After a full ten hours of surgery, Zhao Liang, who was plagued by brain tumors, finally ushered in a long-lost new life.
Although At this time, Zhao Liang's "giant height" has been frozen under the long-term promotion of growth hormone, but it is deeply gratifying to be able to regain a life from this rare disease.
First, from childhood distress
In 1982, in a small mountain village in Puyang County, Henan Province, a great uncle was anxiously waiting outside the delivery room pacing back and forth.
This Uncle Zhao is an ordinary villager in the local village, because of the fatigue in the early years, he injured his body, resulting in uncle still having no son and half a daughter when he is old.
In order to have a descendant to continue the incense, Uncle Zhao prayed to god and buddha to go to the hospital, and he tried all kinds of methods.
But a few years passed, and my wife's stomach just didn't move. What worries Uncle Zhao is three bags of cigarettes a day, and he can't eat well, sleep well, and sleep well.
In the end, people from the same village came to persuade Uncle, whether there are children or not, the days will still have to be lived, right? Big deal When you're old, my child is your child, let him recognize a dry father.
Uncle Zhao pondered it for a while, he had been anxious about this matter for a lifetime, and he had not left anything good.
Thinking of this, Uncle Zhao also let go of the burden in his heart, no matter how he was not old enough to get out of bed and need to be taken care of, during this time, it was better to try to make money and save some coffin.
Uncle Zhao's heart disease was clear, people were comfortable, and life was hopeful, and it wasn't long before the daughter-in-law of the family was actually pregnant!
This can spoil Uncle Zhao' happiness, just on the day he went to the hospital to check and confirm his pregnancy, Uncle Zhao happily bought a bottle of good wine, and the two of them imagined their future life.
Because the daughter-in-law is also older, she is characterized by the hospital as a dangerous mother of advanced age, in order to ensure the smooth birth of the daughter-in-law, Uncle Zhao sent her daughter-in-law to the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital early.
The requirement for the daughter-in-law is to be obedient, so that the mother and child can be safe and smooth and give birth to the child smoothly.
With the joint efforts of the doctors and nurses in the hospital and the daughter-in-law of Uncle Zhao, the child was finally born healthily.
Of course, the doctor is also happy for them, but out of professional quality, he still told Uncle Zhao that although the child was born healthily and escaped a hurdle, after all, it is an elderly maternal birth, and if the child's body has any problems, it is necessary to come to the hospital for treatment in time.
Even so, the old couple looked at this hard-won child or liked it more and more, turned over the dictionary one night, and named the child Zhao Liang.
Since Uncle Zhao took Zhao Liang back home, the old couple couldn't see enough and liked it very much. Uncle Zhao keenly found that Zhao Liang's child was larger than other children's skeletons from an early age, and from the beginning of feeding, he ate more than other people's children.
After going to elementary school, Zhao Liang could eat more than a dozen large steamed buns at a time, which was more than twenty centimeters larger than that of children of the same age.
Before graduating from elementary school, it grew to one meter six, and in that less developed era, this size was already similar to the height of normal ordinary people.
The tall man and thick personality make Zhao Liang stand out among the primary school students, teachers and classmates like this simple big man, Zhao Liang in his happy and harmonious environment academic performance is by leaps and bounds, has been among the best.
Uncle Zhao became more and more proud of his children, believing that his children were tall and well-educated, and that in ancient times, he was a great general who could write and fight.
After entering junior high school, Zhao Liang's height was like a wild horse that had lost its reins, the amount of food doubled several times, and his height also exceeded the one-meter nine mark.
Because Zhao Liang's height is far beyond ordinary people, coupled with the fact that the family does not have much savings, Zhao Liang can only make clothes to be worn in a specific tailor shop every year, and his clothes are worn for a whole year, and it is inevitable that they will be full of patches.
In that era when online shopping had not yet risen, Zhao Liang's unusually tall man could not buy suitable shoes.
According to his own later recollections, during his time in junior high school and high school, he could hardly wear shoes properly, but could only step on the upper of his shoes and wear shoes like slippers.
Such a strange dress and generous personality are naturally looked down upon by adolescent children, who not only do not want to be friends with Zhao Liang, but also call him a stupid big man and laugh at his clothes picked up in the garbage heap.
Fortunately, Zhao Liang's height of one meter and nine will not be subjected to any substantial bullying or beating, but for a child with a particularly fragile adolescent psychology, these invisible injuries may hurt him more seriously.
In this way, Zhao Liang, who was originally studying well in primary school, no longer top-notch in junior high school, and the mental pressure of day and night caused Zhao Liang to have no way to calm down and study.
The regression of grades has led to the scolding of teachers, and the double pressure of teachers and classmates has made Zhao Liang's boredom more and more serious, and Zhao Liang does not want to step into the door of the school at the most serious time.
The old two mouths are also looking in the eyes, and the pain is in the heart. The children were uncomfortable like this, and they could not force the children to go to school, so they had to take Zhao Liang home.
However, Uncle Zhao's family is not rich, if Zhao Liang is an ordinary child, it is ok, but the amount of food he eats alone can stand up to the amount of food for several days of the old two.
Raising him at home is really more than enough and insufficient, and he can't afford to raise him.
At that time, there was no such thing as going out to work, in order to find a unit for Zhao Liang to work, the old two were running back and forth.
However, the old two have no money and no power, and Zhao Liang's cultural level is not high, and he has run all over various departments and has not been able to find a suitable job for Zhao Liang.
Just when the old couple was physically and mentally exhausted, Zhao Liang's mother happened to hear in the county town that there was a sport that specifically required tall people, and if they practiced well, they could enter the national team, and they could make money by eating and living.
The ecstatic aunt rushed home directly from the county seat and discussed with Uncle Zhao that this could be done.
After all, their own children know that this child is called second in height, no one dares to call first, coupled with their children's honest and reliable personality, they are not troublesome seedlings.
Second, the peak circuit turns
In this way, 17-year-old Zhao Liang was sent to the county basketball team by Uncle Zhao.
At that time, Zhao Liang had already reached a terrifying 2 meter 02. To know that the basket is only one meter nine meters high from the ground, Zhao Liang can complete the difficult action of dunking without jumping.
The coach of the county basketball team saw such a "tall man" and was almost happy to faint, with such a giant, just by virtue of the height advantage is enough to crush the opponent, in the future basketball game that is not God blocking god, Buddha blocking Buddha? In this way, Zhao Liang did not live up to his parents' expectations and stayed on the basketball team.
He usually exercised hard, his skills gradually improved, and basketball was like a toy ball in his hand.
Talent and hard work have made Zhao Liang gradually emerge in the basketball team.
The coach also attaches great importance to this big man who is willing to work hard and has talent, and he also bought clothes and shoes for Zhao Liang that are suitable for him to wear, just so that Zhao Liang can play his strength 100% in the game.
With the support of coaches and family, Zhao Liang's basketball career has been smooth.
Soon, he went from the county basketball team to the city basketball team. Before long, the city coach could not continue to guide him, and Zhao Liang was ready to go to the provincial basketball team to further improve himself.
But what people did not expect was that in this crucial 1997, Zhao Liang had an accident and directly ruined his basketball career.
Third, into the darkness again
In the process of preparing for the provincial basketball team selection competition, Zhao Liang trained hard and worked very the field of the selection competition.
Even the coach advised him not to work so hard, in order to fight for the place of the provincial basketball team, he finally did not listen to the coach's advice.
Accidents always happen so suddenly, in a training match, Zhao Liang collided with his opponent because of too much movement, and suffered some minor injuries.
It is reasonable to say that some minor injuries like this did not affect his training, but since that collision, Zhao Liang has always felt that he is uncomfortable, and often dizzy and nauseous.
Originally, Zhao Liang thought that it was a slight concussion caused by the collision, and it would get better after a few days of rest.
However, the day did not go according to people's wishes, and the short rest did not make Zhao Liang's situation better, but the situation became more and more serious day by day.
At its worst, it was a matter of spinning, and when I stood up, I was dizzy and dizzy, and I couldn't keep standing at all.
Not only that, dizziness also made his vision blurred, so a series of symptoms down made Zhao Liang unable to continue his basketball career, forced to go back to his home again to recuperate.
Fast forward to 2006.
But at this time, Zhao Liang was a young and strong guy, not going out to work to earn money but also eating and drinking in vain at home, looking at his aging parents, facing the pointing and pointing of the villagers, Zhao Liang was not embarrassed to lie on the bed all the time.
Tormented by illness, he could only go to his family's field to help his parents cultivate when he was slightly relieved, and relieve the pressure of his parents.
As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread. Such a serious disease cannot be cured by staying at home and recuperating.
Zhao Liang's condition became more and more serious day by day, and the most serious time was that dizziness and headache struck together, torturing this big guy to a hard weight loss of more than a dozen pounds.
Uncle Zhao looked anxious in his eyes, but there was no other way in that small county, so he had to buy a large number of painkillers for Zhao Liang to relieve his pain.
Painkillers are also powerless in the face of Zhao Liang's heart-piercing pain. What is even more frightening is that Zhao Liang's vision has gradually deteriorated in headaches and dizziness, and the situation is getting worse and worse.
The pain of physical diseases from time to time and the huge pressure on his psychology make Zhao Liang's temper worse and worse, and after each attack, his disease will be worse and worse, and the aggravation of the disease directly leads to Zhao Liang's temper getting worse and worse.
Under the vicious circle, the old Zhao family's home seems to be shrouded in a layer of haze that cannot be broken.
Fourth, see hope again
Zhao Liang's deeds also spread throughout the surrounding villages, and the villagers had different opinions about Zhao Liang's situation. It just so happened that there was a college student in the next village who was on summer vacation, returned to the village to hear the discussion of the old people, and after returning home, he analyzed with his mother that Zhao Liang should have a particularly rare disease called gigantism.
The disease is caused by a lesion of a brain organ responsible for the production of growth hormone in the human body.
This warm-hearted aunt usually befriended Zhao Liang's mother, and was not accustomed to the guys in the village who were talking nonsense, listened to his son's words, and immediately told the news to Uncle Zhao's family.
Although it is not necessarily diagnosed with gigantism, at least it has a direction, and it is definitely much stronger than the previous random collision like a headless fly.
Without further ado, Uncle Zhao immediately took Zhao Liang, who was already 2 meters 46, to the county hospital for examination. Unfortunately, the doctors and equipment in the county hospital are lacking, and there is no special experience for such difficult diseases.
Uncle Zhao gritted his teeth and came to beijing university hospital with the family's only remaining savings, and after several days and nights of queuing up, he hung up the number of the brain department, ready to desperately see what was going on with his children who had suffered for more than ten years.
In April 2009, the experienced attending doctor knew at a glance that this was a typical patient with gigantism, and immediately arranged a series of more detailed examinations to determine Zhao Liang's condition.
After consultation with a number of experts, Zhao Liang's condition was determined.
It turned out that there was a particularly huge brain tumor in Zhao Liang's brain, which had invaded the territory of blood vessels and nerves, which led to Zhao Liang's headache, dizziness, and intermittent blindness in the eyes.
Coincidentally, such a huge brain tumor placed on others is estimated to have died a long time ago, but this brain tumor is just pressed on the pituitary gland that secretes growth hormone, constantly stimulating the pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone, so that Zhao Liang grows to such a terrible height.
Relative to his height, Zhao Liang's head is also much larger than the average person, giving the brain tumor room to grow and delaying the advent of the dangerous period.
Since the lesion was determined, then directly start the operation, the doctors went to battle together, because Zhao Liang was too much growth hormone, the skull was much thicker than the average person, three centimeters, which caused great difficulty to the operation.
After opening the skull, because the growth time of the brain tumor is too long, the internal environment is complicated, which brings a huge challenge to the chief surgeon.
It usually takes only three hours of craniotomy, but it takes ten hours on Zhao Liang.
During these ten hours, Uncle Zhao, who was waiting outside the door, almost fainted several times.
When the doctor said the words "successful operation", the old couple couldn't help but cry with joy and hold their headaches.
Thanks to the good body trained by playing basketball, Zhao Liang's recovery after surgery was very smooth, and he was able to walk freely three days after the operation, and it did not take long to recover and be discharged from the hospital.
After being discharged from the hospital, Zhao Liang's body quickly recovered, but because the foot injury caused by playing basketball in the early years was not treated in time, it left a little root of the disease, in addition to being no different from ordinary healthy people.
On April 21, 2013, in the Yaoshan Scenic Area of Pingding Mountain, the giant Zhao Liang let his "girlfriend" stand barefoot on his shoulders and pick azaleas on the cliffs, and it turned out that he and his girlfriend were filming a micro-film called "Yaoshan Love", which mainly told the story of the first tall man Zhao Liang and the white-collar woman in Yaoshan and the first big Buddha in the Central Plains. However, this relationship ended in the end because of their respective reasons.
In 2022, Zhao Liang has also done a lot of work in order to make a living. Later, he changed jobs several times, but his most anxious heart was to find a partner, because his brother and sister were already married, and even his brother's children were very large.
During the epidemic, Zhao Liang, who was isolated at home, began to look for a partner online, but due to the height problem, he has not found a suitable one.
Nowadays, Zhao Liang said bluntly that there is no requirement for finding a daughter-in-law, and he only hopes to find a girl who will accompany him all his life.
Before, he was approached by an acting company in the northeast, wanted to cooperate with him, and promised to give him favorable conditions, but he needed to travel.
Zhao Liang, who had no income, heard that he was paid and could also travel around the world for a long time, and he did not think much about it and resolutely agreed.
The work content is indeed as the boss said, easy and not tired, but also can travel around the world for business.
But this company just treats Zhao Liang as a human-shaped mascot, today there is a shopping mall open, Zhao Liang went to show his face, tomorrow the store will do activities, Zhao Liang will perform a show.
This kind of showing his face in front of people makes Zhao Liang very uncomfortable, and people watching also try to take pictures with mobile phones, pointing at Zhao Liang, making him feel like a monkey in a cage.
This feeling of making people watch did not allow Zhao Liang to enjoy the joy of making money from work, and it was not long before Zhao Liang quit his job and returned home.
For him, instead of being treated like a monster and being pointed out like a monkey in a glass cabinet, it is more comfortable to help his parents do farm work at home and accompany their parents to nag their parents.
However, although working at home is comfortable and comfortable, but income is still a big problem, seeing that parents are getting old, can they support their families by farming?
After continuous efforts, Zhao Liang also found a job with his own skills, and he is now a manager in Opel Flooring Company.
Zhao Liang also once went to the TV show "No One But You", because of his height, Zhao Liang repeatedly encountered a wall when he was looking for a job, and did not have a long-term stable job, so he came to this show for help.
At that time, the guest Zheng Yuanjie saw the image of Zhao Liang, and he also very much wanted to cooperate with Zhao Liang to create a fairy tale image together, with Zhao Liang as the prototype. But then it didn't work out.
When the reporter asked him if he had any other regrets, Zhao Liang said that now he can earn money to support himself and his father and mother is already very good, if you can find a girl who is willing to accompany him for a lifetime, it is best.
As ordinary people, we often wish we could have a tall height.
A pair of large long legs can not only add a lot of points to the external image of the whole person, from the perspective of medical physiology, the higher the person who grows up generally means a high level of nutrition and strong athletic ability.
In layman's terms, height can reflect a person's physical condition to a certain extent. But as the saying goes, there is a constant nature, things must be reversed, and some things are too extreme and it is not a good thing.
Speaking of Zhao Liang's life, it can be said that there are ups and downs, and this simple Henan boy did not give up on himself, but worked hard to fight against fate.
During the period of illness, Zhao Liang also taught himself saxophone and gourd silk, and joined an acting company to earn money to support his family.
If life deceives you, don't be discouraged or desperate, go on firmly, and believe that everything is the best choice.