[tri-med] Re: life excpectancy

Sharon,
This is what a genetic counselor once told me and I think statistics will bear 
this out:  The life expectancy is shortened, but by how much is determined by 
the health of every individual.  A shortened life span might mean 30 yrs. old 
rather than 60yrs. or some other number rather than what is the normal life 
span.  Generally, this is because when you have a chromosome anomaly things 
will eventually start to go wrong, but when is something that no one can 
predict.  I don't necessarily believe size has anything to do with it, only 
that a child that is not underweight and healthy is better able to fight off 
many illnesses simply because they have the reserve to do so that some smaller 
kiddos might not have.  Again, this is not going to be true in every single 
case.  I think the drs. don't tell you anything because they truly don't know.


?You have no right to argue with your Creator. You are
merely a clay pot shaped by a potter. 
The clay doesn?t ask, ?Why did 
you make me this way??? (Isaiah 45:9 CEV).



Holly ( Des Moines, IA) -- wife of Mike 
mom of Morgan (11 yrs. old) unbalanced translocation resulting in partial t18q 
and partial monosomy 9p 
dx'd with type 1 diabetes 03-17-08, enjoying the honeymoon--injecting levemir 
twice daily,novolog





 

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