Today started off with a nurse visit before 7:00am

As part of the process for all of the Dr's appt we have scheduled, we needed some labs drawn. So we made arrangements with our good friend Lucille Brown, LPN to be at our house at 7:00am this morning to draw blood. She rang the doorbell promptly at 6:54 am, and got started right away with her patients. For those of you who do not know Justin well, let me just say that he would rather do ANYTHING than give blood. We let him go first, and I tried to give him a play by play, but he was not interested! After, that I was up and gave my blood sample. I am a pro at blood draws, and needles. I have my own red hazard box in this house if that tells you anything! You can not go through as many years of fertility treatments as I have and not grow use to the needles, and blood draws. Justin did good, and Lucille did even better. Thank you, Lucille for being gentle with us both, and getting it on the first stick.

What are we going to do with these lab results you ask? Well we have an appointment on Thursday at 2:30pm with an oncologist, who will review the labs and hopefully determine we are cancer free and write the note we need for Russia. After that the only thing left is our appointment with the psychiatrist, which is scheduled for February 12th. It has been very difficult to find a Dr. willing to do this evaluation, and write this note. When I ask why, and if it is a liability? I am told actually it is because you usually can not tell in one session if someone is really crazy, unless they are extremely crazy.

In all fairness, after I have thought long and hard about both of these Dr.'s appointments. I realize it is for good reason that Russia is asking for them. I was told that cancer will usually get you disqualified from an adoption program here, and we (Americans) have got some bad press recently about some adoptions that went really wrong. The children were adopted by Americans, came to the USA and were killed through neglect or abuse. So, with those things happening the Russians just want to make sure their children are going to good forever homes. I think in the years a head these appointments will not be so hard to get, but we happen to be the pioneers for the program requirements. Go figure.........

We still have not heard anything about a return date, but as soon as we know something you all will be the first to know.