english: Now, with the gravity of this doomsday diagnosis, it just sucked me in immediately, as if I began preparing myself as a patient to die according to the schedule that they had just given to me, until I met a patient named Verna in a waiting room, who became a dear friend, and she grabbed me one day and took me off to the medical library and did a bunch of research on these diagnoses and these diseases, and said, "Eric, these people who get this are normally in their '70s and '80s.
non_english: Sa težinom ove dijagnoze sudnjeg dana, u momentu me usisalo, kao da sam počeo da se pripremam, kao pacijent da umrem u skladu sa rasporedom koji su mi upravo dali, dok nisam u čekaonici upoznao pacijentkinju zvanu Verna, koja mi je postala draga prijateljica,  i zgrabila me jednog dana i odvela me u medicinsku biblioteku i uradila gomilu istraživanja ovih dijagnoza i bolesti, i rekla: "Erik, ljudi koji dobiju te bolesti su obično u svojim 70-im i 80-im.