Well, one time when we were hospital-visiting we met an Irish family, who had come on holiday to Thailand together as a family.
One group of the family went off to Phuket, while their brother stayed in Pattaya.
They had agreed to meet up at the end of their trip, in Suvharnabhumi Airport in Bangkok together, to go back home.
When they got there, their brother did not turn up and so they flew back to Ireland.
Back in Ireland they tried to track him down, posting him as a missing person on a Pattaya website.
Their brother was on prescription medication for a mental condition and had forgotten to take his tablets.
He had been found by the police, walking down Beach Road, holding nothing but his passport and the 10,000 baht he had been carrying was missing.
Thinking that the man was inebriated, the police put him into the lock-up cells to sober-up.
However, as this was a mental condition, he was completely bewildered and freaked out by being placed in a very cramped and basic lock-up cell.
He was soon transferred to the Banglamung Hospital, where his family discovered him and flew back over to try and take him back to Ireland.
It was during his stay in hospital that we met him.
We met his family first and found out his story and that they came from Ireland.
There was a disconnect however, as the family could not speak Thai and the nurses could not speak English.
The family had tried to communicate with the nurses about giving him his medication, but there had been a misunderstanding and both the family and the nurses had given him a dose of sleeping tablets, meaning that he had had a double-dose and was completely unconscious for 2 days!
This was the condition he was in when we met the family.
A friend of ours, Nok, spoke excellent English and was able to help us, speaking to the nurses for the family and praying and caring for him.
She also helped the family by speaking to the nurses to get the paperwork ready for him to fly back to Ireland. The family were really grateful that we were able to help.
As we said in our intro, most of the time our visits can be quite humdrum, visiting and praying for the sick, and blessing their families, but just occassionally, something out of the ordinary happens and we are able to be part of it.