Scholarship

An education is something that is invaluable, especially now. Because of my biology background, I have the required background knowledge (and practice) to understand scientific journals relating to pregnancy. We had some quesitons about early detection of trisomy 13 and 18 (genetic abnormalities that always result in death shortly after birth). I was able to access the university's online journal catalogue and discovered that it certainly is possible to detect the abnormalities much sooner than either my wife or I thought. I saved the information so that, if need be, I can present the doctors at tomorrow's appointment with something to think about.
It is certainly impossible to create a network of people willing to get things done for you, but the information of those people has been increasingly easy to access (pre-internet). I'm going to revise a well known adage to, "It's not who you know, it's knowing how to find them." I believe that us somewhat socially inept people will be pleased with that.