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It was just after Christmas 2013, and David Fajgenbaum was hovering a hair above death.
2013年的圣誕節剛過，戴維·法根鮑姆正處在死亡的邊緣。
He lay in a hospital bed at the University of Arkansas,
他躺在阿肯色大學的病床上，
his blood platelet count so low that even a slight bump to his body could trigger a lethal brain bleed.
他的血小板數量如此之低，以至于身體上的輕微碰撞都可能引發致命的腦出血。
A doctor told him to write his living will on a piece of paper. David was rushed to a CT scan.
醫生讓他把生前遺囑寫在一張紙上。大衛被緊急送往CT掃描。
Tears streamed down his face and fell on his hospital gown.
淚水順著他的臉流下來，落在他的病號服上。
He thought about the first patient who’d died under his care in medical school and how her brain had bled in a similar way from a stroke.
他想到了第一個在他的治療下在醫學院死亡的病人，以及她是如何因中風而出現類似的腦部出血的。
He didn’t believe he’d survive the scan. But he did.
他不相信自己在掃描后能活下來。但是他做到了。
David was battling Castleman disease, a rare autoimmune disorder involving immune cells attacking vital organs.
大衛當時正在與淋巴結增生癥作斗爭，這是一種罕見的自身免疫性疾病，患病后免疫細胞會攻擊重要器官。
It wasn’t the first time a relapse had threatened his life.
這已經不是第一次舊病復發威脅到他的生命了。
Massive “shock and awe” chemotherapy regimens had helped him narrowly escape death during four previous attacks, but each new assault on his body weakened him.
在之前的四次發作中，大量的“震懾”化療方案幫助他死里逃生，但每次對他身體的攻擊都使他變得虛弱。
“You learn a lot by almost dying,” he says.
大衛說：“你可以從瀕死體驗中學到很多。”
He learned enough to surprise his doctors by coming up with a way to treat his disease.
他學到了足夠的知識，想出了一種治療他的疾病的方法，這讓他的醫生們都很驚訝。
Six years later, he’s in remission, he and his wife have a baby girl,
六年后，他的病情有所緩解，他和妻子生下了一個女兒，
and he’s devoting his medical career to saving other patients like him.
他把自己的醫療生涯獻給了拯救像他一樣的病人。
As a boy in Raleigh, North Carolina, David spent Saturdays watching the North Carolina State Wolfpack football team with his dad, the team’s doctor.
在北卡羅來納州的羅利長大的時候，大衛每周六都會和他的父親，也就是球隊的醫生，一起觀看北卡州立狼群足球隊的比賽。
At age seven, he was obsessed with becoming a Division I athlete.
七歲時，他癡迷于成為一級運動員。
In middle school, he would wake up at 5 a.m. to go running.
在中學，他會在早上5點起床去跑步。
The walls of his bedroom were covered with football play charts.
大衛臥室的墻上掛滿了足球比賽圖表。
He achieved his dream, making the Georgetown University football team as a quarterback.
他實現了自己的夢想，成為喬治敦大學橄欖球隊的四分衛。
But in 2004, during his sophomore year, his mother died of a brain tumor.
但在2004年，在大衛大二的時候，他的母親死于腦瘤。
