A few weeks ago we held the Swim Fest, our annual end-of-summer fundraiser where our Ranchers form swim teams to compete for various trophies and raise money for their winter cruise and other quality of life issues. Swim Fest is low-key and most of our parents come out to cheer on the gang. I was…
Jerry and I, plus several staff members and 16 Ranchers with Down syndrome just returned from Indianapolis where we attended the annual convention of the National Down Syndrome Congress. Jerry and I went in a few days early in order to visit a sister village community in Ohio, about an hour away. It’s called Safe…
Dr. Jerome Lejuene, discoverer of cause of Down syndrome I discovered I was pregnant with my fourth child very early in February of 1984. I was 42 and certainly not expecting to be expecting, but Jerry and I rolled with the punches and were soon changing our life course and making new plans. Those plans…
The Minister of Health of Denmark has boasted recently that by 2030 the government will have achieved its goal of no babies being born with Down syndrome. This will be achieved not by research designed to override the effects of an extra 21st chromosome. That would be a noble goal. No, alas, it will be achieved…