Comments on: World AIDS Day 2009 http://thailandlandofsmiles.com/2009/12/01/world-aids-day-2009/ Sun, 20 May 2012 03:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Talen http://thailandlandofsmiles.com/2009/12/01/world-aids-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-9126 Talen Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:48:37 +0000 http://thailandlandofsmiles.com/?p=2766#comment-9126 Martyn, Like you I have never known AIDS in the West but I've come to know the face of AIDS in Thailand in a similar way that you have. Hopefully Thailand can stay on track but I fear this will always be an uphill battle. Martyn, Like you I have never known AIDS in the West but I’ve come to know the face of AIDS in Thailand in a similar way that you have.

Hopefully Thailand can stay on track but I fear this will always be an uphill battle.

]]> By: Martyn http://thailandlandofsmiles.com/2009/12/01/world-aids-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-9125 Martyn Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:03:49 +0000 http://thailandlandofsmiles.com/?p=2766#comment-9125 Talen an excellently written post on a subject that seems to have been buried at the back of most of our minds. Here in the UK AIDS is obviously rife but personally due to the social circle I keep or stay in I have never known anyone affected by it. Maybe I've just been lucky, maybe I'm too old for nightclubs now. Thailand is a different matter....About six years back Wilai was working in Chiang Rai for one of the big electrical companies when she had a phone call to tell her to return back to her mama's house in the village in Udon. Her brother an ex Phuket tourism worker was dying of AIDS, he'd returned to the village to die amongst his family. Wilai told me that over the next week or so the brother that she fought with and argued with during her childhood but nonetheless a brother whom she dearly loved passed away in their family home. I've stayed many a night before in that stilted village house and believe me it is no place to die in. Come mid afternoon the heat is unbearable, it must have been one long drawn out death. I hope someone takes note of your excellent post. .-= Martyn´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.thaisabai.org/2009/12/udon-thani-shake-it-and-wake-it/" rel="nofollow">Udon Thani – Shake It and Wake It</a> =-. Talen an excellently written post on a subject that seems to have been buried at the back of most of our minds. Here in the UK AIDS is obviously rife but personally due to the social circle I keep or stay in I have never known anyone affected by it. Maybe I’ve just been lucky, maybe I’m too old for nightclubs now.

Thailand is a different matter….About six years back Wilai was working in Chiang Rai for one of the big electrical companies when she had a phone call to tell her to return back to her mama’s house in the village in Udon.

Her brother an ex Phuket tourism worker was dying of AIDS, he’d returned to the village to die amongst his family. Wilai told me that over the next week or so the brother that she fought with and argued with during her childhood but nonetheless a brother whom she dearly loved passed away in their family home.

I’ve stayed many a night before in that stilted village house and believe me it is no place to die in. Come mid afternoon the heat is unbearable, it must have been one long drawn out death.

I hope someone takes note of your excellent post.
.-= Martyn´s last blog ..Udon Thani – Shake It and Wake It =-.

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