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Life - TAF Board Members and ChaZhu
Valley Community Expressed Their Generosity and Saved Someone's
Life
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On
June 20, 2007, Tsering Thai, 38 years old with his son,
18 years old was driving a tractor on the mountain road.
He lost the control of the tractor and went off the road.
His son was killed instantly and he blacked out. Luckily,
a bus driver discovered the accident and transported him
to the HuaLong Hospital, 45 minutes away from the accident.
The
HuaLong Hospital could not do the surgery as he had head
injury and had to transport to Xining Hospital, two hours
driving distance.
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Tsering
Thai was in coma following the accident. The Xining hospital
confirmed that he had internal bleeding in his head and
it required surgery. Without surgery, he would die in
a couple days.
Tsering
Thai's family is one of the poorest family in their village,
and it was impossible for his family to pay the cost of
the surgery. So, the village leaders got together and
decided to seek donations from village to village. They
also asked the TAF to fund a partial cost of the surgery.
Some
of the TAF board members donated their own money for the
surgery. On July 7th, 2007, TAF president, Dorjee Tsewang
and his family visited Tsering Thai in the Xining Hospital.
Dorjee presented the TAF board members' donations to Tsering
Thai's family. His family was grateful and thankful that
they could proced with the surgery which might be able
to save Tsering's life.
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Because
so many villagers and the TAF board donated money to this
family, the hospital was able to do surgery without any
delays. The doctors removed a large piece of skull from
Tsering Thai's head and the surgery was a success.
Many
people thought that Tsering would not survive with a severe
head injury, plus his family would not be able to afford
to pay all hospital costs. However, so many people generously
contributed to Tsering Tha and his family, his life was
saved.
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After
a month and half in the hospital, Tsering Thai got his life
back. His memory was fine too. Although Tsering Thai had
not seen Dorjee Tsewang for 16 years, when Dorjee visited
him in the hospital, Tsering Thai immediately recognized
Dorjee. Tsering Thai was in tears and thanked Dorjee and
the other American donors, who helped his family and saved
his life.
Tsering
Thai spoke very slowly, yet very clearly.
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On
September 2, 2007. Tsering Thai and his wife came to say
good bye to Dorjee and his family as they were returning
to the USA after their two month visit.
Tsering's
wife was in tears and expressed their gratitude and appreciation
to all the donors. She said without all the compassionate
donors, she would not just have lost her son but might have
also lost her wonderful husband too.
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Tsering
Thai also told us:"I had supposedly died a few months
ago." He was touching his head and kept saying:"I
am still alive and I have memory too. This is because of
you and other's help. Thank you and thank you for your compassion"
as he was shaking my hands and tears rolling down his face.
From
right: TAF President, Dorjee Tsewang, Tsering Thai, and
Dolkar Tso, Dorjee's wife.
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After
three month's recovery Tsering Thai is gaining his momentum
to get better and better. He is becoming who he used to
be. However Tsering Thai still needs to do one more surgery
to replace the missing skull on his head. This surgery will
be done by the end of this year. We hope for the best for
him and his family...
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