From Wit’s End

We heard the results of the genetic test on our second child from the doctor today. He is a boy, and he passed away because his genes had the flaw known as Trisomy 18. If you are familiar with Down’s Syndrome, that is Trisomy 21. Trisomy 18 (a.k.a. Edwards Syndrome) is an unsustainable genetic anomaly: most of the babies die in the womb, and the rest of them survive a short time after they’re born, but not usually very long. My mom told me this afternoon that she once attended a child with this anomaly when she was a nurse back in the day, and it involved a lot of machines and some miserable decisions made by the parents in the end.

So God was most merciful in taking little Noël when he did. I’m still looking forward to meeting him.