Interviewer
AI asked follow-up questions when I gave vague answers, skipped hard parts, or forgot details someone facing surgery might actually want to know.
Behind the book
How AI helped me shape the story.
I live in the AI world, so AI naturally became part of the writing process. It helped me ask better questions, think through the messy parts, organize notes, and keep editing until the story sounded like me.
“AI did not write the story. It helped me to tell it.”
Brainstorm
It helped me find angles, structure chapters, pressure-test jokes, and turn scattered memories into something with shape instead of one giant hospital-flavored fog.
Editor
AI helped tighten drafts, catch sections that sounded too polished or too sentimental, and keep the voice direct, funny, useful, and actually mine.
The app
I built an app because the writing process had to work around my real life.
I built an app to help manage the back-and-forth of writing, editing, and improving the story. It let me audibly listen to the story, capture audible notes, and keep editing throughout the day in a way that actually worked for me.
Instead of sitting down once and trying to remember everything perfectly, I could hear the story, react to it, add notes, adjust sections, and keep moving. That mattered because this was not clean material. It was personal, medical, emotional, and occasionally ridiculous.
In the end
The story and the words are mine.
I used AI as my team: interviewer, brainstorm partner, editor, organizer, and patient collaborator. It helped me make the book into something I could actually share. But the experience, the judgment, the humor, the frustration, and the voice are mine.