we just found out that there is a tropical storm "Goni" that is moving toward China in the next 48 hours. We will have to fly over it hopefully - so please pr-y for safe travels!
And keep pr-ying for the Scruggs family: http://jayscruggs.livejournal.com/ they are still waiting for a decision on whether or not they will have to leave thier new daughter.
Guilin Time
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8 years ago
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regarding the family in China..spread the word from below letter. Many of us are have been dealing with this in Ethiopia. It is not a U.S. embassey thing, nor China thing. It is sorely a CDC thing. See below. All our HIV+ kids have to undergo 3 days of sputum testing (ng tubedown nose done in hospital) It takes 2+ months to get results. There is no way around it. The work that needs to happen is that testing can start bfore embassey appointment so can be completed before parenst travel. It is still very hard that our kids ae delayed even longer coming home. But CDC is NOT going to make exceptions. There are 100s of us going through same thing.
ORIGINAL POST:
I am begging you all to please do NOT inundate the CDC with irate phone calls. I have been working with the family and with two different non profit organizations that work with this type of situation to bring Harper to the US. I cannot give details, but I can say that we expected them to deny the waiver and had a backup plan.
Please hold off until we are able to confirm whether or not this backup plan will work. No, the family was not offered to bring her into the US masked and then be quarantined. What they were talking about on the blog was that they offered to do that and the CDC turned them down.
No, She does not have an active case of TB. She has a sputum test 2 months ago that came back negative, however it was not done by a CDC authorized physician at a CDC authorized clinic, it was done at a hospital. I will admit, when the CDC clinic has any questions about a questionable TB sputum culture they send it to the hospital where she had her initial sputum culture done.
We have everything in place for this backup plan and I will let you all know as soon as I know something. I will be conferencing the two non profit organizations first thing in the morning at approximately 9am EST US. Please post this to any other boards that are talking about contacting the CDC. If the CDC and the Department of Healthy and Human Services gets upset about the amount of phone calls they could turn us down simply because they are upset at being hounded. In all honesty, hounding the CDC in the first place may have cost us the approval. The CDC was EXTREMELY upset at the amount of calls they received and wanted to know why we were requesting an exemption for one child while all other children with TB adopted from Ethiopia, Ukraine, China etc all have to wait for 2 months after they are adopted for the sputum culture results. This is something that families adopting HIV+ and TB+ children from Ethiopia deal with every single time. They have to leave their children behind for 2 months and go back to get them.
Please please please, do NOT contact the CDC until I am able to find out if a solution has been worked out.
Thank you,
Rebecca Johnson
Project Hopeful
http://www.projecthopeful.org/
Julee
mom to many
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