While Mr. Trautwein's carrer has certainly been higher profile than mine, and the effects of the virus on his body more severe, his experience with the disease and reaction to it closely mirror my own. If you don't have time to read the entire article, here are the last couple paragraphs:
"My intimacy with health care in America has been costly and exhausting. I know these are small prices to pay for life.
What I’ve gained is precious. Above all, the constant companionship of plague has taught me that life is about living, not cheating death. Fighting disease is required and struggling with life inevitable. But I accept the outcomes now, whatever they are. My disease does not make me special, nor does my survival make me courageous.
On that day I walked from the hospital knowing I had “it,” I was given a great gift: the realization that we all dangle from that most delicate of threads and that the only way to live a life is to love it.
I haven’t died on schedule, and I’ve been learning not to live life on one either. "
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