My name is Dawn, and I am HD negative. However, I have lost my grandmother, my aunt and my mother to Huntingtons Disease. My sister is positive, my brother un-tested. This is my take on a genetic nightmare.
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Harder Than I Thought…
Writing this blog is harder than I thought. It’s one thing to upload the old posts that I wrote, as my Mom was dealing with Huntington’s and dying. It’s another to look at where that left me… us. My family. … Continue reading
You’ve Got to Start Somewhere…
How strange to be starting a new blog, starting over. My other blog, Tales From the Motherland, has been up and running since June 2011. It has 500+ subscribers, and I send it out each week via all kinds of … Continue reading
A Bonus, Love Story
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
I’m writing this for the Weekly Writing Challenge: Characters. Check it out and give it a try. Her scent often announced her presence, long after she’d come and gone. Shalimar and cigarette smoked…
Stick. Stack. Stuck.
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
image: annetaintor.com Stuck. I’m stuck. Stuck in this seat this morning, dressed in my work out clothes, but not working out. I’m stuck with my computer—poised for work, the screen blank, my mind…
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Anxiety, Being stuck, Depression, Grief, Loss, The Huntington Chronicles, Working through hard times
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Mother, May I…
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
To my mother, with love. For those of you who have been following my blog for a while, you know that New Year’s Eve is the anniversary of my mother’s death. For those…
Posted in Blogs, Family, Grief/ grieving, Huntington's Disease, Huntington's Disease blog, Mothers, The Huntington's Chronicles, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Death of a parent, Grief, Hospice, Huntington's Disease, longform, longreads, Loss, Mothers, Personal change, The Huntington Chronicles, wplongform, Writing
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Black and Blue
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
Sweet solitude.Image: Paul Anderson, photographer extraordinair. I woke to the hangover— of sadness, anxiety, dark feelings that pulled me into sleep last night… after hours of…
Posted in Grief/ grieving, Loss, Writing
Tagged Depression, Grief, Loss, Personal struggles., The Huntington's Chronicles
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The Middle: Leftovers
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
This Christmas I realized something… there are a lot of leftover feelings and memories that cloud the holidays for me. Melancholy falls on me as Christmas approaches and shift my experience, as hard…
Sometimes The Pressure of the Holly, Isn’t So Jolly…
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
I’ve always been a Christmas person and when I married Smart Guy and we agreed to raise our children in Jewish faith, I embraced Hanukkah as well. That makes December a big huge…
Posted in Family, Grief/ grieving, Huntington's Disease, Huntington's Disease blog, Loss, Mothers, The Huntington's Chronicles, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Christmas, Depressed during the holidays, Grief, HD, Huntington's Disease, longform, longreads, Loss of a parent, The Huntington's Chronicles, wplongform
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The Middle: Atonement…
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
image: chabadstanford.org Tonight marks the start of Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement. It follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which started last week. These are the High Holy days, the holiest…
Posted in Blogs, Family, Grief/ grieving, Loss, Mothers, The Huntington's Chronicles, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Forgiveness, Grief, HD, Judaism, longform, longreads, Loss, The Huntington's Chronicles, wplongform, Yom Kippur
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For The Record…
Originally posted on TALES FROM THE MOTHERLAND:
Anyone who’s been reading this blog for more than one post, knows that I say for the record, all the time. Pretty much every post in fact. And anyone who knows me for…
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