Dr. David Fajgenbaum

So I went back to med school, Caitlin, uh, moved down to Philly.

We're like living together and I'm back on track.

You know, I'm still leading this grief support network called AMF.

Um, but I'm back on track, you know, I'm gonna find, uh,

find treatments for patients.

I'm going to finish med school.

I'm going to take care of patients.

And then I started to relapse on that experimental drug.

And Sean, that was so hard mentally and emotionally to go through.

Like, this is the drug that's supposed to work.

Like, it's working for other patients with my disease.

Like,

And it just wasn't.

I relapsed right through it, ended up back in the ICU with all my organs shutting down.

And mentally, to go through that, that was really, really tough.

And my doctor explained to me, this is now for the fourth time, David, you're actively dying.

It's unlikely you're going to survive this.

And the drug you were just on is the only drug that anyone is working on for your disease.

There are no more leads.

Like, this is it.