Running Out of Time

Following my post of yesterday, I researched a bit and found this list of almost-14 year olds waiting for a family on China’s “shared list,” which means that most agencies with Chinese adoption programs can place these children.

I think that it might be about a month out of date, so if you find a child you are interested in, please contact me (brennensmom@yahoo.com) if you are interested in him/her and I can give you a few names of adoption agencies that advocate for older children and who can check on the child to see if they are still available. 

Two great places to research medical needs common found in Chinese orphans:

Love Without Boundaries special needs site
No Hands But Ours

These children MUST be adopted by their 14^th birthday or they will NEVER find a family!!!  For the ones “aging out” in the next 3-4 months, a family must already be in the process of adopting, with a completed homestudy and most – if not all – paperwork complete.   Children are added to the shared list all the time, so there may be more.  

 23 Girls
> > 1/9   IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/17  IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/24 IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/28 Healthy  IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 2/1 1 spina bifida; 2. enstrophe of both lower limbs; IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 2/9 Dumb and  deaf, forearm obsolete scar IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 3/20 Healthy
> > 5/15 height and  eight lower (middle), spine bent to the right side
> > 5/31 congenital right cornea leukasmus
> > 8/1 Epilepsy
> > 8/7 Post-operative cleft lip and palate
> > 8/22  congenital deaf and dumb
> > 8/24 congenital deaf and mute
> > 8/31 Skin Condition  (scar)
> > 9/30 Beta thalassemia
> > 9/30 CHD: good postoperative recovery of VSD  repair, minor incompetence of  TV 2 HB
> > 10/2 HBV carrier, pulmonary  tuberculosis to be excluded, IQ development is on borderline level
> > 10/4 HBV  carrier, arthritis deformans, CHD (ASD) repaired
> > 10/6 postoperative drainage of hydrocephalus
> > 10/9 Dwarfism
> > 10/10 Post-operative cleft palate; HBsAg:  Positive, HBeAg: Positive, HBcAb:
Positive; Limb deformity
> > 10/30 Hepatitis B  Positive
> > 11/18 postoperative spina bifida, incontinence

58 Boys
> > 1/9 IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/10 IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/18 IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/21 IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 1/27  deformity of both feet and hands IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 2/16 both ears complete deaf  IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE FOR HER
> > 2/20 congenital binocular eyeball dysplasia
> > 2/20 Basically normal (right ptosis)
> > 3/7  congenital cataract (postoperative); 2.nystagmus
> > 3/7 congenital  dumb-muteness
> > 3/11 Cleft Lip/ Palate
> > 3/15 Healthy
> > 4/3 postoperative  flexion contracture deformity of both wrist joints
> > 4/6 Cleft Lip/Palate 
> > 5/2 postoperative meningomyelocele
> > 5/2 postop left kidney resection,  hydronephrosis, right ureterectasis, HB carrier
> > 5/7 congenital muteness 
> > 5/8 Healthy
> > 5/16 Healthy
> > 5/19 cerebral palsy, exotropia of  left eye
> > 5/22 postop congenital cleft lip and palate, cleft right upper  alveolar bone, absent uvula
> > 5/25 Postoperative repair cleft lip and palate, appendicitis
> > 6/1 Deformity of right lower limb
> > 6/4 Healthy
> > 6/9  Not translated
> > 6/22 Cerebral palsy. ;Motions of right limbs are confined   TWIN BROTHERS
> > 6/25 strabismus, amblyopia of both eyes
> > 7/1 glaucoma (after  surgery)
> > 7/1 Postoperative VSD repair
> > 7/10 cerebral palsy sequelae,mental  retardation,motive disorders of both lower limbs(minor)
> > 7/10 Not  Translated
> > 7/10 deformity of both feet and both lower limbs
> > 7/12 Not  translated
> > 7/14 Operative cleft lip and palate
> > 7/16 CP
> > 7/22 HBV carrier  2.postoperative cleft lip and palate
> > 7/27 blind of both eyesï¼›post-operative  left eye
> > 8/3 postoperative cleft lip and palate, bendingness deformity of  bilateral tibias - this might be rickets?
> > 8/6 esotropia, low intelligence 
> > 8/29 Healthy
> > 9/1 Hepatitis B Positive
> > 9/1 Healthy
> > 9/5 CP
> > 9/6  Decreased muscular force of upper limbs
> > 10/1 hemiplegia, HBV carrier
> > 10/2  21-trisomic syndrome ? Downs Syndrome
> > 10/20 deaf-mutism, positive HBsAg,HBeAg  and HBcAb
> > 10/30 hypospadias repaired, HepB
> > 11/10 Epilepsy
> > 11/25  congenitally deaf
> > 12/1 post orthomorphia of varus of both feet - repaired bilateral club foot ?
> > 12/5 Healthy
> > 12/9 congenital  absence of forearm of left upper limb
> > 12/10 postoperative congenital heart  disease (Fallot's); postoperative hypospadias
> > 12/18 Healthy
> > 12/24  Cleft Lip/Palate postoperative
> > 12/29 left  cataract