It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Scleroderma News is strictly a news and information website about the disease. MORE: Discover seven tips to help manage Raynaud’s phenomenon during the seasonal changes We are still at the stage where we need attention and much more funding,” Saget wrote. “I will spend the rest of my life dedicated to helping our amazing Board of Directors at the incredible Scleroderma Research Foundation to work with the best medical minds as we fund a cure.
In 1996, he directed a television movie titled “For Hope” which was based on his family’s scleroderma story. She had been living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but moved back to Los Angeles to be with my parents as they sought medical care for her. Two years later, she passed away.”īecause of his close friendship with Monsky and seeing scleroderma take his sister’s life, Saget wanted to do more to help fight the disease. “No one should have to suffer as my sister Gay did. She was 44 in 1992 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma, a disease that strikes mostly women in the prime of their lives. Gay Saget was diagnosed with scleroderma when there was little to be done.
