The Chinese people’s definition of love is persistence, and the definition of romance is companionship. In Sanshui, Foshan, Guangdong, there is a couple who fight against "frost". The wife suffers from ALS , but with just one look, the husband can understand what she needs. He silently sticks to it for 15 years and creates a miracle of life. Let’s listen to their anti-freeze story today.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, Li Tianqiu started to cook, and the yam porridge made with Chinese herbal medicine was beaten into liquid liquid by a mixer. This is Li Tianqiu's lover He Liling's whole diet for the day.
Li Tianqiu: Because her tongue is different from ours, it shrinks. It was around June (2007), when she was in class, she couldn't make any noise in one go for about two or three seconds.
Li Tianqiu: Drink slowly, drink slowly, almost (drink) for an hour.
He Liling was originally a teacher at a school in Foshan . She lost her throat when she was giving a class 15 years ago, and she didn't care too much about it. Until July 2009, she was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or "Abstract Human Lubrication".
Li Tianqiu: When I heard about it (diagnostic results), I said, what disease is this? Is it serious? He (the doctor) took me aside, and (the doctor said) he could only survive for 3 to 5 years. When he heard this, tears burst out.
After that, He Liling's condition deteriorated rapidly, leaving only her eyes, lips and neck in her body. Li Tianqiu quit her job as a bus driver and began to take care of her wife full-time.
Li Tianqiu: After breakfast and the toilet every morning, you have to do this (respiratory therapy) to slow down the development of her condition.
Li Tianqiu: (the condition has developed to the point where it is) She couldn't leave anymore, so she told me, "I can't die now even if I want to die." I have thought about it and I have conflicted too. When the two of them sleep at night, they cry together many times.
He Liling's body was "frozen", and the muscles responsible for swallowing were also partially degenerated. She could not eat hard food, so she could only eat liquid food. Li Tianqiu carefully cooks porridge for his wife every day, and then pours the porridge into a blender and makes food in liquid state. Over the years, he broke 3 mixers.
It is necessary to ensure that the wife who can only eat liquid food can ensure the nutrition she consumes every day. Li Tianqiu has been very concerned about the ingredients for making porridge, and can even be said to be extremely "picky". In Li Tianqiu's refrigerator and storage cabinet, more than 20 kinds of porridge ingredients are neatly placed in Li Tianqiu's refrigerator and storage cabinet. He changes the ingredients every day to make porridge of different flavors for his wife to drink.
Day after day, year after year, the 5-year deadline in the doctor's mouth flashed by. During the five most difficult years, his daughter graduated from college, got married, and gave birth to a granddaughter. More and more good news has allowed He Liling to slowly get out of the haze.
Now, under the careful care of her husband, He Liling is also actively facing life.
△Li Tianqiu and his wife and their family video
He Li Ling's needs in life, her husband Li Tianqiu can always understand it with just one look.
For the future, he only hopes that life is ordinary and happy.
Li Tianqiu: Anyway, I take good care of her every day now, she wants to donate her own body to those medical institutions. I said I agree, she can laugh, and ask her to laugh every day, that's it.
Love is responsibility, companionship, and action
Li Tianqiu recalled that after his lover got sick, he was depressed for a while. Looking at his wife's eyes full of despair and pain, Li Tianqiu made up his mind to help his wife get out of the haze in her heart. For 15 years, Li Tianqiu has never lost his patience because of this and continues to create a miracle of life with love. What is love? Li Tianqiu, 58, gave the answer with his actions: life is as plain as water, but love is responsibility, companionship, and even more so action. With love, miracles can be created.
