Huang Bihai was feeding his mother. □ Jingchu.com - clearing the excrement for his mother, wiping her body, washing her feet, supporting her to practice walking... On the afternoon of the 6th, during a symposium held at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University, a series of slides replayed the life fragments of Huang Bihai, a 28-year-old doctoral student in this college, who unwaveringly awakened his mother, a comatose patient, deeply touching teachers and students.
In June this year, Huang Bihai, a soon-to-graduate PhD from Wuhan University's College of Chemistry, was recommended by his tutor to work at a world-class research institute in Japan and pursue a postdoctoral degree due to his outstanding scientific research ability, with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan. Huang Bihai, from a single-parent family, immediately shared the good news with his mother, Lu Shengli. Unexpectedly, on August 21st, Lu Shengli was hospitalized due to a recurrence of gastrointestinal disease, and after surgery, she suffered from a large-scale cerebral infarction, fell into a coma, and became a "vegetative person."
When the reporter recently visited Hubei Provincial People's Hospital, he saw Huang Bihai pushing his mother, seated in a wheelchair, for an ophthalmology examination. At this time, Lu Shengli had already been able to communicate with her son, and her limbs could move. During the entire examination process, Lu Shengli would occasionally want to chat with her son.
"See (your) eyes. Saw your mouth too." "What about teeth?" "I can see the teeth too." A scene like this, where the mother and son chatted, was unimaginable just a few months ago. The doctors said that Lu Shengli was always facing the risk of death, and the possibility of awakening was extremely slim.
"As long as I try, I believe everything can turn around." Huang Bihai deeply understood that it would not be easy to awaken his vegetative mother, but he didn't want to give up and hoped to create a miracle through his actions. Huang Bihai gave up a rare opportunity for further study and stayed by his mother's side, shouldering the heavy responsibility of taking care of her.
Since his mother could not eat, she could only rely on nutritional injections from the hospital to survive. Huang Bihai worried that her nutrition was insufficient, so every day, he used a syringe to inject eggs and milk through a gastric tube for his mother to "drink." To prevent his mother from developing bedsores due to prolonged bed rest, every two hours, he helped his mother turn over.
For several months, Huang Bihai guarded day and night. As long as it could make his mother wake up, he did not mind anything. Slowly, Lu Shengli began to respond. Huang Bihai said, "The right limb went from immobility to movement, the left limb from complete immobility to slight movement, then gradually learned to speak a little, make sounds, until she could talk, but her memory was fragmented."
As his mother gradually woke up, he became more determined to awaken her memories. Whenever he had some free time, Huang Bihai would lean over his mother's ear and tell her "stories" - stories of their past times together, beautiful university life, and his future plans, over and over again.
Li Jin, a doctoral student from the 2008 cohort who shared a dormitory with Huang Bihai, said that during that period, every time he visited the ward, he would see Huang Bihai sitting by his mother's bedside, talking incessantly to his mother about various things. Although his mother did not respond, he never got tired of it. Such scenes made the classmates both heartbroken and moved.
Zhao Wei, a doctoral student from the 2008 cohort who studied with Huang Bihai for five years, exclaimed: "Society always thinks we 'post-80s' are flowers in greenhouses, growing up in honey pots. Huang Bihai's spirit of perseverance and fearlessness against difficulties makes us feel very hard-earned and deeply inspired."
Professor Wang Chuanzhong, the vice-secretary of the Party Committee of Wuhan University, visited the mother and son at the hospital. He said that Huang Bihai's filial piety embodies the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and vividly interprets the socialist sense of honor and disgrace.
Reporter Liao Jun, Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, December 7th special dispatch. Share to: Welcome to comment, I want to comment, Weibo recommendation | Today's Weibo hotspots