After I put our little roo in bed, I was browsing some Japanese blogs and found blog posts from a mother with 8 month old baby girl who escaped Tsunami and was stranded on a rooftop for 3 days without food, water, heat, warm clothes... until they were finally rescued by a helicopter. The baby girl who inhaled a lot of water and mud while they barely got away from the gushing tsunami water had no clothes nor diaper to change... stayed in wet clothes through freezing days/nights... By the time they were on the helicopter being taken to a hospital, the baby's temperature dropped so low that she became unconscious...
In order to gather as much as information I could, I watched a lot of videos and read many news in last few days... but nothing had hit me like this post written by a mother who is just like me... writing as she was going through the event... She never gave up nor is giving up with the hope that her baby Soula will come back to smile again.
After reading her blog posts so many times, I looked around deeper and came across so many other blogs/comments that were left by desperate mothers with their young babies who are struggling to sustain babies' lifelines... formula, diapers, clean water... because they are still left behind waiting for rescuers or they are at some kind of evacuation locations without any supplies coming in.
It has been emotionally challenging days for me... It's the combination of Norm's one year memorial that is approaching this weekend and the fact that there are people like the mom and the baby who have survived the initial disasters but are at the edge of life/death because they are lacking basic stuff we take for granted...
I wish I could share little roo's formula with babies in Japan... I wish we could bring our gasoline from our cars so that supply tracks can mobilize themselves to deliver food and water to people who need them...
Tonight I have donated our savings to ShelterBox through For Japan With Love. I am thankful for Ever-Ours and Utterly Engaged for organizing this... I know that some of these ShelterBox have already left Tokyo to Iwata Prefacture (via ShelterBox updates). I hope that these boxes will get to those mothers who are holding their babies... and give hopes and warmth to their hearts.
Tomorrow... I will be joining the Bloggers Day of Silence. Instead of blogging or reading other blogs, I will be using my time to focus on doing what I can do the best in my life and praying for more people's lives to be rescued... and have their basic needs to be met.
