Teenage Girl Saved 15 Days After Haiti Quake

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Sky News

A teenage girl has been rescued alive from rubble in Haiti - 15 days after the earthquake there.

The girl was pulled from under a house in Port-au-Prince. She was severely dehydrated and appeared to have a leg injury.

She was to be happy, shocked and crying, according to rescue worker J.P. Malaganne.

"I don't know how she happened to resist that long. It's a miracle," he said.

Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Haiti-Teenage-Girl-Rescued-Alive-15-Days-After-Earthquake/Article/201001415537188?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15537188_Haiti%3A_Teenage_Girl_Rescued_Alive_15_Days_After_Earthquake

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Seeing that on our news really cheered me up. I'd just watched a 2 hour documentary drama on the liberation of Belsen which had left me feeling bad.

[CBR]

1. Amazing. Best wishes for this brave girl. nt

[redwitch]

2. OMG 15 days???!!!

I don't think I would have made it, she is one strong woman! I hope she will get what she needs now and that her injuries are not severe.

[Bobbieo]

5. Miracles are for real!!!!

[wryter2000]

3. Awesome

How wonderful. Her family must be happy-dancing. :bounce:

[joeybee12]

4. Great news...I hope dehydration is her sole problem...

...15 days, wow.

[medeak]

6. hope survivors don't suffer from PTSD

down the road...can't imagine what they have been through

[cutlassmama]

18. I imagine a good many will have it. CNN showed some talking about it

already the other night.

This girl could not have survived unless she had access to food/water during those 15 days. The kidneys start to shut down after 3-4 days.

[gateley]

7. Oh, that's just wonderful! And highest admiration for those who keep searching

and haven't given up!

[progressoid]

8. ...

:wow:

[aquart]

9. God, I know there are more.

[pleah]

10. Wow!

[dipsydoodle]

11. BBC link here

The girl was 16 years old, according to Agence France-Presse.

"She just said 'Thank you', she's very weak, which suggests that she's been there for 15 days," said Samuel Bernes, the head of the rescue team that discovered her.

He described her location within the rubble as "in a pocket, surrounded by concrete".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8484317.stm

[superconnected]

12. Great news! Good for her!

[Change Happens]

13. excellent- one tough cookie

Miracle

[HeresyLives]

14. Fantastic!

15 days. Wow!

[Faygo Kid]

15. That is a miracle. Didn't think they happened, but 15 days??

May the rest of her life be a wondrous adventure. It's all a bonus from here.

[Jamastiene]

16. In the words of the late great Joey Ramone,

"I believe in miracles." This is great news!

[PatSeg]

17. These people are amazing

They have endurance that defies logic and they sing through their adversities. They deserve the world's admiration as well as its compassion.

[Xithras]

19. She's either incredibly lucky, or had some limited amount of water on her.

The human body, with no exertion and no extremes of temperature, can last for up to 10 days without water before things start shutting down, and may last one to three days beyond that as the person slowly dies. The odds of someone lasting beyond that are virtually zero.

Then again, with hundreds of thousands of people trapped below the rubble, the odds say that there are bound to be a few statistical outliers like this one. Most people are dead after only four or five days without water, but the longest documented case of anyone going without water and surviving was 18 days. The guy was near death, but he did pull through. With such a large number of trapped people, there are bound to be a few of these.

[dipsydoodle]

23. Apparently

she was in a collapsed bathroom whatever and may have drank from the ruptured water supply.

[BootinUp]

20. bless her... and her rescuers and medical care givers.

[RayStar]

21. Shock

The will to live is greater than we know. I guess the doctors will want to study her.

[iamjoy]

22. Can We Hire Her?

Can we hire her to help promote the Democratic agenda? We need some one who won't cower in the face of a few Republicans and this girl is tough!

Seriously, next time you want to cry or whine over some minor inconvenience, think of Darlene Etienne.

[Scurrilous]

24. K & R

:thumbsup: