This Is Africa Moment

Wow, tonight turned out NOTHING at all like I planned. After 2 years of living here, I know that should not come as a surprise to me! We have 2 BG children who are very ill in the hospital and in need of urgent prayer. We have several more on campus who are not healthy and one who needed to be taken to the Emergency room this afternoon.
Bryan and I had asked our friend Terp to watch our kids while we went out to dinner tonight and while the staff and our nurse Donna were trying to get someone to take the baby into the hospital at 4pm, I volunteered Bryan and myself. I figured it may take an hour or 2 to get the child seen and admitted to the hospital, then we could visit the 2 sick children and then have our dinner. Well, it seemed like a good idea.
We got finished signing her in by 4:40pm and then took our seats to wait and wait and wait. No one was being called in to see any doctors. After 3 hours of waiting a woman came to the front desk and began a long speech in Sesotho. Several people asked questions and then the woman began to walk away. I ran up to the desk and asked if she could give me a summary in English. Basically, there was a huge car accident and the doctors had been busy with the victims, but they were going to begin taking patients again. So I sat down feeling like things were going to begin moving along.
The waiting room got fuller and fuller. People in so much pain they could barely move, an elderly man who couldn't even sit up and vomited several times into his little bucket, children crying and whimpering, people with worried and scared looks on their faces and the picture burned in my mind of a woman in a wheelchair having a violent seizure. Another hour ticked by and they were still not seeing many patients. My baby had been crying and coughing and threw up all over me, her breathing sounded labored and she was fitful, but I got her lulled back to sleep. At this point we decided to call in a BG relief worker as it looked like we would be there for the duration of the night but we needed to get back to our kids and relieve Terp.
Bryan was waiting outside for our staff member to arrive and then they finally called me back, 5 hours after I arrived. I talked with the nurse for awhile and then we gave an update to the relief staff and headed out of the hospital at 9:45pm. Needless to say we did not get to visit the other sick kids as it was past time for visits and we did not have dinner out as the restaurants were closed. So we had a very interesting date night, but at least we were together. I joked that had we had an uneventful dinner date we would forget it in a few months whereas this date would be remembered for a long time!
As of the writing of this, I do not know if our little girl was admitted to the hospital or not but if she is that means we would have 3 children in hospital. Please keep praying for God's healing hand to be upon His children. It is hard for me to accept that He would bring them to Beautiful Gate just to take them to Himself so I am trusting in Him.