From: Boris Nikolic To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: RE: FW: Yesterday Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 00:30:13 +0000 I will be OK — do not worry. Fragile might not be a right word. Shaken is perhaps better. Fortunately my mood is already much better (it lasted few hours). Talking time off now is not an option. It will come later in summer. B From: Jeffrey Epstein [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 5:27 PM To: Boris Nikolic Subject: Re: FW: Yesterday I thanks , i sincerely appreciate the trust, I have no idea of the facts. But I am aware that you are emotionally fragile at the moment. so while your worry might be fully justified there is a possiblity that you need to rest and recharge . working so hard , to block out the tough issues , can only sap your strength, . whatever happens we will deal with, it. . On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Boris Nikolic < > wrote: Please keep this confidential. Mark is great but I do think that he is trying his best to calm me down. It is the best if you read from my mail at the bottom first. Re his email: Snellen numbers — is a test that show that I will most likely not have much improvement after cataract surgery. He is explaining why it might His worry is something that I did not mention at all — his worry is that he will need to continue killing my retina by laser (laser burns it my a heat), that he will need to continue to go in rounds and rounds. Essentially my blood vessels of retina are slowly collapsing. This ischemia is what is producing Vascular growth factor hormone which as a result has a growth of new fragile blood vessels growing where they should not be growing. As they are where they should not be — they are fragile and result in bleeding. As a consequence of bleeding you get scaring an retinal detachments. Laser acts to burn these ischemic parts of retina so they stop producing vascular growth factor (and by each treatment I am losing a part of my visio