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Tuesday, June 15, 2004
After we picked up the children’s new passports, we went to the Dr’s office where they had their Embassy physicals. The baby is about 7 ½ pounds and 52 cm long, or 20 ½ inches long at 2 months old. He told me she was malnourished. Yup, I coulda told you that. Remember, she was the one who seemed to be the sicker of the two babies – then the other one died. I just want to get her home and get her healthy.
Anyway, Beti seems to either have problems with her eyes or she just couldn’t understand what they were wanting her to do with the eye chart. She basically missed everything. Because of her skin condition – vitaligo – her physical is a “Class B”, with info sent to the CDC.
Tomas is too because of his scabies (which are severe). They are SO severe, in fact, that he has huge “boils” full of pus and the little critters all over his hand, arms, feet and legs. Dr. Belachew assured us that the “Class B” designation wouldn’t be a problem, but he did need to mark it. In addition to scabies, Tomas has lice – and his hair is mostly shaved off! Poor little guy. It was an expensive day and I went through the $400 almost completely.
We took the official HIV forms from the Dr’s office to take to the Embassy in the morning. They run the blood through ARSHO – the same place we used anyway. From there, we went back to the orphanage and asked for permission to finally keep the kids with us. They said yes, so we took them back to the hotel. It was 7 or so when we got here and we all ended up having granola bars for dinner.
Aaron give Tomas a bath and slathered him up with the scabies medicine. Thank goodness we learned that lesson. I will never, ever again do an international adoption without taking that stuff with me! Having one child come home with scabies and spread it through the entire family was a powerful learning experience for me. 
