Jun
5
Written by:
David Strickland
6/5/2007 10:38 AM
For those of you reading along you'll remember that we have been fighting with Jaundice in one of the first two girls that we intend to bring into the orphanage upon arrival. We got word a couple days ago that the eldest of the two sisters has been released from the hospital. Originally when we found out that the girl was sick we also learned that they were trying to cure it with homeopathic herbs and spices. We sent some money over and told them to get her to the hospital.
It seems over the last couple weeks we've several unexpected drains on our finances. We ended up delaying our departure by almost a month because of several obligations and now we find that none of those obligations are required any more. It seems the old adage is true trouble come not single spy. My current employment contract will end two to three weeks earlier then I had hoped. A 2 week short term contract I was going to do has become a one week or less contract. Several medical bills have come in that we weren't anticipating. Looks like several of our assets will not get as good a price when we sell them as we had thought and several of those that thought they might be able to help with some of our setup costs have backed out.
Of course as one might expect as all this has been happening a lot of things end up going through your mind.
Is this really the right thing? Is it wise to go without a more complete financial picture? What happens if we get in country and finances end up even worse then they are looking now? Discouragement is easy. Keeping focused on what needs to get done can be difficult. This then takes me back to the young girl alone in a hospital dying of Jaundice because no one cared enough to take an interest. At the begining of her first hospital visit she had been left to die because the doctors didn't think anyone cared. It wasn't until someone started taking an interest in her that the doctors did anything. Just that realization alone is enough for us to know we should go. Regardless of what the financial situation is we can help her and others if by no other way then just being there and taking an interest.