The Best Christmas Present…

Well, as the family tradition goes, we have already gone through the majority of the gift giving. Lena did a really good job this year in showering me with more DVD’s of movies I love than I know what to do with. Between helping Steve get me the entire Lethal Weapon set (all directors cut), and every Star Trek movie released (also director cuts), and the new case for my PC (of which I will post pictures VERY soon) I have been quite spoiled. On top of the Ultimate Matrix Collection and The Battle for Middle Earth (PC War Strategy) from my parents. But beyond all the wonderful gifts, including those I don’t mention here, I think the best is the news that I received earlier this week. For some time now we have been dealing with the stress, doubt, and uncertainty of a blood work test that came back saying that our child had a 1 in 10 chance of having Downs Syndrome. Lena and I of course took this quite hard. A very long time before we even considered getting married we discussed the “what if’s” of having a child. We both came down to the same conclusion that having a child with a major defect, such as downs, would be one of the hardest things for us to deal with. While I know that many may say that such an issue is small compared to many other things that could occur, and there are many that say that having a downs child is the best thing that has ever happened to them… Well lets just say we aren’t 100% sure we could… Either way… past the scary part… We, being the control freaks that we are, insisted on having an Amnio. This, after quite some time, was performed about 2 weeks ago. This last Wednesday we finally received the news of the Amnio: That all of the tests that they perform came up perfectly normal. A healthy child. While I know there are many other things that can happen between now and then, I truly feel this is probably the best Christmas present I could have ever asked for. I am sorry to everyone for not really having shared this too much with anyone other than close family and friends as it has been very emotionally trying. Even getting such great news as this has taken me some time to absorb. Yes, having the Camcorder from Lena’s parents and the Digital Camera that I –cough– Santa bought for the family is great for recording the special events in store for us, but the news of the healthy child means so much more… All I can hope is that we continue down this path towards a hopefully easy pregnancy. I do have to thank everyone though for all their support, as this has been a very emotionally draining month, and also to those who have already given so much to us. We love you all deeply, and again wish everyone a very merry Christmas!!