Burns victim Sophie Delezio has been hit by a car in the suburb of Seaforth and is now on life support in a Sydney hospital.
The accident happened as Sophie was being pushed in a stroller across a pedestrian crossing on Frenches Forest Road around 4:00pm AEST.
The five-year-old has been flown to the Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick and is being treated for critical injuries to her head, chest and legs.
The acting executive director of the hospital, Dr Michael Brydon, says his staff are deeply shocked at this second blow.
"This has rocked the whole of New South Wales, the country I would think," he said.
"This is certainly just a major blow to us all and the team themselves, who are looking after her, are doing their darnedest to make sure she makes yet another recovery.
"But she's a very, very sick little girl at this point in time."
New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma says the thoughts of the entire state are with Sophie
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2006-12-05 16:26:33 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-12-05 16:27:25 · update #1
The story is about a question I wrote a while ago and some made bad comments so I thought I would tell them why we prayed for Sophie
2006-12-05 16:31:23 · update #2
This is rather shocking and tragic. My heart goes out to her and her family. I have learned over the years to pray for God's mercy. He will do what is best for her at this time. Sometime we are to pray for healing, other times only for mercy. May the peace of our Lord be with all who pray and care for her.
And to J.P. I can not make you a person of compassion if you are not. Perhaps you have suffered much yourself. What happen to one of us happens to all. As the saying goes "never send to know for whom the bells tolls, it tolls for thee".
Peace.
2006-12-05 16:39:39 · answer #1 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boohoo.
There, I said it. Life sucks. The universe isn't fair. I don't know her, so frankly I don't care. Yeah, it's absolutely tragic for her family and friends, I can't even BEGIN to imagine the excruciating trauma everyone who knows this young lady is going through now. I wouldn't wish the pain that young girl is suffering on my worst enemy, nor the pain her family and friends are going through. But it's neither here nor there for me. I don't care.
If you personally know this young lady, you have my condolences. If not, get over it already. In the grand scheme of things, she, like you and I, are nothing but a microscopic mote on a microscopic speck on a microscopic atom in the vast ocean that is the universe. We're not that important.
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To the lady below me:
We cannot care about every human being. Love is an emotion dependant upon familiarity. We cannot care about every human being because compassion requires empathy, which requires contact. Love of humanity as a whole is not the same thing. Love of humanity is how I say 'this sucks, I wouldn't wish it on anyone'.
I lost a close and valued neighbor this past weekend, died in his sleep. No one here knows him, so what good would posting about his death do? Could you love him? Could you feel empathy for his family? Sure, you might feel some empathy towards me, if you understood the emotions I'm feeling towards it. But you don't know those emotions, do you? Do I feel grief? Do I feel joy? Did he die a painful death or a painless death? Was it a dignified way he died? What is my reaction to it?
Without being familiar with me or him, you cannot know these things, therefore, genuine empathy and love for me and my situation is impossible for you to feel towards me. At best you could express a general consolation based on your love of humanity, even though you do not know or love me or him.
Temper compassion with realism.
2006-12-05 16:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is terribly sad. I didn't see your first question. There is never any answer for why terrible things happen to good people, but they do. It is a sad and difficult test and we must all pray and hope that we can pass it.
2006-12-05 16:30:33 · answer #3 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll be praying for her full recovery and for her family....
2006-12-05 16:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by Monique 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is your question? That is very sad, but what is the question?
**Edit: I missed the first question, too. Sorry.
2006-12-05 16:29:04 · answer #5 · answered by Whatever 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
too long
2006-12-05 16:29:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
And...
2006-12-05 16:30:09 · answer #7 · answered by Smoke 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋