Pat Summitt faces down Alzheimer’s by fighting and laughing
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/12/pat-summitt-faces-down-alzheimers-by.html
Pat Summitt and the Tennessee Lady Vols travel with an uninvited guest. Alzheimer's crouches in a corner of the locker room, and sits at the end of the bench. Everyone wants to know, How is she doing with it? I'll tell you: She refuses to be a good hostess. She's ignoring the guest.
Pat is still Pat. She gets tired more easily than she used to, but frankly, as a friend who talks with her almost daily, I can report that what really wears her out is all the premature sympathy. She's still here, and still coaching, and when you ask her why she doesn't take a day off from work, here's what she says: "I don't want to be a sissy."
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