Beauty bloggers, live streamers, paralympic champions, traveling everywhere... Zhang Chenlu said that the past 2021 was the year of reconciliation between her and herself, and the year she pressed the pause button to start.
Zhang Chenlu is a "returnee" white-collar worker, in 2017, when Zhang Chenlu was 26 years old, because of a car accident caused high paraplegia, she was trapped in a wheelchair, living space only left the ward and home.
After paralysis, in cyberspace, Zhang Chenlu became "Lu Yingliu" - a fashion blogger in a wheelchair, "Lu Yingliu" shared her experience after the car accident on the Internet, shared her wheelchair fashion wear, travel experience, and also shared her optimism and courage for life.
In 2021, through the media reports to get attention and help, 30-year-old Zhang Chenlu gradually found the excitement of life, in 2022, Zhang Chenlu has more dreams.
Paralyzed at the age of 26
On October 25, 2021, in the stadium of The Shaanxi Olympic Sports Center, the table tennis project of the 11th National Paralympic Games and the 8th Special Olympics began to compete, and in the table tennis women's team final, Zhang Chenlu cooperated with her teammates to finally defeat the Inner Mongolia team 3:0 and win the gold medal on behalf of the Chongqing team. On the afternoon of October 27, Zhang Chenlu won another gold medal in the table tennis TT1 women's doubles competition.
Standing on the podium, Zhang Chenlu had mixed feelings, everything she experienced in the past 5 years was like a nightmare, she woke up, she finally found herself.
Before the age of 26, Zhang Chenlu was a beautiful, confident and free girl. At that time, Zhang Chenlu's mother was an urban planning designer in Guiyang City, and her father worked in a bank, and the family's life was comfortable and happy.
In 2014, Zhang Chenlu, who graduated from Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, received an acceptance letter from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, and in 2016, after graduating from the United Kingdom, Zhang Chenlu came to Beijing and joined a study abroad institution to be responsible for foreign exchange activities.
Zhang Chenlu loves to travel, and in January 2017, her chosen destination was Singapore.
As with many trips in the past, after booking a plane ticket and packing his luggage, Zhang Chenlu called himself a car to go to the capital airport.
Zhang Chenlu, who was sitting in the car, was listening to music, a loud noise came, she suddenly saw a black, she vaguely felt, the harsh ambulance sound gushed into her eardrums, the medical staff carried her on a stretcher, asked her family's contact information, and then dragged her finger to open the mobile phone lock screen.
Later, Zhang Chenlu learned that when the driver re-entered the main road from an airport auxiliary road, he changed to overtake and collided with a private car, except for the driver and passengers on both sides of her side, who were not seriously injured, and the girl who carpooled with her to the airport even changed vehicles on the spot and continued to catch the plane.
Only Zhang Chenlu, the whole life has changed.
Zhang Chenlu's 2, 4, 5 and 6 cervical vertebrae were crushed fractures, the vertebrae of the 6th section were removed, and a steel plate made of a bracket was propped up in her body, and after half a year, the bone was re-grown, but the spinal nerve wrapped inside was difficult to recover.
Zhang Chenlu entered the ICU a total of 3 times, underwent 5 surgeries, underwent tracheal intubation, went on the ventilator, she could not make a sound, weak cough, every time she was intubated, she would feel like a broken doll being manipulated, but there was no way to resist, the stirring of the tube in the chest cavity, so that she was as painful as being shocked every time.
Zhang Chenlu's skull was drilled by the doctor 4 holes, above the waist were firmly fixed by the metal bracket, the nurse handed a cup of water, Zhang Chenlu subconsciously raised her hand to pick it up, the cup fell from between her fingers that she could not hold, and the water and tears burst together.
Lying on the hospital bed, Zhang Chenlu could not feel any body parts other than above her neck and arms, and she finally realized that she was paralyzed.
Finally able to speak
After more than half a year of treatment, Zhang Chenlu was transferred to the rehabilitation department of the hospital, the pungent smell of disinfectant water in the hospital and the boring rehabilitation treatment every day were her whole life, and the double torture of body and mind made her feel that there was no point in living, "I don't know where tomorrow is, the future is dark." ”
Work can not continue, friends gradually lost contact, the former life was ruined, Zhang Chenlu was trapped in her own small world.
The trachea was cut open, Zhang Chenlu could not speak, her parents tried to communicate with her, typing through the mobile phone, writing on paper, it was not OK, Zhang Chenlu's fingers were too weak to hold anything, finally, the family of three reached an agreement, the parents asked Zhang Chenlu to speak, Chenlu replied with a wink, blinked to indicate "yes", closed eyes to indicate "no", every time blinking, her tears flowed down.
"It's better to die." Zhang Chenlu had thought about committing suicide countless times, but her muscle-atrophied hands could not even pick up the knife for suicide.
"What difficulty can not be overcome? Live well to have a future! How can we survive without you! A word from her father woke up Zhang Chenlu, and she decided to live bravely for her parents.
In the two years of rehabilitation treatment, Zhang Chenlu has been admitted to 3 hospitals, she learned to turn over, eat, stand like a baby, practice writing like a child, the thumb of the right hand is turned outward, can not hold the pen, she uses the left hand to write, the left thumb back hook, just can get stuck in the pen shaft, a stroke began to learn to write.
After a long and painful rehabilitation, although Zhang Chenlu did not wait for the miracle of standing up, she was already able to use the wheelchair skillfully, and she could hold things with her unbendable palms, and the wound that had once been inserted with a suction tube gradually healed into a scar, and she was finally able to speak again.
After resurrection, he became "Lu Yingliu"
After two years of rehabilitation, Zhang Chenlu was discharged from the hospital and returned to her home in Guiyang, and her mother gave up her job and took care of her daughter step by step.
Closed in a small space, Zhang Chenlu did not know who to tell her mood, she wrote her experience on the Internet, hoping that someone could understand her situation, hoping that several people could talk with her.
"A doctor shared a post with me about an injured girl abroad who especially likes makeup and has attracted a lot of attention after posting her makeup video on the Internet." Since 2020, Zhang Chenlu has gradually developed the idea of being a blogger, and she has begun to shoot some short videos to share her wheelchair wear and makeup, and share her travel experience.
Since then, Zhang Chenlu has become a fashion blogger "Lu Yingliu".
Simple makeup, shooting videos is much more difficult than "Lu Yingliu" imagined, her neck below, in addition to the arm does not have any muscle strength, when makeup, she can only use the finger seam to clamp the pen, two hands together, little by little to the face. Despite the difficulties, "Lu Yingliu" found the joy of life, and the days became full.
In 2021, beauty blogger "Lu Yingliu" has received a lot of attention through media reports, she has met many friends on the Internet, successfully applied for a job responsible for the operation of The WeChat public account on the Internet, every day, doing rehabilitation, doing public accounts, selling fruits in the circle of friends, designing beauty themes, shooting videos, cutting videos... From morning to night, "Lu Yingliu" arranged his life to be full and orderly.
Cure for 2021
In order to let Zhang Chenlu exercise, the family bought her table tennis, Zhang Chenlu learned quickly, the ball skills soared, was found by the coach of the Chongqing Disabled Table Tennis Team, and then while carrying out table tennis training, while working and rehabilitation training, to be able to participate in the table tennis competition of the Paralympic Games, is Zhang Chenlu's biggest wish in 2021.
In October 2021, after winning two gold medals in the Paralympic Games, Zhang Chenlu's wish came true, which also gave her greater confidence and vision for the future.
In 2021, Zhang Chenlu began to try to do what she liked, her hand could not grasp, she held a makeup brush to challenge various makeup; could not stand up, sat in a wheelchair to try various outfits; could not turn over the book, listened to the audio to read the APP to learn. She traveled with her parents, went to Guiyang to see cherry blossoms, went to Changsha to eat stinky tofu, went to Hongcun to see ink and smoke, and went to Shenzhen to see the sea. She completed the paragliding challenge in 2021 and celebrated her 30th birthday in Sanya, Zhang Chenlu said that every time on the way to travel, she will sigh, it is good to be alive...
At the end of 2021, Zhang Chenlu's circle of friends wrote such a paragraph, "After 5 years, I can only move my arms when I am paraplegic, and I can finally rely on the transfer board to get off the bus..."
Every little bit of progress has allowed Zhang Chenlu to regain her confidence in life, "I have been stopping for a while after the car accident, and now I am starting to move forward again." Zhang Chenlu said that bravely facing reality and stepping out of the enclosed space can heal the pain and find the meaning of life.
Jinyun News reporter Lao Yunfei