I am a member of a very exclusive club, but one you would never wish to join. And anyway, you can't unless you have been given the code - the genetic code. Membership of this club is handed down from family to family and pre-selected before you are born. Huntington's Disease: a progressive, degenerative and incurable illness that destroys whole families as it passes from parent to child. I thought it would be me who inherited it from our mum - instead it was my brother.
Friday
Unbreakable
To tell you the truth, I feel pretty damn broken today. I feel pretty damn broken quite a lot of the time, every time a new crisis sends a rabbit punch to the head from an unexpected direction.
There are periods of relative serenity and then suddenly a week or a month when something happens EVERY DAY.
What do we do about it? Keep going. Find ways to keep going.
I like this t shirt because on a bad day it reminds me of the strength of the human spirit and all the people who keep on fighting to get the best for our loved ones and one day, find a cure for Huntington's. There are so many of us out there, just doing our best under tough circumstances.
Be strong, dear readers, whatever you're facing today, and have a slightly flabsome arm flex from me.