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Date: 26 April 2006 11:38:38
we're just stuck. I suppose this is what I expected from the process from the beginning, but then we started talking to other adoptive parents and people at the agency and people that we know and it started to seem that now the process goes much quicker than it used to. Our friends said their Home Study only took about 6 months and we even met one family who started their process about this time last year, and their children were with them by October!! In fact, we even started to wonder if we'd be ready. (are you ever ready?)
But because of my "special circumstances" [spit] we haven't even been allowed to start untill I get a green flag from a man who I have not only never met, but who has never spoken to me or my husband and who needs to make a decision that could affect the rest of our lives!
So finally there's a little bit of movement on this consent form malarky. But the worrying thing is that the movement has been from me and from the agency. This independent guy 'doctor' person is still AWOL no where to be found and my future rests with him. At least the consultant has something that will pass as my consent, as I wrote a signed letter to the agency giving my consent to disclose information to my neurologist and the agency has sent it on to the neuro.
Now would some one explain to me the logic behind the fact that the consultant's secretary now says that he has my consent and can do something becasue the agency sent him that letter that I wrote, but a month ago when I repeatedly offered to send the consultant's secretary such a letter directly, or go to the hospital directly (and even went in person once when I was there visiting a friend "on the inside") I was told that "no, we can't have your consent directly from you, it has to come from the agency.
fiddlesticks and flapdoodle. Let's get going here.