Abbey phoned me up and told me about your conversation. I was diagnosed about seven years ago. My life expectancy is normal. My particular course of MS is relapsing remitting, which means I should experience total recovery after attacks. Abbey gives me injections of something called Betaseron, and that reduces the frequency. Fever and stress tend to be two things that induces attacks.
Well, you're the President of the United States, you're delivering the State of the Union tomorrow night, India and Pakistan are pointing nuclear weapons at each other, and you have a 102-degree fever. So I guess we're out of the woods, hmm?
101.9.
Jed, of all the things you could've kept from me...
You haven't called me 'Jed' since I was elected.
[sits] Why didn't you tell me?
'Cause I wanted to be the President.
That wouldn't have stopped me from getting you here. And I could've been a friend.
You've been a friend.
But when it was time to really...
I know.
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