Lillian talks about her changed view of life and work.
Transcript
You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who works as hard as I do. So I don’t have to do that now. And there’s no way I’m going to do that now. I thought that the cancer, everybody says, “Oh, it changes your life, and you have a different view on life.” And I was kind of like, “Yeah, I guess. Hopefully, I’ll go back and not work as hard as I did.” But I’m not sure that that would have happened. But I feel like the heart failure has been the real – like if I’d had that surgery, I would have been dead probably. There was a chance that I was in that five-year survival, maybe I still am, but I don’t think I am. So now I can say, well, I don’t have to be the one who’s on all the committees.
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