Description
Joe OโBrien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his familyโs lives forever: Huntingtonโs Disease.
Huntingtonโs is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure. Each of Joeโs four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their fatherโs disease, and a simple blood test can reveal their genetic fate. While watching her potential future in her fatherโs escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. Does she want to know? What if sheโs gene positive? Can she live with the constant anxiety of not knowing?
