After Wu Kang was born safely,
Father Wu Jianxiang named his son "Kang" in the hope that he would grow up healthy and healthy.
It was July 11, 1988, in Rongcheng Town, Jianli County, Hubei Province.
Lin Cuiping, 19, has just struggled from the brink of death in childbirth.
Looking at their son lying next to him, Lin Cuiping and her husband both showed a happy smile.
Wu Kang is the first son of the young couple, and when he was born, he weighed 5 pounds and 8 pairs.
Although this weight is not very heavy, the basin of the day almost tossed Lin Cuiping to death.
Failure to take effective measures due to the length of labour may pose a life-threatening effect on pregnant women and fetuses.
Therefore, the doctor who delivered the baby then injected Lin Cuiping with oxytocin.
Even so, compared with other mothers, Lin Cuiping's childbirth time is longer.
However, the child Wu Kang was eventually born smoothly, so that Lin Cuiping and Wu Jianxiang both landed their hanging hearts in their stomachs.
At that time, Wu Kang looked no different from a normal child.
But the young couple didn't know,
Their son, who looks very cute in their eyes, will be frozen in height forever.
At the time of birth, Wu Kang was 50 centimeters tall, which is in line with the size of the general fetus.
For the next nearly a year, like all babies, Wu Kang grew up little by little under the nourishment of breast milk.
At 9 months, Wu Kang began to slowly toddler.
After a few more months, Wu Kang was able to slowly learn to speak.
Wu Jianxiang and Lin Cuiping are very happy, although the child was born although it was difficult to give birth,
But at this point everything looks normal.
Lin Cuiping accompanies her children every day, imagining what Wu Kang should look like when he grows up.
It is said that rural children are easy to feed, and after the average child learns to walk and talk, parents begin to feed their children.
Like the children around them, what do they give their children at home?
Wu Jianxiang and Lin Cuiping fed Wu Kang what kind of food.
But when the son gradually walked steadily, and gradually became able to eat,
The couple noticed something strange about the child—he wasn't long.
Lin Cuiping often carries his son out to visit the door, and other children of the same age as Wu Kang,
It can be clearly seen that the body grows a little bit every once in a while.
However, looking back at his child Wu Kang, his height does not seem to be much different from when he was born.
As time passed, Wu Kangdu was more than two years old, and his height was still only about 50 centimeters.
Wu Jianxiang and Lin Cuiping gradually realized the seriousness of the problem.
The couple took the child to the local hospital for examination.
The doctor's diagnosis was "acquired malnutrition", which frightened Wu Jianxiang and Lin Cuiping.
Although the conditions at home are average, they have never let their children lack mouths on weekdays.
But the doctor's diagnosis will not go wrong, and the couple decided to "make up for their son".
In order to take care of Wu Kang for two years, Lin Cuiping has been working as a full-time housewife at home.
In order to make his son eat better, Lin Cuiping entrusted Wu Kang to the care of the elderly in the family.
Then she and her husband went out to work together to earn money.
Wu Kang is the heart of the couple, from then on, in addition to the daily nutritious food,
If the couple saw something delicious outside, they always tried to bring it to their son.
Unfortunately, Wu Jianxiang and Lin Cuiping spent twelve points of energy on their son's body.
Wu Kang still only increases age without growing body.
Children of the same age as Wu Kang around him grew up as fast as leeks.
They can hang out and go to school in the blink of an eye.
However, Wu Kang's body has not changed much, and he always looks like a two- or three-year-old child.
Wu Kang has long been able to walk normally, and his speech is also very sharp, but unfortunately his body is in the state of childhood.
Not only is the activity extremely restrictive, but walking a few steps can be tiring.
There is no way, since the doctor's diagnosis is "malnutrition", it can only continue to work in this regard.
Therefore, when the other children were in kindergarten, Wu Kang was often carried by his parents to the hospital for nutritional injections.
This allowed Wu Kang to regain his energy, but it still couldn't make him grow taller.
From the age of 3 to 5, the body did not change.
From the age of 5 to the age of 10, the body still did not change.
When Wu Kang was 5 years old, another interview was about when he was 10 years old, his mother became pregnant and gave birth to a younger brother.
At that time, Wu Kang's family situation was still similar to before, but his brother's growth was normal.
After only a few years, his brother's body had surpassed that of his brother, and his palm was not as big as the other's thumb.
In fact, Wu Kang was about 10 years old, and Wu Jianxiang and Lin Cuiping already suspected that their son was not a problem of "malnutrition".
They wanted to take their children to the big hospital in the provincial city to see, but the family conditions were average, and they had not been able to take Wu Kang to see a doctor.
In this way, when his brothers all began to go to middle school, Wu Kang was still a baby.
It wasn't until Wu Kang was 22 years old that his parents took him to a world outside of his hometown for the first time.
That year, a friend of Wu Jianxiang sent Wu Kang's situation online for help.
Soon this 22-year-old "child" attracted the attention of the outside world.
With the help and contact of the media, Wu Jianxiang and his wife brought Wu Kang to Wuhan.
Next, Zhongnan Hospital will do a series of examinations of Wu Kang's body.
On January 6, 2010, three doctors at Central South Hospital received Wu Kang and his parents.
The three doctors are Zou Shiqing, director of the physical examination center, and Fan Youjun, an endocrinologist.
Another doctor is Wang Min, an associate professor of neurology.
Before the formal examination was done, the doctor's initial judgment was that wu kang's endocrine problems might exist.
During the examination, Wu Jianxiang also revealed another situation to the doctor.
When Wu Kang was still 7 years old, he was once hit in the head by the door panel of his home.
At that time, the family did three CT examinations for the child, and the result was no abnormality.
However, later, Wu Kang had symptoms of epilepsy.
According to Wu Jianxiang, his son's epileptic symptoms initially occurred almost every two or three months.
Usually occurs at night, and the symptoms are similar.
By the time Wu Kang grew older, the frequency of seizures increased.
According to Wu Jianxiang, when Wu Kang went to Wuhan for an examination,
His epilepsy flares up every two weeks.
The 22-year-old Wu Kang is 68 centimeters tall, weighs about 18 pounds, and can only hold the thumb of an adult in the palm of his hand.
The doctor's subsequent examination showed that he did not have intellectual disability, and that both the EEG and neuromotor function were normal.
The only thing that was unusual was that the pituitary saddle in his brain showed signs of deformation.
So the doctor's final diagnosis was that Wu Kang may have "pituitary dwarfism."
The cause of this situation was when Wu Kang was born,
The prolongation of dystocia and the use of oxytocin have caused the child to experience hypoxia and brain squeeze in the birth canal.
These factors eventually led to Wu Kang's pituitary gland not being able to secrete auxin, so his body shape was forever fixed in his infancy.
As for other aspects of the situation, the doctor's judgment at the time was,
It is also necessary to judge whether Wu Kang's skeletal development has stopped through the measurement of bones.
As for Wu Kang's epileptic symptoms, it was caused by trauma.
As soon as Wu Kang's situation was reported, it quickly attracted widespread attention.
He went to Beijing that year and attended a miniature people's fraternity.
More than 100 people came to Beijing to participate in the fraternity in that year.
These dwarfs come from all over the country, and they all come together because of the same situation.
But in this group, the shortest one is probably Wu Kang.
Other pocket people, at least more than 100 centimeters in size,
He alone was not more than a meter tall.
One of them, a pocket man named Yuan Na, remembered seeing Wu Kang's state for the first time.
He was very short, so he could only continue to wear children's clothes.
Can't walk for long, the whole time is carried by an adult.
And because of the long period of closure and non-communication with the outside world, his language ability and action ability have shrunk to varying degrees.
Due to skeletal dysplasia, he could not even sit upright.
In fact, this is only the surface of Wu Kang.com.
The real life is that Wu Kang faces a very bad situation every day.
Although the body looks normal, Wu Kang's blood sugar is different from ordinary people.
In order to stabilize blood sugar, Every morning Wu Kang had to eat breakfast before 7:30.
Father Wu Jianxiang wakes up at 5:30 every morning, and the first thing he does is prepare his son's breakfast.
Unable to take care of themselves, Wu Jianxiang and his wife took their son wherever they worked.
During the day, his parents went out to work, and Wu Kang stayed at home alone.
Surfing the Internet and watching TV became the whole of Wu Kang's life.
Occasionally, if a person comes to the house and can chat with him or play cards, Wu Kang is very happy.
For a while, Wu Jianxiang was also worried that his son was having a problem at home, so he planned to send Wu Kang to the nursery.
There were many children there, but Wu Kang couldn't stay.
He is mature in his thinking and doesn't like to spend all day with a bunch of ignorant kids.
Occasionally Wu Jianxiang would also hold Wu Kang out to relax,
But every time you walk on the street, you will be greeted by the lively and strange eyes.
After Wu Kang's situation was known to the outside world, he also participated in many variety shows under the leadership of his father.
In a variety show he participated in in 2013, Wu Jianxiang revealed a situation to the outside world.
He and his wife have divorced and are currently alone in taking care of Wu Kang's life.
At this time, Wu Jianxiang's younger son had gone to college and was said to be about one meter eight tall.
Only Wu Kang himself still wears baby clothes as he used to.
Every 100 meters or so he would get tired and out of breath.
Even so, as a de facto adult, Wu Kang wants to be more and more self-reliant.
At this time, he hopes to be able to find a stable job through the huge attention of the outside world.
Wu Kang likes to sing on weekdays, and he also likes puzzles,
If you can find a job in these aspects, you can reduce the burden on my father for many years.
But apparently, because of the stature is too short.
Wu Kang's idea of wanting to work is just a difficult wish to achieve.
What Wu Jianxiang wanted was to see if he could make any more efforts to make his son grow taller.
In 2015, Wu Kang came to Guangzhou for medical treatment under the leadership of his father.
His appearance still did not change at all, and he liked to be called "Kang Ge" between words.
In fact, since 2010, Wu Jianxiang has never given up his efforts.
In addition to Wuhan and Beijing, he has also been to Shanghai before.
In 2011, Wu Kang briefly underwent 3 months of growth hormone therapy.
This made Wu Kang's height grow by 4 centimeters in those days.
However, the next six months will cost 200,000 yuan in treatment, which makes Wu Jianxiang unbearable.
After further diagnosis in Guangzhou, the doctor believes that
Combined with Wu Kang's age, even if he is treated, the possibility of continuing to increase in height is almost non-existent.
As for Wu Kang's epileptic symptoms, the hospital said it could be cured.
Many people on the Internet are also very concerned about Wu Kang's situation, and they all want to know if Wu Kang has grown taller? Have you ever found a job?
But Wu Jianxiang was a little pessimistic, he couldn't even go down the stairs, how could he work?
According to Wu Jianxiang, his son plays on the computer at home every day, and the chair he sits on is raised.
And because Wu Kang did not have a systematic education, he would not play other games at all.
The usual Wu Kang can only play some single-player mini-games.
So rather than playing with computers, Wu Kang prefers to watch TV.
Since having a smartphone, Wu Kang has also learned to type and pronounce by hand.
However, Wu Kang's knowledge of words is limited, and many times to reply to other people's messages, wu Jianxiang's help is needed.
According to Wu Jianxiang, because his son has been out of society for a long time, although his intelligence is normal,
But the actual mental level only stays at about 14 years old.
Therefore, some people from non-profit organizations said,
Compared with finding a job right away, it is more important to teach Wu Kang to recognize and read, so that he can learn to communicate with adults.
Today, the 34-year-old Wu Kang has no follow-up news since he went to Guangzhou for treatment a few years ago.
As for his father, Wu Jianxiang, after his wife Lin Cuiping ran away from home and divorced him,
He later chose to remarry, and the remarriage was rumored to be his first love when he was young.
Wu Kang and his brother were initially very resistant to their father's opening of another relationship.
However, the new aunt does not abandon Wu Jianxiang, and can also take good care of Wu Kang,
Gradually, Wu Kang and his brother accepted her.
The possibility of Wu Kang growing taller no longer exists, and his height is forever fixed at 72 centimeters.
And what Wu Jianxiang is most worried about is probably that after he is old,
This young son, where to go.
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