The company for the rest of your life is for you! A couple in Zhejiang has been caring for a paralyzed child for 45 years

Hangzhou Daily News Every morning at 6 o'clock in the morning, Yang Shuizhang, a villager in Sandun Village, Zhongguan Town, Deqing County, and his old partner Yang Aiqin will hear the sound of "babbling and babbling" coming from their son's room on time.

Yang Shuizhang helped his son Yang Zhongwei put on his shirt and pants and hugged him from the bed to the bamboo chair, while Yang Aiqin hurriedly brought a spittoon and put it under his son's crotch, and when his son finished taking the stool, she was busy wiping his ass and cleaning up the spittoon.

At this time, Yang Zhongwei, who was loosely dressed, stepped on the bamboo chair that could slide satisfactorily and began to walk around the house. After a while, her mother Yang Aiqin took breakfast and fed him bite by bite.

This series of baby-like daily procedures, Yang Shuizhang, who are over seventy years old, have insisted on it for 45 years. His son Yang Zhongwei was paralyzed from an early age, unable to speak, unable to walk, and unable to take care of himself. But because of the care of his parents for decades, he is now middle-aged and still lives a carefree "child" time.

A small child

Walking into the Yang Shuizhang family located in the Yang Jie Village Group of Sandun Village in Zhongguan Town, the dilapidated old house is still in the architectural style of the 1980s and 1990s, the hall house has collapsed in half, and then go inside, the restaurant and the patio, narrow and cramped.

In 1977, Yang Shuizhang married his wife. In 1978, the birth of the eldest son, Yang Zhongwei, brought joy to the family. But this joy was short-lived, and as their son grew older, the couple found that their son could not be a little different from other children.

"When my son was five months old, other babies of the same age were able to kick their legs up, but my son's legs seemed to have no strength." Yang Shuizhang and his wife initially thought that their son was growing slowly, but when they were one year old and the other children were already toddlers, Yang Zhongwei's legs still could not stand.

The couple held their son and anxiously rushed to the hospital in Hangzhou for treatment, but limited by the medical conditions at that time, they rushed several times to seek medical treatment, but their son's illness did not improve.

"I've grown to more than 1 year old, how willing to throw him away!" Recalling the past of that year, Yang Shuizhang sighed, and the couple took their son back home, and began to take care of him day after day. Seeing the neighbor's children sprinkling joy all over the place, but their own son was paralyzed in bed, the couple was very bitter in their hearts, but their love for their son did not diminish at all.

Yang Zhongwei's limbs are neurologically dysfunctional, limb deformities, and wearing clothes is also a technical job. "It is necessary to start with the right hand and then wear it to the left hand, and the pants are crotch pants all year round, in order to prevent incontinence from being pulled on the pants." Yang Aiqin looked at her 45-year-old son, still like looking at a baby who had not grown up.

A special wheelchair

When Yang Zhongwei was 7 years old, Yang Shuizhang found that his son's legs still had some strength and could pedal, so he designed and made a bamboo wheelchair, a rectangular bamboo chair, with a four-month cake-sized bearing as a wheel, the width of the bamboo chair and the small size of the bearing appeared to be a bit "tiger's head".

But this wheelchair made by his father let Yang Zhongwei see the outside world, and he could slide backwards with his legs through this bamboo wheelchair, so that he would not be trapped at home every day.

"Every day at breakfast, he would go to the village committee's elderly activities to watch TV, and I would bring him lunch and feed him." Yang Aiqin said that the home is 400 meters away from the elderly activity room, yang Zhongwei will pedal a bamboo wheelchair to go, the same country trail for decades, he is already very familiar with.

From the first wheelchair when he was 7 years old to now, Yang Shuizhang has lost count of how many he made for his son. "If you use it for a few years, you have to change it." Yang Shuizhang said that in the past, because his son grew up, the wheelchair was too small, and then the wheelchair was twisted by his son and completely disintegrated.

In a corner of Yang Shuizhang's house, there is also a wheelchair that he has made half. "Bamboo can be made of local materials, and the wheels below have to go to the company to ask for it, and they have discarded bearings." Yang Shuizhang said, "The county civil affairs bureau has long sent a regular wheelchair, but my son can't sit in it, he can only sit in the wheelchair that I specially made for him to lie down." ”

In order to keep his son balanced while sliding the wheelchair, Yang Shuizhang made several observations, and finally tied a large stone to the left side of the wheelchair. "That way he can balance left and right, he doesn't wrestle."

A lifetime of companionship

Yang Zhongwei is able to move freely in a wheelchair, but three meals a day must be taken care of. Although he is already a middle-aged man, when eating, every bite needs to be fed by his parents with a spoon, and he often eats clothes and the ground everywhere.

Despite this, Yang Shuizhang never scolded or scolded this son. "Sons suffer, and so do we parents." But his own son had to take care of him no matter what. ”

When his wife fed his son, he fanned his son on the side. "We buy what my son likes to eat." In Yang Shuizhang's face, there is no pessimism, but optimistic face of life.

Although it has reached the age of ancient rarity, Yang Shuizhang has to carry his son from the wheelchair to the bed every morning and evening, and from the bed to the wheelchair.

When sleeping, help your son to drive out all the mosquitoes in the mosquito net, and then spray mosquito repellent in the corner, hoping that his son can get a good night's sleep every day.

In 2016, Yang Shuizhang and his younger son took out their savings and built a new three-story house in the new rural agglomeration area, but in order to take care of their eldest son, the couple did not "enjoy" a day in the new house.

"The eldest son is used to the old house and is reluctant to move." Yang Aiqin said that coupled with the many steps in the new countryside, the son's wheelchair mobility is limited, and the couple simply chose not to move and continue to accompany their son to stay in the old house.

Because he did not chew and swallow directly when eating for many years, Yang Zhongwei had stomach problems. "Last year I started to vomit a lot and not eat." Yang Shuizhang anxiously carried his son to an electric tricycle and took him to the health center to see a doctor, while Yang Aiqin held down his son's arm hanging from saline the whole time to prevent him from twitching and affecting the infusion.

Today, Yang Shuizhang is 71 years old, and Yang Aiqin is also 69 years old. In order to support his family, Yang Shuizhang spent half his life doing physical work on the construction site, falling behind the problem of low back pain, as well as diseases such as high blood pressure and cerebral vascular blockage, taking three or four kinds of medicines a day, and now he can no longer go to the construction site to work.

"Fortunately, I still have a meager pension, my son has various disability benefits, and the family can live by." Yang Shuizhang said, "As long as we live for one day, we will always take care of our son." ”