Ok, so the pollen in this area is horrendous...and I am not even joking a little bit. I have spent all day blowing my nose into a roll of toilet paper. Scratchy. Snotty. Yeah, so fun. Everything is covered in a yellow powdery film of pollen. So when I went to the geneticist for the 2nd step in donating my eggs (more on this later)...I had to tell them basically all I knew about my family and their genetic background. Like, had anyone had or died from cancer? How many brothers and sisters do my parents have? How many cousins? (there was no answer to this one since it is over 60 at least on my Mom's side...)
I thought they were gonna draw blood and test me for some weird genetic abnormality marker type thing. All they did was draw a graph with circles for females and squares for males and then she took notes on what I could tell her. It all took about 20 minutes. Very interesting and seems like not very concrete info to report back to the potential egg recipients. What if I didn't mention the type of cancer my paternal grandmother and aunt died of cuz I don't know? Honestly I do not have a complete genetic family tree completed. I barely know all my Aunts' and Uncles' names unless I write them all down. LOL. So on Wednesday is the psychological testing for over 2 hours...I will update on that and why I decided to do this in the first place...etc...
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