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,
この最後の審判 と言うべき診断で すっかり心くじけた私は 医師たちに告げられた時期に死を迎える 準備を始めなくては と考えました そんな時 待合室でヴァーナという患者に出会いました 親しくなった彼女はある日 私を 強引に医療図書館まで連れて行き 同様の病気や診断についてかなりのリサーチをしました