Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — The disease that’s stealing Jerry Sloan’s memory hasn’t taken his sense of humor. We are in the lobby of a downtown hotel, this week, meeting several others for lunch. I ask if he ever hears from Jeff Hornacek.
“I don’t talk to someone with that kind of money,” he says.
Lewy body dementia (LBD) raises havoc with memory, movement and cognitive ability. Five years after his diagnosis, Sloan’s hand trembles and his recall wavers. But he still can make people smile. When I saw him a few months ago, I asked what he had been doing lately.