Awaiting Vacancy
Jim Garner, 52, was diagnosed in 2011 with "mild cognitive impairment," the precursor to Alzheimer's Disease. The genetically-predetermined disease took the lives of both his mother and older brother in middle age. Although Jim occasionally infuses conversations with his characteristic wit, he often struggles to find the right words. At right, Jim kisses his wife, Karen, as she talks about the isolation her family feels as a result of Jim's diagnosis.
Thomas Leonard (right) prepares Jim to enter a hyperbaric chamber as Sarah Stoltman looks through movie titles at Renova Wellness Center in Norfolk, Va. For a span of several weeks in 2013, Jim received daily 70-minute oxygen therapy treatments in the chamber. The treatment allows patients to breathe oxygen at a level of 100 percent, thus increasing oxygen levels in red blood cells and body tissue. It is, in some cases, used to treat traumatic brain injury.
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Karen speaks with Jim prior to a Pittsburgh compound B PET scan at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. in August.
