Several of my relatives have been tested, and I've charted out the carriers on a family tree. Despite my sister's results being negative, a chance still exists that I could be positive.

I had blood taken ten days ago, so today I called my 'temporary' doctor to see if the results had arrived. She put me on hold for quite some time, and I became increasingly nervous to the point where my hands were shaking.

The implications of a positive result are not dire. It's only when the potential father of my potential children also happens to be a carrier that things start to get risky. The idea of a positive result is frightening, though, because IF I am positive, and IF Daniel is positive, then our having children together becomes infinitely more complicated. I don't entirely know what the process would be, but there would have to be something along the lines of testing the embryo/fetus and discussions of terminating a +/+ baby, or maybe selective implantation of non-+/+ embryos, or ???

Of course, this is all dependent on the idea that I do decide to have kids, and that Daniel wants to be the father of those kids. If everything goes to hell, and I end up looking for a new father-of-my-children, and I am positive, then blood testing would have to happen at an early stage in the relationship. I can see it now: 30-Something atheletic brunette, 5'6" seeks professional male 30-40 with a passion for the outdoors, music, politics, and cooking. Must not be a CF carrier.

*sigh*