Article, Family Planning, Huntington Disease, Positive Living
During the holidays, the small, wood-paneled dining room was full to bursting with my family members. Ten or more people squeezed around a table meant for six, with just an inch of elbowroom between us. My dad sat at the head of the table, which was covered by a cream...
Article, Huntington Disease, Positive Living
I was out for coffee with a girlfriend one afternoon, shortly after I was diagnosed as gene positive for Huntington’s disease (HD). We were sitting in large brown leather chairs next to an electric fire place, our coffees on a small table between us. “I am worried...
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....
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...
