Noted: As she adjusted to the disease, Cynthia connected with the ALS Association, an organization formed to advocate for medical research and to help families and patients deal with the disease. At the end of March a group of people toured the Wasiman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and met with Gov. Jim Doyle to ask for more state funding for research.
Cynthia didnâ??t go; itâ??s too difficult, she wrote to the governor, to see other people in other stages of the disease – the stages where she may go.What she also asked for was more money for research, and the Waisman Center, which investigates human development and neuro-degenerative diseases like ALS, is involved in stem cell investigations where much hope is now focused.