You are working with mr. t who has just been told his heart failure is getting worse. you go into his room to see how he is doing after the team has shared this information with him. he is staring out the window, looking sad. how do you start your conversation?

a) "isn't it a beautiful day today mr. t.? "
b) "i saw that the team was just here, can you tell me about their conversation with you? "
c) "are you feeling ok? "
d) "i heard you just got bad news, but i know of someone just like you who lived for three more years."

John and jane jones’ newborn baby girl, leah, has just been diagnosed with galactosemia. prior to their genetic counseling appointment, they submitted this family history: john and jane’s older child, a son named lee, does not have galactosemia. john is the only child of hanna and harry. harry was an only child. hanna has two older sisters, hope (the oldest) and holly. both harry and hanna’s parents lived in good health into their 80s. jane’s brother, joe, is married to jen. they have a son, les, who is a healthy nine-year-old with myopia (nearsightedness) but no sign of galactosemia. jane’s mother, hilda, is alive and healthy; jane’s father, henry, passed away last year of a sudden heart attack. hilda and henry have no family history of galactosemia. use the information in the family history to construct a pedigree for this family.