Re: TGL/HDL predicts cardiac events at 10 years



"Wes Groleau" <Groleau+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ine7kh$6ao$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 04-04-2011 22:32, Ozgirl wrote:
Absolutely, but it doesn't negate what I said and remember, I said it
was a better aim IN MY OPINION. There is nothing wrong with aiming high.
Setting goals and aiming to achieve those goals are pretty commonplace
in all walks of life and for varying reasons. Put it this way, why
strive for something low when something higher might be achievable? My
daughter has an IQ of less than 50. I can't see any reason for not
providing opportunities for her to achieve whatever she can.

My aunt was labeled 50 by one doctor and 75 by another.
Various experts assured my grandparents that she would
never be able to do anything more complicated than folding
towels. They were _SO_ wrong. She could read, clean house,
cook, help teach kids to swim, do her own accounting for
the money she earned doing that job, walk to the bus stop
unassisted, and get off at the right stop, etc. etc.

Excellent! Not so in my daughter's case though. She is less than 50 by default, i.e. she cannot be accurately tested for IQ because it is so low. A combination of a smaller brain and a malformed one is the result. It is very rare for a person with trisomy 21 Downs (as opposed to mosaic DS) to have higher than a certain IQ, which I can't remember right now but its quite low. People often ask me why other brain cells can't take over but with DS cells aren't damaged so that can't happen.

She can't talk, she can't read (other than to memorise what something looks like for her own benefit - e.g. her favourite dvd's), she can't write. She can put bread in a toaster and push down the lever but cannot control whether it burns or not. Basically I have to do almost everything for her. She has been diagnosed as being mentally around 2 years old but when my grandkids were much younger than that they ran rings around her in most ways.

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