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Feb. 1st, 2007 09:30 am"Did you have any genetic testing done?"
"I'm not sure. I know Health Partners did a lot of tests, but we weren't told anything."
"Well, he has a number of characteristics indicative of Down's Syndrome."
From that moment, life has changed a lot. Sure, every parent's life changes when their child is born, but those words at that moment (perhaps two minutes after birth), broke me for a few moments. I thought horrible thoughts - adoption, abortion, will the child live, if he doesn't, will it be easier, what does it mean for him, what does it mean for me - truly horrible thoughts. Then I had to tell his mother.
It's really not welcome to Holland. Holland may be where we are at now, or at least where we are going, but at that moment, it was a lot more like Hell. But since then, things have been getting better and better, seemingly by the hour.
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"I'm not sure. I know Health Partners did a lot of tests, but we weren't told anything."
"Well, he has a number of characteristics indicative of Down's Syndrome."
From that moment, life has changed a lot. Sure, every parent's life changes when their child is born, but those words at that moment (perhaps two minutes after birth), broke me for a few moments. I thought horrible thoughts - adoption, abortion, will the child live, if he doesn't, will it be easier, what does it mean for him, what does it mean for me - truly horrible thoughts. Then I had to tell his mother.
It's really not welcome to Holland. Holland may be where we are at now, or at least where we are going, but at that moment, it was a lot more like Hell. But since then, things have been getting better and better, seemingly by the hour.
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