what my immune system was doing much all the drugs tried for castleman disease didn't work for me. >> dig into that data he collect. >> based on a few patterns i found i'm thought maybe this drug, drug that had never been used in castleman's before, used in kidney transportation to suppress the immune system, i thought maybe we can try it and caitlin and i both just felt like we got to try something. >> nothing else work. >> reporter: so dr. faganbaum is doing it. >> to be honest i wasn't all that cost that it was going to work. >> reporter: former athlete turned penn researcher professor and wharton mba is experimenting on himself and now another milestone. >> it's been three years without a relapse. more than twice as long as ever before. >> reporter: still not enough for david faganbaum. too many doctors have never heard of or know how to recognize kess salman disease. >> up until a couple days ago even there had never been a diagnostic criteria for castleman's disease. never been a checklist. >> reporter: now there is. and you can read more about it in the current edition of the m

days ago even there had never been a diagnostic criteria for castleman disease.ecklist. >> now there is. and you can read more about it in the current edition of the medical jump blood. >> what needs to be done. >> he lectures about his incredible journey and progress. ♪ >> i'm literally dying in this picture in the intensive care unit just across the street. report roar his story featured this week in the new york times. and there's more. >> we're also now thinking about translating our research into trying to identify additional drugs that may work for patients even testing the drug that's working for me on more and more patients. >> all of that takes a lot of money. and that's where fundraising galas and caitlin as head of communications for the castleman disease collaborative network are helping to double the numbers of volunteers, patient, doctors and scientists and those donations from around the world. >> next, we want to have a family. that's definitely top of our -- top of our list of things. >> reporter: his future is still uncertain. a cure not yet. th

. >> reporter: the pep rally at castleman creek elementary school in hewitt, texas started out l onlyknow the cheers were for her. >> mandie! mary me! >> under the panther costume is the principal's boyfriend. the look on her face says it all. i think my heart stopped for a few minutes. seemed like the world stopped turning there, i was like my gosh this is really happening to me. i couldn't believe it. and then when he walked over and he, my in my heart just melted. [ cheers and applause ] >> they were cheering and chanting and yelling in the background. all of these great things. and i felt like -- so much joy at that time. and it is an indescribable feeling. >> what do you think she said? >> yes. >> oh. >> so cool. also, she looks like she could >> i know. >> just finered eighth grade what is going on. >> that's the principal? >> and, it is a game that is popular with the kids. >> that's why we couldn't. discover, paperio. new voodoo game. >> voodoo? >> discover voodoo. what it says. and while we are at the in the meantime. one more story of love. >> one of the best feelings when y

. >> who is harry castleman? >> he's my coworker, we met at northwest university and he and i were actually the beatles experts at our college radio station and as one of our send offs to the station we did a 17-hour, 46-minute live history of the beatles and it showed how well we could work together and we just had a nice give-and-take repartee, we haven't been in the same city for years. i have this idea, i have to entertain my coauthor and if it doesn't make his cut, it's not good enough. so i think we benefit from having to one up each other throughout. >> well, unfortunately we barely scratched the surface of this 50-page book, history of television. our guest walter pedrazik coauthor. >> this is book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers, here is our prime time line-up, tonight starting at 6:45 eastern david provides history of civil wars around the world. then at 7:45 p.m. how everyday items and occurrences can help explain physics. on book tv's afterwords programs at 9:00 p.m. eastern tracy martin

. >> who is harry castleman? >> he is my co-author. we met at northwestern university.e and i were actually the beatles experts at the college radio station. as one of our sendoff's station we did a 17 hour, 46 minute live radio history of the beatles. and it showed how well we could work together. we just have a nice give-and-take repartee and when we write we had not been in the same city for years. we just do things by carbon paper and then by electronics and it is life, i have this idea. okay i have this idea. balance, balance, balance, balance. and we come up with something that is the ultimate. i have to entertain a co-author. and if it doesn't make his cut, it is not good enough. so i think would benefit from having to one up each other. >> unfortunately we barely scratched the surface of this 500 page book. it is a history of television. watching t.v. is the name. our guest has been walter podrazik . >> booktv records hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long and here's a look at some of the events we will be covering this week. on monday

. >> reporter: the pep rally at castleman creek elementary school in hewitt, texas, started out like other. only the principal didn't know the cheers were for her. >> mandy, marry me! >> reporter: under that panther costume is russ johnson, principal mandy vasek's boyfriend. the look on her face says it all. [ cheers ] >> i think my heart stopped for a few minutes. it seemed like the world stopped turning there. just because i was, like, oh, my gosh. this is really happening to me? i couldn't believe it. and then when he walked over my heart just melted. [ cheers ] >> i could hear the kids. they were cheering and chanting and just yelling in the background. all these great things. >> what do you think she said? [ cheers ] >> she said yes. thank you, linsey. i'm david muir. see you tomorrow. good night. >>> it's official, president trump names neil gorsuch to fill the vacant seat on the supreme court tonight. find out what this nominee has in common with former president obama. >>> obamacare faces an uncertain future, but what is certain is the deadline for covered california is just