Dr. David Fajgenbaum

Like, I was as healthy as you could possibly be.

And then all of a sudden, just now in the ICU, or sorry, first hospitalized.

Within a couple days, I was in the ICU.

I had a retinal hemorrhage that made me temporarily blind in my left eye.

It's visions back.

Yeah.

I needed daily transfusions to keep me alive.

I was on something called dialysis because my kidneys weren't working.

Literally, I was actively dying.

Everything was shutting down.

I was actively dying.

We didn't know what it was.

The doctors were like, we don't know what this is.

Maybe it's an autoimmune disease.

Maybe it's lymphoma, a form of cancer.

Whatever it is, we got to figure this thing out really quickly because it was killing me.

I got more and more sick, so sick that my doctors told my family that I wasn't gonna survive.

And so my family came into town, my best friends came to town, like literally one by one marched in, we'd snot cried, we hugged, I said everything that I ever wanted to say to them.

They said goodbye to me.

Holy shit.