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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Un-Edited Thoughts From Christmas Day, 2015
Is it a wonder that I rarely write at this blog? I think about HD every single day, but I don’t want to think too hard. A friend recently sent me a note and told me she’d read Lisa Genova’s … Continue reading
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…
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