[tri-med] Re: Bio-ethicists

>>>>>>>>> He will probably discuss things like the
effect of Rachel on your family, your marriage and the like. He may well
quote statistics that say marriages burdened with a child with severe
problems like ours frequently result in divorce (that's sadly true as
well).>>>>>>>>>

and that's even true if the child dies, so it is a double edged sword, and I
really feel having Friends who have disabled kids and friends who have lost
disabled kids that it effects you for the rest of your life no matter which
way it goes.   I have a friend and co worker who lost her first child about
30 years ago to a rare genetic condition ( not sure which) and it still
effects her so much so that when a co worker recently brought in her two
beautiful normal girls  Shar knew by looking at me that that's what I had
wished for ( we talked later and she said she knew it by the look on my
face) but it takes one to know one I say.  Shar does have 2 beautiful
daughters but the pain of losing the first is still there.  Not meaning to
ramble but to add to the idea of rasing a child with a disability and
Karen's idea that the doc will tell you that rasing a child with a
disability will be hard on your marriage, I agree with Karen that the loss
of said child will be Just as hard or more hard if they don't follow their
gut feelings re surgery.

Don't fight with dragons, for you are crunchy and good with Ketchup.

Susan mom to Rebecca trisomy 18 moasaic age 12 and Mark LD/ADD age 11. wife
to Glenn
Ontario Canada


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