I Was Naive

After I married John Marin, who had an unknown gene status for Huntington’s disease, we did what most newlyweds do; live together in an apartment, a couple of years later purchasing a house and couple of years after that, talking about children.

I was very naive and John left me with the decision to have our own biological children or adopt. It was a difficult decision to make alone. I convinced myself that in 30-40 years, if John had the mutated huntingtin gene and the children inherited it, there would be a cure or therapy for symptoms, so I chose to have our children, Keith and Vanessa.

Wow, was I wrong. 30-40 years sounds like a long time, but when it comes to the brain, it is not. The brain is certainly the least understood organ in the human body.