The Fifth Child
Just a few short weeks ago, I heard the words that I didn't expect to hear: "We have a diagnosis for Ezra..." A few days before that day, I received an email from our UDN genetic counselor, informing me that they wanted to meet "to discuss some results that they got back from Ezra's testing and next steps." There was so much to read into that sentence. After mulling it over (aka, dissecting it, and over analyzing it over and over and over again), Eric and I decided that I would go with Ezra and he would go to work as usual and we would Facetime him at the appointment. Because of our previous experiences with genetic testing all coming back normal, Eric and I came to the conclusion that this appointment wouldn't be any different. We didn't want to get our hopes up. She had mentioned "next steps", so we figured they would suggest further testing. Needless to say, we were cautious and not very optimistic about this meeting. So on that Wedn