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Saget said he couldn’t sit and watch what happened to his sister, happen to more people. “Robin Williams did the events seven times, he just, any time I asked him, he said, ‘OK, chief, whatever you need,'” he said. John Stamos, George Lopez, Ray Romano, Dave Chappelle, John Mayer and Robin Williams were among the friends who helped him. Through laughter and star power, Saget raised more than $26 million for the Scleroderma Research Foundation. “It’s so healthy to laugh, and I’m out there doing it and I know it’s healing for people.” “Humor is the only way my family survived,” he said. You know, and being an actor, that’s a very important thing if your hair gets out of place.”Įven as he talked about the death of his sister, humor came in.
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“And it, I don’t know how to explain it, but it felt like, I mean, I’m going to go all ‘woo woo’ here, but it felt like the soul going past us, literally felt it. “We were all in the room when she let out her last breath,” Saget said. Her symptoms completely resolved after she started taking medication to suppress her immune system.īut when Gay Saget was diagnosed, much less was known about the disease and how to treat it. “I couldn’t hold the small dental instruments to do root canals and my hands were swollen. My face started to swell up,” Adams-Williams said. They were heavy as I was going up the steps. Like Saget’s sister, Cheryl Adams-Williams, a dentist, saw multiple physicians before receiving the correct diagnosis. But lack of awareness in both patients and clinicians often causes a delay in diagnosis. Wigley said the drugs used to treat the disease work better “at the very early onset” than when the disease has already caused irreversible damage to a person’s tissues or skin. Fred Wigley, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University who has studied scleroderma for 45 years. “It can be a very terrible multi-system disease, but not in every patient,” said Dr. For unclear reasons, the disease is often more severe in people of color. About 80% are women, most commonly ages 30 to 50. In the United States, an estimated 300,000 people have scleroderma. “They named everything except what it was.” She went to regular medical doctors that said that it could be lupus, it could be mental illness, it could be Epstein-Barr,” Saget said.
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Her body, she said, it felt like her skin was on fire. It can also damage internal organs, especially the lungs. Symptoms of the disease include tightening of the skin, finger and toe pain, arthritis, muscle weakness and trouble swallowing. “I can’t get the images of the end of her life out of my head, ever.” And I couldn’t bear it,” Saget told LaPook in December. “It was a three-to-four year process, and she was gone. The comedian and LaPook discussed the disease and how Saget used humor to cope with his loss. Gay Saget died from scleroderma, an autoimmune disease where excess collagen causes tissue to lose its elasticity, in 1994. Jon LaPook, speaking about his sister Gay in one of his final interviews. Just weeks before he died, Saget spent a day with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Behind his witty persona in front of the camera, actor and comedian Bob Saget was haunted for years by the death of his older sister.