Mar 11, 2005 16:50
I am waiting.
I just read an article about Petra Nemcova, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, who was in Thailand vacationing with her boyfriend.
They heard children screaming and that was the last they heard. She barely survived by clinging to a tree for eight hours with numerous broken bones. Her boyfriend was swept out to sea.
I know that similiar and more terrible things happened to others in the tsunami, but when you give one of it's victims a recognizable face, it makes it so much worse. Can you imagine having to spend that long, near-dead, knowing that someone you love had just been killed, and in such a horrible fashion? She is now dedicated to helping the youngest of the tsunami victims.
I also read an article about a mother who had to let either her 3 or 5 year old daughter go in order for any of them survive. If she had kept both of them in her arms, they all would have drowned. How do you decide something like that? I would not be able to decide. I would think of a million ways to sacrifice myself for somebody, especially someone so tiny, before I could do anything like that.
The daughter she let go asked,"Don't you love me Mommy?".
I am hyperventilating. I can't even think about it. It makes me sick to my stomach. I would rather be tortured to death than ever, EVER have to go through anything like that.