Waiting Game

The doctors were to call Daren's cell phone with the news. We didn't hear anything on Monday.

Tuesday morning came and went. At 2pm, if Daren hadn't heard anything, he was going to call the geneticist to try and get some news. I bugged him around 2:30 and Daren said he would make the call. Here is some of the content of our conversation by instant messenger -


darenstreett 3:06 pm
ok, prelim results are back (95% accurate) showing normal - no extra chromosomes
final results in about a week

Shelly Green 3:06 pm
a week from friday
or another 7 days

darenstreett 3:07 pm
from friday I think

darenstreett 3:09 pm
there is a more thorough chromosome test that they can do if this one comes back clean

Shelly Green 3:09 pm
why
tests something else?

darenstreett 3:10 pm
this was just looking for extra chromosomes (like the extra 13 and 18 guys)
the other thing that he mentioned (like the beckwith weideman syndrome) might not be found
really, the biggest other concern though is probably the heart
make sense?

Shelly Green 3:12 pm
so i can be happy
but not really

We are cautiously optimistic. We still have a lot of unknowns out there including the state of Bean's heart. I don't know when we have to head back for additional tests and more scans. The unknown hangs very heavy on our hearts and this is why we are waiting to share the news with family and friends until we know more. Right now our prayers need to be enough.