My family is still having post-traumatic stress disorder. 'It is incredibly painful to have a loved one experience a condition like this. Gay, Saget recalled, eventually moved home to Los Angeles from Philadelphia to be with her parents following her diagnosis at 44. Severity varies, with some people seeing effects in their skin and others, in blood vessels, internal organs and the digestive tract, the Mayo Clinic shares. Little did I know that just a few years later, my sister would be diagnosed with the disease.'Īccording to the Mayo Clinic, scleroderma is 'a group of rare diseases that involve the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues.' More prevalent in women than men, it often occurs between the ages of 30 and 50, and there is not a cure. 'I said yes and hosted the event, which starred Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell and others. 9 at the age of 65, recalled of speaking to founder Sharon Monsky.
'I got a call from someone I did not know asking me to host a comedy fundraiser for a disease I knew very little about,' the actor, who died on Jan.
In an interesting twist, Saget had actually started work with the Scleroderma Research Foundation a few years prior to Gay's diagnosis, he told NIH Medline Plus Magazine in 2019. In 1985, his sister Andrea died of a brain aneurysm, and in 1994, he lost his other sister, Gay, to the autoimmune disease scleroderma. But his family life was anything but funny.
