Thank you Christina :)
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Thank you Christina :)
Lynne-you need to call Meaghan and she will get you all the paperwork and tell you how the study works.
Chris--Isn't Meaghan wonderful??????
Love the new avatar's of Cole and Baer.
LOVE the picture of Cole in your sig line Panny!!!!
thank you steph.. well all credit goes to CORIN ... she did it :0)
Thanks Steph it's part of Jeff's Father's Day gifts
I bet Jeff LOVED his father's day gift. Baer's smile makes me smile!
Corin is good a gold isn't she!!!!!
YES Corin is !
She's gonna be in trouble down here, i'm gonna try to keep her (and all of you all) down south with me, dawn, and lynne !! !
So you are going to try and make us all Red Neck Women!?
I am ALL for it!
Pen - Your dad has 17 brothers and sisters - Oh my!!!
You must have huge family get togethers...
YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
well, half of them dont talk, when you get that many ... only one is deceased, one is not doing good, one has been dying for about 25 years now (god forgive me), it's a whole mess... too much to go into .. needless to say i only see about 8 of them
WOW.....
We could keep Corin her daddy, pronouned deddie in SC, lives in Hilton Head, SC! If you all came down here, you would fall in love too. They don't call it God's country for nothing! Remember Penny and Dawn as my grand paw used to say, "Save your confederate money, the South's gonna rise again!"
Penny, I thought I had a lot of extended family. Yikes!
Lynne, Meaghan only took 2 days to call me back. Steph's right, she's wonderful. Kind of nice to talk to someone who immediately knows what you're talking about! (Kinda like around here, hmm?)
Christina, I don't have a number to call her at.
Lynne you are a mes girl !!
GitRdone!
Penny that's funny I don't care who you are! we are going to have more fun that a buzzard on a gut wagon!
HAAAAAAAAAAAA
speaking of ... I HIT one of those dang things the other day .... thought it tore my car up but it didnt they are HUGE
I hit one with the ambulance going about 90 mph and it tore the whole side mirror off. I had to a report and everything! My partner said "Bet I know the last thing that went through his mind, his @$$." A little off color but still funny!
LOL!
You have me beat, i was only going about 60
they are just so stupid, like deer, they literally come right towards ya
oh last year i hit a turkey
i looked in my rear view mirror and feathers everywhere !!!
Hit a few deer too. The good thing about hitting deer with the ambulance is that you can put them on the back on the stretcher and take them in to the butcher! We had a couple of medics who put one in the back of the truck not quite dead and it kicked and did 2000$ of damage to the truck. and two that hit one and decided to put it out of its misery so they beat it to death on the side of the road with a hammer in the county ambulance. YOU MIGHT BE A REDNECK IF ... HERE'S YOUR SIGN.....
OH yes, they have the "SIGN"
LOL
Sorry, Lynne, it's kind of hidden in this thread. Meaghan's number is (617) 726-0828. She's the coordinator, a phD student.
Thanks Chrissy!
Sam and I are really interested in doing some type of chromosomal study, but the farthest that we can go is Seattle. Do you have any references. I want to do genetic counseling, but if I can be part of a study like that for free, i want to do it! thanks
shanell
Shanell, give Meaghan a call - she'll mail the stuff and it's free. :)
BTW, Happy Birthday, Shanell!!!!! :D
The last posting on this was 2008 - Does any one know if the study is still open? I vaugely remember before Jayden was born they were talking about some of his cord blood would be saved for some research but I don't know if it was this one.
As for the article that is VERY interesting as I have a theory that the reason I & my siblings & our children & grandchildren have had all the weird anomalies we do (CDH is only 1 of a long list list of weird & wacky) is due to my dad's exposure to Agent Orange (dioxin) & my mom's exposure to dioxin in the cotton fields in Arkansas growing up. With each generation more oddities keep showing up. If I'm right the havok it played with our genes could go on for such a long time. If this article's theory proves out true it could be even longer. Oh my!
Shelly, these studies/research is ongoing. I had the chance to hear both the reseearchers (I have them listed below) at last year's CHERUBS conference in July. Very interesting what they presented and the work they are doing trying to identify if genes play a role in CDH. Both researchers will mail you the info. and you mail back all the samples and paperwork and it is free to participate. I didn't know you had another grandbaby with CDH. Has your family ever done any genetic counseling? I would love to have our family done, but just haven't done it.
Both Meaghan and Daryl are super nice individuals, here is there contact info.:
Identifying Genes Which Cause CDH
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachussetts
Drs. Patricia Donahoe and Lewis Holmes
Contact: Meaghan Russell, Clinical Coordinator, at (617) 726-0828
mrussell@partners.org
Identifying Genes Which Cause CDH
Baylor College of Medicine
Daryl Scott, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, MS BCM225
Houston, TX, 77030, U.S.A
Phone: 713-203-7242
E-mail: dscott@bcm.edu
We have had some genetic testing but only for the Stickler syndrome & Alicia's Gitelman's syndrome but not the CDH as of yet. Alicia & I would be interested in it.
I'm gonna check in with Alicia's doctors & see if either of these are studies her & Jayden's samples became part of. We would be happy to see what can be done to spare the sadness we've endured.