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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, thanks for checking in. I heard from our genetic counselor and it'll be probably another couple of weeks before the CAH test result comes back. In the meantime, I guess I'm managing alright - I suppose if you sit with something long enough it becomes just part of the background, or something. That's not to say I haven't also continued to go down worst-case rabbit holes - my current favorite is "What if I have an ovarian or adrenal tumor and this poor baby is just the canary in the coal mine and I'll be dead from cancer in a year??" I'm a lot of fun at parties right now!
 
Counseling doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. [/quote]

I'm the 9:49 poster.  I did lots of rabbit holes too, especially involving my then-toddler (whose reaction to all the potentially bad news and a very sick sibling I was very worried about).  The counselor really helped with that.  She literally told me "when your brain starts doing/saying this, tell it to do/say that instead."  It was an effective tool.

Re genetic counselor...I begged ours to call and expedite the results.  I told her I was willing to pay an expedite fee if there was such a thing.  The fee was not an option, but she told me she nagged the lab and we did get some of the results a week or so sooner than we expected them.  For some of the tests, they have to grow the cells so that takes whatever time it takes and there aint no expediting.  Big hugs OP.  [/quote]

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