Um, hello!
I’m Shift! Just made this blog to try and, I dunno, talk about, vent, some of my feelings and experiences with Huntingtons. It’s criminally unmentioned, although it’s not common so I suppose that makes sense, but it’s brutal.
For clarification, my mother has the disease and it’s been rough. And of course since it’s my mother I have a 50/50 shot of having it too. Which is uh.. fun.
If you don’t know, Huntingtons Disease is essentially an overproduction of the protein Huntington in your brain. It sorta kicks in at a certain age (age varies but is generally similar to whenever it occurred to your parent) and from then over the next 20 ish years (once again, varies) gradually breaks down and destroys your brain.
It has no cure and is 100% fatal.
This is really just a sort of introduction. See how this goes y’know. Who knows, maybe I won’t use it that much but I feel like it could be good.
If this is a subject you relate to, or want to know more about, feel free to reach out! Sometimes I feel like I can’t talk about this subject enough, so don’t feel shy, I want to talk!
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Starting post to lay the groundworks -
First and foremost, this blog is an effort to help keep myself positive and consistent during my health journey! Attempting to avoid all the pitfalls of diet culture and focusing on improving how I feel in my body.
My main goal is to improve my diet following both PCOS and Huntington's guildlines while also strengthening my body through weight training.
Warning - The experiences I post will be influenced by many factors including being an nonbinary AFAB, having a history of EDs, having multiple health concerns, and having body image issues. <3
This blog will include:
Pictures of physical progress
Pictures of meals
Body positivity
Posts about the ups and downs of fitness/health
Reblogs of related posts
This blog with NEVER include:
Calorie counting
Food shaming
Body shaming
Fad dieting
This blog may occasionally include:
Pictures of aliens working on their health!
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Vera Huntington-Marquez
23 years old
Northridge University student
Vera has always lived a life of privilege and ease, thanks to her father being the mayor of Windenburg. She excels in all of her studies, has a devoted and (sometimes too) caring boyfriend, and never had to worry about money. Everyone admires her, and her life seems perfect on the surface. But beneath this angelic exterior, could there be a rebellious spirit waiting to emerge?
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Danny is the son of Mr Freeze
So! Danny was adopted as a Kid.
It was never really that big of a thing to him, just a small footnote in his life. He never really cared about finding his Bio Family, or even looking into it at all. His new Family was enough for him, no need to complicate it all that much.
But then, the Accident happened.
After he got shocked by the Portal and passed out, his parents had rushed him to the hospital. Apparently his Heart had been pulsing irregularly, so they had decided to not take any chances.
While at the Hospital, the Doctors noticed a particularly strange result in his blood tests. So, a few months after he had been discharged (it took a while for the blood work to come back), they asked him to come back in for further testing.
At first, Danny was scared that they had found out about his Powers. But when he walked into the Room, they had other news.
He had been diagnosed with Huntingtons Disease, a rare neurological condition that apparently had no known cure. The only possible way to contract the Disease was to have inherited it from one of his parents.
They said it was in its early stages at the moment, but as time passed he would become weaker and weaker, and he would become more sickly. They diagnosed that he had just over 5 years left before he died, and there were no treatments or cures that could save him.
Danny got a second opinion with Frostbite, since he knew more about Ghost Biology and might know if it was truly a fatal Disease for a Halfa.
And yeah, it was. No matter how much of him is Ghostly, he is still half Human, and the Human Disease in his body can and will kill him. And there's no guarantee that he will become a full Ghost upon death. For all he knows it will just End him.
So, Danny had a time limit to find a way to cure himself. He didn't have much time to study, what with the constant Ghost Attacks, his School Work, and keeping his parents from attacking innocent Ghosts, but he managed where he could.
Speaking of his parents, they had been looking into the disease as well. But they seemed convinced that they could find a way to save him by simply dissecting a Ghost to study its biology. (It was as if this was just a convenient excuse to dive deeper into their obsession)
After a while, he mamaged to resolve the Ghost Attack stuff and got his grades under control, but he was still making little progress on finding a Cure.
So, he looked into other people who might be studying the same Disease, to see if he could look I to their research. But that search came up empty.
There was nobody who wanted to fund research into such a rare disease, so nobody was studying it. There was one man who was studying it, but he was a convicted Supervillain. Danny decided that he would be his backup plan, since he wasn't sure how Jazz would react if he teamed up with a known Villain.
He just kept on studying his condition.
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It had been about 4 years since his initial diagnosis, and Danny was 18. And he needed help.
He had made no progress in developing a Cure, and his condition had worsened. He could barely walk without a limp anymore, and his limbs felt weaker by the day.
He did manage to get some luck when he found out that lowering his Body Temperature would slow the progress of the Disease. He was never more thankful for his Ice Powers than on the day he figured that out.
But he had hit a roadblock. He needed help, and unfortunately there was only one place he could go to get it. The Supervillain he had read about all that time ago, Mr Freeze.
Now he was headed to Gotham City to seek his help, even if it meant becoming a Villlain himself.
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Persian ewer with human and animal figures and calligraphy inscriptions, dating back to the 17th century CE. Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.
Photo by Babylon Chronicle
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