‘Just Show Up’: Accepting Support from the Huntington’s Community

Old Person's Hands on top of cane

Written by Erin Paterson

November 23, 2019

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. Recently, my husband and I attended our first meeting for a local chapter of the Huntington Society of Canada, held in the community room of a retirement home — the sort of place that used to…

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