Bonnie was warm and friendly and had a calming effect on me. Five minutes into business hours, she called me back and offered me an appointment for noon the next day (over the surgeon's lunch hour). I called the office before they opened and left a message for Bonnie explaining my situation and my time crunch. She gave me the name and number of her son's craniofacial plastic surgeon AND the name of the office manager, Bonnie, who turned out to be wonderful. I also called my friend from church who had adopted a son from China with a cleft lip and palate. If she wasn't an amazing doctor, I think she would make a great police detective - except her big heart wouldn't be able to handle the tragedy in detective work.
Nesbit's health needs are not exactly in my sister in-law's area of specialty, but she was eager and anxious to get the ball rolling for us and dig a little deeper in order to get a thorough medical assessment. Did I mention that she is one of the smartest people I know? She is always willing to help us and has been excited for our adoption journey. my brother's wife who is a brilliant neurologist at one of the most highly regarded medical facilities in the country. I immediately called my "personal medical professional" - a.k.a. We had a short amount of time to review her file and have medical professionals advise us regarding her health. I have never even met her and she is lovely to me. "Outgoing," "Likes other children and cats and dogs," "Lovely." Her development and milestones exceeded some of my boys' timelines and the description of her personality made us giggle. The bulk of her file was from her 18 month check up. Then I hit "refresh" on my email box about 764 times, waiting for them to come through. I nervously called the agency back and asked them to send her file over.
We had some fear over the vagueness of the description of her medical need, but in the end, we wanted to see her. Luckily, he answered his phone the first time and we quickly discussed it. Well, I couldn't make that decision without first talking to my man, who was working hard in Denver and had no idea that this call was coming. The kind woman on the phone from our agency then described her medical need to me as " a deformed right ear and an asymmetrical mouth." Hmmm, what might that look like? Did we want to see her file and photos? I think about her birth mother all the time and have so many thoughts about her possible situation and struggles, but that is for another post. People, if that is not evidence that there are trials in this world that we cannot even fathom, I don't know what is.
I would appreciate if some kind hearted people would adopt her." I have not seen the note yet, but it said something to the effect of, "She was born on. Her birth mother was loving and cared about her future as evidenced by the note she left with her.
She was found nestled in a paper box on a doorstep of a home on a cold day in January, 2010 when she was just 11 days old. She was described as 20 months old and living with foster parents. I grabbed the only paper I could find which happened to be too small for all the things I wanted to jot down. I then reminded myself to cherish this moment, because it would likely be a highlight when we tell Mrs. Um, yes please! (Imagine shaking hands, pounding heart, regretting that my Beloved was away on business, and scrambling for a piece of paper -all in the next few seconds.) She calmly informed me that they had a little girl's file that they wanted us to look at and did I want to hear about her? When I heard the director of the China program greeting me, I had a teeny-tiny suspicion that she wasn't calling to answer my rookie dossier questions. When my phone rang with the agency's number on the other end, I was assuming it was just the call back to answer my question. I was at the very tail end of putting our dossier together and had left a message at our adoption agency with a question about a specific portion of the paperwork. Nesbit's referral to us came quite unexpectedly.
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