A little snag needs BIG-TIME prayers to get our girls home

Jeff just called and said they will not be coming home this week.  Devastated is not a strong enough word.

The girls had their medical check-up today and evidently Sarah's medical history says she tested + for TB at some point. The Embassy Dr. refused to sign off on her medical exam and will not let her come home.  Sarah has no symptoms what-so-ever but the Dr. ordered a chest x-ray anyway and believes she saw a gray spot so now Sarah has to go through a 3-day sputum testing starting on Monday.   Jeff will be in Ukraine with the kids for at least another week.

If they still refuse to let her come home after the 3-day sputum testing, we are facing months of treatment in Ukraine before they will let her come home.  

**Please pray that the positive test is just a normal reaction to Sarah's TB vaccination and that the 3-day sputum testing will be negative.  All children in Ukraine receive the TB vaccination and it is our understanding from what we have researched and have been told by US doctors, that many people who have received the TB vaccination will test positive via the PPD TB test since they now have the TB antibodies in their systems but they do not have active TB.


**Please pray that we do not face months of treatment in Ukraine.  We knew Jeff would use up all his vacation time and a couple of weeks of FMLA without pay for this adoption so we planned ahead and budgeted for that.   However, if he has to stay much longer, we will literally run out of money since he is the sole breadwinner in our family.

Thank you all for holding us up in prayer during this!!