For so many years, all around me were onlookers.
Therefore, Yao Defen said that only his mother, Wei Xianying, was his true friend.
Rural people remember their children's lunar birthdays.
Yao Defen was born on July 15, 1972 in the lunar calendar, which happens to be the Middle Yuan Festival.
Therefore, many years later, his father Yao Zhifu still remembers it very clearly.
When the daughter was born, she was five pounds and six pounds, and she looked no different from other babies.
However, watching the girl grow up day by day, the family found abnormalities.
The child is only 10 months old, and he has to drink a bowl of thin food at every meal.
When she was 3 years old, she ate the same amount as her three children.
Because the family is in the countryside, parents do not take this abnormality of their children to heart.
11 years old, taller than an adult, a full 1.9 meters tall.
The abnormal height brought a lot of distress to her life.
Fortunately, the family is in the countryside of Shucheng County, Lu'an, Anhui Province.
When he was a child, in addition to the large amount of food, Yao Defen's favorite thing to eat was chestnuts.
There were a few chestnut trees on the back hill of the house, and although she could reach them, she didn't want to go out and be pointed out.
Therefore, whenever the chestnuts are ripe, it is the mother who goes to pick them for her.
At the age of 15, Yao Defen has grown to 2.08 meters.
That year, she was taken to the hospital because of a physical illness.
The doctor made a diagnosis that because she had a pituitary tumor, her body would grow desperately.
Because of this visit, her deeds began to spread widely.
There are onlookers, there are curious people, and there are people who come to do research.
In addition, there are also some departments that want to take her away so that she can be trained as a sports talent in the future.
However, it soon became clear that her body was too weak.
And because the body grows too fast, it suffers from a variety of diseases.
Because the body is too weak, this means that Yao Defen's future life will be a big problem.
At the age of 20, Yao Defen was accompanied by his father Yao Zhifu.
The father and daughter traveled through the state and counties, and went to various places to sell art to survive.
For Yao Defen, there is also a very direct factor is that
Because of her strong metabolism, if she did not go out to work, her family could not even provide for her.
So, following a folk song and dance troupe, Yao Defen went to the southwest and also to Guangdong.
There are performances running around the country, not to mention how much money you can make, at least in the group, you can have a bowl of full rice to eat.
It was when they were performing in Chongqing, and the improvised shed was their performance venue.
From time to time, someone will run to the backstage to see Yao Defen, who is known as the first female giant in Asia.
But most of the people were watching, and marveled at the fact that her palms stretched out like fans.
Perhaps because she had seen too many such scenes, she no longer had any shyness.
By the time she came to perform, Yao Defen's partner was a pocket man.
He is only 80 centimeters tall and can even stand directly on yao Defen's palm.
This huge contrast is exactly the effect that the performance song and dance troupe wants.
Therefore, every time you go to a city, there are many people who come to hunt and watch.
And Yao Defen, often after singing a song, the body will feel very tired.
In addition to her untreated illness, being overly large is also a factor in feeling tired.
But even when she was exhausted and sweating, she would persist.
After all, with a monthly salary of about 2,000 yuan, it is still enough to maintain a basic life outside.
More importantly, she can still eat when she is out performing and in the team.
There is a chef in the song and dance troupe, who usually takes good care of Yao Defen.
He knew that this girl had a large amount of food because of her body, so every time he ate, he was the first to give her a meal.
Each time, he would deliberately scoop some more meat for her.
Gradually, the two became friends who talked about everything.
Because around Yao Defen, there are basically no friends.
The people who came to see her were basically curious.
Some people would talk to her, but only a few words.
So, she also craves communication, craves true understanding.
However, at this time, Yao Defen had exceeded 2.3 meters.
In the eyes of others, she is a complete stranger.
More importantly, because the pituitary tumor continues to progress,
Her body was actually deteriorating.
By 1999, she was already showing frequent signs of fainting.
In order to see a doctor, she began to travel to Anhui, Guangzhou and Shanghai.
In Guangzhou that year, he also underwent surgery for the removal of pituitary tumors.
There were no surgical complications after treatment and the condition was briefly controlled.
After that, she continued to follow her father and the song and dance troupe, living this wandering life.
However, this life did not last long.
In the 21st century, while their health is getting worse and worse, their parents are getting older day by day.
Especially after the death of his father Yao Zhifu, Yao Defen could only rely on his mother for his life.
She basically stopped performing, but stayed in her hometown all day.
As a result of the disease, she suffered from severe osteoporosis.
For a while, she couldn't sleep all night with back pain.
Afflicted by illness, she didn't even have a suitable pair of shoes.
A pair of shoes she wore before was specially made for her by a shoe factory in Zhejiang.
At this time, Yao Defen was 233.3cm tall, wearing shoes of size 78 and more than 1,000 pieces.
She had been wearing them for a long time, so when some reporters went to the interview, they found that the shoes were in tatters.
With no shoes, she had to stay home all day.
It wasn't until 2006, after a German shoe store owner saw her message online,
Three pairs of shoes were specially made for her, and she barely ended the embarrassment of not wearing shoes.
After that, Yao Defen was sent to Shanghai for examination and treatment.
The hospital diagnosed Yao Defen with a rare growth hormone tumor, and the probability of the onset was only one in a million.
Although previously in the treatment, part of the tumor was removed,
But the tumor that remained in Yao Defen's body was still two or three centimeters in diameter.
It is precisely because of the existence of this tumor that the hormone level in Yao Defen's body is 10 times that of normal people.
One consequence of this is that her body is too metabolically vigorous.
For treatment, the cost of surgery alone is about 100,000 yuan.
The cost of rehabilitation after surgery is even more bottomless.
After sponsorship from well-wishers, Yao Defen received treatment in Shanghai.
However, after this treatment, it did not help Yao Defen eliminate the pain.
After returning to her hometown, she struggled with the disease almost every moment.
Although her mental state was not bad, her deteriorating body had nailed her firmly to the bed.
For a while, a large bag suddenly bulged out of her abdomen.
After going to the hospital for examination, the diagnosis was intestinal obstruction, and there has been no cure since then.
Previous surgeries left the sequelae of epilepsy.
In order to prevent the onset of the disease, it can only be maintained by taking medicine every day.
My father has passed away, and only my mother is busy at the bedside every day.
Brush your daughter's hair and pad her with the quilt underneath her.
At that time, her mother was almost seventy years old.
But the daughter needs to be taken care of, so no matter how tired she is, she can only hold on like this.
The intestinal obstruction was not cured, and then her ankles and wrists suddenly ached again.
I couldn't get out of bed, I had to endure.
Occasionally get out of bed and move around, and just sit on a stool in front of the house for a while.
During that time, she said that the day she missed most was when she performed in other places.
Because she was still young at that time, her illness was not as serious as it is now.
More importantly, when she performs outside, she can eat enough.
Since both she and her mother have lost their means of subsistence, life at home can only be saved and saved.
Especially when it comes to eating, she has tried her best to restrain herself.
However, the pain of letting a person with a very tall body and a strong metabolism go on a diet is known only to her.
She also clearly remembers that when she used to perform in other places, she could eat six bowls of noodles per meal.
Sometimes when she ate rice, she could kill half a pot of rice by herself.
At that time, although she ate a lot, she was also creating profits for the song and dance troupe.
Now at home, she can only eat and drink with Mother's Day.
She only ate two bowls of each meal, which led to her severe malnutrition.
And because she had no money, she and her mother could only eat pork and chicken once a month.
Even so, when my mother went to cut meat, she was reluctant to buy a lot at once.
Because of the small purchase, many butchers are reluctant to sell to her.
Knowing that her mother was suffering from white eyes outside, Yao Defen cried and told her mother,
Say that you would rather not eat meat than go out and endure their bullying and blank eyes.
Yao Defen once said that her greatest wish is to be able to eat every day.
But knowing that she passed away, this wish was not expected to come true.
In addition to not being able to eat enough, she couldn't eat the chestnuts that she liked to eat most when she was a child.
My mother is old and it is very inconvenient to go up the mountain again.
And she herself didn't want to open her mouth to others.
So most of the time, she just sat in front of the house, imagining the scent of chestnuts when she was a child.
As her health deteriorated, in addition to malnutrition and osteoporosis, she also suffered from high blood pressure and heart disease.
Subsequently, Yao Defen was hospitalized.
Since then, Yao Defen's physical condition has gradually stabilized.
However, she was observed in the hospital for some time.
This also became Yao Defen's last hospitalization.
When Yao Defen's situation once again entered the public eye, she had left this world.
This year, Yao Defen was 40 years old.
The eldest sister and sister who hurriedly arrived, together with relatives and friends, handled the aftermath for Yao Defen.
She left this world with the hope that her strange illness would be cured.
Yao Defen's life is very short, although her state of mind and emotions are no different from ordinary people,
But because of her body, in fact, she has been in a state of being tormented by disease.
However, because the disease is too rare, coupled with the difficult family background,
As a result, Yao Defen has actually not been able to get good treatment and care.
Yao Defen is gone, and I hope she will never go hungry again in heaven.
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