Deciding to go to Haiti

I realized that I should probably explain how we got to this point of wanting to go to Haiti.

As I briefly stated above, I wanted to go to Haiti after seeing what images from the earth quake which was a huge step for me. I had been going through fertility treatment (which was emotionally exhausting) for four months. My doctor had corrected one of the problems and the second (a hormonal imbalance) was the next thing to work on. Jake and I had gone back and forth about stopping treatment. I felt like stopping treatment meant we would never have kids...which I know is not true. But when you want children badly it feels that way...it can be dark and sad. However the day after the earthquake I felt a strong urge to go and my first thought was, "if I go I will need to stop treatment so I can get my vaccines and take the malaria medication." And for that short moment I felt at peace, the most at peace I felt about stopping the fertility treatment. I went home and told Jake that I wanted to go to Haiti. I am sure He thought this was one of my crazy ideas that would pass...but it didn't pass. In the days ahead I emailed my art therapy professors to see if they had heard of art therapist going to Haiti to help, but they hadn't heard anything. Then one Sunday our pastor talked about where your money is, your heart is. After this sermon, Jake and I were talking about this money we received...we were thinking about going on a vacation with it. A nice vacation before residency. But as we drove home, Jake said, "You know how we should use that money" and I quickly finished his sentence (as good wives do!) and said, "on a mission trip." He agreed. Right then and there we decided to go to Haiti.
We then tried to find a group to go with. But do to the earth quake organizations were being flooded with emails and we were not responding. I was feeling a little frustrated and questioned whether we were to go to Haiti or somewhere else. Then on a Saturday I met a nurse I worked with who travels to Haiti to do medical missions and was adopting two boys from Haiti too. Her group was going when we wanted to go and with in a short 15 min. conversation we had a group to go with. Within a month, my sister in law arranged a benefit concert and God has continually blessed us and the group with medical an finical support. It has been incredible!