I just got the results of my CVS, and what a lovely late birthday present! The karyotype appears completely normal (big sigh of relief). The results of the cystic fibrosis carrier screening blood test I had were negative (another sigh of relief). And I'm having a boy! Actually, I'd have been just as happy to be able to say it was a girl-it's just ( Read more... )

I had chorionic villus sampling on Thursday. That means they took a tiny piece of the placenta, which is made by the baby and thus has the same genetic structure, and they are growing it in culture so that they can look at the chromosomes. Because I'm forty years old, there's some concern about the potential for serious chromosomal problems (the ( Read more... )

I want to thank everyone for their support and good wishes. I have the most wonderful flist! I love you all. ::hugs:: I'm finally off bedrest, although I'm not supposed to do too much at this time. I'll try to catch up with allthejellies, although I'll be spending most of my vertical time trying to do actual work. Anyway, I thought you might want to see the ( Read more... )

I haven't been on LJ for some time now (I especially apologise to aka_elle, as I was meant to go over community rules with her). There has been reason. Some of you are aware of my less than pleasant obstetrical history. Well, it appeared that it might be turning round, as I had made it through nine weeks of pregnancy without any problems. With only a few ( Read more... )

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Happy Birthday, Susi!

I read the following in the opinion columns of The Times (the anecdote was at the beginning, so that's all I've kept):

Let me shake you by the hand and lead you through my etiquette crisisLA Notebook by Chris Ayres ( Read more... )

That is all.

I simply have to share this quote from Gerard Baker's opinion column in today's issue of The Times:

"It might even be said to have worked, after a fashion, in a sense, for a while, maybe."

I have never before seen such a sense of dubiety conveyed in only positive-more or less-words.

You may laugh, but I have been desperately ill since Friday, and nothing nutritive passed my lips for three full days. (What did pass my lips, unfortunately in both directions, was water. I am now up to fizzy drinks in the liquid department.) I really won't go into the grim specifics (I wish I didn't know them myself); suffice it to say that ( Read more... )