Sam's finding place

There are always many unknowns with the adoption of a child. Most children never learn who their original parents were or why they thought it was either impossible to keep their child or a necessity to give them up. Although it is no different in Sam's case, we did gain a ton of information yesterday and today that we will share with him as he grows older.

Sam was abandoned in the emergency room of a hospital that we visited yesterday. We specifically learned that he was not left there at the time of his birth, but was abandoned at some later point. The rest is subjecture . . . maybe his mother asked someone to hold him while she went to the restroom . . . or perhaps everyone else was just too busy with their own ailing loved ones to notice a little bundle until he started to cry . . .

We did take pictures, but I will tell you that since the time of his abandonment, the hospital was razed and a new one built in its place, so the place is not as it was.

I choose to believe that our child's mother (or father) loved their son enough to leave him in a safe place where they could be assured that he would be found and have his medical needs tended to. The ironic thing is that his needs have been totally corrected and all that remains is a beautiful boy . . . someone who would have been seen as the treasure that we know he always was.