Shania went in for her surgery on Wednesday. That evening, Dr. Marino called to say that all went well. On Thursday morning, we received a call saying that she was doing well. The incision site looked go (no infection), her leg was swollen from the surgery which was to be expected and she was being fed fluids and medication through an IV. They were also going to give her lunch.
Yesterday (Friday), the doctor called to say she was doing "remarkably well". In his opinion, she was starting to feel better because she wagged her tail and raised her head when he went over to check her out. The incision site was still looking nice, she had eaten a little bit the day before and was doing great. They had also tried getting her up to take a walk. She is walking on three legs right now holding up the left leg -- not to worry, he said this is perfectly normal. It will probably be 2 or 3 days before she tries to use the leg.
We are now sitting here anxiously awaiting his call today to tell us that she's well enough to come home. We've completely renovated the living room to make it Shania's room. We were told that she'll have to be confined to one room in the house during her recovery. We put down some blue foam tiles on the floor so she won't slide around, we moved the couches and chair out so we had room to bring in my rocker with it's ottoman, the hightop table with chairs for eating, and a friend of Bob's offered their Aerobed so we could all sleep in there! We also brought in Shania's bed and her mattress from the bed by the front window (which she won't be able to look out for some time) and her food dish. It's all very cozy!
I'll post more when I know more.
Faith
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Latest Information from CHSFS
We took part in a conference call with our agency on January 31 regarding the status of the wait for China adoptions. According to the way things have been progressing with CCAA, it looks like we'll have to wait an additional 4 or 5 years to bring our daughter home.
This is based on the current way dossiers are being processed. As of the call, the CCAA had matched dossiers with LIDs of 12/19/05. If you calculate how many weeks are between 12/19/05 and our current log-in date (01/11/07), then divide by 12, you come up with this horrible wait time.
With these latest developments, Bob and I are now faced with a decision -- what to do. We could sit it out and wait, we could dual list with another country, we could do a concurrent listing, or we could withdraw our application entirely. The thought of dual listing had some appeal to us until we spoke with personnel at CHSFS. We will only be able to transfer a small amount of money from the China program to the new country, plus we'll incur the costs of the new country. In most cases, those new costs will range between $25,000 and $35,000 ~~ and this is in addition to all the money we've already laid out for China.
At this point, we have no clue what we're going to do. We actually just updated our homestudy and our CIS approval will be expiring in a few months so we'll have to figure out which way we're heading so we know what to do going forward.
Well, I'm at school and class will be starting in a few minutes so I'm going to end off here for now. I'll keep updating the blog as we figure things out.
Faith
This is based on the current way dossiers are being processed. As of the call, the CCAA had matched dossiers with LIDs of 12/19/05. If you calculate how many weeks are between 12/19/05 and our current log-in date (01/11/07), then divide by 12, you come up with this horrible wait time.
With these latest developments, Bob and I are now faced with a decision -- what to do. We could sit it out and wait, we could dual list with another country, we could do a concurrent listing, or we could withdraw our application entirely. The thought of dual listing had some appeal to us until we spoke with personnel at CHSFS. We will only be able to transfer a small amount of money from the China program to the new country, plus we'll incur the costs of the new country. In most cases, those new costs will range between $25,000 and $35,000 ~~ and this is in addition to all the money we've already laid out for China.
At this point, we have no clue what we're going to do. We actually just updated our homestudy and our CIS approval will be expiring in a few months so we'll have to figure out which way we're heading so we know what to do going forward.
Well, I'm at school and class will be starting in a few minutes so I'm going to end off here for now. I'll keep updating the blog as we figure things out.
Faith
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