Scleroderma is a disease that causes the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissue, according to Mayo Clinic. Saget was on the board of directors for the Scleroderma Research Foundation for over a decade and had hosted their events for around 25 years. 'It is incredibly painful to have a loved one experience a condition like this. She had to move to Los Angeles to live with my parents because she needed so much help. 'She got treatment, but it was just treating her symptoms with drugs like prednisone and cortisone. She was 44 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma. Saget told the National Institutes of Health's MedlinePlus magazine in 2019: 'My sister, Gay Saget, was a school teacher near Philadelphia.
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