It's just a simple matter of a blood sample from the patients.

It's still a hard core piece of work for us to get the message out to people as to how to protect themselves. It obviously would be nice if we could identify which people are more at risk and this particular study is . . . an opening into that field.

This becomes one way we're hoping that we can identify patients who might have severe problems and can be warned about it.

When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched.

A handful of other long-time hurricane chasers have been doing this for years. And we were getting requests from the general public and long-time tornado-chasing customers to take them to intercept hurricanes.

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.