Well, so much for my glimmer of hope. I have had a bad feeling all week, because we have been waiting to hear if our home study has been approved by AGCI(our home study agency). We have been waiting for two weeks and last time we waited for two weeks also only to find out that we needed to redo our medicals and then turn it back in and wait for approval again. Even though I said I had hope in my last post, with everything that has happened so far, I just knew it couldn’t be that easy. There is ALWAYS something else that comes up to get in our way. I finally emailed our social worker, because I just couldn’t stand waiting anymore and she just said she was also waiting to hear back from AGCI. Then today she called and then emailed Jason and here is what she said:
Hi Jason,
Please contact your counselor and ask for a letter as follows:
Dates of service, approximate # of hours, reason for treatment and a statement that your symptoms resolved without complication. It would be helpful to ask that there be a statement as follows: "Mr. Stewart has not contacted me for follow-up services since the date of our last session."
If the counselor is comfortable making a statement that you are a stable and responsible parent that would also be great.
I have no idea how long this will take. I guess that will all depend on how busy Jason’s counselor is. He hasn’t even been to see her in over 3 years. This is just crazy, and ridiculous, and I am just so tired of everything going wrong. Our home study has already been reviewed three times. Why did they not catch this during the first two times. It’s not like it was hidden somewhere that Jason had problems with depression and has seen a counselor. That is what drives me crazy more than anything else-it is always just one more thing. Why can’t they just tell us EVERYTHING that is needed or missing all at the same time. It’s not like they haven’t done this before. I just don’t get it. It really makes us wonder if we are doing the right thing. Talk about giving someone doubts. If this is really the direction we are supposed to be going, then why is it taking so long and why has everything been so difficult. I have been trying to make sense of it all, but it is just so frustrating. I know one day it will all make sense and I will understand, but for now I am just sad and frustrated. Right now I can see no end in sight. I try to imagine our home study being completed and everything approved, but it just doesn’t seem real to me anymore. Let alone actually getting a referral someday. I know we are supposed to adopt I just don’t know if this is really the direction we need to be going. I am just really confused right now. I guess we have a lot of praying to do, either for everything to start working out for us or for us to know if we are on the wrong path. It looks like we have some time to figure everything out. It is not too late to change programs until our dossier is sent to the Philippines and that can’t take place until our home study is done. I know that the Lord will help us make this decision and that everything will work out how it is meant to be. This is just a hard place to be right now.
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