I appreciate it. Thank you.
There is no adoption agency that would look at my health and our financial situation and say, “Yeah, sure, we’ll adopt a kid out to you!” We wouldn’t qualify to foster either, as we’re living with my mom and my brother. I do have nieces and nephews though, on my husband’s side. I dote, but the cost of living is causing them to move further and further away. We ourselves are stuck, too.
I did terribly on hormones, and it was all my GYN wanted to do, so I had to fight for the tubal and the ablation for about a year. I was clotting the dialysis machines, so taking hormones was out of the question in my twenties. I did ultimately have a stroke (I honestly didn’t know until I’d wound up in the ER for something else) in the last two years. In my teens, they altered my mood, blood pressure, and to be honest didn’t control the bleeding. I have a feeling all of that had to do with my underlying health issues.
Just not in the cards for me. My husband didn’t want kids anyway, and his health issues are also genetic. He has asthma and a nasty potassium deficiency that’s paralyzed him (and his brother) and landed him in the hospital more than once, and he’s put on some weight in recent years. His blood pressure is remarkably stable, however.
There is a saying that goes, “God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called.” Whether you adopt or not, I pray for the restoration of peace, order, health, and abundance in you and your husband’s situation!!!