Myra Solano-Garcia
Appearances
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
I don't do well with numbers. I have difficulty remembering names. My poor husband. I forget what he tells me.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
I can drive. I can take care of the house. I can cook.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
I played Maria in West Side Story, in Summerstock. I performed at Carnegie Hall and Fisher Hall.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
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.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
She tested me for eight hours. And at the end of the day, she said, you have Alzheimer's disease.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
They asked, would you like to be part of the trial? And I said, you bet I would.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
Drawing some pictures that don't make any sense, that wasn't good. Counting numbers backwards, that didn't work too well either. Yeah.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
But I'm almost done with the infusions. So, you know, it's really exciting.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
We start out with the Star Spangled Banner and we do the Yankee songs and some movie songs.
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What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs
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.