Chad Daniels

Well, my mom is very excited.

Don't really talk to my dad.

Yeah.

He left before the whole wheelchair thing, so he's like a regular shitty dad.

So, I'm about to be 28, right?

I got diagnosed at 18.

And when I was diagnosed, they told me I had diabetes.

Two years left to walk.

You know, my life expectancy was 40.

It's progressive, and so much of you is a muscle, so, like, your sight, your hearing, your speech, all that would go.

So I was kind of a whore for a long time.

Yeah.

Hell yeah.

But the good news, about like six months ago, the FDA approved the first treatment.

It's the progression of it.

You know, if I could just, like, know what my body was going to be like the following day, I think I'd be fine.

But this medication is just three pills every day, and it pauses the progression.

So, fuck, I'm very excited about this.

So there is a different clinical trial that I was actually part of that is...

With clinical trials, once they're tested in so many stages, they go into open label, which is when the people that were in the trial get to take it for free for a few years to make sure it's okay before FDA approval.