Mr. Sadieh was feeling too depressed to come to the stage, and so we only heard his recorded talk.
He told of the disease affecting his eyes, and how he lost all sight in his left eye first. Then he said, " I tried to save my right eye, which the disease began to infect, but unfortunately it is on its way to the same destiny as my left eye".
That, coupled with other physical and neuropsychological symptoms, and combined with the fact that treatment in his country, Syria, is very expensive, left him with no hope for the future.
Mr. Sadieh was diagnosed at 19 , but said "I think this terrible disease has been with me since my abnormal childhood, which I spent with a group of different diseases." (Mr. Mhammed Sadieh, May 2000)
Mhammed Sadieh disappeared the next day.