Robert Lipsyte: One of the powers of blindsided for me was the way you channeled your own personal strengths as a producer, as a human being into the disease itself, which leads us to always that danger of what they used to call the super-cripple syndrome. It's not everybody is going to be as powerful as you were or I suspect the people in strong in the broken places. Do you have any thoughts about that?

Richard Cohen: I believe that people are much stronger than they think they are. You know we all hear people saying oh I could never deal with that, I couldn't cope with that. You know people who have not been tested sort of assume that they would fold the second anything happened, I don't think that's true. I think that there's a reservoir of strength that many or most of us carry around that's really deeper than we think. I think that the most important thing in a person's life when they get sick is not to become a victim, not to become a professional victim, not to go into, fall into the poor me syndrome, because that's, that's the kiss of death. I think what you've got to do is grab hold of it. You've got to appreciate your own resilience, your own strength and just keep going.