Sometimes I can't believe how much I have accomplished in my life more or just getting by every day given my severe health limitations. I'm beginning to see the light, ceasing to care anymore whom I please or what anybody has to say about me. Therefore, I am beginning to be able to produce the best work I am capable of living with terminal illness. My specialty care doctor said something to the effect of, "Jonathan, it is a wonder how you had even done a thing much less get up and be alive, literally, for the past 20 years or so, when all of this started." I provided her the medical records I dug up, proving I had the rare terminal illness that I do since I was born. To be more precise, I was even born with it. I was a stillborn, for three days with no natural breath, and no natural heartbeat, just a life support system, maintaining any possible life inside me, and 40 years later, I hope (I turn 40 in less than a month) I happened to survive.  

 — Jonathan Harnisch