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Communist songster Woody Guthrie died of this disease.

1 posted on 09/24/2025 11:09:56 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Did Arlo inherit it?


2 posted on 09/24/2025 11:18:53 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

It uses mRNA gene therapy place directly into the brain.


3 posted on 09/24/2025 11:20:52 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I knew a woman whose family suffered from this. Her grandfather, father, one uncle, twin brother and another brother all di3ed from Huntington’s. She was determined to not have children, to avoid passing it on.


7 posted on 09/24/2025 11:32:21 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
John Paul, Jr. auto racer died from this disease which he inherited from his mother. Long slow decline, very sad to see…. Glad there is some treatment.

https://www.johnpauljrhd.com/

10 posted on 09/24/2025 11:52:59 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The disease runs through families, relentlessly kills brain cells and resembles a combination of dementia.

Looks like the left have something to blame their actions on ?

And the dog broke the lamp


12 posted on 09/24/2025 12:16:38 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; All
Any progress made towards a cure for Huntington's is great news, as it has personally affected me.

Huntington's runs in my family. In 1992, when my first wife was pregnant with our first daughter, we found out that my mom had it. Fortunately, we lived near Johns Hopkins Hospital which has a Huntington's Disease Center. In 1992 you had to submit to a battery of tests to determine if you were a carrier. I was not willing to do so - there was a psychological component to the testing and I was not sure if I wanted to know. However, my daughter, who is now 32, did get tested and does not have the gene - which means I don't have it. If she had tested positive, it's likely I would have already been showing symptoms.

While at Hopkins in '92, the social worker in charge showed me a hand-drawn, meticulously researched genealogy of my mother's ancestry - tracing it back to about the American Civil War - indicating probable Huntington's victims. My daughter, through the LDS website, FamilySearch.org, has found much the same information. I learned that one of my mother's brothers had HD.

My mom did pass it to one of my brothers - he has since passed away, but his health situation was compounded with the fact he was also HIV positive. What was heartbreaking was seeing his deterioration from the disease: the nursing home that took care of him put him on a feeding tube because of dysphagia - robbing him of one of the few pleasures he had left - eating food. You could tell he understood what was being said and that his brain was engaged, but HD destroyed his ability to communicate. The disease is truly devastating, and any progress towards a cure is great news.

14 posted on 09/24/2025 1:00:53 PM PDT by Ten Beers Gone (I don't consider the American left to be American...)
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Two of my in-laws got Huntington’s.


16 posted on 09/24/2025 1:34:30 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ( "Never thot I'd live to see the day when the right wing would become the cool ones"-Johnny Rotten)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Bkmk


17 posted on 09/24/2025 5:08:08 PM PDT by sauropod
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