Palliative care nurse won’t let Huntington’s stop her living life to the fullest

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Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.When palliative care nurse Gillian McNab learned that she’d lost the 50/50 flip of a coin and Huntington’s disease was to be her destiny, she and her loved ones cracked open a bottle of champagne and toasted all the reasons she had for living.Mum-of-three Gillian watched her own mother’s gradual decline from the hereditary disease – and, as a woman whose vocation is to care for people who are nearing the end of their lives, she knows that her own daughters will one day do the same.At the age of 51, Gillian is asymptomatic.She can’t control when Huntington’s will make her acquaintance, or how it will impact her body and her mind.But unlike the people she.