Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is incredible. Thank you so much for being here. I think it was Mr. Dryden who said at one point that it's important to hear from pro sports on this, but it's so absolutely important to hear from you.
I made a comment this morning in a CBC interview about the fact that pro sports have the best knowledge, the best techniques. They know, while your coaches—well, certainly Rachel's coach—maybe didn't have that background, that knowledge.
I have two teenage athletes at home, one who just got off the ice. We have not had the misfortune you've had.
You were told, “You'll be fine” by a doctor. It shocks me, and that goes back to wanting the grassroots organizations to have some of the knowledge they have in pro sports. Maybe one of our jobs is to find a way to transfer some of that knowledge, to find the people who know the stuff about concussions at the pro level and transfer it to those grassroots levels, because it's happening at young ages.
Rachel, you said you completely ignored your symptoms for the first week. Did you know something was wrong? Did you ever think it was a concussion and you just didn't want to admit it, or were you thinking, “I'm fine, because they told me I'm fine”?