I believe this has come up several times on cf-talk, and the consensus is always a that a human translator is best. While I do agree with this I do not have a budget for translation at the moment, nor do I have any truly bilingual volunteers. Given enough time I can probably handle French myself but most of our email seems to come from Latin America. The current plan is to set up a link to Google's language tools, but I am really not happy with it. AltaVista's tools seem no better. Does anyone on this list know of a better tool out there?
Dana PS - to demonstrate the scope of the problem, I am pasting below the text of an actual email, translated on Google. First of all, I am very sorry about your baby. Sometimes these children > matrix despite everything what can be made for them, and we do not know why. > > the cause of the syndrome of prune belly is currently not very clear. The majority of word of doctors > it are not genetic. We however know the families which had more one > child of prune belly. However the severity of the disease considerably also changes; > thus a second force of child of prune belly spout out completely. There are others familes > which thus have only one child with the prune belly it can be another factor. > > I myself AM not a medical professional; I am a person of sequence which had a friend > with this disease. I ccing a couple of the professionals who can be able in measurement > amplify on my answers. I would strongly suggest looking at all on > the Web site of www.prunebelly.org, including the articles of newspaper, approximately > us page and the forum of support, with which is very actively read by patients > prune belly and parents of the children with the prune belly which made and not > to survive. I believe that it is the best collection of information on the belly > the prune syndrome outside there. > > your English seems very good but if the language is an exit I will test > lucky find a Spanish speaker to help you. We want to translate the website > into other languages, but we are all mostly the volunteers as this proceeds rather > slowly. > > to answer your questions specifically -- I do not think that there are genetics > or any other test which can be carried out before you became pregnant. The belly > the syndrome of prune can be diagnosed in the uterus -- and treated --. the treatment not > success of guarantee but a diagnosis of syndrome of prune belly is not a death > a sentence. Look at www.prunebelly.org/AboutUs.html. To put abruptly, if > you have another child with the syndrome of prune belly it can only have very soft > symptoms or he can also die, and we do not know up to now what causes it or > why some kids are so much sicker than others. If the lives of child it is > probably to need surgery, probably several consulting- rooms, but if it saw to be > approximately two it will probably have a happy and reasonably healthy life. It > seems extremely not very probable that something which this baby with > matrix caused you. > > hope of I which I answered your questions. Smell you please free to write behind > so more occur with you. The original text: First of all, I am very sorry about your baby. Sometimes these children do > die in spite of all that can be done for them, and we do not know why. > > The cause of prune belly syndrome is unclear at this time. Most doctors say > it is not genetic. We do however know families who have had more than one > prune belly child. However the severity of the illness varies widely > also; > so a second prune belly child might do quite well. There are other > familes > who have only one child with prune belly so it may be some other factor. > > I myself am not a medical professional; I am a web person who had a > friend > with this illness. I am ccing a couple of professionals who may be able > to > amplify on my answers. I would strongly suggest looking at everything on > the www.prunebelly.org web site, including the journal articles, the > About > Us page and the support forum, which is very actively read by patients with > prune belly and parents of children with prune belly who did and did not > survive. I believe it is the best collection of information on prune > belly > syndrome out there. > > Your English seems very good but if language is an issue I will attempt > to > find a Spanish speaker to help you. We do want to translate the website > into other languages, but we are mostly all volunteers so this proceeds > rather > slowly. > > To answer your questions specifically -- I do not think there is a > genetic > or other test that can be done before you become pregnant. Prune belly > syndrome can be diagnosed -- and treated -- in utero. Treatment does not > guarantee success but a diagnosis of prune belly syndrome is not a death > sentence. Look at www.prunebelly.org/AboutUs.html. To put it bluntly, if > you have another child with prune belly syndrome it may have only very mild > symptoms or it may also die, and we do not as yet know what causes it or > why some kids are so much sicker than others. If the child lives it is > likely to need surgery, possibly several surgeries, but if it lives to be > about two it will probably have a happy and reasonably healthy life. It > does seem extremely unlikely that something you did caused this baby to > die. > > I hope that I have answered your questions. Please feel free to write > back > if more occur to you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
