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I've always thought of exudate. I mean, we've been trying to, for the longest time, to classify wounds, to kind of make a common language around the world, kind of a therapeutic and kind of lingua franca. And when we look at, I've always thought of drainage as being something that's probably kind of important, but sort of soft. And how do we even say if there's this much drainage? Or that much drainage. And it's always been, I've always been skeptical of this. But I'll tell you, I'm becoming less skeptical because I think this is, whether it's just the amount of drainage or the characteristics of drainage, the color, any kind of odor, any kind of, whether it's serous, sanguineous, purulent, seropurulent, you can mix all these things together. Even though those terms are very soft, I think we're now hardening up the fact that we're going to probably now become a little bit better at defining these things. It's a super exciting time right now because you're seeing folks clinically in the operating room, the clinic, on the wards, and academically looking, going after this issue in terms of drainage, exudate. More and more seriously, trying to measure what we manage.