This review, and many more, are available on my blog, Mercies in Disguise by Gina Kolata is a narrative written by a New York Times writer and medical reporter about one family's discovery that a genetic mutation is giving rise to a neurological disease among various family members that is as debilitating as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease and eventually leads to an often painful and untimely death.

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Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published by Written by a science writer, Gina Kolata, she describes the discovery of this rare neurological disease that is passed down through families. Tim Baxley and his three brothers lost their father, Bill, to the disease in the late 1990s after a frustrating cycle of neurologist visits and futile personal fact-finding missions. 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? The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested. She is given difficult decisions to make, the first generation in her family and the responsibility weighs on her. | The book chronicles how a family in South Carolina initially watches one family member after another fall victim to a deadly disease derived from a genetic mutation and how some members of the family pursue investigating what exactly the disease is that is afflicting some family members and sparing others. The doctor from California is on the line. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of Vardo to heel. In Iceland, she met Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, a local celebrity who, in 1984, survived six hours in a winter sea after his fishing vessel capsized, earning him the nickname “the human seal.” Although humans are generally adapted to life on land, the author discovered that some have extra advantages in the water.