So I just decided that there is no appropriate image for this update, since syringes and cringing children are nothing to smile about. I felt sorry for our agency, having to deliver the news they dreaded telling us today: "Your kids need to have lab tests done. Blood, Urine, fecal". I feel sorrier for myself having to tell my eight year-old daughter the news; she who still berates me for blood work we authorized when she was three. She really despises needles.
Our dossier will be held, waiting for this update. I am assuming it will take a month to get the tests completed and notarized, mail them to our agency, who will get them apostilled and forward them to Honduras. There they will be translated and approved before being sent to IHNFA to join the rest of our paperwork. It is hard to imagine exactly where the paperwork is, but I know, because we were too good and too fast at getting it all ready, that much of it will "expire" soon.
I feel like someone caught in quicksand, moving slowly through the motions, wondering if anyone will ever pull us safely up. Where is our son? I'd like him to know we bought him a train table this month.
Steph - which agency are you with? Mine told us that dossiers would keep moving through IHNFA, but just not approved until they have the results.
ReplyDeleteSo pathetic!!!! I feel your pain....we have to redo our labs and medical exams, which insurance likely won't cover ...due to expiration...and add a home study for the I 171H that expires in February...and our tv just died and, regarding the adoption paperwork "extras" and possibly the entire adoption, my husband says we are throwing our money in the trash...I do have faith, but I will stop buying winter clothes for my three little ones...and just focus on tropical summer clothes...to laugh or cry? That is the question!
ReplyDeleteWe are in a similar boat. We had the bloodwork and labs done a while ago, but now we are told that the physical paper saying everything was fine is not enough. We have to send copies of the actual results and we are having a hard time getting a copy of these. It has been 2 weeks since we requested them.
ReplyDeleteAmanda - we are with Gladney. Kristen - your story inspires all of us. I loved your last post regarding the huge care boxes you all send to Honduras. Honduras Rucker... do you all have a blog? I was just reading these comments again! i wonder when/if the February meeting is going to happen? It would be so wonderful if referrals took place!
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