A story on PennLive.com notes that Lancaster area news anchor Kim Lemon thought her husband had suffered a stroke and took him to the emergency room, where the doctor suggested he had Parkinson’s disease. The couple’s daughters, Meg, 25, and Morgan, 22, began researching their dad’s symptoms online and came across the Neurological Department at University of Pennsylvania. There, at last, John was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, the second-most common form of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. Intent on helping others with LBD, John has committed to donating his brain to a research bank at the University of Pennsylvania. “I’m so proud of John. He’s been so brave,” Kim said. “He’s involved in all kinds of research studies and everything he’s taking part in will not benefit him. I have a great deal of respect and empathy for him because he sees and feels his decline and I know he feels a sense of powerlessness.”
PennLive.com article