God is always working!!!
It has been over a year since I have updated this blog. I guess that is good, it meant that things were going good. Rose is doing great! She is enjoying preschool again this year. She goes Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. She only has to go see her cardiologist and geneticists every couple of years YAY~ AND most importantly, as of May 16, 2012 she is officially Rose Nacheca Sorensen!
Michelle is doing AWESOME! She is growing so well right now. Reading my last post I had said that her doctor thought the best that we could hope for would 4'11". She was not happy with this at all. We have been on Growth Hormone again for over a year and she is already at 4'8"!!!! So she will indeed prove her doctor wrong if she keeps growing at this pace :)
What really motivated me to get on and post again was a conversation I had a few weeks ago. When Rose was in Children's Hospital having her open heart surgery we met a man named Jim (I do not remember his last name). Jim was Rose's anesthesiologist. He came to talk to us about Rose. He and his wife were in the process of trying to adopt from Ethiopia. They had just recently recieved some bad news about how long that might take, if it would ever work at all. At this time we were still unsure of where God had intended Rose to be long term. He took an interest in Rose. He came to check on her while she was in the hospital. In the end, his family really felt that Rose was already home where she was supposed to be. Turns out they were right :) This was in March of 2011.
On December 19, 2012 Katie and I were driving to Children's hospital where Katie was going to be having surgery to remove her gallbladder. I found myself wondering if maybe Jim would also be her anesthesiologist. He wasn't. When I was walking down the hall though I made eye contact with someone I recognized but it did not click with me right away that it was Jim. When I came back down the hall I approached this man in scrubs and reluctantly asked if his name was Jim. He showed me his idenity badge and said that he was indeed Jim. I told him my name and who I was. He remembered Rose right away and asked how she was doing and if she was there with me (she wasn't). While we were talking he told me that they followed her blog (this blog) and were so very happy when they read that we were going to be adopting Rose after all. Then he said he wanted to share something with me, he said that in a way Rose really changed their family.
Jim reminded me of his families desire to adopt. He said until they met Rose they had only considered adopting healthy children. Then he took his phone out of his pocket so that I could see his new daughter (I desperately wish I could remember her name!) Turns out that after meeting Rose they ended up adopting a special needs child :) She is also hearing impaired like Rose and wears hearing aids like Rose. She had a cleft palate/lip and has had several surgeries right there at Children's Hospital. Jim said that she reminds him of Rose.
I was so overwhelmed with emotions at that moment. Rose has definitely blessed our life but the thought that another little girl like her who also needs a little extra help with life got a loving family also just brought tears to my eyes. It really touched my heart. It was very cool to hear how God is always working. I gave Jim a hug and said a silent prayer thanking God for letting our paths cross that day. When Rose was in the hospital Jim had made her a bicycle which has been on our fireplace ever since. Now every time I look at it I smile and think to myself how good God is and thank him for families like Jim's who love the special needs kids of this world.
Rose will be going to see Michelle's endocrinologist to see about a growth hormone stimulation test sometime in the near future. The thought of having two children on daily injections is slightly overwhelming to me but we will just do what we have to do.
Happy New Year from our family to yours!
