Comments on: A Science Fiction Novel Wins the Pulitzer! http://www.chrisfryer.com/?p=214 Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:13:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Caroline http://www.chrisfryer.com/?p=214#comment-604 Caroline Thu, 03 May 2007 00:47:08 +0000 http://www.chrisfryer.com/?p=217#comment-604 oops i mucked up the email...this one is correct:) oops i mucked up the email…this one is correct:)

]]> By: Caroline http://www.chrisfryer.com/?p=214#comment-603 Caroline Thu, 03 May 2007 00:45:57 +0000 http://www.chrisfryer.com/?p=217#comment-603 Hi Chris, I just came across your web site through Google. You discuss some interesting things on your site and I will certainly be back to check it out. I discovered your site when I was doing a search on DMD. I am a carrier of DMD and my older brother had DMD. I am at the point now where I want kids and we are looking at the IVF PGD option. I was very interested to read your opinion on carriers using IVF to ensure their kids do not have DMD. I have questioned myself on this issue and thought should I have kids at all? I really want kids, but I don't want to risk having a child with DMD. Parts of me do feel guilty that I want to go down the PGD path. How do you explain it to children?, ' Mummy and Daddy wanted a 'perfect child' so we threw away the 'not perfect ones and kept you'...That sounds terrible! Because having a disabled brother has made me a better person and the world was a better place for having him in it. The world needs to be filled will all types of people and to only have 'perfect' people would be wrong..but here goes the contradiction that I am fighting with myself ...I don't want to bring a child into the world with DMD. So in the end my moral beliefs are overrun my own desire to make life easier. As you can see my writing is confusing and so too is my grey matter on this issue...Sorry for rabbiting on. Thanks for your blog its terrific. Feel free to drop me a line - I have provided my email address. I hope you have a good day! cheers Caz Hi Chris,
I just came across your web site through Google. You discuss some interesting things on your site and I will certainly be back to check it out.
I discovered your site when I was doing a search on DMD. I am a carrier of DMD and my older brother had DMD. I am at the point now where I want kids and we are looking at the IVF PGD option. I was very interested to read your opinion on carriers using IVF to ensure their kids do not have DMD. I have questioned myself on this issue and thought should I have kids at all? I really want kids, but I don’t want to risk having a child with DMD. Parts of me do feel guilty that I want to go down the PGD path. How do you explain it to children?, ‘ Mummy and Daddy wanted a ‘perfect child’ so we threw away the ‘not perfect ones and kept you’…That sounds terrible! Because having a disabled brother has made me a better person and the world was a better place for having him in it.
The world needs to be filled will all types of people and to only have ‘perfect’ people would be wrong..but here goes the contradiction that I am fighting with myself …I don’t want to bring a child into the world with DMD. So in the end my moral beliefs are overrun my own desire to make life easier.
As you can see my writing is confusing and so too is my grey matter on this issue…Sorry for rabbiting on.

Thanks for your blog its terrific.
Feel free to drop me a line – I have provided my email address.
I hope you have a good day!
cheers Caz

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