Our daughter and her husband were presented with the fact that their first child was Down's. They just looked at the Doctor and said, "Oh". The doctor just looked at them and said, "Do you want to abort?" Our kids basically said, "You've got to be kidding."
What goes around comes around. That daughter of ours was also a candidate for abortion because of pre testing. Because of meds that I was on, she did not have a chance of being "normal". In fact the doctor described pretty much a picture of doom. The doctor asked us how bad we wanted this baby and we told him...no matter what we wanted this baby. Well, it was a rough 9 months to get through knowing that we were to have a child that was going to be physically and mentally a mess.
Funny thing was...our daughter came out just fine. Just had minute optical nerves and had no peripheral vision. We didn't find that out until she was a freshman in high school. The Opthamalogist told us that she had adapted well and that the only things that she would have trouble doing was playing sports. Well, she was a freshman starting varsity, so I guess that really wasn't a problem. She went on to a college scholarship in basketball....and that grandson of ours that was supposed to be Down's. Well he is 9 and a star athlete in his own right. Both times the doctors were wrong.
That's why a physician friend of ours says that that is why they call it medicine cause it's not science. Doctors have 20% knowledge and 80% guesswork, according to him. He went on to say that for every group of symptoms there are many diagnoses possible. He said that there is only one Great Physician who gets it 100% of the time.
God bless your family ~
I have a four year old with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia....the fancy name they’ve given under-developed optic nerves.
He also has a slew of other vision issues ( nystagmus, esotropia, afferant pupuliary defect, and the list goes on ).
He was diagnosed with a cataract at 6 months old, surgery to remove right before 7 months old and we did the contact lens thing for awhile and at 3 years, 1 week old, he had the lens implant surgery.
His left eye is a bit smaller than the right... nerve on right is just slightly ONH but no one notices his eyes unless they talk to him and he has to turn his head to the right and look out the left side of his eyes as that is where his nystagmus ( latin for dancing eyes ) is the least wiggly and that is how he has to look at you.
We’ll be going in 2 days to have an eye movement recording done again to get a better reading to prepare for the eye muscle surgery.
Sorry I got long winded but wanted to say God bless you and yours.