SHANNON, SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR DAD! I BELIEVE LIKE
YOU TOO! AS HE'S WATCHING OVER YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
LIKE MY DAD LOVED TO FISH AND HUNT! I KNOW HE'S DOING
ALL THE STUFF NOW THAT HE COULD NOT DO BECAUSE OF HD.
AND HE CAN WALK AND TALK AND PLAY THE GUITAR AND SING
AND DANCE. YOU NAME IT HE COULD PLAY IT OR SING IT
LOL! AND HE NEVER HAD A LESSON!! HE MADE ELVIS LOOK
HOMELY LOL! AND HE DIED IN 88 HE WAS ONLY 48 BUT I
KNOW AND FEEL HIM WITH ME STILL! I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT
WROTE TO YOU LATLEY. BUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE
ALWAY'S IN MY PRAYERS!! TRACY
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> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:18:16 EDT
> From: shabs96@...
> Subject: Re: Hi Everyone!
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> Hey Alison.
>
> I will be 21 in january, and I know of the pain
> you've been suffering. My
> grandfather died of HD before i was even born, and
> my father inherited the gene
> from him. After 15 years of symptoms, my dad died
> this past June at the age of
> 52. I am the youngest of 3 children. My sister,
> nicole is 30 and has tested
> positive(has been showing symptoms for almost 5
> years already) , my brother
> Don is 29 and negative, and I am planning on getting
> tested as soon as I have
> the cash. I know it's hard to watch your family
> suffer in such ways, but I
> promise you that things will get better.
> I was such a daddy's girl growing up. He
> started to show symptoms when I
> was only 5 years old, and we discovered that he had
> HD when I was a freshman
> in high school. As if starting High school isn't bad
> enough, I found out about
> HD in my biology class. It was horrible to sit there
> and learn that my father
> was going to die from this disease, and that I have
> a chance to inherit it,
> all the while surrounded by a room full of strangers
> that would never
> understand. It was a very traumatic point in my
> life, and because of that, I repressed
> almost all of my memories from childhood. I barely
> remember anything that has
> to do with my family, but every once in a while
> something in my head will
> click and i'll see a glitch of my past.
> Anyway, My dad was put into a nursing home about
> 3 or 4 years ago, and he
> slowly got worse. I thought my life was going to be
> over when he died. It
> took me months to get over it, but now I am
> comforted by knowing he's here with
> me in spirit. I am a very big believer in life after
> death and I know that my
> daddy has been watching over me and visiting our
> family. It comforts me to know
> that he's not suffering anymore, and instead of
> being bedridden, he's running
> around us playing hockey and eating everything in
> sight (his 2 favorite
> things in life). He watches over my neice and
> nephew. In fact, my neice woke up
> ony night crying and shaking...she told my brother
> in law (her dad) that she saw
> "mommy's daddy" in her bedroom. My neice is 2, and
> she's only met my father
> a handfull of times when she was just a baby. How
> would she come up with that
> by herself?
> It's just so nice to know that he's finally here
> with us. When other
> people pray before they go to bed, I sit up and talk
> to my dad as if he's standing
> right in the room with me, because i'm sure he is.
> Watching someone you love suffer from HD is not an
> easy task, but it's
> something we have to do. Just know that eventually,
> those people will be fulfilling
> their lifelong dreams in a world that doesn't
> prohibit them from being happy.
> They will no longer have to rely on someone else to
> bathe them, or help them
> go to the bathroom, or even to brush their hair. I
> can live now knowing that
> my daddy is finally happy, and he'll never miss a
> day in any of our lives,
> because he's right here with us. Even though I
> can't see him, his spirit is
> here, and that makes me truelly happy, too.
>
> Good luck, and sorry i took up so much of your time.
> Keep in touch, and write
> anytime! Shabs96@...
>
> -Shannon
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