She is a college student who has just graduated from Beijing. She is a girl full of dreams. She is a TV host whose career has started happily. She is a patient with total paralysis.
On the evening of June 27, Liang Yi walked into the live broadcast room of China People's Broadcasting Station's Economic Voice "Wealth Life" in a wheelchair, and had a chat with host Ji Chun, friends and listeners who cared about her. hours of communication.
After graduating from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 2001, Liang Yi served as the host of "Cultural Fax" on Shandong Satellite TV. In April 2001, he joined the Hunan TV Urban Channel as the host of "Urban Lovers" and "Urban New Voices". 》Program host.
In September 2001, a spinal cord cavernous hemangioma that could only be diagnosed through magnetic resonance imaging knocked her down, and she has never stood up since then...
Now every day at 8 o'clock in the morning, Liang Yi will sit in a wheelchair and be pushed by his mother, walk out of the rented house, go to Xuanwu Hospital for treatment, and leave Xuanwu Hospital at 5 o'clock in the afternoon to go home... He has simply repeated this monotony for several years. life.
Liang Yi said: "After being paralyzed, I experienced despair and no happiness; but during the three years of treatment in Beijing, I changed my mind. I know that there are still many people who care about me. Love me, from Changsha to Beijing - the warm city made me understand the true meaning of happiness. It turns out that happiness is so close to me..."
In July 2001, 22-year-old Liang Yi graduated from Beijing Broadcasting Academy of Broadcasting and Hosting Arts. On the eve of graduation, Shandong Satellite TV came to the school to recruit people. The beautiful and lively Liang Yi was spotted at a glance and served as the host of the "Cultural Fax" program of the station's literary and art department. Later, he joined Hunan TV Urban Channel, hosted the station's opening party, and served as the host of the large-scale live entertainment program "Urban Lovers" and the music program "Urban New Voices".
Liang Yi was a very well-behaved child in his childhood. He was loved by everyone because he was cute and good at singing and dancing. At the age of 12, she performed and sang on stage for the first time and achieved good results, which opened up another side of her life. The age of 16 was a turning point in Liang Yi's life. She participated in the 7th Young Singer TV Grand Prix of Hunan Province as the youngest contestant in the province, entered the semi-finals and won the Excellence Award; in the same year, she won the first Amateur TV Award in Loudi. Second prize in the program host competition, Liang Yi's outstanding children's program hosting left a deep impression on the judges and the audience. Two years later, she was admitted to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. She said that her ideal is to become the best host.
Fate changed in five minutes
In the autumn of 2001, Liang Yi had just been working for two months. At 9 a.m. on September 22, she suddenly fell ill in the dressing room and lost consciousness from the neck down. After diagnosis, Liang Yi suffered from spinal cord cavernous hemangioma, which may be life-threatening at any time. The probability of complete recovery is very small, and the best outcome may be high paraplegia.
Liang Yi will never forget that day. She told host Ji Chun: "Because I have been feeling uncomfortable after working overtime a few days ago, and I went to bed late that day because of fatigue, so the makeup artist called me to wake me up." Liang Yi recalled that while doing makeup, she suddenly She felt a tearing pain in her back, and the makeup artist quickly massaged her... "Stop putting on makeup, find a car to take me to the hospital." It only took 5 minutes before and after, without any warning, she left her beloved screen and her love. Her audience...
The disease that changed her fate has a long name. The doctor once concluded that the best result of treating this disease is total paralysis.
Rehabilitation is a long process
Every day now, in a corner of the rehabilitation hall of Xuanwu Hospital, Liang Yi is doing various movements under the guidance of the doctor, insisting on I didn’t give up, even if I was sweating profusely, I still kept on doing it with gritted teeth.
Liang Yi said that even if there is a little hope now, she will not give up. "I go to Xuanwu Hospital for rehabilitation training at 8 a.m. every day and go back around 5 p.m. I don't know how many times I have walked back and forth on this road between Niujie Street and Xuanwu Hospital."
Xuanwu Doctors at the hospital said that Liang Yi's disease is very rare, with only about one in 100,000 chance of getting the disease. The disease is mostly caused by fatigue. However, compared with the original paralysis, Liang Yi's condition has improved a lot. At least she has some feeling in her upper body. It will take several years of rehabilitation to ensure that she can stand up. "It will take a long time to fully recover." ”
Before coming to Xuanwu Hospital, Liang Yi, accompanied by his family, traveled through many hospitals. In Changsha, Shanghai, and Beijing, Liang Yi was seen in a wheelchair everywhere. Liang Yi’s mother, who stayed with her in the studio during her live broadcast, said: “Without the help of the TV station and many kind-hearted people, Liang Yi’s condition would not have improved, but she still owes a lot of debt. , I don’t know where to get the rehabilitation expenses in the next few years..."
Liang’s mother said that the treatment fee of hundreds of thousands is still a drop in the bucket for a severely paralyzed patient. In recent years, In three years of treatment, the medical expenses have exceeded 500,000 yuan, which is undoubtedly worse for an ordinary working-class family.
Liang Yi said that while recovering, she also hopes to have a job, preferably something related to her profession, because during her hospitalization in the past few years, she has seen many people with disabilities. People, they all have different ambitions and ideals.
"I actually want to make a show about disabled people. I use my professionalism and experience to host it in a wheelchair, report the stories of disabled people's self-improvement, and bring them joy."
In the difficult treatment Feeling happiness
In Liang Yi's personal website, we saw this sentence: "Once, I thought I had become a kite with its string cut off, and I couldn't find the way back. In fact, life How can everything be calm? I have no reason to choose to escape after encountering changes in life. I bravely accepted it and persisted, which was another success..."
"Although the reality is very helpless, It’s cruel, but I won’t feel discouraged,” Liang Yi said, “I can live optimistically because I feel the warmth of family, friendship and society.”
After Liang Yi became ill, It attracted great attention from the leaders of Hunan Provincial Radio, Film and Television Bureau and Hunan TV Station. Relevant leaders went to the hospital to visit and encouraged Liang Yi: "We must defeat the disease with strong perseverance." Hunan TV Station has invested 160,000 yuan in treatment funds, and colleagues have raised charity funds. 16,600 yuan. Last year, Hunan Economic Television once again paid 180,000 yuan for Liang Yi’s treatment.
At Xuanwu Hospital, the doctors and nurses felt particularly sorry for her. They enlightened her when she was in pain, encouraged her, and helped her with her daily rehabilitation treatment; Dr. Chen Zhen of the Rehabilitation Department even gave her Meticulous care helped her in her daily life; after Liu Gongwu, a cadre of the Propaganda Department of the Shunyi District Party Committee, heard about Liang Yi’s story, he visited her in the hospital many times to encourage her to fight the disease...
Ling Feng, a professor at Xuanwu Hospital, regarded Liang Yi as his own daughter during the treatment and comforted her: "Mom is going to operate on you, don't be afraid!"
She was doing rehabilitation treatment at Xuanwu Hospital with her Phoenix Satellite TV female anchor Liu Hairuo also often comforted her: "Get healthy quickly, persistence is victory.
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