2013, Songjiang University Town, Shanghai.
Lu Yingliu, who was in her early twenties, had a bright hair color. When "grandma gray" and "thin vine" were not yet popular, attracted a considerable rate of return with her highlighted red hair.
However, in addition, Lu Yingliu, who studied at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, is only one of the ordinary college students.
She will use her spare time to get an intermediate interpreting certificate, she will miss homesickly on the eve of the holiday, complain that the airlines will be busy with money and are also curious about the world.
The world is so big and the world is so wonderful, who doesn’t want to go and see it?
seized the opportunity, Lu Ying applied to the school to be an exchange student in Slovenia.
Although in this Slovenian non-English speaking country, you have to make a gesture and guess when you go out to buy something, the friendship and enthusiasm of the locals also made Lu Ying flu feel endless warmth.
In the few months of exchange in Slovenia, in addition to completing his studies, Lu Yingliu also took time to go to France, the Czech Republic and most cities in Italy.
Luying Lift | @Yi Feifan
At that time, mobile map navigation was not as smart as it is now. She relied on herself to remember road signs, look at maps, take notes... She walked through many countries .
In order to save money, Lu Yingliu worked as a sofa surfer, stayed in a youth hostel, met all kinds of people, and created many precious memories for herself .
For example, once in France, she found that the host she contacted actually lived in a large manor. Although she was a sofa surfer, her experience was no less than staying in a high-end hotel. The host's girlfriend was also very friendly and accompanied her to play locally for two days.
For example, in Rome, Italy, the only 12-person room she booked for was left for men and women to live in. After playing for a day, she dragged her tired body back to the hostel. She could only lie in the room where 12 strangers were mixed, but this slightly awkward experience actually brought her a different sense of freshness.
Luyingliu | @Yifeifan
These all made Luyingliu fall in love with Europe, and also deepened her dream of studying abroad in her heart .
After returning to Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Lu Yingliu began to brush IELTS, prepare documents, and apply for graduate students in the UK.
In 2014, , who graduated from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, got the offer from the University of Bristol in the UK..
, like all international students, Luyingliu, who has just arrived in the UK, is full of expectations for the upcoming study abroad life .
When there is no class, she will ask her friends to check in to famous attractions, explore shops, and go to the suburbs to get close to nature. She wishes she could explore every corner of the small city in minutes.
During the peak period of academic studies, paper, presentation, due, and ddl are coming overwhelmingly. also has a sudden increase in pressure. While writing hard, she posted on Weibo to complain that she was almost bald by paper .
In order to save enough money for vacation travel, she has also worked in a restaurant, coached international students' papers and graduation thesis, and helped college students write application documents.
Luyingliu | @Yifeifan
Have enough money saved and made detailed strategies and preparations alone, so he started his journey of longing.
Because of the convenience of visa, the UK and continental European countries are naturally her main destinations, but she has also crossed the Atlantic Ocean and traveled from the east coast of the United States to the west coast.
Big Ben and Tower Bridge , Northern Ireland's Giant Dike, Portugal's Palace... Whether it is an unpopular or popular attraction, Lu Yingliu can always find those "treasure scenery" with various strategies.
However, the journey is not always smooth.
Once when she was playing in Barcelona, her luggage was accidentally stolen. The most hateful thing is that her passport was in the luggage, and she had to go to catch a plane the next afternoon.
In order to reissue the identity certificate, she went to the door of the local police station at 5:30 the next morning to wait. Finally, after I got to work, the staff of the police station at didn't know much about English .
helplessly tried every means to explain her experience to the other party. She finally got the temporary paper, but after rushing back to her residence, she found that her companion had left, the residence was locked and she could not get her luggage.
Finally, I got rid of the trouble and arrived at the airport.
Lu Yingliu | @Real Story Plan
Happiness and sorrow on the way of travel, luck and embarrassment, which made Lu Yingliu feel that he had gained a lot:
"See many scenery, see many different people and things, and after the broader vision, the world I see is different."
The beautiful time is fleeting. After graduating from the University of Bristol, Lu Yingliu, like most British students, chose to return to China to find a job.
With her excellent English proficiency and part-time experience while studying abroad, She soon found a job in a foreign company in Shanghai . After working for a while, Lu Yingliu came to Beijing again and joined a study abroad institution to be responsible for foreign exchange activities. In the high-end office building at Wudaokou, the "Center of the Universe", the meeting room is named after cities from all over the world, "demonstrating internationalization."
Whenever a foreign partner comes to Beijing, she is responsible for booking a hotel for them and taking them to visit Beijing. This job seems to be no different from her time studying abroad where she loves to play and visit.
But not long after, Lu Yingliu couldn't stay anymore. She applied for a doctorate degree from a Canadian university and applied for a position in the British Embassy . After layered interviews, she successfully got an offer.
In this gap, Lu Yingliu set a travel plan for herself.
This time, she plans to go to Singapore .
Like many trips in the past, booking air tickets and packing their luggage, Lu Yingliu called himself a car to the Capital Airport.
But when the driver drove back from a section of airport auxiliary road and changed direction to overtake, a loud bang came from , and suddenly her eyes went black. The consciousness of
and other consciousness recovered briefly, and the sound of a harsh ambulance rushed into her eardrum. The medical staff lifted her onto the stretcher, asked her family about the contact information, and then pulled her finger and pointed the lock screen on the phone.
The driver and passenger who had a car accident with her were not seriously injured. The girl who shared a car with her to the airport even changed the car on the spot and continued to catch the plane.
Only Lu Yingliu, and her whole life changed.
She lay in the intensive care unit for nine days, and then underwent 5 surgeries, and went to ICU 3 times, underwent tracheal intubation, and was on a ventilator.
Looking at the white ceiling in front of you, several tubes inserted on your body, and the life monitor that keeps beating numbers, Lu Yingliu was told that had comminuted fractures of his 2, 4, 5 and 6 cervical vertebrae, and his spinal nerves were damaged .
lying on the hospital bed, she could not feel any body part except above her neck and arms. She finally realized that she was paralyzed . After the paralysis of
, the treatment process that Lu Yingliu had to endure was extremely cruel.
Her skull was drilled 4 holes by the doctor, and her waist was firmly fixed by a metal bracket. Except for her arms, she lost consciousness below her entire neck.
Because she had been lying on the hospital bed for a long time, she had bedsores gnawing on her buttocks, but she had no feelings. Until the bedsores were deep and the bones, she realized her ulcers and muscles.
Because the doctor could not feel the pain, the doctor did an invasive surgery and did not need anesthesia. She could not use any force or cough up sputum, and her throat was cut open, and blood was splashed everywhere. The doctor inserted a catheter to suction.
Luyingliu | @Yifeifan
With this sputum suction device , you no longer have to worry about her suffocation because of sputum.
But Lu Yingliu still remembers that one day, she did sputum suction 10 times, and the suction tube inserted from her throat into her chest like a huge stirring rod, and then stirred it wildly. The suffocation feeling was even more uncomfortable than sputum, which made her unable to help spit out the meal she had eaten.
And because of this sputum suction device that cut her throat, she couldn't make any sound except "hiss".
Just when Lu Yingliu was about to get used to this state without pain, the pain came back.
Most patients with spinal cord injury find it difficult to escape neuralgia . The most typical example is that they are still peaceful in the last second, but the pain may be unbearable in the next second.
This pain like an irregular time bomb may appear in her body at any time, and it will be elusive.
On those days, Lu Yingliu could only lie on the bed every day and watch the clouds gathered and dispersed outside the window, or stared at the sunshine reflected on the window.
Every late at night, the sound from the ventilator becomes particularly loud. She can't fall asleep and stare at the clock on the white wall, watch the passage of time every minute and second. She has never looked forward to the new day coming so quickly, and then she hopes that the day will end quickly.
Lu Yingliu | @Yi Feifan
Because he couldn't make a sound, Lu Yingliu, who originally liked to talk and laugh, became very annoyed and couldn't help but lose her temper with her parents who had been taking care of him.
Later, they finally discussed a solution, first let her do the export type, and then her parents guess what she meant, and she blinked and said "yes" and closed her eyes to mean "no".
Every time I blink, tears are accompanied by the falling of tears.
Seeing that my former friends traveled everywhere and got married one after another, but I could only lie on the hospital bed without any freedom. Lu Yingliu collapsed and cried with her parents more than once, hysterical, not understanding why they spared no effort to save her.
Work cannot continue, and friends gradually lost contact. Their former life was ruined and they could not communicate with others. She shrank herself into her own small world:
"It's better to die."
And her muscle atrophy hands couldn't even hold up the knife for suicide.
But when she saw her parents who were busy with her and helped her rehabilitate, she felt that she could not give up.
"Parents are a wall between us and the god of death."
After a long and painful rehabilitation, although Lu Yingliu did not wait for a miracle, she was able to use a wheelchair skillfully and even take care of herself simply.
The wound that once inserted the suction tube gradually healed into a scar, and she was finally able to speak again.
As time goes by, she slowly accepted the reality that she could no longer stand up, and also restored her temperament that she was not afraid of being troubled. As soon as she was discharged from the hospital, Lu Yingliu called for her to dye her hair. As a result, she stayed at the barber shop from 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock, and teacher Tony dyed her brilliant blonde hair.
was so angry that she returned to the barber shop the next day and asked to change the color of the hair to a normal one;
"This is too big a color difference with the picture!"
In order to prevent her hair from being hurt by Teacher Tony again, she later learned to dye her hair herself, from flax green to rose gold, and she was no longer afraid of the color difference.
After tossing her hair, Lu Yingliu was tossing and putting on makeup for herself.
Because of the atrophy of her finger muscles, she couldn't pick up the makeup brush and eyeliner as freely as others. She could only clamp the tool with her fingers first, and then hold the hand up with the other hand. After practicing countless times, she was able to finally put the eyeliner firmly at the base of her eyelashes and draw a single eyeliner smoothly.
has finished makeup, and Lu Yingliu spends more than an hour before going out to choose a satisfactory outfit for herself.
This behavior seems to be a waste of time for parents, but she has always enjoyed it.
In 2018, she had been diving silently in Xiaohongshu before, and she posted her first notes.
She drew her manicure.
could only join hands together, and struggled to unscrew the nail polish bottle, and then slowly apply nail polish to the nails of the other hand with the power of one finger.
If the coating is wrong, then ask the nurse to help wipe off the excess area. If the coating is not satisfied, remove it and start again.
She spent several times more time than others and painted herself a pair of blue and purple manicures.
In front of a flower in the midsummer ward, she smiled brightly, asked her mother to help take pictures of her beautiful hands, and then uploaded the photo to the Internet.
Her named her ID "Lu Yingliu", "Lu" comes from her real name, and the words "Ying" and "Liu" come from her favorite Korean dramas and comics respectively.
Lu Yingliu, who posted her first note on Xiaohongshu, must have never expected that she would go on the path of a beauty blogger by chance.
In June 2019, Lu Yingliu's notes about her experience were unexpectedly popular.
Her experience has resonated with many netizens who are troubled by the disease. While has brought them endless courage, it has also made more netizens impressed her positive and optimistic charm .
Under the urging of countless netizens, she is like countless life area up owners, shares beauty, her travel experience, and wheelchair outfits .
She did not hesitate to share with more people the wheelchair dressing experience she had accumulated over the past four years:
tops can be selected with loose puff sleeves because the sleeves can cover the thicker arms due to rehabilitation; the skirt will be more suitable for the bottom, not only better to wear, cover the weak legs and loose abdomen, but also more convenient for patients with spinal cord damage to wear diapers.
Luyingliu | @Yi Feifan
Not only that, She regained her hobby of traveling.
Now she travels with her parents, she still relies on checking strategies and formulating travel plans herself, but she has to confirm with the hotel and scenic spot in advance to whether there are barrier-free facilities.
The cherry blossom season the previous year, she took her parents to Japan.
asked three kimono stores, and finally one agreed to lend her a kimono jacket, fulfilling her dream of taking photos under the cherry blossom tree in a kimono.
Lu Yingliu | @Yi Feifan
When the epidemic ended last year, Lu Yingliu took her parents to Qinghai without stopping.
In the endless salt lake, she was wearing a bright red scarf, as if she had forgotten the soreness and swelling caused by long-distance travel to her body, and also ignored the neuralgia that came after wave:
"The joy of traveling on the road can make me forget all the pain."
Lu Yingliu | @Yi Feifan
Today, Lu Yingliu shared her elegant early spring outfit with B station on Xiaohongshu.
Sitting in a wheelchair, she changed into an elegant green gold velvet dress. In order to match, she also prepared retro leather shoes and pearl earrings full of girlish hearts.
Finally, I also carried a CHANEL lychee leather bag.
Through the video barrage, netizens exclaimed:
"This is the princess of Disney's escape!"
We always ask:
What is the use of studying abroad?
In this era when reading intra-volume , looking for a job, it seems that everything you can get started, international students no longer have special competitiveness when returning to China to find a job, and some people are deeply trapped in pressure, anxiety, and even self-doubt.
After reading the book, I couldn’t find the job I like. So how valuable is the study abroad degree that I studied abroad by studying countless papers and rushing countless dues?
Perhaps, the story of Lu Yingliu can tell us the answer to this question .
Until now, the first sentence of Lu Yingliu’s personal introduction on Xiaohongshu and B station is still “Bristol University Graduate Student” , not “Beauty and Makeup Up Master” or “Parastic Girl”.
Homepage Jun believes that in her heart, must have placed her study abroad time in the most important position, and is always inspired by her study abroad experience.
The experience of being alone in a foreign land has taught us to be optimistic and strong.
Endless academic pressure has allowed us to learn to self-regulate and persevere silently.
The tricks in life have also learned to work hard to solve problems. This is true for
Luyingliu.
Because of injury, muscle atrophy, so strengthen your rehabilitation and persist in exercise.
Hand your right hand is spasm and you can't hold the pen. You can change your left hand to learn to write. She will copy the morning English news every day, practicing writing while consolidating English.
In order to exercise, she also tried swimming.
Although her legs can't move at all, she can already take the float backstroke or breaststroke with her.
Luyingliu | @Yi Feifan
Last year, she started practicing table tennis again.
Because of the muscles of the fingers, she could only tie the racket to her hands and wave it, but she practiced well and was preparing to participate in this year's National Games.
Even the coach is optimistic about her.
lost his job due to injury, so you might as well start over.
Now, Lu Yingliu has a job again. While she is the head of copywriting for a psychological counseling company for studying abroad, she uses her spare time to sign a contract with a publishing house to compile a British geography book .
Of course, She is also a beauty blogger .
Just like Lu Yingliu said: "When you see a lot of different people and things, the world you see is different after your vision is broad."
Eyes determine the pattern, and the pattern determines our lives.
Study abroad experience, no matter whether it can become a stepping stone when looking for a job, it will definitely become a strong force buried deep in our hearts.
6 points are watching. I hope we can be like Luyingliu, even though we are in trouble, is still shining brightly.
ref:
@Yi Feifan: "After a car accident, a female returnee born in the 1990s became a fashion blogger"
@Real story plan: "After a high-level paraplegia, I became a fashion blogger"
@Real story plan: "After a high-level paraplegia, I became a fashion blogger"
@character: "The person who looks up at the stars is shining too"
@Lulu's English tavern: "Baoon English Story Series (16) - The Indestructible Luying Lift"
China Youth Daily: "Shared is also a kind of "serious entrepreneurship"
