March 9th 2009 is when it all started when we left our fertility specialist; he just told us that we will never have kids of our own. We had spoken about adopting, in the past; but we were hopeful on what the doctor was going to tell us. As we were walking to our vehicle, I ask my wife to call the adoption agency and to see if they could fit us into an appointment. To our luck they were willing to see us and so our journey began.
This has been a tough year; we got all of our paperwork finished in December 2009 and we were then put on the waiting list; number 287 with 20 families ahead of us with Lithuanian heritage. The paperwork was so difficult; questions asking what kind of medical needs we would be willing to accept. Blood diseases, loss of limbs or sight, and more; they were all very difficult decisions. Who wants to say that we could not give love to any of the orphaned/abandoned/mis-guided children. Even though this is our first child we did not say "no, we want a healthy boy with no illinesses at all." We made some tough decisions on what we could handle. Now we did not choose to accept children with extreme cases of illness; and others have and we applaud these families; but since this is our first child we wanted to recieve a child with minor medical corrections and maybe deal with some of the more major issues.
In May 2010, we recieved an e-mail about "Special Needs Children". As soon as we saw her picture we were curious. Eastern Europe; "did that mean Lithuania, the country for which we had been approved?" On we read the little description, Hepatitis C; "is that the bad one?" Asthma, "doable"; near-sighted "heck we both wear glasses, that won't be a problem" and that was it. So we contacted our adoption service to recieve some more information about this eastern european child named "Akvile".
