My mom is dying. She’s 90, has dementia, can’t walk, yells angrily at times, and lives in an assisted living…
Carlos Briceño
Carlos Briceño is a journalist and director of communications who, through the grace of God, has been blessed with a brilliant, beautiful, and courageous wife and daughter. He currently lives in Maryland, about a half hour away from Washington, D.C., with his wife, Jill. In 2018, Jill found out she was gene-positive for Huntington’s disease at the age of 41, while his daughter found out she was gene-positive for HD in 2019 when she was 22. Jill and Carlos write about their day-to-day struggles and triumphs to share their knowledge and to let others know they are not alone. Carlos loves to evangelize, read, play soccer, and pepper his conversations with — according to family members —really bad puns. (For the record, Carlos thinks his puns are really punny and funderful.)
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Articles by Carlos Briceño
Last year, I wrote about the possibility of telemedicine visits for Huntington’s patients with the Huntington’s Disease Society of…
Living Outside the Box
If you could go anywhere on vacation, would you take your time planning the perfect trip? Would you look at…
Ever since my wife, Jill, and our daughter were tested and diagnosed as gene positive for Huntington’s disease, I have…
What makes a great marriage? That age-old question has been the subject of many books over the years, hundreds of…
Did you ever watch cartoons when you were young? One of my favorites as a child was “Scooby-Doo,” an…
Welcome to Empty-Nest World
If you think adulting is hard, wait until you are empty nesting. My wife, Jill, and I have a…
The last few weeks have been somewhat trying for Jill. She has been plagued with giant hive welts. They cover…
One of my recent columns was about the Huntington’s Disease Society of America’s annual convention. I participated in a…
The Simple Joy of Taking a Walk
We live in Illinois, where the weather can be unpredictable. Some days we have perfect weather — 70 degrees…