A little more hope for Friday...

My agency called this morning to let me know that she was in contact with our new NBC officer all day yesterday trying to make sure they have all that is needed. There was 1 piece of information that was missing (the original referral in chinese). My agency overnighted it to them so they would have it today. She hopes to find out if it was approved today and then how long it will take for this paper (the US LOA) to get to China to meet up with other paperwork there to become the Article 5 document that is needed before we get our TA.

TB test update- well, it looks like we are going to be going on TOTAL faith that she doesn't test positive for TB. Here's the response from our adoption agencies China liasion:

About the TST test, I talked to the clinic doctor today again. He said most of the children with vaccination before will show positive. They have discussed with CDC very carefully about this problem. He said the main point is x-ray not PPD result. I can ask the orphanage to do it earlier. But the baby will do again in GZ no matter what the result she has because Consulate only accepts the result from clinic GZ not anywhere else. I discussed with Rebecca and we have considered to let families fly to GZ 2 days earlier from local cities. So they can have enough time to do TST and x-ray if necessary. And to be honest, if the x-ray shows problem, the child has to stay in China until the problem is clear. The doctor said this chance would be very rare.

Looking on the brighter side of things - i told Lance this morning that if she did test positive and needed treatment, then i'd just fly out all of the kids to live with me in China for 6 months and that i could homeschool them there or they could attend school there - they have American Schools:). I'm totally up for living in China but he wasn't too thrilled - hehe:)