May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month!!
I love Trey Gray and I consider him a Champion for Huntington’s disease (HD) like Michael J. Fox is for Parkinson’s disease.
HD is an autosomal dominant trinucleotide repeat disorder that causes the progressive degeneration of the basal nuclei. This degeneration leads to clinical symptoms affecting voluntary movement, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric disorders. It’s rare, genetic and fatal and has all the symptoms of ALS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s at the same time. There is NO CURE. Only 41,000 American’s have the disease and 200,000 live at risk and 16% of all cases are children with Juvenile HD.
Watch the Trey Gray’s video, Beating the Odds of Huntington’s disease here.
Thank you Trey for all your advocacy work you do and have done for the HD community! #LetsTalkAboutHD
Trey was diagnosed 19 years ago and given 10-15 years to live. He feels that his work as a professional drummer has helped him fight the disease. He said, “I’m definitely beating the odds. And that’s a good thing. I want to be there for people to say, ‘You can do this. You can have an okay life!” Trey Gray Foundation
Trey played with Faith Hill on her climb to fame for seven years and then played with Jewel. He has been the drummer for the popular country duo, Brooks and Dunn for many years.
Please help the nonprofit, Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate fight this disease by donating to fund research, fund two (2) HD clinics at Stanford and UCSF Medical Center, three (3) local HD support groups, online support groups, and many free online resources.