- Greg Wyszynski: When I wake up in the morning,
I don't know if he's gonna be alive or gone.
Because the diseases that he has,
they really affect every part of his body.
I go down and I see his chest rise,
I can breathe a sigh of relief.
Here's your Vitamin Water.
Get some sunlight into this picture, huh, CoRy?
- CoRy Wyszynski: Yeah.
- Greg: There you go.
My mom and dad weren't huggy, feely people.
They weren't that way.
My dad, he just never said, "I love you."
Feel okay? - No, dizzy.
- Greg: Dizzy?
As far as for me, I love my son.
He's the best thing that ever happened to me.
I was there from day one.
I cut the cord.
He turned his head and he looked right at me.
I'll empty this for you.
I mean, I've done a lot of drugs,
but that was, like, the best trip.
This is CoRy's life up here.
He's just been, y'know, quite a character
through the years.
Here's CoRy.
He graduated summa cum laude.
He was doing so good.
His star was starting to rise.
Then when he got sick, I was devastated.
Everything got cut out of his life.
I told him, "Get rid of your apartment.
Get rid of your car."
So he moved in with me.
- CoRy: Thank you.
- From then on, I was his caregiver.
- CoRy: Thank you. - Greg: Yep.
- CoRy: My dad is the helping hand
through every hard day that I have.
And he's also the guiding light
for every good day that I try to obtain.
Can I have a waffle? - Yeah, you can have a waffle.
- CoRy: My dad does everything
so that I can just focus on living.
- Greg: Here's your knife and fork.
- Thank you.
My own body has become the enemy.
So I'm fighting myself every day.
It's exhausting being me.
I lost everything.
But then some things have just become so much stronger
and blossomed, kind of like my relationship with my dad.
You wanna grab a seat? - Greg: Yeah.
Wanna play Wordle? - Mm-hmm.
- Just a black screen. - What?
Let me see.
I can see that it's aged him, and that hurts.
- I just guessed three. - Three yellow?
- Three yellow and the green.
- It's a painful realization
that I'm the thing that's aging him faster.
- Greg: I got an appointment to see Dr. Yee in two weeks.
- CoRy: Which one's he again?
He's the one for the spot on my lung.
- CoRy: Oh, right, right. - Greg: Yeah.
There's been times where I've needed to take care of him.
He's had many surgeries, and then I'm his caregiver.
- Greg: Sometimes, y'know, when he's down for the count,
if he says it's okay, then I'll go down and paint.
People tell me, they say, "Well, why don't you hire somebody
so you can have a life?"
I say, "I have a life."
Y'know, CoRy's my number-one priority,
and everything else just kinda falls into place.
[CoRy clearing throat] He's my son.
And I'd do anything for him.
I'd take a bullet for him.
- My dad, he's not just like a best friend.
He's like a soul brother.
And we've saved each other's lives, though.
Multiple times.
- There's no cure for what he has.
And I don't know how long he's got, y'know?
I don't know how long I got.
But I know I got today, and so does he.
So I make sure to say, "I love you" every day.
Every night, we say a little prayer, y'know,
and then, "I love you, Dad."
"I love you too, CoRy.
Good night."
[gentle music]
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