Article, Family Planning, Huntington Disease, Infertility, Positive Living
I was an emotional mess when I first met Jeff Carroll at a Huntington’s disease conference. My recent gene-positive diagnosis was on my mind. I couldn’t talk about it without crying, and I believed that I would never be happy again. My husband and I were trying to...
Adoption, Article, Infertility
What do these boots have to do with adopting a baby? Before our daughter was born my husband and I spent five days in the mountains trekking under the midnight sun, hoping over ice cold streams, scrambling up large boulders, and stopping to take photographs of tiny...
Article, Huntington Disease, Positive Living
For a time following my diagnosis as gene-positive for Huntington’s disease (HD), I avoided elderly people. The mere glimpse of a wrinkled hand was a reminder that I was going to develop Huntington’s someday, and that was something I was trying to forget....
Huntington Disease, Podcast, Positive Living
To listen to my performance on the Grown Up’s Read Things They Wrote as Kids, episode 227, click HERE
Article, Huntington Disease, Positive Living
I was standing backstage in a dimly lit holding area sectioned off from the audience by a heavy velvet curtain. I took a deep breath, trying to stop the trembling that was making its way through my body. Dan, the event organizer, caught my eye mid-breath and gave me...
