“And
he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightening fall from heaven. Behold I give
unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of
the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Luke
10: 18&19 (KJV)
We arrived Johannesburg
around 6.00 am and I was assisted through Customs by a representative of
International S.O.S., the organization in charge of the whole hospital process
for Kechi, and we were issued visas there and then.
Kechi was taken straight to an ambulance that was
waiting on the tarmac and we took off for the hospital.
There was a lot of traffic and I remember
wondering why and then recalling that it was Monday morning and life was going
on as usual for everyone else.
We were crawling at snail's speed. By this time,
Kechi's face had swollen alarmingly. I began to perceive an odor from the
ambulance, as if something was burning, like the brakes or some other
mechanical part. I also noticed that the ambulance was not moving smoothly and
the driver was getting agitated.
Thirty to forty five minutes into the trip, the
driver pulled over on the side of the road, came out of the ambulance, opened
the bonnet and then came back to inform us that the gear box had burnt.
I recognized the hand of our old adversary, the
devil. I laughed inwardly and told him I knew what he was trying to do and that
he would surely fail. Then I began to pray, or should I say, resumed my
prayers, because I had never really stopped praying since the plane crash.
Another ambulance was called and we spent another
twenty minutes waiting by the side of the road, in the heat, with a child that
was in critical condition, until the replacement ambulance came. Kechi was
transferred, and we continued our journey.
By this time, I noticed that the doctor that had
travelled with us from Nigeria was very, very concerned and was now on the
phone with the hospital, giving them minute by minute reports on Kechi's
condition.
This time we drove very fast with lights flashing
until we arrived at Milpark Hospital.
The emergency crew raced out as soon as we got
there and Kechi was whisked in while I was told where to sit and wait. I was in a daze by then, not knowing what to feel
and feeling everything
To be continued...
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