Myra Solano-Garcia

I don't do well with numbers. I have difficulty remembering names. My poor husband. I forget what he tells me.

I can drive. I can take care of the house. I can cook.

I played Maria in West Side Story, in Summerstock. I performed at Carnegie Hall and Fisher Hall.

Three months in, I realized I couldn't do the work. I couldn't remember the people's names. I couldn't remember how to do the technology. The technology has been very difficult for me.

She tested me for eight hours. And at the end of the day, she said, you have Alzheimer's disease.

They asked, would you like to be part of the trial? And I said, you bet I would.

Drawing some pictures that don't make any sense, that wasn't good. Counting numbers backwards, that didn't work too well either. Yeah.

But I'm almost done with the infusions. So, you know, it's really exciting.

We start out with the Star Spangled Banner and we do the Yankee songs and some movie songs.

It's humbling because they used to know all of this music. And I know that as time goes, I'll be just like them.