STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Graniteville woman has been diagnosed with the rarest and deadliest brain disorder in the world, her family says, and now, the once-active 65-year old teacher’s aide is grappling with this terminal illness.
Kim Marino was a very energetic, social and caring mother and grandmother just a few weeks ago, her daughter, Vanessa Pritchard, told the Advance/SILive.com.
Despite her active life, she’s now in a hospice facility, battling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease — a disease only diagnosed 1 or 2 times per million people around the world each year, according to the Mayo Clinic…