Collect Mercies In Disguise: A Story Of Hope, A Family's Genetic Destiny, And The Science That Rescued Them Prepared By Gina Kolata Depicted In Physical Book

you are interested in a medical mystery written in novel form this book is for you.
I love the book and have deep respect for the Baxley family, This is a fascinating book, but the title and subtitle are

misleading, There is no mercy in the inherited illness that runs through a family, and there is no rescue or cure in sight.
Despite an interesting history of prion diseases and the dedicated researchers who study A compelling story of courage and resilience told masterfully by an incredibly gifted writer with great insight into the human condition.
This is an inspirational story about normal people, who when faced with a horrible fate showed that they could rise above it and show I enjoyed this book vey much it was a quick read and was of interest to me as a former Medical Lab tech.
It is the story of how a genetic anomaly passed on for many generations affected a small town family in the South.
It is also the struggle of how one young woman dealt I cannot imagine what this family went through to finally get the answer they needed.
I wonder if the outcome would have been the same for a family without the medical backgrounds that some of them had.
Loved the book because I have a personal interest in prion If I could rate this book a, I would.
This is honestly the best book I have read in quite sometime, It is an incredibly personal and honest look into a family's life dealing with a devastating and terminal hereditary disease that few doctors know anything about.
And how Great read! My brother told our family about this book and I bought it and read it in a few hours.
GSS runs in my family and we have lost many loved ones and have watched others live with it.
It was an emotional read for me, as I went through the testing like those in This book contains a brief history and science lesson regarding prion diseases.
It is also the story of one family learning about and dealing with one of those diseases.
It is riveting and emotional, An excellent read! New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw.
The phone rings the doctor has the results, "Are you ready, Amanda" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested.
But she had to find out, If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold brutal illness and you could find out if you inherited it, would you do it Would you confront it, accepting whatever answer came Or ignore it while you could In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times reporter and best selling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an upstanding family in small town South Carolina.
Many of them were doctors, but still, they are struck down by an inscrutable illness, Finally they discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of providential events, Meanwhile science, progressing foryears along a parallel track, handed the Baxleys a question not a cure but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease.
Science offered another dilemma fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children, A work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of the The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Mercies in Disguise tells the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when medicine could not help.
It's a story of a family dealing with unspeakable tragedy without being driven apart, It is the story of a young woman Amanda Baxley who faced the future, determined to find a way to disrupt her destiny.
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