Genetics 101 - update (already!)

Many of you know we have been to see the geneticist several times now with Hope. She has a few possible indicators of some genetic disorders/abnormatlities. As the geneticist has said several times, there aren't enough indicators for it to for sure be something, but there are too many indicators for it to be nothing. Our latest appointment in October brought up having a spectrum array test done. It's a simple blood test (though over $1000 - so thankful for insurance that covers it!) that he thought might be helpful.

He has described genetics essentially as a book. Each person has a book. In that book are supposed to be 46 pages - a page for each chromosome. Each page has tons of words on it (genes). The test we had done is to see if all of Hope's 'pages' are there. We should get the results in another 2 - 3 weeks or so. The geneticist has told us that only 10 - 15% something is found. There are other, more in depth tests we could have done, but we will not pursue it further if nothing shows up on this one. We'll keep another appointment for April and likely have another scan done, and then not see him again for 1 - 2 years.

UPDATE: Crazy - seriously crazy. I posted this and not more than 5 minutes later, I got a call from the geneticist that the results were in & everything is NORMAL!!