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.
Dada la gravedad de este diagnóstico apocalíptico de inmediato me dispuse como si empezara a prepararme como paciente para morir siguiendo el cronograma trazado por ellos, hasta que conocí a Verna, una paciente, en la sala de espera que es una querida amiga, y un día me llevó a la biblioteca médica; investigó mucho estos diagnósticos y enfermedades, y dijo: "Eric, las personas reciben este diagnóstico tienen normalmente 70 u 80 años.