Comments on: Answering your questions: Part I http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: alicia http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5317 alicia Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:12:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5317 Being the medical geek I am, I had to look up the HNPCC - for your other readers, wikipedia has a good basic article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_nonpolyposis_colorectal_cancer<br/>SO which form is in your family?<br/>Also, I have a good friend with Factor V Leiden, who decided in her last pregnancy to forgo the Lovenox etc and who actually had a home birth - a controversial but very well-informed decision. Email me if you want contact information with her. As you say, it isn't black and white....<br/>Where I am getting a little miffed is having patients who are heterozygous for one of the MTHFR mutations being treated as a ticking time bomb in pregnancy - give me a break already! Being the medical geek I am, I had to look up the HNPCC – for your other readers, wikipedia has a good basic article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereditary_nonpolyposis_colorectal_cancer
SO which form is in your family?
Also, I have a good friend with Factor V Leiden, who decided in her last pregnancy to forgo the Lovenox etc and who actually had a home birth – a controversial but very well-informed decision. Email me if you want contact information with her. As you say, it isn’t black and white….
Where I am getting a little miffed is having patients who are heterozygous for one of the MTHFR mutations being treated as a ticking time bomb in pregnancy – give me a break already!

]]> By: Jennifer F. http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5313 Jennifer F. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:41:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5313 Rebecca - I know. I'll never forget getting that call from the people at MD Anderson to tell me I didn't have it. It was an interesting experience, though, to get a view into their research into HNPCC. Evidently they've traced it back to one immigrant from Hess, Germany in the early 1700's. We're all related to him. It was amazing to see the elaborate family tree they've put together.<br/><br/>Sarah - one thing that gave me an initial influx of readers was that I was asking questions about Christianity (I will still basically agnostic), so I would sometimes go to others' sites and ask if they would come over to answer a couple of my questions. Quite a few people stuck around, and the traffic grew from there. Rebecca – I know. I’ll never forget getting that call from the people at MD Anderson to tell me I didn’t have it. It was an interesting experience, though, to get a view into their research into HNPCC. Evidently they’ve traced it back to one immigrant from Hess, Germany in the early 1700′s. We’re all related to him. It was amazing to see the elaborate family tree they’ve put together.

Sarah – one thing that gave me an initial influx of readers was that I was asking questions about Christianity (I will still basically agnostic), so I would sometimes go to others’ sites and ask if they would come over to answer a couple of my questions. Quite a few people stuck around, and the traffic grew from there.

]]> By: Sarahndipity http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5311 Sarahndipity Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:34:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5311 Thanks for answering my questions! It sure seems to me like you have a lot of readers - over 5,000 profile veiws is a lot!! I'm happy if I just get 1 or 2 comments on a post. :) <br/><br/>Just wondering, how did you initially get people to read your blog? Was it just by commenting on other people's blogs? Thanks for answering my questions! It sure seems to me like you have a lot of readers – over 5,000 profile veiws is a lot!! I’m happy if I just get 1 or 2 comments on a post. :)

Just wondering, how did you initially get people to read your blog? Was it just by commenting on other people’s blogs?

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5310 Rebecca Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:13:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5310 P.S. You seriously lucked out on the HNPCC. P.S. You seriously lucked out on the HNPCC.

]]> By: Jennifer F. http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5307 Jennifer F. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:39:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5307 Rebecca - I just remembered this as well: we're also an HNPCC family on my dad's side, if you're familiar with that. The best coin flip I ever won is that I don't have it. Crazy genes, huh? Rebecca – I just remembered this as well: we’re also an HNPCC family on my dad’s side, if you’re familiar with that. The best coin flip I ever won is that I don’t have it. Crazy genes, huh?

]]> By: Jennifer F. http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5305 Jennifer F. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:30:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5305 Rebecca -<br/><br/>I know! Can you believe it? When I asked my hematologist if it meant that the condition would be worse for me he said probably, but they can't know for sure because there are just a few other people in the world with that genotype. I think he suspects that I'm not telling him that my parents are cousins or something. :) Rebecca -

I know! Can you believe it? When I asked my hematologist if it meant that the condition would be worse for me he said probably, but they can’t know for sure because there are just a few other people in the world with that genotype. I think he suspects that I’m not telling him that my parents are cousins or something. :)

]]> By: Rebecca http://www.conversiondiary.com/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html/comment-page-1#comment-5302 Rebecca Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:04:00 +0000 http://gator1217.hostgator.com/~fulwiler/2008/02/answering-your-questions-part-i.html#comment-5302 Homozygous for Factor II!!!!! Wow that is seriously rare. I have been performing that test for 4 years and have yet to see a genotype like yours. I salute you in your specialness! Sorry that was probably inappropriate, but us geeky DNA types find rare mutations fascinating and we can forget that these mutations cause real trouble for real people. Stay healthy! I will pray for you! Homozygous for Factor II!!!!! Wow that is seriously rare. I have been performing that test for 4 years and have yet to see a genotype like yours. I salute you in your specialness! Sorry that was probably inappropriate, but us geeky DNA types find rare mutations fascinating and we can forget that these mutations cause real trouble for real people. Stay healthy! I will pray for you!

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