[Damn it.... It was worth a shot, but.... He'd just have to keep struggling on.]

It's more that I don't know exactly how it'll progress, in specific. Only that it will, eventually, and what the eventual problems will be in a vague sense. It hadn't happened.... to me, or the other person with this illness who researched it.

['Illness'. Understatement of the century.]

We're the only two people who suffer from it.