Saundra Blankenship

"I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering of all human emotions." -- Jane Goodall

This Blog is dedicated to my family who are at risk for HD. To my mom (Carolyn) who was tested in October 2006 and is positive. All my life I thought my momma didn't love me she had terrible violent outburst she was alcohol dependent for many many years and she never seemed happy she always seemed mad and upset and verberally abusive more than normal. I can honestly say that HD has given me and my family some peace to know that we can forgive the past and move on to take care and love her and to help her through this horrific disease. I have a view that HD is with those of us that have a positive result have signs but they are so subtly to the human eye we can't comprehend them until we are years in. I grew up with mom and the mood swings and temper tantrums are all real then and now they just progress deeper and fuller. I feel HD is like a theif that comes to steal, kill and destroy us slowly causing agony, I am 42 and can go back and evaluate my life and I have been symptomatic for 7 years or plus and that is taking a personal assessment of oneself to figure it out but I look at my mom and the mirror image of her is in me it is why I chose to take the test on my own.