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OKD: Of my illness? Well, I've got lots of illnesses. They all overlap each other, and
different ones do different things to me at different times, depending on what's going
on and what I'm eating. I try to do the right thing. It's hard, you know? It's hard to

do the right thing, and once in a while, like last time, I think we had an interview, I
wound up having to go in the hospital for my heart. My legs were swelling up really
big and I was in there, but my heart was making that happen.

BiTS: Oh dear.

OKD: And I'm still having trouble with all of that, but I'm so much better than I was
at that time. I couldn't do the interview, and I wanted to talk to you.

BiTS: Yeah, yeah. So when you first started being bad, I gathered it was some sort
of wasting disease, is that right? Your body started to disappear or something, I don't
know.

OKD: Well, I started having, they said it's psoriasis.

BiTS: Oh, yeah.

OKD: That I have psoriasis. All of

a sudden, I had sores on my legs
and big streaks, red and blue
streaks and they got infected and

that's why I had to go in the
hospital.

BiTS: Oh I see. Okay.

OKD: But my legs were swelling
up real big and that was caused
from my heart to have problems.

So I have a-fib (atrial fibrillation)
in my heart, which makes my legs

bad, and it does other things to me
too. It's kind of under control. My
wife said to tell you I had diabetes
too, real bad.

BiTS: Oh dear. Oh, that's awful.

OKD: Yeah, I have diabetes and I've got heart trouble and I've got the psoriasis, and

it all overlaps and I have so many doctors and they really try to help me, but
sometimes what one does is against what another one does.

BiTS: I gather that you can't play guitar anymore, at least not in public anyway.

OKD: Oh no. I haven't played guitar since 2017. I had to quit because I had another

disease where my arms turned black, and you could see the heat coming off of them,