Gordie Howe To Fight Dementia

[Teagz]

ESPN.com - Gordie Howe is about to embark on another series of fundraisers to support dementia research.

It's a personal cause. The disease killed his wife, Colleen, in 2009 and is beginning to affect him.

"He's a little bit worse than last year, but pretty close to about the same," son Marty said. "He just loses a little bit more, grasping for words.

"The worst part of this disease is there's nothing you can do about it."

 

[RipCity32]

Terrible news:/
Shitty to see such a great player/person suffer from this.

 

[Teagz]

I know man. I saw a segment on ESPN back in the summer where they profiled John Mackey and his fight against dementia. It looks so hard just to deal with on a day to day basis.

 

[RipCity32]

His son actually said he doesn't have it. Which is good news.