A Family Tradition
— Carlos Briceño

As John Lennon once sang, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Well, life happened — again. At the end of February, my wife, Jill, and I had planned to go to…

Over the past year, Huntington’s disease has begun to affect my gene-positive wife, Jill, in various ways. Anyone who’s met Jill would tell you that she loves knowledge. As a lifelong journalist, I share the same…

On a recent afternoon while I was at work, my wife, Jill, sent me an alarming text. “I’ve had a little issue with a knife and my thumb,” she wrote. “If it hasn’t stopped bleeding by the time…

As a lifelong advocate in the Huntington’s disease (HD) community, fellow Huntington’s Disease News columnist B.J. Viau, whose late mother had HD, knows that genetic testing is a life-changing, emotional, and…

My objectives in this column are to acknowledge two upcoming holidays: Valentine’s Day, which my wife, Jill, doesn’t believe in (she thinks it’s manufactured and that love should be celebrated every day), and Rare Disease Day,…

Because my wife, Jill, has Huntington’s disease (HD), my roles include being her caregiver. With National Caregivers Day coming up on Feb. 17, I thought it would be fitting to share some advice from fellow caregiver…

Huntington’s disease (HD) is hereditary. Because the father of my wife, Jill, was gene-positive for HD, she knew she had a 50% chance of getting the disease. Years ago, Jill told me to be honest with her.

In 2018, my wife, Jill, started showing classic signs of Huntington’s disease (HD) — including involuntary movements, called chorea — so she decided to go through with genetic testing. After she was declared gene-positive for HD,…

I’m a journalist, so my mind always wants to figure out the “why” of things. That means I ask questions about everything. Sometimes I get answers I don’t want to hear. Here’s a recent example. My wife, Jill,…

For months, people from across the U.S. have been working hard with members of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s (HDSA) advocacy caucus to convince members of Congress to pass the Huntington’s Disease Parity…

The other day, my wife, Jill, shared some life advice to our 25-year-old nephew, Dylan, who’s living and working in a monastery in Eastern Europe, trying to figure out what he wants to do in his life. He’s…