Thank you all for your help. I really thought that I was past "living at risk" for HD. . I was 16 or so when my Uncles Dr. told my cousin and I that the only way to stop the disease, was for all the females not to have children. I went on with my life, of course, thinking that "it won't happen to me" There wasn't any genetic testing then. then after so many years of noby lkr - Huntington's Disease Support Center
My Family learned about Huntington's Chorea, back in 1954 when my parents checked on the death of my Grandfather. My Grandfather was institutionalized in 1928 as an "inebriate" and while at the hospital it was discoved that he had Huntington's Chorea. Several of his children did inherited the disease and have unknowingly passed it on to their children. From what I have been able toby lkr - Huntington's Disease Support Center