[tri-med] Re: life excpectancy

thay do'nt know and i've as the same for taylor he can be here to day and live 
until he is 60 or 70. we will never know. I just enjoy every day with taylor. 
The way i look at it i've had almost 9 years with taylor and i take one day at 
a TIME.  gina son taylor triosmy 8 mosaic

-----Original Message-----
>From: Holly McCormick <hollyandms@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 31, 2009 12:42 PM
>To: tri-med <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [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.
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>“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).
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>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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