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SEPT. 5, 2002: I recently posted a message on a newsgroup website devoted to Laotians "chatting" (www.soc.culture.laos). I got this reply. If we can get the OB doctor and the Lao connected, it would be quite a story. If you are the OB doctor referred to, please contact the Webmaster or Pete Fuentecilla.
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Original posting:
Between 1957 and 1975, a group of doctors, nurses, engineers and other technicians from the Philippines worked as volunteers in Laos. They operated hospitals, clinics, schools in Vientiane, Sayaboury, Attopeu,Vang Vieng, Paksong, Kengkok and many other places. We are writing a book about their experience. Do your or your parents remember anyone of these OB Filipinos. If so, we wish to include your story in this book. Thank you for your cooperation and help.
--Pete
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The response:
From: "Hawj Lauj" <hawjlauj@hotmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:39 AM
To: fuentecila@aol.com
Subject: Re: Operation Brotherhood (OB)
Wow, your message made my hair stand on edge. My life was saved by a young Filipino doctor in Vang Vieng around 1973-4.
He gave me blood transfusion, totally free, when only my poor, under-nourished mother (out of the whole family) was of my particular blood type; but she was nursing my baby sister, too, so that young Filipino doctor tested his blood and, viola, his and mine were the same.
My mother told me how she could see my little, dying body, gaunt-looking face starting to show life immediately when that Filipino's blood started entering my system.
I may never get to know that young Filipino doctor in that little no-where, Vang Vieng town (where my father brought me down as a dying 5 year-old from the mountains over-looking Kasi), but I shall always be tied to him for as long as I live.
I'm truly ETERNALLY in debt to him.
If you could find out more about that Filipino doctor in the hospital in Vang Vieng (Laos) around 1972-4, I'll like to contact him and thank him for
giving me life, literally.
Sincerely,
Her Lao
