Do some research on Huntington’s. It’s an absolutely horrific disease that causes involuntary muscle movement throughout the body. I remember meeting someone with the disease while volunteering a long while back, and while she was able to talk briefly, she couldn’t sit still and flailed about. It was pitiable and very difficult to see, but the sufferers usually at least try to live a normal life, normal being a relative term.
One of the characters in the FOX TV show House has Huntingtons. She conspicuously absent from the show this season, but in seasons past, they’ve shown her as a child with a mother who had the disease. It was difficult to watch.
And Huntington’s is genetic so a lot of families who are afflicted with it have to watch a lot of suffering, not just in one family member but in several. It is a really sad, difficult thing.
This situation reminds me of a situation locally. An immigrant from Yugoslavia had lost his wife to cancer shortly after she gave birth to their 10th child; she had foregone cancer treatment in order to save the life of the child. The husband remarried after a while and was building a new life. Had a good job and his own body shop on the side. One Sunday 3 of his girls were driving to church in a nearby town and were in a collision that killed 2 of the girls and left the other in critical condition. The dad and his wife came to church a bit later and found the collision.
Some local Latino gang-wannabes decided that when this dad was visiting his daughter in critical condition after having buried 2 other daughters would be a great time to rob his body shop and get their street cred.
Sick. Totally sick.
Thanks! The next door neighbor sounds like she’s possessed. What a foul thing to do.
Huntington’s is awful. Someone in my church has it and getting through the service is very difficult for her and, as you say, truly painful to watch.