Wow-I am taking the first deep breath that I think I have taken all day. Alot of you reading this will already know about my day, but others of you won't. I'm mainly blogging about this because I want it to go down in the "journal" of memories. I'm learning that all memories won't be fun, but they are definitely growing experiences and opportunities to increase my faith. I had a message on my machine last night to call my doctor's office back about some recent lab work. Well, it's been two weeks since I've had my lab work done and I'd already called last Wednesday to check on it. The lady I talked to said that if I hadn't been contacted already everything was fine. So, I took that as good news. When I got the message last night it was too late to call back, so I called from work this morning. Well, I didn't get to talk to the actual person who had left the message but I talked to someone else and they told me my prenatal bloodwork was good and so was my exam but that I came up as being a carrier for cystic fibrosis. Well, call me ignorant, but I knew nothing about what this meant. Call the nurse/receptionist lady ignorant too because neither did SHE evidently. All she could tell me was that the doctor said my husband needed to be screened as soon as possible. "Why?" I asked..."What does this mean?" "I don't know" she replied..."I've never seen this before." WELL, IF THAT WASN'T JUST THE MOST ENCOURAGING THING EVER TO HEAR! Anyway, after doing some research and having some wonderful friends who did research for me because they knew I didn't have much time, I discovered that in order for our baby to be affected by this, Cliff would also have to be a carrier-hence them wanting him to get screened, I guess. Then, on the slim, slim chance that we are both carriers there's only a 1 in 4 chance that the gene would be passed on to the baby. This information made me feel much better and I found it published exactly that way in several different place. Well then while I was at Cliff's first football game of the season (they won!) my doctor called me personally. She told me that "essentially" what I read on the internet was accurate. The word "essentially" worries me. She said that they would most likely be sending us to a high risk specialist and that my pregnancy was now considered high risk. I was losing her because the football field was out in the middle of nowhere, but she said we'd set everything up and get it all squared away next Thursday when I have my ultrasound appointment. So, we are trying to stay calm and not worry. We know that God has a plan for us, no matter what it may be and we trust in Him. Please be in prayer that Cliff is not a carrier, but ultimately that God's will would be done.
Also, there's not chance cystic fibrosis could develop in me. I am only a carrier and that basically means that either my mom or dad was a carrier and they passed it along to me. I wonder which one? It's so weird to know that I've been a carrier for something like this my entire life and never known it!
I'll send updates as I know them. Thank you all for your prayers.
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