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Re: Please don't take this the wrong way...
From: Ann (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 May 2003 14:42:00 -0500 (CDT)
I have thought about that a million times, I am taking a break from TTC,
but even while I was trying, I wished that if I did get pg that it would
be a boy so that he wouldn't have to deal with all of these problems. I
don't want to give up on trying to have a baby, but I also don't want
anyone to have to go through the hell that PCOS has put me through.
At Wed, 28 May 2003, Mary wrote:
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>I have to say to all of you who are trying to get pregnant...I wish you
>luck but please think of this....I have been just diagnosed (age 37)
>after suffering for many years. As I grew up I thought of myself as a
>freak because of all the things wrong with me.
>Now I have found PCOS and am glad for the diagnosis but am reeling from
>the fact that since we can trace this back beyond my mother it is
>probably genetic in my family. I now have the daunting task of
>explaining to my daughter what I probably have given her. At what point
>do we say enough is enough. How many new generations have to go thru
>this???
>I understand "medical technology has come so far", and "things aren't as
>they were when we were young", and "with the knowledge comes
>freedom"...but she and others still have to suffer.
>I guess I am still dealing with the stages of grief over all this and I
>would never wish my daughter not to have been born..but I wonder if I
>would have made the same choice if I knew what lies of her now.
>
>--
>Blessings to you all, Mary
>
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