Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Vols coach Summitt has early onset dementia

Legendary Tennessee women's basketball coach Pat Summitt has been diagnosed with early onset dementia,  Alzheimer's type, she says.

Summitt, 59, plans to try to coach this season for the Volunteers. She has 1,071 career victories and eight national championships at Tennessee.

"There's not going to be any pity party and I'’ll make sure of that,"Summitt told the Knoxville News-Sentinel.




11 comments:

Tomc112 said...

The irony of this cruel disease is it can be cured or prevented but Big pharma will not let it happen.

Anonymous said...

My thoughts and prayer go out to Coach Summit and her family.

Anonymous said...

My mother in law died from this on 8/8. She had suffered for over 10 years.

Anonymous said...

What a classy lady she is. My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family.

Kingward said...

Terrible, terrible.

Anonymous said...

@ Tomc112 look up Cerefolin NAC

Tomc112 said...

Nope that is a band-aid I'm talking about a real cure. it prevents Amyloid from going into the brain. It works on mice and had incredible results even removing amyloid from the brain. here is a link and if you have someone in your life that has Alz. then they could talk to a cancer doctor show them this article and hope they would try this cure, but they would be going outside of the FDA rules so good luck.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303134435.htm

Anonymous said...

Coach Summitt is the best basketball coach of our era.

Anonymous said...

My prayers are with you Coach Summitt and your family.

Anonymous said...

That stubborn woman will find a way to make this disease sorry it ever decided to play on her court, even if it gets the best of her in the end.

Godspeed Coach, give 'em hell.

Host Pay Per Head said...

wow I did not know about this at all, and to be honest, when you said "iagnosed with early onset dementia, Alzheimer's type" that sounds pretty serious, I hope he can come over it and get well soon