Did anyone see Oprah today? My god....
To summarize, it was about moms who had lost their children in terrible accidents and there was one mom whose children went through a horrible ordeal. They were nearly burnt alive.
My summarization does not even begin to convey the horror of seeing this show and what these women had to now live with.
I can't even go through what each women experienced. It's too much. Too emotional. And I'm just sitting at home watching this.
One story involved a mother leaving her 4 boys in a van alone while she ran into the house. One boy lit a piece of paper with a lighter and well...
They all lived and although each innocent little one has to go through many surgeries to correct the damage done to their bodies...they are alive.
I have to admit I cried through this entire show. A little tear here...a little tear there.
But then they showed the youngest of her children. He was 18 months when the accident occured. I sobbed. Oh god I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. He had been strapped in his car seat and had the worse burns. It was like someone took a suit of melted skin, put it on this child and told him to live like it forever. His eyes were barely noticeable hidden under layers of melted flesh. It appeared he had only one lip and his nostrils were small holes on his face.
Sounds came out of me that I haven't heard since I was 2. It broke me. The mom said she found herself falling a part and then realized her children did need her so she managed to pick herself up and live on.
I get that. But I don't know how. I'm weak. I'll admit it. I'm a weak woman. I can't even begin to understand how she can hold him, look at him, pick him up out of his crib when he cries in the morning, look at pics of him....
One woman whose ex-husband had shot her 4 children at point blank range while she was out for her morning walk, didn't appear to be moving on. She seemed to have a hatred still inside her for the world and people in it. She said she no longer believed things like "Love thy neighbour", "Do unto others.." blah, blah, blah..... She wanted to hear nothing about there being a purpose to all of this. To her still being alive and them dead. She didn't want to hear about them being angels now and having a greater calling in another world.
That would be me. Bitter. Angry. Sick. Tired. Why go on?
Another poignant moment was when another woman - whose ex-husband shot her 3 boys while he had them on the weekend - gave this woman some speech about making choices. How she made the choice to go on. How she made the choice to live happy. How she made the choice to remarry and have children.
The first woman looked at her blankly and said "I can't make that choice. I can't have children."
I just knew she didn't want to hear any of it. And neither would I.
I called Hasan to tell him about the show. He knew right away that I was upset. When he asked me why I said "Well on Oprah.." Has immediately said "I should have known, it's 2 o'clock..."
Posted by at April 23, 2004 07:01 PM