Rules For 50/50 Chances by Kate McGovern – Book Review

  By Monica Cazzolli There has been a trend in recent years for Young Adult novels that deal with the real issues: life, death and the tough stuff they don’t write about in children’s books. Think The Fault In Our Stars or The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Most of these novels deal with subjects…

Getting Tested – Teagan’s Story

By Teagan Cowton Making The Decision To Get Tested Our family found out in 2009 that our Mum was gene positive and quiet honestly, it frightened me. We had watched our grandfather go through this disease and now I have to witness it all over again. My two older Brothers got tested almost immediately. With…

Jenny Morris’ Story

At Risk I have known about Huntington’s Disease and how it affects my family since I was about 11 years old. My grandad wasn’t very sick then. I just thought he was a grumpy old man sometimes. I know now that his mood swings were symptoms of HD. I started thinking about testing when I…