in 2014 I would have been able to withstand an operation to replace the lungs with gills and live 40 years with a temperature of 39.5, perhaps at the last moment I could withstand it now...

Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.

in 2014 I would have been able to withstand an operation to replace the lungs with gills and live 40 years with a temperature of 39.5; perhaps at the last moment I could survive it now