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| Positive statements | PrHD | Companion |
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| Employment | Well, one thing I did was change careers (to teaching). | Teaching… would be more of a positive experience. |
| Spirituality | My faith has become stronger because I need that to lean on. | She believes in God and lord as savior. She believes that one day everything will be better. |
| Interpersonal relationships | I know my husband will take care of me. | Well, she told me I’m a support system. |
| Coping | Quality of life is to live life to the fullest and experience most things that they can. | Good quality of life is finding satisfaction, I suppose, in the things that you do. |
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| Negative statements | PrHD | Companion |
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| Employment | I am not going to have a normal retirement age. I’m concerned; I want to make sure I am financially set. | He works nine hour days. |
| Interpersonal relationships | The emotional toll of being told (about being gene positive) and then the ramifications for both yourself and your family, is something that for me, at least, sent me into a tailspin for a while. | The other thing that really affects quality of life is if you have children, that was … probably the hardest part for my husband, which is the fact we had kids already and when we had children, he had no idea he was at risk. |
| HD in other people | I have seen some pretty negative things with this disease, as far as seeing people in my family who have HD. | It makes it hard to relate or communicate with my father-in-law because he is so negative or depressed. |
| Coping | I do worry about HD, I’ll admit that. | We would both like to have more kids (but will not due to HD). |
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