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[Games] Re: Norah's Adoption Agency:
We have four kids for you!Alise Beatrise [15], Ludis Mihails [12], Rihards Toms [7], and Zuzanna Valerija [1] are siblings from Latvia. Alise has been deemed 'unadoptable' due to the fact that she is very mouthy and rude to most everyone except Ludis. She has been this way since birth, and likes to play on the computer. Ludis is Alise's best friend in the world, and vice versa. Ludis has been diagnosed with an immune system problem, which, the doctors say, will kill him before his eighteenth birthday. Ludis still has his hopes up that one day they will find a cure and he will be able to become a doctor himself. He enjoys being with his older sister, and is the only one to be able to calm her when she is angry. He likes to play the violin, and is really good. Rihards is a sweet boy with six fingers on one hand. He gets very embarrassed by it, due to the fact that Alise constantly picks on him about it. He likes to sing, though he has self-confidence issues and cannot perform in front of people. He is sweet and lovable. Zuzanna is a sweet little baby who is always cheerful and bright. She hasn't really developed any interests yet, though she likes to hum. Please keep us updated, and I'll post about the other kids as soon as I can!
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Update--2 months laterThank you for these wondeful children! -Alise has calmed down a little and I realized that she is like me when I was about 15. She seems to trust me and confides in me for anything. She has taken up basketball and is quite good at it. He grades are also improving. I recently gave her a composition notebook to write her thoughts in. When she is ready, she'll share them with me [this is a common thing for psychiatrists to do].
-Ludis is also doing great. The family doctor put him on antibiotics and they help a little bit with his immune system problem. The doc has diagnosed him with Aplastic Anemia. We learned that his bone marrow doesn't produce enough red blood cells. This puts him at high risk for infection and over excessive hemorraging [which means we have to keep sick children away from him so he won't catch what they have and we have to constantly watch him to make sure he doesn't have internal or external bleeding because his blood doesn't clot]. Because we have quite a few children that need constant medical attention, we have hired two full time nurses to stay with us. Ludis is scheduled to have a bone marrow transplant, which can cure him [but it is risky and not always successful], next week. We have enrolled him in a course that takes place on Saturdays and all summer and it'll teach him more about medicine. After about a year he'll definately know if he wants to pursue a career in medicine or not.
-Rihards is such a lovely child! We offered to let him have surgery
to remove to 6th finger and he has thought about it these past two months and decided he does want the surgery. He'll go the same day as Ludis' marrow transplant. He is a great singer and we've hired a vocal coach for him. He is getting better about the shyness and even performs in front of the entire family!
-Zuzanna is so cute. She is walking and running like crazy. She also said her first word the other day [oddly, it was 'cookie', lol]. She loves to play with eight of our children [aged 6 months-3 years]. Once again, thank you for blessing us with these four wonderful kids!
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