as a practical mindset for hemophilia life 
• Learning to stay dialed in daily and avoiding the bubble mentality 
• The need for mentors and role models when you grow up feeling alone 
• Rejecting the “plan B” narrative and building safer paths to big dreams 
• Real talk on work, money, and consequences when health problems interrupt life 
• Access to care challenges, long waits for HTC appointments, and gaps in general medical knowledge 
• Why peer-to-peer insight is powerful and where it can also mislead without education 
• Telehealth options and Zebra for Care as a faster route to hematology guidance and gene therapy education 
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Transcript

Welcome And The HemoLife Mission

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Emo Life Podcast, your gateway to transformation and power. Hosted by LA WIO We're diving deep into the world of rare disorders, unlocking the full spectrum of your potential. This episode, join us as we connect with pioneers, wellness experts, and survivors. They're here to share powerful stories and valuable insight. From mental resilience to physical health, community news to life altering strategies. At Hemo Life, we provide the tools you need to excel and inspire. Prepare to elevate your life, learn, laugh, and grow with us. Let's embark on this journey together.

SPEAKER_03 1:05

This

Community And Purpose At The Track

SPEAKER_03 1:06

event is all about community, connection, and showing people with bleeding disorders that life can still be exciting, meaningful, and full of purpose. Today we're joined by some amazing guests from the community to talk about their stories, what this event means to them, and where they think the future of hemophilia care is headed.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Hey, how are you guys doing? I wish I was there. I'm headed actually to my brother's graduation. It's a terrible day to have a graduation, but I wish I was there with you guys. Rocco, I went out and actually toured your guys', you know, facility out there, the track. It is incredible. And I think, you know, this is just the first of many uh events that people you got to tell them about the golden ticket. You got to tell them about Knoxville, Iowa. I mean, it is an incredible place. Yeah, guys.

SPEAKER_03 1:50

Welcome,

Rocco’s Story From Hemophilia To Racing

SPEAKER_03 1:51

welcome uh to the show. Rocco Weber here. Brother, thank you for being here today inviting us out.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Well, I'm really excited everybody showed up for this deal because this is the first annual annual annual annual U.S. invitation. Annual or annual. Anyway, uh say it again. This is where awareness and horsepower meets today. So I was born with two bleeding diseases, one's racing and one's hemophilia. And I've combined the two together my whole life. And I think there's a lot of things that both go hand in hand. I think in in racing, you know, you have to have uh a lot of awareness of where you're at, what you're doing. A lot of times you got to face your fears and live. And in racing, sometimes, you know, you have to be live a full life to to experience everything. And I want to bring people that's never really won in hemophilia and bring them to the racetrack so they can see people winning and they can learn how to win themselves.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

How did all this come together for you? I mean, I know this is something that you you've had in the back burner for a little bit. How did you finally get the pieces to come together to create this?

SPEAKER_02 2:48

Well, first of all, uh I've been involved in racing my whole life. My dad was a racer, and then uh I raced with my sons in quarter midgets, micros. We were pretty serious about we traveled the country quite a bit. I always told everybody I was the world's fastest hemophiliac, but I got involved because I couldn't race. My dad sold out of racing because I was a hemophiliac, he didn't want me getting in the car and all that kind of stuff. So I stayed involved any way I could. A lot of times I just kind of got on pit crews with people and different things, but I traveled with some of the biggest names in sprint car racing and uh been on a lot of different teams. And then when I got to her retirement age or so, uh got on rocking chair dollars, we actually moved here. And uh this is the sprint car capital world. I spent most of my life driving up here from Kansas, you know, so it's like a four-hour drive for where I usually came. Come living up here in Iowa. Um, I was able to get more involved with the sport itself, became a track official, and then I got on the fairboard as well for the uh um Knoxville Sprint Car um facility itself. And then I started realizing I wanted to take all my connections with my racing friends and the fareboard and being a track official, and I enjoy people seeing sprint car racing. I started getting more dialed into uh the hemophilia world, and I started going to some national events. That's where I met you the first time. Yeah, I think it was out in San Diego or Orlando, and then uh I started seeing how the local chapters did things and I started getting involved, and then I wanted kind of to show what I can do. I wanted uh people to see sprint car racing. So that's what I'd like to do is I'd like to I created a nonprofit uh that's gonna be kind of tailor-made for racing. And I'd love to bring hemophilia people from all over the country. I'd like to promote sprint car racing and race and hemophilia. And like I said, my main thing is to show that you can live life in a fast lane and be a hemophilia at the same time. Uh, I think a lot of times people kind of live a life in a bubble, so to speak, and and it's a mindset because just like racing, it's you know, 90% mental, but hemophilia, it's 90% mental too. Yeah, if you don't keep your mind straight in the right direction, everything goes downhill quick. Somehow or another, I ended up meeting Dr. Joe, of course, and and Dustin. Um and we got together and they came up here for a visit during the winter time and you know, toured the facilities, showed them what we had up here, and we just started building this dream from that point on.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

That's

Mindset Training Through Adversity

SPEAKER_03 5:08

awesome to have a vision to see it come to fruition. You know, so what is it like about hemophiliacs though that we we go through so much adversity growing up and you know we just have this like feeling deep down inside that we want to give back?

SPEAKER_02 5:20

Why why do we why you're born that way? Because, you know, like my mom told me, she said, you know, I asked my mom one time, laying in the hospital getting a blood transfusion, you know, pretty young. And I asked my mom, why do I have hemophilia? And she said, No, hemophilia picks you. And so it's like a purpose.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

It's almost like you like God gave you a certain purpose, and like you get to decide, like you said, with your mindset am I gonna play the victim or am I gonna embrace this and and use it for impact?

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Exactly. I mean, and that's where I say too, like on the racing deal, you know, it's so mental. Uh racing's 90% mental. You've got to be dialed in mentally to to be able to drive with them type levels of uh performance, mistake free. Hemophilia, it's really the same thing. I mean, if you're not dialed in day in, day out, yeah, you know, you can fall apart quick.

SPEAKER_03 6:01

It's just so awesome to me because we all use like different platforms. For for Rocco, it was racing. For me, it was it was bodybuilding as a platform. For Dr. Joe, being told that you couldn't be a doctor, a physician, and you became what you have and now a successful entrepreneur as well. It's just crazy that we all have like a different platform, but it's all kind of based around the same thing of like developing an elite lifestyle or mindset, you know, cultivating that so that we can succeed. And I really think that that was the premise of why we created Hemo Life was to teach other people who might not have access to mentors like this and get and let them know hey guys, you can do all these things, but you there is a blueprint, there is a process to this, and you know, you can live a fulfilling life and a purposeful one at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

I'll be really serious. I stumbled across your guys' broadcast or podcast one time, and I was blown away by the pure rawness of the whole thing and not being certain things shoved certain ways, whatever, and it was kind of open and it was like really heartfelt talk of being honest, and uh that attracted me. And I told you when I met you, whether it was Orlando, I said, you know what, I really, really like what you're doing because to me, you know, maybe I'm kind of new to the hemophilia world is you know, until I kind of got in rocket chair dollars, I didn't get real dialed into, you know, all the activities and stuff of it because I was so busy racing and things, but I knew I wanted to be a part of what you were doing because uh, you know, I think that's something a lot of people need to have is to be driven.

SPEAKER_03 7:25

Yeah, you know, I remember you having that conversation with me, and and that it's it's really nice to have those validating conversations because sometimes you think you're doing all this work and it's not really reaching anyone, it's not really making an impact. So I do remember that. And at that time was when I was uh I just got on uh disability.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

Disability, and I didn't really understand how all that was going about, and you were asking me about it because you know, um well, I can remember, you know, when I was a little kid, I saw something in an encyclopedia and it said the average age of a hemophiliac was 22. I remember that used to kind of bother me a lot, you know, because yeah, I thought, well, but I have two uncles that are hemophiliacs that are 174, 184, and they're doing great. I always had them to look forward to, which was a was a blessing in the skies, but I never knew another hemophiliac other than them. And I was never part of an HTC until I was 45. And uh we only lived an hour away from it in Addison, Kansas, which is kind of insane. And so a lot of this you know information's been kind of on coming towards me quickly, but I want to be affiliated with people like you guys that are really doing something positive.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

Yeah, growing up, you know, after like I endured everything that I went through, as I got older, more mature, I started looking back and saying to myself, man, if I just had someone to look up to, like to know that I wasn't alone. Yeah, we didn't have that. So it was just like, so now we almost have like a responsibility and a privilege to help the next generation of leaders navigate all these things from disability to chasing your dreams to having a family, you know, how do you can you still be a father? You know, I I question that. Am I can I even be a father? Like, do I have what it takes? Like, I I can barely take care of myself. How am I gonna take care of another individual? Yeah, and how there's so many of those questions we can help guide.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

Go ahead, yeah, totally totally. Uh you know, I'll go back to what Rocco said. So being a hemophiliac, if you are not dialed in every day, I love when you said this. You're if you're not dialed in every day, you can fall apart really quickly. And I feel like, I mean, I really do feel like personally, even my brother, I know like we're we're we're kind of um a different breed when it comes to we already have all these other problems. If we're not dialed in every day, you know, whether it's a swollen ankle, a swollen knee, you know, we can we can really fall apart quick. And we need that community. We need uh like a podcast, we need that friend or that family member that can say, hey, let me pick you up. We need this brotherhood, we need these times where you know you guys are you know spending a couple days together in Iowa there. We need this to keep us dialed in, this community.

The Hard Truth About Falling Behind

SPEAKER_03 10:00

Yeah, absolutely. And you know what? The the raw truth is is that this world does not give a shit about you. They don't care. There's no special handicap card that says, you know what, you have a swollen ankle today. You know, here, here's this little handicap card. You can miss work. We don't really care. No, like, no, if you keep on missing work, you won't get promoted, you won't advance. You keep on missing school, you're not gonna achieve things. Like, yeah, it doesn't matter. We can't like I've been in so many situations where I had finances do, and they're like, no, you get you need to be in the hospital for a month. And it's like, I can't afford to be in the hospital for a month. Like, what am I gonna do? How am I gonna provide? I remember losing my house because of it, because I actually did. I was bleeding internally, and I I ended up having to go to the hospital and I lost everything. You know, you know who c gave a shit about that? Nobody. Nobody gave a shit about that. I lost everything and I had to I had to figure it out on my own. So it is key to have guys like this in our lives to to help us stay mentally strong through those hard times that Echo.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Have you ever had a time like that in you growing up where maybe you had a like, you know, hey, I I'm a hemophiliac, I got a problem, but I just gotta keep pushing. My, you know, did your parents ever say, hey, you're gonna go out with those other boys, or you know, and you're gonna just gonna act, you're gonna be normal, like ever have that situation where like it doesn't matter whether I have hemophilia, I gotta do this. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

My dad was a contractor, my mom's dad was a general contractor as well. Both my hemophiliac uncles are hemo are contractors. Everybody in my family is involved in construction. But like my dad said, uh, you're a hemophiliac, but you're gonna have to do things differently. You still gotta eat. Yeah, so you still gotta work, you know. You're just gonna have to do a few things differently. You're gonna have to wear gloves when your brother doesn't. My dad used to make me wear loot lace up boots so I wouldn't turn an ankle as easy, you know. And then uh he always kept, you know, a bag of gloves for me. You know, no one else was allowed, you know, the way I always had a set of gloves if we're doing something sharp. And then he taught me how to run a backhoe to try and stay out of the ditch, you know, and uh taught me how to run equipment sometimes, you know, to kind of make that a little bit safer. But you know, like you said, you gotta eat too. And now I'm 60 uh two and a half, and you know, I'm not saying I still got a few good laps left in me, I hope.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

But the fact is, is you know, I I have until the wheels fall off,

Rejecting Plan B And Chasing Dreams

SPEAKER_03 12:12

right?

SPEAKER_02 12:12

I mean, I know that I've looked towards my uncles for, you know, even though they weren't really, you know, with hemophilia, they thought at times they grew out of it and stuff, you know. But but I know there's kids today that you know don't have no one to look up towards and seeing somebody older, you know, and uh and that's what I'd like you. That's what was really big about me. And I like the name that I came up with, bleeders have dreams too, because I do believe bleeders do have dreams too. Yeah. And and that was my whole thing was I want to tell and help people learn that they get to have dreams.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

Absolutely and they can pursue them too. You know, when I used to go to events as a as a child, like hemophilia events, uh, when I would go, they would be talking to these kids about their dreams. Well, what are what are your dreams? Like, I want to be a baseball player, I want to be this. They would be like, Oh man, that's awesome. But did you did you ever consider that you could possibly like keep score or you know, you could do that? So, like that was the the narrative that they're receiving at that age, you know. It's like that's what we're trying to change. Like, no, no, no, we're not there is no plan B. You don't have to have a plan B. Like that that might be the worst mentality, really, that that we're discovering is like you gotta lock in. If that's your dream, like chase it. Figure out how to do to do it. Like when I started working out, there was no other bot competitive bodybuilders. And when I first started going in there, I was getting bleed after bleed after bleed. It wasn't easy, but then I was like, but there has to be a way. So I started searching, doing research, studying, nutrition, exercising, how to do it properly, the right weights, everything. And once you put all those pieces together, that was, you know, I believe that you find what you look for, right? So Tony Robbins, he do you know who Tony Robbins is? He's also he does this thing where he's when he's teaching the crowd, where he'll say, Okay, everyone, close your eyes, and then everyone will close their eyes. He said, When I tell you to open your eyes, I want you to look for something green in the room, and then everyone will open their eyes and they'll look for something green, and then he'll say, Okay, now close your eyes. And he'll be like, tell me one thing that was you know, the color red. Everyone's like, Well, I don't know. It's because you're not looking for it. Same thing when you buy a new car, you start seeing that car everywhere on the road. So it's just like we're the these things are in front of us. We have to be looking for and be willing to do whatever it takes to find the answer.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

The mind's the strongest muscle you got, and you and you have to develop it. It took me a long time to get there with that. Uh but you know, I was told, you know, like I said, dad sold out racing, you know, when I was a kid because he didn't want me getting in the car. You know, he's worried to death about it. I played football when I wasn't supposed to. I made it to my junior in high school. I was bruised from head to toe. You know, there was just uh and then they finally made me quit playing football, but I was told no, a lot of things. But with racing, yeah, I just kept involved any way I could. But that's what kept as long as I had a race to go to, look forward to, that gave me something to look forward to my whole life.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

Yeah, that's fulfillment. That's true fulfillment.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

And I and it was the one thing that took my trigger. And so my whole life racing saved me. And I was able, you know, there's always a race down the road somewhere, somewhere to go to, and that's what kind of got me through every injury I've ever had, you know, every time I was icing a leg up or whatever happened. And uh, and that's what I want to teach other people. I'd like to be able to show them, you know, uh this is a pretty cool thing, and I want people to be able to enjoy it just as much as I did. Yeah, well, thank you for creating this is where you know horsepower meets awareness.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Yeah, thank you for creating you know, bleeders have dreams too.

Growing The Event With Support

SPEAKER_03 15:19

Final question I have for you is like, where do you want to see this go? Like, how do you how do you see this progressing? You would you like to see more of these events in the future?

SPEAKER_02 15:25

Well, thanks to good people like uh ASAP, pharmaceutical, and John Thorson with Octavarma. I mean, these guys are helping things happen. Yeah, that's amazing. We need resources to bring these people out of the way. Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, that's amazing. We wouldn't be having us deal to do.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

I love seeing them put the power back into the people themselves, not just like you know, the chapters or organizations saying, Hey, we'll give you money to do something.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

They didn't see anything. You know, I invited Joe and Dr. Joe and Dustin up, and uh they and I showed them what we had with snow on the ground up here. Yeah, and I was not pretty in this.

SPEAKER_03 15:57

We need that.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

We need someone to believe in us and I said, you know, this is something I'd like to show people, bring people in and give them something totally different, a completely different lane, you know, than what we've ever seen. I'm excited. I cannot wait to see that. That's gonna be cool.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

I've never seen, I've never been to a race like this.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

It's gonna be really cool. And I just decided to take my connections that I have in the racing community and and kind of merge it with the hemophilia community, and that's really what where it's at. And I love people when they're first time, you know, you know, all the people we have up here, no one's seen a race before. So it's gonna be awesome.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

Let's get into just a topic. I

Access To Care And Peer Advice

SPEAKER_00 16:30

think that all of us have maybe experienced this at one point or another. But Rocco, have you ever experienced issues with access to care? So, you know, you know, I have a bleed, or you know, people don't even, you know, you go into a hospital, they don't even know what hemophilia is, uh, or even just getting into a hemophilia treatment center.

SPEAKER_02 16:48

I've never was a part of an HTC till I was 45 years old, and I live one hour from Kansas City. So everything's been happening fast for me since I was 45, kind of getting involved with HTCs and learning about the industry and everything else. So everything's like a huge amount of information, and I'm trying to absorb as much of it as I can. You know, all the flyers you get in the mail, different things, you know, people that I've been to uh three national events, you know, I've learned so much because there's so much information out there.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

It's kind of a uh there's some positive and and very But it's like what do you do with that information? Because there's so much. What do you do with it after the event? Like, does it really sink in and make you say, hey, I want to make a choice? You know what? And in situations like right here, we talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Yeah, you know, and that's what really is great because uh this guy's on that, this guy's over here on this, you know. How much does it influence you?

SPEAKER_03 17:37

How much does it influence you hearing from a peer rather than 100%?

SPEAKER_02 17:41

Because if someone's telling me they're using something and doing good with it, I'm all yours.

SPEAKER_03 17:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

You know, I'd like to know more about it or whatever, because everything's changing, you know, you ever you're hearing about there's new medicines coming out and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

So but I can see two sides to that because I mean, say you have a conversation with one person and they're like, absolutely do not do gene therapy. Like that is it's it's not the answer right now. Don't do it, and then all of a sudden you're swayed for good. But in maybe if there was some more due diligence or a different platform, some more education to say, hey, based off of your lifestyle in particular, this could be for his lifestyle, it wasn't. For yours, it could. So, and that could be a life-changing event for you. So, I mean, that there's a it could be a double-edged sword that way, but I'm the same way. I would listen to a peer.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

I met this guy about five months ago. Yeah, his name's Dr. Joe. Yeah, and he's a I've heard of him, he's a hemophilia. Small little guy, right? Yeah, he's a hemophilia. He's one of us. Yeah, yeah. The fact is, you know, if he tells me something, I'm all here. Yeah, and that is a fact.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

Yeah, we get a lot of because we get it, we no, no, true. Like, we get a lot of people actually reaching out to us on the podcast about their treatment, their medical treatment. We get so many people reaching out.

SPEAKER_02 18:47

I remember going to a dentist one time and I told him that I have Christmas disease, and he was a new dentist, and I was filling out all the paperwork. And the guy says, Really? And I said, Yeah, seriously. I said, I have this blood disease, it's called Christmas disease, hemophilia B. And he said, Uh, my wife has Christmas disease. And I said, Oh, she does? He said, Yeah, she spends way too much money at Christmas, too. You know, I wanted to hit the guy in the mouth, you know, because you know, I was being serious and I had a uh crown problem, you know, and and and he's and I'm okay with joke about it, huh? Well, it's just our whole life, you know. People don't know anymore. I lived one hour from an HTC in Kansas City. Yeah. And and I didn't know anything about it until I was 45 when we moved to another town and a different doctor, you know, yeah, sent me there. So when a guy like Dr. Joe talks, I listen. Yeah, I agree. You know, because he's been down there, you know, um, yeah, there's a lot of new stuff.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Doctor with hemophilia educated.

SPEAKER_02 19:37

I mean, that's that's a valuable reason.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

I I appreciate that, Rocco. I mean, really having patients connect to uh with us on these platforms is really key because there's a lot of patients in need. A lot of patients are lost in the healthcare system, they don't know where to go. And we're uh a conduit that can plug them into the right resources to get the right education to possibly make the right next treatment decision for for them, or even speak to a doctor. I mean, HEMOLIFE platform is really an awesome way to connect with the community.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

I believe so, and it needs to be expanded because, like I said, there's a lot of people need to hear the gospel of what we're spreading. And uh it's raw, it's real. You don't you look all through the internet, you won't get this anywhere else. It's it's real life people is about what we deal with.

Telehealth And Zebra For Care

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Hey Rocco, I have a really quick question for you. So if you had the ability to connect with a a hematologist, okay, and you could do it right from your phone, just right from your phone from the comfort of your home. Is that something you'd be interested in for getting information and also maybe even getting a treatment plan? Is that something that's like exciting for you in 2026? Or now just go to the HTC?

SPEAKER_02 20:47

Because uh sitting around waiting for the HTC to get your appointment sometimes, you know, I'm a year and a half away to my next appointment. Okay, yeah. How far away is the HTC? It's uh about 90 miles from here. Okay. They they seem to be a good, you know, it's it's a fine, but uh they really seem to be busy over there, you know. Uh they're in the middle of it, like everyone I've been to, they're in the middle of an oncology center and they're kind of shoved off to the corner pretty much. But I would like to have more access.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

Yeah, I mean, I'm we're we were seeing we're seeing a lot of hemophilic patients in 2026. You think this would be not an issue, but it is. We have a lot of patients that are actually having issues with access, getting in, getting into their hematologists in a in a timely manner. We're seeing this issue, and there's a platform that uh provides an ease of access, really these telehealth consults, consultations from the comfort of your home. We're actually partnered with a company called Zebra for Care. And what they do is they connect uh hemophiliacs to a platform they can speak to a hematologist. It's really awesome. LA, tell me your uh thoughts on it.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

Yeah, I think it's a I think it's an amazing platform. I mean, we like you said, we have so many patients that reach out to us. They say that they it takes forever to get into an HTC appointment. And you know, with the emergence of gene therapy coming, you know they're There's so much confusion around it, so little education that truly sinks into us and that we can articulate and understand, hey, is this truly beneficial for my life? And so Zebra for Care has created a five-minute assessment that you take online and then it it immediately gives you the results. And you can do two one or two things with it. You can go you can take those results and just give them to your hematologist, or you can go talk to a board certified hematologist online, and then from there they'll set you up with blood work as well. And you're not it happens with within a week or so, or even a week. I'm not even sure if it takes that long to get in.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it you can get in uh very quickly. What they do is they connect you with the hematologists online, the telehealth uh appointment. And then you're if if you're in if you're a candidate, then you're actually they they uh connect you with the hemophilia treatment center that's local for you to start getting more information and maybe even treatment for gene therapy. It's a really awesome platform. And you know, this is what I love is we started, you know, a hemolife podcast. Now we have a telehealth hematologist. We also have a doctor that has hemophilia. Now we're making it easier for folks to connect through the community and not be left on an island. I mean, Rocco said, you know, his HTC is 90 minutes away. He's got an hour plus drive. There's other people in other states that are got a six-hour drive. And, you know, it's it this is something that there has to be a better mousetrap at the end of the day. There has to be a better solution. And now solutions are starting to emerge. Connecting with the community is through the HemoLife podcast. Now connecting to a hematologist.

SPEAKER_02 23:43

You know, I am 62 and a half. Everything's changing a lot quicker than it used to. I know that's a fact. And every once in a while, you know, you wake up today. I woke up and I can barely lift my arm up, you know. I don't know if I slept on it wrong or whatever, but um, it would be nice to have it a little bit more accessible. I'd love to be able to pick up a phone call and say, hey, yeah, I got this problem.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

Would you listen to what I got? Even in an emergency situation, Dr. Joe and I, we were working with a patient who could not get a hold of his hematologist, was having an emergency. So something like that.

SPEAKER_02 24:11

Some of the HCCs I've been to too, it's only certain days a week, and then only certain times a day you can call them.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

I mean, so that's you know and nothing against them. It's just that you know, they're limited basis.

SPEAKER_03 24:21

I mean, it's still a very dangerous disorder in some cases, depending on where the bleed location is, what happens. Um we we need that quick access and answers. Oh, that'd be great. You know, yeah, $1.800, you know, Dr. Joe. That's a number. All right, Rocco. Hey, we appreciate you. Thank you for doing this event. Thank you. I'm excited for the rest of the day here. Let's go. We're gonna bring on our next guest.

Final Takeaways And Closing

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