Friday 22 January 2010

Glad To Be Alive

Of all the stories of survival, I love this story of the little boy called Kiki, who has been buried alive for over a week in Haiti. As they pull him out of his tomb, he outstretches his arms in such jubilation, that it is difficult to not be touched by this miracle

Doctors at a makeshift Israeli-run hospital who treated the children are amazed they survived.
"I cannot explain medically or physiologically how it's happened," a medic said. "Maybe it's a miracle. Someone upstairs loves them very much."
Kiki and his sister were trapped in a void, but not crushed. Once in a while, people gave them a little bit of water through a hole.
But with just a tiny bit of water, the heat, and no food, the children were becoming increasingly frail and running out of time. The team, led by NYPD Deputy Inspector Robert Lukatch, was able to locate them and freed them from the rubble Tuesday.