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Pigasus
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if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea...
#15444140 - 11/30/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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would you want to get tested and find out whether you have it too?
for those that don't know about huntingtons, it's a genetically inherited degenerative nerve disease that results in a long, painful, drawn out death. it's what killed woody guthrie. if your mother has it, you have a 50/50 chance of having it as well. if you do have it, you won't know when it will strike, but you will eventually die from it. there's nothing that can be done about it so it's not like taking an HIV test, all thats at stake is the foreknowledge of your demise in one of the worst ways possible. so the question is, would you want to know?
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akira_akuma
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Pigasus]
#15444146 - 11/30/11 10:08 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yep.
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Patlal
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: akira_akuma]
#15444162 - 11/30/11 10:11 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would, but I would be somewhat scared of opening the letter for the results. Its like playing roulette with your life.
Playing roulette with your life... Somebody should come up with a expression for that...
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: akira_akuma]
#15444168 - 11/30/11 10:12 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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No, i'd rather slowly deteriorate, experience a scala of symptops and die without ever knowing the cause.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: akira_akuma]
#15444172 - 11/30/11 10:13 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, because if I had huntington's I would live balls-to-the-wall.
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Pigasus
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Beanhead]
#15444173 - 11/30/11 10:13 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Beanhead said: No, i'd rather slowly deteriorate, experience a scala of symptops and die without ever knowing the cause.

if that started happening and you knew your mother had huntingtons, i think you'd figure it out pretty quick...
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Patlal]
#15444177 - 11/30/11 10:14 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Patlal said: I would, but I would be somewhat scared of opening the letter for the results. Its like playing roulette with your life.
Playing roulette with your life... Somebody should come up with a expression for that...
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Beanhead]
#15444180 - 11/30/11 10:15 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well, it depends. I've thought about this quite a bit (not Huntington's specifically, but the idea is the same), and this is what I have come up with: - If there is preventative action that you can take that will really make a difference, then yes, I'd like to know if I had to take that action. - If I were to have children, then yes, I'd be able to tell my partner if there is a change that I'd pass it on to our kids. - In all other cases: no. Ignorance is bliss.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: koraks]
#15444202 - 11/30/11 10:20 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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there is no cure for huntington's and no preventative measures that can be taken.
also, I don't know your gender but if you are a male there is no chance of passing it on, it's inherited from the mother.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Pigasus]
#15444211 - 11/30/11 10:22 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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As I pointed out, I wasn't specifically speaking of Huntington's. I answered your question substituting Huntington's for a 'deadly and hereditary disease'. Anyway, since 1 & 2 don't apply in the case of Huntington's and me being a male, then no, I personally wouldn't want to know.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Pigasus]
#15444212 - 11/30/11 10:23 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Pigasus said:
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Beanhead said: No, i'd rather slowly deteriorate, experience a scala of symptops and die without ever knowing the cause.

if that started happening and you knew your mother had huntingtons, i think you'd figure it out pretty quick...
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Pigasus said: there is no cure for huntington's and no preventative measures that can be taken.
also, I don't know your gender but if you are a male there is no chance of passing it on, it's inherited from the mother.
I'd destroy myself faster then the disease could
But I was being sarcastic, I would want to know.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Beanhead]
#15444217 - 11/30/11 10:24 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea...
I'd put her out of her misery.
Of course, I don't like her very much so I'd likely put her out of her misery if she stubbed her toe.
But no, I'd not take the test.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Pigasus]
#15444220 - 11/30/11 10:26 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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On a more serious note: do you have this dilemma? If you do: sucks. Don't let it overshadow the joys of life.
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: blujay]
#15444227 - 11/30/11 10:28 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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blujay said: Yeah, because if I had huntington's I would live balls-to-the-wall.
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Pigasus
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: koraks]
#15444241 - 11/30/11 10:31 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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koraks said: On a more serious note: do you have this dilemma? If you do: sucks. Don't let it overshadow the joys of life.
luckily no, I knew that someone was going to think that though...
it's like if i said "my, um, friend's mother has huntingtons and he doesn't know whether he should take the test, what do you guys think?"
there is a history of it in the family though, my dad's aunt died from it years ago and hearing that story is one of the things that first piqued my morbid interest in the disease
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Re: if you found out your mother had huntington's chorea... [Re: Pigasus]
#15444255 - 11/30/11 10:35 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ah, I see. Well, good for you. It's not a particularly comfortable burden to carry.
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