SOS = UPDATE!

Well, if there is any good to come of last night's panic attack, after finding new info on Macey on a foster home's website, it's that we got a really great update on her from our agency in the wee hours of the morning.  I had sent a distress signal to them by way of a total freaked out email.  I basically said hey, there are two big, BIG issues that weren't disclosed in her paperwork, so we need further clarification immediately.

Deep exhale.

Clarification received.

Macey's doing great.

Heart Disease - Our agency thinks this was mis-stated and inaccurate.  Macey did have a heart murmur. They did an ultrasound early on and everything looked fine and the murmur was "tending to close."  No subsequent issues.

Skull Deformity - Like my friend said this afternoon, lots of kids have this, and it could just be from sleeping wrong.  But thankfully, Macey isn't one of those helmet needing kinds of kids.  Whew!  Bald and a helmet.. that would be a rough welcome to the USA! What's next, head gear?   Turns out our coordinator is on vacation.  She received a couple of updated pictures of Macey, as well as a new head CT scan before she left on said vacation.  When was she planning to let us know about this very important update?  I do not know.  But thankfully my freaking out via email spurred her to react.  At 1:30am she sent us a nice note along with 2 new photos and a Chinese document from Macey's last CT scan done on March 30th. (Yes, March, as in over 2 months ago.)  I'm totally ticked off that it took me finding information elsewhere, going nutty as a result and sending her a psycho email in order to get this from her. I'm also a little peeved that the CT scan was even done.  I told her a while back that if it was in the process, that was fine, but if it wasn't not to push for it. The last thing Macey needs is more radiation, let alone that of the Chinese sort!  Ugh. But she got it anyway.  Our agency is planning to translate the results of the CT but I beat them to the punch.  Thanks in part to one of my best friend's who just happens to be Chinese and whose father was able to turn around the translation on a dime.  Heck yeah!  He sent back a clear and complete translation of the CT scan within hours of receiving it.  That's what happens when you have a PhD on your team!  So awesome!  Turns out there's no skull deformity, nor is there any fluid which showed up on Macey's first CT scan about a year ago.  This is great news and such a huge, huge relief.

And as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.  Some of those thousand swirling in my head right now are:  happy, healthy, joyful and thankful for our beautiful silly girl!