No news yet and there won't be for a while

Sorry to say but I've not yet gotten word of the FISH results. How I'm hoping the call comes today but I realize that tomorrow is a very real possibility as well. I will say that when my cell phone rang this morning, I near jumped out of my skin to get it but, alas, it wasn't the doctor's office.

Turns out my realtor had a very similiar experience with a false-positive quad screen with her second child. She too came up at a high risk for for trisomy 18 and had to do the amnio with a full 2 week wait for the results--which she said was the most stressful time of her life. Fortunately, her son did not have it. And apparently, this same thing also happened to a friend of hers so perhaps it's more common than I thought. Of course, you know how it seems that when something potentially bad (or bad) happens to you, you're convinced you're the only one who's ever faced/been through it--even though deep inside you know you're not. Thank you each for facing this challenge with me and for helping make my wait that much more bearable.

So that's where we stand today. I will post as soon as I know more.

UPDATED to add: And now I know more. Turns out--this after I called the peri's office a little while ago--that there was too much blood in the amniotic specimen for the FISH test to be run. The report came back today stating this. The blood could have been from the needle going in, or something else (though the nurse didn't specify what), but it makes it impossible to distinguish maternal cells from fetal cells. So the only thing that can be done is to do a standard chromosome analysis of the specimen--which will take anywhere from 10 to 14 days. I'm wondering if someone can just kill me now and get it over with because really...I can't take much more of this shit. Apparently, there are no breaks to be caught around these parts. Just fucking great. So please excuse me while I go break down, just when I thought I was fresh out of tears.