Would You Take The Test?

I don't know. If my result was positive I suspect I'd be like "why worry about anything if I'm going to forget anyway", like really depressed. Or maybe I would try to live the time I have left as happy as possible, I don't know.

I feel like I would have to. In general, I would have probably preferred not to know if I were to develop a terrible disease; to live in blissful ignorance, because the knowledge of what I can't avoid may poison my life.

But her kids already know that they stand a 50% chance of having the disease. They kissed blissful ignorance goodbye when they found about that. You can't simply pretend you never knew that: you live with that knowledge, every day, unless you get tested.

The way I would see it, if I take the test, I have a 50% chance of being lucky, relaxing, and getting on with my life, free of that burden. If I refuse the test, that burden will never leave me.

So I didn't really understand Lydia's decision of not taking it... Maybe if you take the test, you risk losing hope?

It would be vital to anyone planning to have children since they have a high risk of passing it on. Otherwise, it is a true dilemma of wanting to know or not.

If I had the symptoms, then I would take the genetic test. Why? Because I have kids. If the test was negative, then I could breathe easy, knowing that I didn't pass it on to them and future grandkids, and they could at least be told that they would never get it and not having to worry about passing it on to their kids. OTOH if the result was positive, then my kids could prepare for their own futures better, get tested themselves, perhaps putting more money aside for their future care, and they could make better informed decisions about whether to have children of their own, or to adopt.

Refusing to know the truth would be stupid.

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"I'm sorry, but.." is a self-contained lie.

I'd find out then live life fully.

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I would. I'd need to get on a tight schedule to get in as much living as possible just in case.

No.

Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?

If I didn't take the test, every time I forgot something I would be afraid that it was because of the disease. If I took it, and had it, it wouldn't be any different. The only way I'd be able to have peace is the 50/50 chance that I didn't have it. Otherwise I'd always look for signs if I had it. Also, I'd want to make arrangements.