Legal Advocacy

Advice from a Disability Advocate

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Wendy Helmka understands how important advance directives are for an adult patient with mitochondrial disease.

"The doctors told me that I would have died if I had not had the advance directive, or if I had not been able to go home with 24 hour nursing care. I would have been put in a nursing home where medicines used to treat my symptoms would have damaged my mitochondria even more, and may have killed me."

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