= Mercies In Disguise =
=== Gina Kolata 2017 ===

Interesting reading, a people story more than a science story

pIX "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." 
 . attributed to Mark Twain but ''[[ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/22/why/ | not likely ]]''

Story of the Baxley family in South Carolina with genetic GSS [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerstmann%E2%80%93Str%C3%A4ussler%E2%80%93Scheinker_syndrome | Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker ]] syndrome

Hartsville, South Carolina, Bill Baxley Jr. patriarch, Baptist

p99 Faye Baxley, scientist at NASA Huntsville (no cites)

IVF with PGD, in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis, cost $22K