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Living With Spouse with HD

Post a new topicby livingwith on Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:11 pm


My spouse is 48 years old, and is entering into full-blown HD [Huntington’s Disease] stage. The most difficult thing to deal with as her spouse, is accepting and understanding the tremendous neurological and psychological changes she has (as still is) been through.
Home-Care providers generally know very little of HD and often don’t know how to deal with the psychological changes she goes through because of the HD. If the spouse of a HD person isn’t careful and seek counseli...Read the full article

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