Diana

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Narrative: Too many people feel lost in a world that used to feel like home.

Diana: Nothing looks familiar.

Narrative: Alzheimer’s. An invisible illness with no prevention or cure available.

Diana: I’m talking to myself. I am upset, and crying, and all that. So I called my husband and I said, “I’m lost”.

Narrative: Over 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s. Diana is one of them. This is her story.

Diana: I had two aunts, my mother, and my sister all died of Alzheimer’s.

Diana: I was just driving down the street one day and on the radio, there was an ad for a research program for Alzheimer’s. And, of course, I had been so aware of it because of my family background and was scared to death because I knew something wasn’t right.

Diana: You know, I had never even given a thought about research. And that just triggered something in my head, and I said, “ You know, I have nothing to lose… nothing to lose, so give it a try”.

Diana: It’s just totally amazing what that infusion did for me. Now, seven and a half years later, and I think the infusion helped.

Diana: I can’t even think of where I would be without the research program. They saved my life. They made me who I am at 75 years old.

Diana: I am who I was meant to be. And that is what’s important.

 

“I can’t even think of where I would be without the research program. They saved my life.”