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one of those babies, update
Jan. 18th, 2002 05:51 ama collect call last night after i'd gone to bed from my friend z, who had her baby last week.
i accepted the charges, and she immediately apologized, saying it was the only way she could call from children's hospital (thinking of it now, this is weird; it's local.). she's been there since the bris... her fine baby boy turns out to be a haemophiliac. ouch. she's starting to come to terms with it, learning what she'll need to do, etc. i asked if this has implications for future kids (maybe i shouldn't have asked that right then. ah, well), and she said that this disease is passed through the mother. and since her brothers & maternal uncles don't have it, either she or the baby have some kind of mutation to get this. testing to be done in the next months. i asked if there were anything i could do to help, and hugs were all she could think of. which are easily given. i just wish there were something else i could do (if only i could find that magic want and make it not have happened.).
her whole life will be different now, in which ways, i'm not yet sure (hopefully they come home from the hospital today). i hope it won't be too huge a change (having a baby at all is enormous change as it is.), forcing her to see the differences every day between other kids and her own....
i accepted the charges, and she immediately apologized, saying it was the only way she could call from children's hospital (thinking of it now, this is weird; it's local.). she's been there since the bris... her fine baby boy turns out to be a haemophiliac. ouch. she's starting to come to terms with it, learning what she'll need to do, etc. i asked if this has implications for future kids (maybe i shouldn't have asked that right then. ah, well), and she said that this disease is passed through the mother. and since her brothers & maternal uncles don't have it, either she or the baby have some kind of mutation to get this. testing to be done in the next months. i asked if there were anything i could do to help, and hugs were all she could think of. which are easily given. i just wish there were something else i could do (if only i could find that magic want and make it not have happened.).
her whole life will be different now, in which ways, i'm not yet sure (hopefully they come home from the hospital today). i hope it won't be too huge a change (having a baby at all is enormous change as it is.), forcing her to see the differences every day between other kids and her own....