Medical Report Praise

Just a quick update on this past week.  Teddy (our dog) got his immunizations.  I had my doctor's appointment on Monday & got a good medical report & signed form for home study.  The dossier required form had several tests that need to be ran that I was not aware of.  Have to go back to Dr in next week or 2 to have testing done for HIV, TB, etc.  I know I don't have them but Dr can't sign off official negative report without the tests.  Thankfully the form we need for home study is done & the dossier form will not be needed for a few months. 

That is not the good news.  The big concern has been with Jeremy's medical report.  He was born with a heart defect that was corrected as a young child.  He leads a perfectly normal life now but our agency couldn't guarantee we would be accepted yet until they saw how our home study addressed the issue.  He went to Cardiologist for annual testing on Tuesday & yesterday for Dr appt.  They gave him a clean report!  Praise the LORD!  He still has to wait for them to mail him his medical forms & our agency needed a letter from the Cardiologist advising his condition won't affect his day to day life, he has a normal life expectancy & won't affect his ability to care for a child.  He still has to go to his family Dr at the end of this month to fill out the rest of this form & also get the HIV, etc testing but that is not a concern as he is otherwise healthy.  Just continuing to pray that our home study give approval medically & our agency is happy with this.  So still need prayers but also need to give thanks to God for taking this big weight off our shoulders.

Also since our last report I found out some more information that is going to delay us some!  We had our OH & FBI fingerprints done Aug 1 & 8.  I believe they told me it would take 4-6 weeks to get the results back.  Someone else told me it takes 11-12 weeks.  I am really hoping that they are wrong as that would put us back to Oct 18 before all of our paperwork is in & our home study won't even begin scheduling interviews until every piece of paper is in.  I also found out that we now have to have immigration approval before our dossier can be sent off to Ethiopia.  This used to be something that was done AFTER it was sent off but is changing Sept 1.  This can take up to 90 days to receive although right now many are getting back in 5 weeks.  I knew there would be many ups & downs with this process but actually going through it is much worse!  Just pray for my patience through all of this.  I know our child is out there some where (or in someone's belly) & I just need to know that God has a perfect plan & I need to WAIT for him to reveal his perfect plan!  But that is SOOO hard & need your prayers too! 

Thanks & continue to stay tuned as we go through this roller coaster we call international adoption!!!