Any longer than six to eight months and the symptoms will be harder to stall. And the earlier you get it to me, the longer I have to find the most effective treatment.

[She's still blunt, not padding what she says with any platitudes or apologies. Fact is fact, and she suspects this woman has known her time has been finite and let her research herself in a circle trying to figure out why her cells were falling apart.]

You're lucky that monster had me take a second look. Otherwise you would have been left to fall apart all on your own.