it's a great analogy - the problem child, who has mended his ways. it doesn't happen overnight - and even when those problems are mended, he has to demonstrate to those around him that he has changed. While i'm pissed about this process, i like the fact that the FDA is having FaceTime and interaction with CA. It's only a matter of time until they resign to the fact that this is a totally different company, it's doing great things - and that they need to help them along. Maybe we're well into that transformation in their minds - it will happen.
As for Shackleton, forget hiking in sub-zero temperatures and hurricane force winds in Antarctica for months at a time. That's for whimps. If you want to feel some serious personal pain, frustration and emotional upheaval, just buy a boatload of CYDY back in 2016, brag to your wife about how it's going to lead to an early retirement, and put the ticker prominently on your yahoo finance app.....