And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, that those would ultimately be his identity, and if they were his identity, they would become my identity, that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded.
Et maintenant, je savais grâce  au travail que j'avais fait que s'il avait n'importe laquelle  des maladies qu'on allait tester, alors elle deviendrait son identité, et si elle devenait son identité,  elle deviendrait la mienne, que cette maladie allait prendre  une forme différente alors qu'elle s'étendait.