William's testing showed unusual & rare results. He apparently had an extra 18th chromosome in about 20% of his cells. They had done the test on his blood and that's what they discovered. They rarely saw this. Babies with Trisomy 18 don't live past a year, they told us. They were sorry but since William only had the extra 18th chromosome on 'some of his cells', AKA Mosaic, they really couldn't tell us anything at all about William's outcome.
The official diagnosis: Trisomy 18 Mosaic
They told us so little about Trisomy 18 that we googled it. That was a mistake, for the most part. Everything you read is horrible. Tom & I quit reading and continued to go to the NICU. I also refused to believe it. I asked them to test again! I was told by a nurse that someone came by one morning and took a cheek swab from William. I called the geneticists and asked them what that was. They told me that because I requested a second test, they decided to do a microarray test this time. Um, ok. Weeks passed and we never heard the results. William came home and he ripped out his NG tube and continued to grow.
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