Adoption post 3 – more letters

I recieved a response to my letter to Adoption Disclosure Service Program. It was another letter (snailmail, of course) with a form inside for me to fill out officially requesting contact with any member of my birth family (both sides), requesting non-identifying information such as known family history and medical history, to be put on the passive adoption reunion list and to recieve my certificate of adoption. I sent that back and have recieved another letter (more snailmail) with a confirmation that they have recieved my form, statistics about adoption reunions in Nova Scotia and a reading list to assist me in the feelings that may arise (and have already) in regards to my search and the results at various stages.

Also included in this letter is a heads up that the Adoption Disclosure Service Program is still processing request from April of 2001. Yes you read that right, three years ago. I have waited for almost 35 years, what’s another 3? Now that I’m ready to know, it’s a bloody eternity. I almost crapped myself when Carol opened the letter and read that to me over the phone. I wanted to complain immediately, but as there’s no email address, I’m too cheap to phone and too lazy to write another letter. I guess this is the way it’s supposed to be right now and I’ll just have to wait.

I did however get a nice note from a birthmother who has seen my adoption posts and would like to share her experience with me. I’d be glad to read it. What a nice surprise.