Huntington's disease, frequently called chorea, is a neurodegenerative disorder which affects muscle coordination and leads to eventual cognitive decline and finally, dementia. It is genetic and more common in people of western European descent than other ethnicities. It usually becomes noticeable in middle age.
Regular Blogs
A Survivor's Guide to Huntington's Disease
Documents the author's fight against Huntington's and her attempts to have a healthy child via in vitro fertilization by egg donation.
http://survivinghuntingtons.blogspot.com/
A Survivor's Guide to Huntington's Disease?
A woman who has tested positive for carrying the Huntington's Disease gene chronicles her fight against the disease an the hopes of her husband and herself to have a family without it.
http://survivinghuntingtons.blogspot.com/
At Risk for Huntington's Disease
Entries are made by a middle-aged writer who is at risk for the genetic disease who seeks to get the word out about Huntington's, how to tell who is at risk due to genetics, and living with the terminal disease.
http://curehd.blogspot.com/
