northernbillfan
09-26-2002, 04:07 AM
Gordie Howe's wife has brain-destroying disorder
Hockey great Gordie Howe's wife has been stricken with a brain-destroying disorder.
Family members said 70-year-old Colleen Howe has Pick's disease, a progressive dementia that alters a person's personality and character. There is no cure and its progression cannot be slowed.
Full Story (http://www.syracuse.com/sportsflash/sports_jam/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?s0179_BC_HKO--ColleenHowe&&sports&sportsflash-jam)
Hockey great Gordie Howe's wife has been stricken with a brain-destroying disorder.
Family members said 70-year-old Colleen Howe has Pick's disease, a progressive dementia that alters a person's personality and character. There is no cure and its progression cannot be slowed.
Full Story (http://www.syracuse.com/sportsflash/sports_jam/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?s0179_BC_HKO--ColleenHowe&&sports&sportsflash-jam)