Mixed Bag

We took our new daughter to see the Orthopedic Surgeon today. It was a mixed bag. About 3/4 of the way thru the appointment, he let us know that he believes he can repair our daughter's foot, but he will not be at the hospital and is moving out of state at the end of July. So he can either work her into his surgery schedule before he leaves or we can opt to wait for her to adjust to her new home some more and have another colleague of his take over her case. We opted to wait since we'd like to think about it a bit more and we prefer that the doctor who does surgery does her post-surgery care.

Okay, so that fixes her foot, but what about the muscle weakness in her legs? He told us what she does NOT have, but since we had been told by the Russian doctors that they think it stems from her having Polio as a baby--our American doctor flat out told us that he really doesn't know how to help her since American doctors are not educated about Polio since it doesn't exist. We had to educate him (this would now be the second doctor we've had to educate about this) that only the Western Hemisphere is free of Polio. It is still around in the Eastern Hemisphere. So we now feel stuck between a rock and a hard place. How do we go about getting our daughter the help that she needs without paying a fortune for a specialized International Adoption doctor?

We still have a few more specialists for her to see, but some of them do not have any openings until September. Please pray for us to be able to get our new daughter the specialized medical care that she needs and in a timely manner.

1 Samuel 1:27 "I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him."