The Pitt's Cathryn Dylan Ortiz on Real Epilepsy Caregiving (Pt. 1)

Cathryn Dylan Ortiz got the audition of a lifetime for HBO Max's The Pitt while she was in a hospital room with her husband, who was mid-seizure. Weeks later, she played a mother living through her own son's medical crisis on screen. In this Part 1 conversation, Cathryn sits down with Greg Grunberg to talk about building a career while carrying a caregiver's daily reality — the protocol she's built for her husband's seizures, the guilt that shows up even when she does everything right, and a discovery about a medication interaction that changed how her family thinks about safety. Part 2, with more of your questions and Greg's, is coming soon. If you're newly diagnosed, newly caregiving, or this episode finds you at a hard moment: you are not the only one, and there are people who do this work for a living.