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Epifanio Figueroa

Pleural mesothelioma survivor Epifanio Figueroa shares his deposition experience with us.

We had a deposition all day long by Two dozen lawyers representing seventy something companies, and and, we had to be there. These people want you to fail. So What they do is they don't even let you have a pencil to write anything that has to be by memory. They know you're on the chemo. That's better for them because they know that you're gonna be forgetting things or not mentally aware. They know that you get tired because they want you to stay four, five hours in a row. They want you to get tired so you mess up your conversation. So your answers. Right? And sometimes they had to carry literally. I remember Sam and Dan, Sam, picking me up through one arm, and another person, and moving me away because I couldn't even stand up at the, at the, the position. I couldn't stand up So they had to lift me up and take me out of the room. So that's what they wanted. They wanted us to failed by some miracle. We didn't. You know, we remember everything. In fact, we remember more than we thought we'd do good remember. And I remember one day that Sam that one of the lawyers asked me, how many companies can you name that use as best of. And I remember that we went up to seventy two by memory, and I I wrote them all down. And to me. I I kinda I don't have the slight idea how I did that, but I did it. So we did we did everything that day list.