HD - It's Not High Def Anymore

Retrieved from: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14369-huntingtons-disease   Alzheimer's Disease  Parkinson's Disease ALS Schizophrenia Those four diseases are some of the most serious and worst diseases known to man. Personally, there is one that I like to think trumps them all...    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE Huntington’s Disease (often referred to as Huntington’s or HD) is a rare, terminal, hereditary neurodegenerative disorder. The easiest way to describe it is to say it is almost equivalent to having Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, ALS, and Schizophrenia simultaneously. I say “almost equivalent” because for some sciency-biologyish way, not everyone experiences the disease process the same way. In the next few paragraphs, I’ll take a little bit of a deeper dive into Huntington’s - I have extensive personal experiences with it, so I consider myself a bit of an expert. Huntington’s is rare. The World Health Organization classifies a disease as “r...

 Hello and Welcome to HD - It's Not High Def Anymore! The Test Result That Changed My Life   My name is Christian and on May 4, 2022 I was was told the above result by a medical genetcist from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - I inherited a genetic mutation. This genetic mutation causes Huntington's Disease. This horrible disease is prevalent in my family - my grandfather and mother both passed from it.  When asked to describe what Huntington's Disease is, the first words that often pop into my head are " the worst disease you've never heard of ". Huntington's is a rare, terminal, neurodegenerative disorder that is often referred to as having ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's and Schizophrenia simultaneously. It's an autosomal dominant genetic disorder - that's just a fancy science-y way of saying that Huntington's is caused by a genetic mutation. Autosomal dominant just refers to the way the genetic mutation is pass...