Categories: uncategorized
Date: 10 April 2006 16:49:01
have found it very difficult to update lately. it has been one of those months where there is so much to talk and think about that you simply can't bear to talk about it. you know, one of those times where you'd like to tell someone something, but you simply don't know where to start. so i've taken a little blogging holiday. as one of my oldest friends told me "just take one itty bitty thing at a time". (a piece of wisdom from her mother).
and one itty bitty thing i decided that could be left out, for a few weeks or so anyway, was blogging.
but i think i'm back now. mr dots and i have had our medicals and finished an excellent adoption preparation course. (more on the course later)
we got stuck after that though. but as there were other major stressors going on in our lives, we simply figured that not being able to go past the medicals was just a "God's timing" thing. in other words, God used beurocracy to make sure that we only took on "one itty bitty thing at a time". yes, i believe he can do that. "all things work together for good for those who believe" and all that.
* the adoption agency told us we couldn't go further with the adoption process until my medical assessment was cleared
* i signed a consent form and sent it to the agency
* agency sends medical forms to our GP
* we had the medical with our GP
* he sent the forms to the agency
* the agency sent the forms to the independent medical advisor
* independent medical advisor wrote a letter to my consultant nerologist
but my neruo can't legally tell the advisor anything at all because the advisor didn't bother to send the neuro the consent form i signed.
* neuro's secretary has written to advisor
* agency director has written to advisor
* i have sent agency new signed letter to give to advisor
* advisor is AWOL
ok, so that was all going on and i couldn't do anything about it, which was fine while the dots family were stressed about other things, but now all the stress is (mostly) gone and i'm kinda hoping that God will now lift the beurocratic holding pattern and allow us to go an itty bitty step forward now.
or maybe there's more stress round the corner??