SWEPT UNDER THE ADOPTION RUG
I'm usually not a two posts a day type of girl, but today I'm a little disgusted. Here's the long story short. Several weeks ago, I sent the forms requesting both the identifying and non-identifying birth information. I sent these forms to Indiana, the state of my birth. This whole process seems to be taking forever. I also ran across the "Family History Medical Information Form." Yeah...there's a form for that too. In laymens terms, this tells you if you've got something life threatening. For instance,something fatal that you could drop dead from at any given minute. Seriously, this form is to request the Family, Medical History Information of both your birth parents. This information should be volunteered. I guess, in a sense it was. My Mom tells me that, no one knew of any family deseases. Well... isn't that comforting? Even more so because, I have an 11 year old son. The last time I checked, I peed in his gene pool too. You get my meaning, I hope? Ok...I know that my adoption was 35 years ago. It looks like there should have been a more fool-proof way, to provide this information to perspevtive adoptive parents. Let me know if you feel my pain? I'd like to hear your storys as well.
I'm usually not a two posts a day type of girl, but today I'm a little disgusted. Here's the long story short. Several weeks ago, I sent the forms requesting both the identifying and non-identifying birth information. I sent these forms to Indiana, the state of my birth. This whole process seems to be taking forever. I also ran across the "Family History Medical Information Form." Yeah...there's a form for that too. In laymens terms, this tells you if you've got something life threatening. For instance,something fatal that you could drop dead from at any given minute. Seriously, this form is to request the Family, Medical History Information of both your birth parents. This information should be volunteered. I guess, in a sense it was. My Mom tells me that, no one knew of any family deseases. Well... isn't that comforting? Even more so because, I have an 11 year old son. The last time I checked, I peed in his gene pool too. You get my meaning, I hope? Ok...I know that my adoption was 35 years ago. It looks like there should have been a more fool-proof way, to provide this information to perspevtive adoptive parents. Let me know if you feel my pain? I'd like to hear your storys as well.


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