“When I finally typed the eight characters ‘Deep as the sea, heavy as the mountains,’ my eyes filled with tears.”
This is a true story reported by City Express. Its protagonist, Sun Bojiang, was once an educated youth from Tianjin. His wife, Yin Guirong, was a rural Mongolian woman whom he married on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Just 26 months into their marriage, tragedy struck: Sun became paralyzed from the neck down, losing the ability to care for himself.
For the next 31 years, Yin Guirong helped her husband with every aspect of daily life, worked to support the family, and raised their daughter — never leaving his side and never once complaining. Through years of devoted care and acupuncture treatments she learned on her own, a small miracle eventually occurred. Sun regained enough strength in his hands to hold a pen and write. What followed was his way of saying thank you.
A routine bath turns into a disaster
On July 27, 1979, Sun Bojiang went to work at a construction site as he did every day. His job involved pushing logs through the water. After returning to shore, he noticed mud on his body and stepped into the river to wash it off. But when he dove in, he failed to resurface.
Several young men pulled him from the water. Aside from his head, he could not move a single part of his body. Doctors later diagnosed fractures to the fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae, leaving him paralyzed below the neck.
At the time, Yin Guirong was just 24 years old, and Sun was 27. They had been married for barely two years, and their daughter, Xuemei, was not yet two.
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