Thirty One Months

I don’t know how we made it to 31 months already.  I think I just slept the whole month of July away.  I kind of did, in a way.  I have been really sick and have not been able to do much for the last few weeks.  I was having difficulty breathing, dizziness, weakness and some panic attacks.  I went to a couple different doctors who ran a bunch of tests on me and were not able to figure it out.  One thought it might be my thyroid and put me on some thyroid hormones which ended up giving me a really scary hyperthyroid reaction and I almost ended up in the emergency room.  Thanks to a blessing I calmed down and was able to think clearly the next day, enough to come to the conclusion that what I actually had was a severe sinus infection.  Since then I have begun feeling much better, due to my own home remedy treatments.  Now that I am thinking more clearly and can actually sit up for more than 10 minutes at a time, I thought today would be a good day for an update.

There is still not a lot to report, unfortunately.  There was one referral last month for a couple from New Zealand who waited 33.5 months.  There was also a family who ended up pulling out of the program because they adopted a 2 year old filipino boy who’s family disrupted the adoption after only having him for a few months.  Now, as far as those I know from the philippine adoption yahoo group, there is only one other family in front of us in line.  They were approved just a week before us, so once they get their referral then we can really get excited.  When that will be, I have no idea now since there is no one else in front of us in line to compare it to.  At this point my guess is still that we will have our referral by the end of October.  It is pretty exciting to think that we could be getting our referral in the next couple months.  I am trying to stay optimistic about it, but at the same time it still feels like it is never going to happen.  This month is going to be very busy as will Sept. so I’m sure time will fly by and Oct. will be here very fast along with our referral hopefully.