natalie and i were talking over the weekend about medical testing and how there are times when your worse off for having had it done.

first, there are a number of therapies that do a better job of reducing quality of life than increasing life expectancy.

second, the abundance of testing and transferring of patients between specialists means that important information can get lost in a shuffle or someone else’s heap.

third, knowing your ‘supposed’ risk of something seems to be even less reliable than betting vegas odds.

we just found out there is fragile x marker in the family and that would have greatly tempered any enthusiasm i had for even having kids not to mention the monumental stress it would have caused all through pregnancy.

so that baseball sized lump on the side of my head, i don’t think i’ll be having that checked…