[tri-med] Re: tri-med Digest V1 #27: anyone do this? fromgina

what is 11/22 Gina
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From: Tina and Dave Kegle <keglecrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, April 30, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: tri-med Digest V1 #27: anyone do this?


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>Subject: tri-med Digest V1 #27
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>> tri-med Digest Sun, 29 Apr 2001 Volume: 01  Issue: 027
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>> In This Issue:
>> [tri-med] Fw: anyone do this
>> [tri-med] Re: Fw: Please help, my daughter is very sick!!!
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>> From: "Karen Schuler" <karens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [tri-med] Fw: anyone do this
>> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:26:26 +1000
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "gina L Anderson" <ghulce@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <tri-family@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:15 PM
>> Subject: anyone do this
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>> > i was wounding if anyone did this or not , test there other children ,
>for
>> trisomy's > my question is should
>> i have my self and my kids tested or not/? one doctor said yes and the
>> genetic one said know that there is know why it can happen, if it did it
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>>  Gina:
>    When we found out that our son had a trisomy and that mom was the
>carrier,  all of the doctors and the geneticist from the hospital wanted us
>to have our other children tested at that time.  We decided not to have
them
>tested at that time because once they were, then they would be marked by
the
>insurance company as a carrier.  We were afraid that later in life they
>might have a harder time to get their own health ins., and if they showed
>being a carrier, that may give the ins. co. a way out saying it was a
>pre-existing condition. The doctors said that wouldn't happen, but we still
>said NO.
>   Later on we had a meeting with our ins. co. geneticist and we brought up
>the issue with them and they agreed with us about it, and added there is
>plenty of time for them to be tested, why do it now?  Let your other
>children grow up first then when they find someone they wish to marrie and
>have children with, that is the time when they should be tested.
>    Gina:     Don't let it worry you unless you want more children then let
>the future lead its course and make sure that your other children know what
>can happen if they do things they shouldn't be doing before marriage and to
>make sure they have themselves tested before they do have children.
>
>GOOD LUCK
>
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>Ps:   I belong to another trisomy group, the 11/22 group but I have found
>that no matter what the trisomy may be we all have a little information
that
>we have learned along the way to help  and I also learn from some of your
>letters to one another, THANK YOU.
>
>Dave- husband to Tina,father to Chris 12  Cassie 4 soon to be 5
>          and Cameron 23 months T 11/22
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