[committedsoul]

As most people know, in my case, I knew of JD since birth...

I didn't get him until just after he turned 3...

There was SOOOO much fighting within my family it was CRAZY!!!

From this person to that person to this and that... and you know what??

Nobody get him but me!

It was me that spent nghts at the hospital with him when he was first born and sick. It was me who stayed at the hospital so he wouldn't be alone... it was me... not any of my other family members... yet when it came down to it, nobody wated him, but nobody wanted me to raise him either...

It's like that some times...

His grandmother (my aunt) does not speak to me to this day...

His mother (my cousin), however, signed an identified surrender for me to adopt.

I am in very close contact with the family that raised him after he was released from the hospital into a medically fragile home. We are spending 4 days with them in 2 weeks.

ICPC for me took about 3 months, but thats because I was already an fp and I PUSHED them to get it done.