so it's called intravenous human immuno globin or ivig for short. i think most people who've never had to take it have never heard of it. maybe it's not a common drug, but it is made from other people's blood plasma and so for about 20 years, often on, i have been having regular infusions of this medication. and it takes a long time to have these infusions five or 6 hours each time. and so a lot of time to sit in a chair and wonder where it's coming from and who are these people that are providing the plasma that i depend on in order to maintain a very normal life? so that's kind of where it all began. for me, it's a really personal story. yeah, and that really comes through in the book. it starts with this story, incredible story of you smuggling other peoples human blood into china, which sounds like it was almost routine for you. why? why were you doing that? why did you have to do that? well, shortly after i was diagnosed with this disease, i moved to china to work as a foreign correspondent. and this was a period in china that was just after an