Despite suffering from a serious flare-up of his chronic ulcerative colitis, Lawrence decided to go, but he became ill while in Geneva, and was rushed back to the hospital at Stanford University.
Aniden gelişen kronik ülseratif kolitten acı çekmesine karşın Lwrence yine de gitmek istedi ama Geneva’da iken hasta oldu ve Stanford Üniversitesi’ndeki hastaneye kaldırıldı.