Main Diagnosis; male child, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, atrophy of the brain, missing corpus collosum (nervous tissue that connects and allows communication between the right and left sides of the brain), atrophy of the optic nerve (irreversible damage to vision), congenital heart murmur….”Right after birth the child was abandoned by his parents for raising in an institution. It was born premature with hydrocephaly and spina… Read More
“It’s not safe”. I think that is what I would tell you if you were looking to foster or adopt. I’m not sure that this would be a good slogan for an adoption agency, but after walking this path, I’d think a warning is in order. I would want to tell you that if you choose this path, you will… Read More
This last week, I was asked if adoption had become an addiction for me. At first I wanted to argue that this was ridiculous and explain how this was not true. But, I actually sat back and thought about it and I came to the following conclusion. Yes, adoption has become an addiction and let me explain why. The very… Read More
You know what sucks? Fundraising…yep, I don’t like it. It’s not the late hours of work, nor the burned fingers from hot gluing, not the vinyl cutter malfunctions, or even the painstaking, hunched over, coffee driven mania I achieve late at night. No, it’s not those things…it’s me. Yes, I don’t like to receive help. I am a very controlled… Read More
I’ll never go back, I’m stepping off this plane and I’ll never return. My heart is destroyed. She was just an infant. She had some sort of wound bandaged on her foot so the doctor laid her on the cold metal table and just began ripping the gauze out of her foot. Dry dressing change, no pain medication. I need to… Read More
I’m going to talk about what people don’t often talk about within the foster care and adoption world. Sure, it will be mentioned in passing, but it truly is a bit of a taboo subject that is mostly glossed over. And what I share might make you uncomfortable or even angry. And you might think I’m a beast because what… Read More