Prayers are not wasted. This woman is obviously traumatised...and I'm sure God scattered the rest around to those who also really need it. Sorry...I was just posting what was current at the time.
Posted on 12/17/2005 5:35:54 PM PST by paulat
Family scoffs at woman's quake survival story
December 16, 2005 - 5:00PM
Neighbours and family have scoffed at reports that a woman has been rescued from rubble two months after Pakistan's massive October earthquake.
They say that rather than being trapped in her collapsed home for that time, she had stayed there by choice.
The story of Naqsha Bibi has been making the rounds in Pakistan for days, and picked up by Pakistani media and some international news organisations.
"She was not buried in the rubble. She lived in her collapsed home," said Hafeezur Rahman, a doctor who is treating her at a field hospital set up in Muzaffarabad by the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association,
He said the woman's muscles had atrophied because she ate too little.
"She is now fast recovering," Rahman said. "She has started eating and responding."
"At times, she smiles," he added.
People at the Cumsir Refugee camp where the woman lived, about six kilometres north of Muzaffarabad, said they were surprised by the hullabaloo.
Bibi's cousin, Sharif ud Din, and other neighbours said the woman was pulled from her home two days after the October 8, 7.6-magnitude quake.
She had been offered food daily by her neighbours, though she often refused to eat.
Finally, they asked a medical team to take her to a hospital, she said.
Bibi, believed to be about 40, was taken to the field hospital in nearby Muzaffarabad, looking extremely gaunt.
Other family members had told doctors the woman had been trapped under the rubble for more than 60 days, living on rotten fruit.
There have been nearly a dozen claims of miracle rescues since the monster earthquake which killed an estimated 87,000 people.
But no one has been pulled alive from the rubble since about eight days after the disaster struck.
Doctors say it is impossible for a person to survive much longer than eight days without access to water.
AP
Prayers are not wasted. This woman is obviously traumatised...and I'm sure God scattered the rest around to those who also really need it. Sorry...I was just posting what was current at the time.
Ping...There are no wasted prayers, but I don't know what to think now. The poor woman is obviously traumatized...so I hope our prayers helped in some way. It may be that some relative was trying to take advantage of her problem.
I hope you are satisfied.
We feel the same way, CindyDawg! I think she is being used just like Terri S.
She's 40?
15And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
You brought tears to my eyes.
Amen.
Love you both....Merry CHRISTmas....
B'sG, I've been writing "Merry Christmas 2005!" on the back sides of all our Christmas photo cards. NOW, I am going to write, "Merry CHRISTmas 2005!" on the rest of them! I *love* it!
Our Lord on High has a ton of blessings for you in the new year! I *know* you'll find them! :)
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