It has been a few weeks since I have returned from India, so I will just share a few of the stories of my time there. This amazing woman was a fish vendor before the 2004 tsunami, which meant that she purchased fish from fisherman along the coast and brought them back to her home village to sell them. She was purching fish in a coastal village when the tsunami struck. The first wave hit and she was left stranded at the top of a coconut tree. Then, the second wave struck and she was thrown out of the tree and she rolled with the wave for nearly 500 meters. This left her in a coma, and she was brought with all of the other dead people to the morgue. Luckily, her family came to look for her. They couldn't find her anywhere in the hospital, so they looked in the morgue; luckily, while they were identifying the body the doctor noticed that her body was warm and she had a pulse. They moved her out of the morgue and she fully recovered about a week later. Crazy! Thank goodness her family came to look for her! Now she is afraid of the sea and does not work as a fish vendor anymore.
2 comments:
that is incredible meagan! what a horrible experience that must have been for her...thank god they noticed she was warm and had a pulse. wow..
I really enjoyed your pictures and stories. Makes you realize what a blessed life we have lived over here. It is so hard for me to believe that there is such a difference in living conditions around the world.
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