article_snippet.sent: On Wednesday afternoon, Khanal, 27, had just undergone surgery and was resting, surrounded by family and friends.
article_snippet.sent: a man had suffered a crushed foot and was too weak and distraught to talk about a man traumatic experience.
article_snippet.sent: Khanal's story of survival isn't the only one to emerge from the terrible destruction wrought by the quake, which has killed more than 5,000 people.
article_snippet.sent: Tanka Maya Sitoula, a 40-year-old mother of four, was at home in Kathmandu when the quake shook Kathmandu, bringing the five-story building down around her ground-floor apartment.
article_snippet.sent: her escaped without injury, apparently protected by a beam.
article_snippet.sent: Sitoula says Sitoula remained confident Sitoula would survive amid the rubble.
article_snippet.sent: Sitoula's husband, Mahendra, a butcher, said Sitoula's husband, Mahendra, a butcher called out for help for hours after the quake, as Sitoula's husband, Mahendra, a butcher could hear her shouting in the rubble.
article_snippet.sent: It took 18 hours before the necessary help arrived, Sitoula's husband, Mahendra, a butcher said.
article_snippet.sent: Jon Keisi was buried for more than 60 hours under the wreckage of a seven-story building in Kathmandu that came tumbling down around Jon Keisi during the quake.