Chapter 17
Always with you“WHAT?!! NO CURE?!” I nodded. The next day Wonbin came to the dorm. Hongki and Jonghoon went to the hospital with manager oppa for his session with sunbae-nim.
“We’re researching for one yet. One came out positive. But we had to abandon it because of the cost. So we’re still in the research mode.” I explained.
“This is highly impossible, right?” I did some research on the disease. And it said the people from 65 years above are suffering from this.”
I nodded. “Mostly. But there’s a possibility that people from 30 to 65 get diseased too. The percentage is less than 5. They are called the early-onsets. It comes with the genes. This happens when one of the three genes inherited from the parents changed. Or severe head damage he had in the past or chronic alcoholism.”
Wonbin heaved a sigh. “He drinks a lot, doesn’t he?” I didn’t reply. “Doesn’t he?” he snapped.
“Not regularly.”
“Still it might be the case, right?”
“Maybe. I don’t know.”
“So what’s the worst news of him?”
“His brain gets damaged very soon. I mean the neurons are dying quickly. It’s really weird.”
“Meaning?”
I sighed. “… he’ll lose his memory soon, if the medications can’t reduce the speed of spreading of this. Eventually he… he will” I bit my lip. “die.” I whispered.
“NO! don’t say that. The medications will reduce it. It won’t happen in the near future. Don’t cry yoori. I’d do anything to help him.”
“You… ca
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