The Paper's reporter Pu Yaolei
Zheng Liang is the chinese male ranking leader.
Veteran Chinese volleyball fans will remember the name Zheng Liang - as a former Chinese men's volleyball vice-attacker, he won the Asian Championship twice with the team and won the gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games.
However, fate was too cruel to Zheng Liang. Since 2016, he has suffered from spinal cord lesions, gradually lost his mobility, and now can only stay in bed for a long time.
Recently, Zheng Liang launched a fundraising project on the online fundraising platform, hoping to use crowdfunding to raise funds for treatment, and nearly 3,000 people have reached out to help.
Zheng Liang raised funds on the online platform.
The former "gold medal secondary attack" was tormented by illness
Zheng Liang was born in Hangzhou in 1970. During the athlete period, Zheng Liang, who was 2 meters 01 tall, reached 3 meters 72 in height, and was known as the highest jumper in Asia, and it was also the gold medal secondary attack of the Chinese men's volleyball team that won the Asian triple championship that year.
Former teammate Zhou Jian'an once commented in an interview, "Zheng Liang's physical fitness is very explosive, the ability to stay in the air is particularly strong, often jumping in the air and waiting for the ball, the shooting point is very high, and it is difficult for the opponent to stop him." ”
But it was such an athlete with a bright career, but later suffered from illness.
After retiring from the military, Zheng Liang worked in Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College. But since 2016, Zheng Liang has occasionally felt some tingling in his legs. At that time, he did not care, but he did not expect that after entering 2017, Zheng Liang's condition became more and more serious.
Zheng Liang posted the diagnosis results.
With the development of the disease, Zheng Liang gradually had difficulty walking, and after seeking medical consultations in many hospitals, Zheng Liang was finally diagnosed with spinal cord lesions.
Later, Zheng Liang completely lost the consciousness of the lower limbs, and could only rely on the help of nurses to get on and off the bed, and could only lie in bed most of the time except for rehabilitation training every day, and urinating could only rely on catheters.
In addition, due to his tall stature, Zheng Liang also encountered difficulties in purchasing walkers and wheelchairs, could not buy the right size, and the merchant refused to customize it, and later with the help of the street and enthusiastic people, he was able to obtain the right equipment.
In the 2003 Men's Volleyball Asian Championship, Zheng Liang was in the competition.
"Heaven made a joke with me"
As a Chinese sports family, Zheng Liang's brother Zheng Wu was once a well-known men's basketball player, and has been engaged in coaching work for a long time after retiring, and Zheng Liang's nephew Zheng Qilong is now also working in the CBA Jiangsu team.
After Zheng Liang's body suffered from an illness, the Zheng Wu family also gave a lot of help, but it was not easy to fight off the disease.
In an interview with the Qianjiang Evening News earlier, Zheng Liang had lamented, "Having this disease is really undignified." "Because urinating with the help of a urinary catheter can easily cause urinary tract infections, once a urinary tract infection needs to hang saline or take anti-inflammatory drugs.
Zheng Liang started a webcast. Screenshot
The former volleyball stars can only stay in bed for a long time, and Zheng Liang has to adjust his mentality, "A person who used to be so fond of moving, but now I can only be forced to lie in bed day by day." ”
Zheng Liang once said that his goal after the illness is only to maintain a good psychological state, "I only hope that happiness is more, sadness is less, mood is happy, and everything is smoother." ”
Zheng Liang also opened an account on the video platform to share his life experience with the outside world through video.
In a video, he wrote a Daguan exclamation, "Heaven made a joke with me, the first half of my life made me the strongest bouncing person in Asia, and the second half of my life let me sit in a wheelchair, which is also fair." ”
Olympic champion Gao Min (right) visits Zheng Liang.
Survive on a monthly sick paycheck
After Zheng Liang's illness, he also received help from many parties, from the Platoon Management Center of the General Administration of Sports, to the Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College where he worked, to the relevant management departments in Hangzhou, where he worked, all of which had provided Zheng Liang with financial and other help.
In addition, wang Jiawei, a mentor who used to coach Zheng Liang, a public welfare foundation established by Olympic champion Gao Min, and the fund of female rankingist Hui Ruoqi have also raised donations for Zheng Liang.
But for Zheng Liang, the cost of treatment will still bring a lot of pressure. He once revealed that in addition to the reimbursement of medical insurance, the annual nursing fee plus medical expenses are at least 150,000, which is not counting the daily living expenses. And he is bedridden, and he does not have much of a source of financial income.
Zheng Liang was sick in bed.
A few days ago, Zheng Liang released a fundraising project on the online fundraising platform. He wrote that his follow-up treatment fees, nursing fees, etc. still need more than one million yuan, and it is difficult for him to raise, "All the savings and support of relatives and friends in the past have been spent, and some debts are still owed, and now they only rely on about 6,000 yuan per month of sick salary to survive." ”
At the same time, he also said, "In more than four years of treatment, I sincerely thank the leaders of the drainage center, thank the mentor Wang Jiawei and diving champion Gao Min and other friends for their strong support and help." What I need to explain to you is that my current situation is caused by illness, not by injuries in training competitions, and if the latter is caused by injuries, the country is a package to the end, and vice versa, it is my personal burden. ”
The fundraising target of the fundraising project is 450,000 yuan, and as of the surging news reporter's release, nearly 3,000 people have helped and raised nearly 220,000 yuan.
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