David Fagenbaum

It was so painful to breathe, and I was starting to let go.

And I remember looking up at my sister, and everyone else had said goodbye, said goodbye to all the people that I love.

And my sister looked at me and said, just breathe, Dave, just breathe.

And I remember hearing that, and I was like, you know what?

I can do maybe one or two more breaths.

Let's go.

And I did a couple more.

OK, I can do a minute of this.

I can do an hour of this.

And those couple of hours to couple of days were the difference for the time we needed for the chemotherapy to kick in to save my life.

And so I think with all these challenges that we face, if you can have the vision for the future, the support by your side, and then really take things one step or one breath at a time, I think we can overcome so much.

I think that I just completely agree with Kia in everything she said.

I think I probably fall on the end of the spectrum of being maybe a little bit more optimistic and hopeful, which I think it's great.

The important thing is I think that it's finding some balance.

I think it's important that we work together and do tough things.

But I think that what I would say is that

I sort of have the mindset of what's possible in terms of treating patients with horrible, deadly diseases, and I get a chance to see people that said goodbye to their family, that were on their last legs and were able to save their life with a medicine that wasn't made for that disease.

And it's hard for me to put it into words just what that means when you get to see someone come back literally from the dead, where you literally get to see someone walk their daughter down the aisle on their wedding day, get to hear their child speak to them for the first time.

These things are so powerful and they give you so much energy.

It's hard to describe.