【Qingdao News Network Original】
(Reporter Sun Zhiwen)
Remember the "legless teenager" who once climbed Laoshan Mountain with his hands? This month, he went to high school.
A few days ago, the "Jimo Education" video number released a short video with the theme of "On the road to chasing dreams, we are all the same", and once the video was released, it was screened on social media. In the video, a high school freshman without legs and other able-bodied students participate in military training together, he sits in a wheelchair to "stand" in a military posture, shaking the wheelchair to "run", without falling behind. From his determined eyes and athletic "steps", we can see the strength of this teenager and feel that "they are really all the same"!
This scene in the video, watching and crying a lot of netizens. In the tears, there was sympathy for the misfortune suffered by the teenager, and more than that, he was touched by his tenacious perseverance. Many people exclaimed, "Boy, you're amazing!" ”
This first-year high school freshman is Qingdao Jimo "legless teenager" Gao Zhiyu, and now, he has entered Jimo No. 1 Middle School with excellent results and started his high school life.
Speaking of Gao Zhiyu, many Qingdao people are familiar with him, and his deeds have deeply touched the city - when he was 7 years old, a car accident took away his legs, and in the recovery period after surgery, Gao Zhiyu practiced the skill of replacing his feet with his hands, supporting his upper body with his hands, going to school and living like a sound child. After experiencing all this, Gao Zhiyu said that he did not feel that he was unfortunate, at least he was still alive!
"At least still alive", a sentence reflects his maturity that does not match his age, and the hardships behind this maturity can only be experienced by him and his family.
It is understood that Gao Zhiyu's parents are workers from other places, and when Gao Zhiyu was in the first grade, his parents supported the family by setting up stalls and selling cold vegetables.
"If there is regret medicine, even if the whole family asks for food, they can't put on the child's legs." Gao Zhiyu's mother said that in 2012, the Yanqing Road next to their home was being built, and many earthmoving cars would go around to a small road near the night market, and on the night of Gao Zhiyu's accident, the couple's business was very busy, and they did not take care of Gao Zhiyu, and they did not think that this time's negligence had become a regret for the couple for a lifetime.
After half a month in a coma, he was transferred to the hospital twice, and although Gao Zhiyu's life was saved, he lost his legs forever.
Gao Zhiyu's mother: "At the beginning of that meeting, none of our family wanted to go out, and when they saw people, they hid far away." The disappointment and pessimism lasted for a whole year, and the first to come out of despair was not his parents and father, but Gao Zhiyu, who had lost his legs.
Originally, after Gao Zhiyu's accident, many relatives and friends came to visit the family and advised the family to look at the opening point, but These words Gao Zhiyu's parents could not listen to at all, the reason everyone understood, but this matter really happened to themselves, who can turn the page lightly?
"Although we didn't care about these words, the child was distracted." Gao Zhiyu's mother said that the child was more open than the two of them, and the words that others advised them were all remembered by the child. "Happy is also a day, unhappy is also a day, so why not live happily?" 」 When such a large person kissed the words, coming out of Gao Zhiyu's mouth, for his parents, it was more effective than others to say ten thousand words.
Psychologically accept reality, but physical sin is more torturous.
Gao Zhiyu belongs to the legs high amputation, shortly after the operation, need to use a muscle regeneration instrument to heal the wound, because the position of the leg amputation is very close to the internal organs, so Gao Zhiyu can not use anesthesia during the treatment, whenever the dressing is changed, the new meat and gauze have grown together, for him, each piece of gauze is torn off from the flesh; after the legs are removed, Gao Zhiyu's legs still have some threads left, and he needs his father to clip the thread out with tweezers. Gao Zhiyu's father said that at that time, the child was crying in his arms, and he held his own tweezers and silently shed tears.
After recovering, Gao Zhiyu used a prosthesis for a period of time, but the material of the prosthesis was too hard, sitting on the seat, he would always be stuck in the stomach at the junction of the prosthesis and the upper body, especially in the summer, the broken legs and buttocks were always covered with prickly heat. From the second grade of elementary school, Gao Zhiyu slowly practiced walking with his hands.
Gao Zhiyu said that at the beginning, walking a few steps of the arm can not stand, each step is like pulling up a small tree, the speed of a little fast will fall heels, in order to exercise the strength of the hand, he held up dumbbells at home every day, pull arm force, so practice for more than half a year, to achieve the current level of "hands for feet" level.
Slowly, Gao Zhiyu was able to attend classes and study like a healthy child, and his parents gradually came out of the shadow of the accident, and the family's life was on the right track.
When he was in elementary school, Gao Zhiyu was particularly proud of three things in school, one was that his arm was particularly strong, and none of the classmates in the class broke their wrists to win him; the second was that his grades had been good, and the main subjects such as mathematics and English were above 95 points; and finally, his own mentality, he did not feel that he was different from other students, he could take the initiative to raise his hand to answer the teacher's questions in class, he could also play badminton with his classmates between classes, and he could spend his childhood happily like everyone else.
In 2016, Gao Zhiyu's deeds were reported by the Qingdao News Network, and for a time, his tenacious character and the general inspirational story of "opening and hanging" swept the screen on the Internet, and the official microblog of the People's Daily also forwarded his report and praised him. Overnight, Gao Zhiyu touched countless people, one of whom was his idol, Chen Zhou.
Like Gao Zhiyu, Shandong boy Chen Zhou did not have legs. His parents divorced when he was 6 years old, he began wandering at the age of 8, lost both legs when he fell off a train at the age of 13, learned to sing at the age of 18, used a wooden box as a leg, and went from begging around to wandering and singing. He has traveled through more than 700 cities across the country and climbed more than 100 mountains in China such as Mount Tai and Huangshan with his hands. Today, Chen Zhou has married and had children, and has changed from a legless beggar to an inspirational speaker.
Chen Zhou's story has always inspired Gao Zhiyu. On September 10, 2016, the day after seeing the report, Chen Zhou drove to Jimo to see Gao Zhiyu, and the two also climbed Laoshan Mountain.
With the encouragement of his idol, Gao Zhiyu completed his first mountaineering challenge. On the winding mountain trails of Laoshan Mountain, Gao Zhiyu and Chen Zhou held "wooden shoes" and climbed with their hands to attract the attention of many climbers, and everyone gave a thumbs up to these two "legless warriors".
In the blink of an eye, Gao Zhiyu has grown from a primary school student to a high school student. Compared with 5 years ago, Gao Zhiyu's skin has become darker, his arms are stronger, he also wears glasses, and his appearance has changed, but his heart is still strong. Just as he challenged Laoshan with a "wooden shoe" 5 years ago, this time he chose to participate in military training with other students.
Under the scorching sun, he sat in a wheelchair to "stand" in a military posture, with his head held high and his eyes like a torch; in the military training team, he shook his wheelchair to "run", and every stroke was forceful and loud.
From elementary school to junior high school to high school, Gao Zhiyu "opened and hung" all the way, supported his future with his hands, and proved his strength with a firm will. As he said at the end of the short video: "I don't look like other students, but on the road to chasing dreams, we are all the same." I believe that as long as we are determined, nothing can stop our success! (The article and the pictures were taken in 2016)