As Sure as Tomorrow Comes by Danielle Jones

Author:Danielle Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KiCam Projects, LLC
Published: 2017-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The week after our initial fetal care center meeting, Chris and I went to the other hospital in town for his second opinion. After filling out paperwork and going through one sonogram, the head doctor of that medical center’s fetal practice met with us. Though the doctors at our first team meeting were medically accurate in their findings, this doctor took some extra time with us and broke down the medical terminology. He made it easy to understand.

Since our team meeting, Chris had become very concerned about the doctors saying they couldn’t find the vermis in our son’s brain. He and I had spent hours on the Internet trying to learn more about the vermis, what it was and what it did, and if people didn’t have a vermis, what their quality of life was. We found stories of people who didn’t have vermises who lived normal lives. But we also found stories of people who were completely incapacitated due to not having a vermis. The spectrum was wide.

The second-opinion doctor drew us a diagram of what a healthy person’s brain looked like and what our son’s brain looked like. We could really begin to understand what some of the issues were that our son was facing. The doctor also shared an analogy with us that gave us a sense of hope. He told us that many times when people are born missing limbs, they are able to compensate for their movements with the limbs they do have, because that’s all they’ve ever known. He gave us the example of a person born with only one arm. That person probably would figure out a way to go through life with his or her one arm, learning how to do the same things people with two arms do. Such people would never see themselves as being deficient. Still, he couldn’t say something similar would be true for our son. He told us he didn’t know if Junior would know the difference between Chris joking and being serious, or if he would just stare at Chris because his mental capacity would allow him only to realize that Chris was his father.

Chris asked that doctor more than one time and in more than one way if our son would be able to imagine. To Chris, that was everything. He knew that if our son could at least imagine, then he would have a sense of hope. Even if he were wheelchair-bound, Chris knew that if Junior could imagine that he was not, then one day he could actually start walking. If Junior could imagine, he would have a way of escape from the difficult picture of a life the doctors were painting for him. The doctor told Chris that he wasn’t sure if our son would be able to imagine. But he did know that the type of home provided to our baby could make all the difference in the world. He and the initial doctor who had requested I bring my mom to our team meeting both said the same thing.

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