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Caroline Marold - 29 Dec 2004 16:19 GMT

Watching CNN and they just announced that in the next
hour there will be a doctor on from Doctors without
Borders to speak. Also they just showed someone in
Banda Ache [not spelled right at all] which looked on
the map to be where Melinda was heading. Northern
Indonesia [read Sumatra]. Pretty much nothing left
standing there that wasn't damaged. And there were
covered decomposing bodies lining a bridge.... I am
sure the picture is the same everywhere.
Latest horrible count is 80,000 dead. Another doctor
who has just landed in Sri Lanka said that even a
simple cut which most survivors probably have, can get
infected in the lack of sanitation and lack of medical
care. That simple cut may take their life in the end.
Prayers for all that are headed that way to try to
help. And Prayers especially for our Melinda. Hope she
took a boat load of prednisone to get by. Yesterday, I
heard someone on CNN say that doctors and nurses were
rushing to the area and that they also provided people
who could help the helpers with the emotional strain
they would be under. That is our Melinda.
Duckie

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Carole - 30 Dec 2004 02:11 GMT

I have been praying for Melinda, and all those people over there. I
can't even imagine what it must be like in that area.

Carole

> Watching CNN and they just announced that in the next hour there will be
> a doctor on from Doctors without Borders to speak. Also they just showed
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> our Melinda.
> Duckie

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Kelly - 30 Dec 2004 04:15 GMT

I agree Carole. The news today did say they were being really careful with
all the relief people and they would be immunized up the yingyang.
Hopefully they will keep Melinda on the outskirts due the immunity problem.

They are saying we may never know the numbers or the names of who perished.
They are now doing mass burials quickly to prevent disease. The initial
report said 3 Canadians dead but the news today said over 100 unaccounted
for. Lots of prayers and donations coming from all over Canada.

Kelly

>I have been praying for Melinda, and all those people over there. I can't
>even imagine what it must be like in that area.
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>> our Melinda.
>> Duckie

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d'huit - 30 Dec 2004 05:42 GMT

the numbers are mind boggling and heartbreaking. i just heard on the news
that thailand will be doing mass cremations tomorrow. leaders have called
in hundreds of forensic experts to identify the bodies, but that there are
so many that many will never be identified. sri lanka is mass burying.
also heard on the news that thousands of americans (from north, central and
south america, i presume) are missing, too.

kate

>I agree Carole. The news today did say they were being really careful with
>all the relief people and they would be immunized up the yingyang.
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>>> our Melinda.
>>> Duckie

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Caroline Marold - 31 Dec 2004 23:37 GMT

Saw someone in Sri Lanka that had microchips that they
were inserting into bodies before they were buried [and
I assume taking DNA to match with the chip for later.
Gets the bodies buried while allowing families to
possibly find their loved one later. Boggles the mind.
Duckie

> the numbers are mind boggling and heartbreaking. i just heard on the news
> that thailand will be doing mass cremations tomorrow. leaders have called
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Nann Bell - 30 Dec 2004 13:27 GMT

> I have been praying for Melinda, and all those people over there. I
> can't even imagine what it must be like in that area.
>
> Carole

si, si. It must be so completely overwhelming. We tend to hear totals, but
even in each country the numbers are of dead and displaced are so large.

The stories are incredible. Someone who grew up at the dancing studio my
sister used to be at was in Thailand with his fiancee. His parents saw the
owner of the bungalows where they were staying on TV talking about how all
the buildings had been swept away. Didn't hear from Jason until the next
day. Turned out they'd left on an early morning snorkeling trip and were at
sea when the tsunami hit. They stayed for a couple of days to help out, but
left as the "pros" came in to do relief work.

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North - 21 Jan 2005 17:31 GMT

I don't keep up with the news , I only hear bits and pieces,
depressing enough what I do hear, from my husband. My heart goes out
to everyone no matter what the diaster.
MM

>I have been praying for Melinda, and all those people over there. I
>can't even imagine what it must be like in that area.
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>> our Melinda.
>> Duckie

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