David Hyde Pierce Tackles Alzheimer's...
Would I have helped spread the word on this before David Hyde Pierce publicly acknowledged being gay? No. But he's now out and proud and I want to share that Pierce is helping start a campaign against Alzheimer's disease, which he saw two family members suffer from.
On this ABC's "This Week" Sunday morning, he said: "I think the hardest thing in both cases, with my grandfather and with my dad, were the moments when they understood what was happening to them. It's a disease that takes your brain apart, a piece at a time. And it doesn't stop till it kills you."
Pierce said the Alzheimer's Association's Champions campaign aims to recruit one American for every person with Alzheimer's. A Web site lets people sign up for events, make donations and buy T-shirts. More than 5 million people in the U.S. live with the disease, according to the association.
"All we have to do is find a way to slow it down," he said. "We're not trying to keep people from dying. We're trying to keep people from dying this way."
Good luck David!



I've been involved with the Alzheimer's Memory Walk for the past four years (with Victor Garber's team) and David has been there every year as a supporter and a walker. Really nice guy.