Gordie Howe has dementia

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/hockey/nhl/02/02/gordie.howe.dementia.ap/index.html

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At 83, Mr. Hockey is still in demand and on the move. 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."

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***On a personal note, Mr. Howe and his wife Colleen did their business at a bank where I worked. Unfailingly they brought in treats at Christmas and just because. When my daughter had her second birthday he brought in a teddy bear for her. I was just a lowly bank teller at the time. His kindness and enthusiasm for the city of Detroit and its people knows no bounds. I was so sad to read this today.

[RockaFowler]

1. This is just awful

One of the greats of the game. I really hate this disease. It's slowly taking my Mother-in-law. It took my Grandmother. I pray for him and his family

[joeybee12]

2. That's sad...I wish him well...nt

[madinmaryland]

3. It is a horrible disease. I wish Gordie and his family the best through these trying times.

I remember eating and drinking at Gordie's restaurant back in the 83 &84. in Glastonbury, CT. That was when he was playing for the Hartford Whalers.

[MaineDem]

4. It's a nasty disease!

Nice guy. THis is such a shame.

[bluedigger]

5. But he's still playing, right?

I'm sorry to hear that. He's one of the all time great pro athletes!

[applegrove]

6. I adored him when I was a kid. He was still playing hockey at 50 and I really related to older

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people as a kid.

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. He played his very last game at the age of 69, with the Detroit Vipers.

In 1997, he signed a contract for one game, and played one shift. He could then say that he played in 6 different decades.