Christopher and Erika....

I talked to Amanda yesterday! It was so great to hear her voice. Christopher's surgery went well although he is still in the PICU. I have no photos of Christopher as he was already in Shanghai waiting surgery when I arrived. Erika's surgery is scheduled for October 8 (Thanksgiving). She is leaving Starfish on Thursday. Say a prayer for her. Here is the sweet little thing:





Cailean is doing really well. Which is of course awesome but since he is doing so well the surgeon is apparently in no rush to do the surgery. This sucks! It is great he is doing well but get the surgery done! That means he would only recover quicker. Apparently there is only one surgeon in all of China that operates on Spina Bifida patients and only has two OR days a week...therefore he is extremely booked. So we do not yet have a scheduled date for Cailean.


Amanda and I came up with an idea. Wouldn't it be great if she had a Web Cam....then I could see Cailean and all the kids! Also I mentioned it would be fantastic for all the waiting parents!

The status of Referrals and Mary Anne:

Well, I guess I should talk about referrals. I am pissed with the CCAA right now. It looks like the cut off is November 30, 2005. Remember our log-in-date is January 26, 2006. I didn't post last month about the batch but they only got to November 25, 05. So that means they only matched 5 days. I was really hoping they would get into December. I am so tired of seeing November 05!! They have been matching November 05 for like 6 months!!!