Monday, October 02, 2006

10.02.06

Sorry for no weekend post.
Lori was in town. We had a great visit, but time got away from me.
On Friday, I spoke with Dr. Elaine Schulte, a pediatician who happens to be an international adoption specialist and aunt of one of my all-time favorite players (Ben "Fetus" Keating). She reviewed the reports we got on Mary and found no red flags, but cautioned that the reports are almost too detailed to be believable. She thought some of the developmental information might have been "canned" and that Mary's eating habits may have been exaggerated to include foods not likely available to her. In looking at Mary's weight, Dr. Schulte said her weight when she was found, given the other measurements, was probably 2kg (about 4.5 pounds), or was a typo in the translation and may have been an attempt at 7 lbs. There is no way she weighed 7 kg. (15.4 lbs.) at five days old. In blowing the pictures up, Dr. Schulte noted some excema (very common) or signs of thumb-sucking around her right thumb. Also in magnifying the images, she was able to make a cursery evaluation of Mary's eyes and saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Dr. Schulte will consult with Leigh and I throughout the process and after we bring Mary home.

We are just five days from Leigh playing "Peter" in Peter Pan , and as you can see from the pictures, she's every bit as convincing as Mary Martin, Sandy Duncan or Kathy Rigby - and I don't think any of them chopped off more than a foot of hair and donated it to make wigs. They began flying on Friday and made it through the weekend without incident.
I went by twice to watch - it's pretty awesome!

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