13 Months, 2 Weeks

I will start off this week's blog by telling you Dan's genetic test results. If you don't remember why he needed to get tested, it was because my results came up with me being a carrier for two diseases: Segawa Syndrome and Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome. We needed to make sure Dan was not also a carrier of one or both of these before we could start our fertility journey again. Well, it turns out Dan is not a carrier of these two diseases. Yippee!! But, he does actual have a genetic disease which he had no clue about. Dan has a rare condition called Pseudocholinesterase Deficiency. It affects less than 1 in 1,000 people and among white Americans, it affects about 1 in 3,000 people who have actually had genetic testing done.

So what is Pseudocholinesterase Deficiency? If Dan ever needs surgery where he will need anesthesia, his body will have an abnormally slow time breaking down the anesthesia. He will have a longer than normal period of breathing paralysis. Sounds scary, right? A person without this deficiency will be able to breathe on his/her own right away. Dan can take up to 3 hours to be able to breathe on his own.

How does this affect Dan? Well, it doesn't really affect him unless he needs anesthesia. He'll need to tell the doctor and the anesthesiologist about his condition.

Does this affect Lily? In a way it does. If she ever needs anesthesia, she'll also need to tell the doctor and anesthesiologist that her daddy has this condition.

That's about it on the genetic testing front. We don't have to worry about trying for baby #2 now. Yay!!

On another note, Lily must be getting more teeth. She has woken up in the middle of the night every day this week. Ugh! I try not to get too stressed over it when I'm up with her because I know it's not her fault, but sometimes I get mad because I'm so f-in tired! I send Dan back to bed because he's the one who has to get up for work around 5am. If I'm up with Lily, at least I don't actually have to go anywhere. At times, even though I don't like doing it, I'll take Lily out into the living room so Dan doesn't have to hear Lily make noise. That's the one sucky thing about not having a house - Lily shares our bedroom. We can't wait for Lily to have her own room where if she ever does wake up in the middle of the night I can keep her in her room. Soon! The house hunt continues but we never realized how slow the process is.

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