With the help of Gao Jingwen, her husband did physical rehabilitation exercises every day. Reporter Lu Jinxing. On October 12, 2007, Zhou Chuanqi, then 59 years old, suddenly suffered from cerebral hemorrhage. Although his life was saved, his whole right side of the body was paralyzed. According to the doctor's statement, he would have to spend the rest of his life on the bed and in a wheelchair. The sudden collapse of the family's mainstay, the son's unemployment, and the departure of the prospective daughter-in-law, all these series of misfortunes fell on the shoulders of Zhou Chuanqi's wife, Gao Jingwen. "You are paralyzed, I will support you! If the family collapses, I will hold it up! Miracles will definitely happen!" Gao Jingwen, over sixty years old, used her self-invented three-step recovery method of massage, food therapy, and exercise, allowing Zhou Chuanqi to stand up again. At No. 161 Nan Kou Road, Taiping Town Community, Shibei District, the story of mutual support between Gao Jingwen and Zhou Chuanqi has become a well-known tale. During the city's Elderly Respect Month, the reporter entered the lives of this elderly couple, hoping that their experience of bravely fighting against the disease could move and encourage more people.
The sky collapsed, the husband lay in bed due to cerebral hemorrhage. Gao Jingwen's husband is named Zhou Chuanqi, born in 1948. They met in 1966 while supporting the border in Qinghai. After six or seven years of dating, they finally became a couple and returned to Qingdao to get married. After retirement, both had fixed pensions, and their son also had a good job, leading a peaceful and happy family life.
However, misfortune visited this ordinary family. On October 9, 2007, Zhou Chuanqi came home saying he didn't feel well, thinking it was a cold, he lay at home for three days. On the morning of the 12th, with improved spirits, Zhou Chuanqi went downstairs to chop wood, but unexpectedly couldn't continue after chopping just a few pieces. Then he went to Haici Hospital alone for medical treatment. "In the afternoon, the doctor called me and said he had a brain hemorrhage." Gao Jingwen said that day her husband was hospitalized due to cerebral hemorrhage. On October 16, the doctors performed surgery on Zhou Chuanqi. Although his life was temporarily saved, his right half of the body lost sensation and he remained unconscious. Around December 20, 2007, the family transferred Zhou Chuanqi to the Municipal Hospital. After a month of treatment, although Zhou Chuanqi survived, his entire right side of the body was paralyzed, and the doctor said he could only sit in a wheelchair. Moreover, after the surgery, her husband had no consciousness and couldn't recognize them.
Despair set in when the son lost his job and returned home. Gao Jingwen told the reporter that her husband's paralysis brought a "destructive blow" to the entire family. After her husband fell ill, just the first surgery cost six or seven ten thousand yuan. Her monthly pension was only over 800 yuan, and her husband's was only 500 yuan. The huge surgical costs worried the whole family. "Fortunately, I traded stocks for five or six years and had savings of over 200,000 yuan, otherwise, we couldn't have saved him." Gao Jingwen said. But soon, by around June 2008, all their savings were spent treating her husband. "Because of my father's illness, my son returned from Beijing and stayed for six months. Due to being away from the company for too long, he lost his job." Gao Jingwen told the reporter that after her son was dismissed, his girlfriend also left him. With savings exhausted, and her son unemployed without any income, the entire family fell into a desperate situation, relying only on the meager pensions to survive.
"At that time, I really felt like I couldn't go on living anymore, life was like hell." Watching her husband who was always lying paralyzed in bed, Gao Jingwen didn't know how she should continue.
Miracle happened, after four years of efforts, her husband could move again. Although the doctor had already declared that her husband would forever be confined to the bed or wheelchair, Gao Jingwen did not give up. She believed she could definitely make her husband regain consciousness. Under Gao Jingwen's meticulous care, in January 2008, Zhou Chuanqi began to regain consciousness after escaping life danger, filling Gao Jingwen's heart with hope. In February 2008, with almost no savings left, Gao Jingwen and her son took her husband back home. Every day, they massaged and relaxed his muscles, etc. Under her careful care, the month he was discharged from the hospital, Zhou Chuanqi stood up, and his right hand started moving.
The miracle happening to Zhou Chuanqi continued. Starting from June 2008, Zhou Chuanqi could start taking steps. In 2010, Zhou Chuanqi could eat by himself. In early 2011, Zhou Chuanqi could walk from home to Yonji Road without anyone's support. For a mere 200-meter distance, Zhou Chuanqi walked nearly four years. Currently, Zhou Chuanqi's movement of his right hand and leg is more flexible, and now he can even control the TV remote control himself. Gao Jingwen said that now her husband often goes down to the road to stroll around. In their neighborhood, wherever her husband wants to go, there's no problem.
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Food therapy, massage, and exercise made him stand up again.
Talking about why Zhou Chuanqi could stand up again, Gao Jingwen said the first reason was the proper dietary adjustment. "The diet mainly focuses on lightness, seasonal vegetables are not lacking, but meat must be eaten sparingly." Besides being light, porridge is also a daily necessity. In Gao Jingwen's home, the reporter saw various tools she used to help Zhou Chuanqi recover, including small cloth hammers, homemade dumbbells, spindles, and ropes for stretching legs. "These tools are common in daily life, like the spindle which can be used for massaging his back, and the small cloth hammer is used to tap the joints." Massage is a skill that Gao Jingwen learned herself over four years, working as migrant workers create and perform their own Spring Festival Gala, inviting Cui Yongyuan to host. "First, I studied from books, then experimented with acupoints on myself." Gao Jingwen said that massage must control the "degree", according to her husband's mood, weather, and many other factors to control the time and strength.
During the interview, it was exactly time for Zhou Chuanqi to exercise. Zhou Chuanqi slowly moved to the bed and lifted a wooden stick with homemade dumbbells. Then he raised his legs and slightly lifted his buttocks. "This is the action I designed for him, which can simultaneously exercise the shoulders, arms, back, and waist." Gao Jingwen said that after completing this set of exercises, her husband still needs to climb 600 steps to continue exercising.
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