The real depths came in solitary suffering over the next 36 hours, after he returned home, not knowing what to do next, exactly how to tell his wife, McKinzi, and other family members what they may have already suspected — that he was a man in the throes of potentially deadly decline.
He also knew his path would become a public deal — and that was a double-barreled blast of embarrassing and humiliating. He thought people would laugh at him.
"That was the lowest point of my life," Hall said. "… Now, I can look at it as a blessing because my secret was out, everybody knew and it was time for me to get help.