A life well lived
Photo: Elizabeth Mongue
AnnaMaria Baraglia (left) and Carol Gottlieb (right) meet.
There have been moments when AnnaMaria Baraglia BS ’18 wanted to walk away from her dreams. Nearly 10 years ago, AnnaMaria suffered a stroke that left her with partial paralysis, speech problems, mental difficulties and sensation loss.
“I don’t identify as a victim—I’m a survivor,” AnnaMaria says. “But it’s been a very long road.”
Carol Gottlieb knows about long roads. Her late husband, Neal Gottlieb BS ’71, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000. This degenerative disease does not have a cure.
“Every time he had an acute attack, he would lose some ground,” Carol says. “It was like living on shifting sands. We’d get used to the new normal, and then he’d have another attack.”