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HANOI - A 32-year-old man spoke for the first time in his life after undergoing an operation on his abcessed foot, doctors from a southern provincial hospital said yesterday. A doctor from the casualty department of Binh Dinh Provincial Hospital said that Truong Van Xa uttered his first words to describe his pain on Dec 31. Although Xa had been injected with local anaesthetic, when the operating doctor made the first incision on his infected wound, he screamed. “Oh my gosh, it’s so painful,” Xa exclaimed, according to his doctor, Truong Thi Thom who performed the operation. Xa, who until that moment had lived his life as a deaf mute, astonished the doctor by then saying “thank you doctor.”In an abandoned LandRover I took off my shoes and made an incision in my foot. The above newspaper article I left behind.
(15 January 1999)
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BirthFactDeath (x) Wednesday 13th of October 1937 89 years, 4 months and 12 days ago |
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On the night of her going-away party to Hollywood 13-year-old actress, singer and animal rights activist Doris Day, originally Doris Von Kappelhoff is involved in a car accident shattering her right leg in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. "I had to lie down, and I was just laying down all the time, and a couple of years went by. And the bones in my right leg from the knee down were not healing." |
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