Adoption, Article, Family Planning, Huntington Disease, Infertility
As I walked down the street to get my afternoon coffee one day, it appeared as if everything were normal. Unfortunately, everything was not. I crossed the same streets I normally do, walked past familiar neighborhood shops, and waved to fellow business owners. I...
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, Infertility, Positive Living
We were standing in a line up that was hundreds of people long waiting to meet Michael J Fox, one of the stars of the “Back to the Future” trilogy of movies. All around us were adults dressed up like their favorite comic and movie characters. Having...
Adoption, Article, Family Planning, Huntington Disease, Infertility, Positive Living
I was alone in my flower shop, surrounded by a rainbow of fresh flowers and bright orange walls. The warm summer sun filtered through the floor-to-ceiling window. Despite the beauty of my surroundings, my mind was at the bottom of a deep, black pit, and I was...
Adoption, Article, Family Planning, Infertility, Positive Living
We didn’t have anything ready when we brought our baby home for the first time. Most people have nine months to prepare for their infant’s arrival; we had three days. We walked into our house as new parents, close to midnight, on a warm June evening....
