Adoption Trip Details 8/23/2007
Okay, I’m sure many of you are dying to know more about this upcoming trip. I’ll share what I can. We are traveling Sept. 1-Sept. 7 to Vladivostok, Russia. We are doing so by way of Seoul, so we are flying across the Pacific, which means we cross the International Date Line and other such jet-lag inducing nonsense.
What we know about this girl is that she is almost 3 and she is deaf and is also diagnosed with very mild CP. Other than that, we know very little. When we receive our official referral for her, we will be provided all the other details such as medical history, birth history, and so on.
The plan is to meet the girl on Tuesday and make a decision by Thursday or Friday at the absolute latest, though technically we can decide once we come home, but we don’t expect the decision to take that long. Either she is meant to be our daughter or she isn’t. We are trusting God to make it clear one way or the other. We are prepared to involve various Dr. experts to assist us as needed with the medical details so we are clear about her diagnoses. If we say yes, then we will return to Russia in 8-12 weeks for court and to complete the adoption and bring her home.
Once we have agreed to adopt her, we will be allowed to post a picture, so stay tuned to see what happens!
Wow, just checked in and see you are traveling in a couple of days to Eastern Russia. We are living almost directly south to southwest from there in Dalian, China. We are interested in your experience in Russia and the process you have followed to date….we are also considering another adoption, but as you can tell from a couple of posts ago on our blog we are not overly excited about re-entering Ukraine…yet…..Good luck to the three of you and enjoy Vladivostok the weather should be good.
Brian