One question dominates 24-year-old Ravi Veriah Jacques’s thoughts: who will he be after his illness?
Ravi Veriah Jacques wakes up in his childhood bedroom and wonders if it will be a good day, which he defines as getting about two hours of activity – maybe playing the violin, or writing for a little while. The rest, he’ll spend in bed or doing what he calls “existing”: watching television with his eyes shut, trying not to think.
For over a year and a half, debilitating fatigue and a constellation of other symptoms have confined him to a quarter-mile radius around his father’s London home, circumscribing his former identity as a star Stanford University scholar and an accomplished musician whose life spanned the globe.
