In life we keep complaining about what is, or why we don't have. Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full- bodied and free to choose. Fat people say, "I want to be slim." Skinny people say, "I want to be fatter." Poor people want to be rich, and the rich are never satisfied with what they have.
PENG, Shuilin is 78 cm high. He was born in Hunan Province, China. In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half. His lower body and legs were beyond repair.
Surgeons sewed up his torso. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in a hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ system inside his body.
He survived against all odss. Now Peng Shuilin has astounded doctors by leanring to walk again after a decade.
Considering Peng's plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing devised an ingenious way to allow him ot walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing tohold his body, with two bionic legs attached.
It took careful consideration, skilled measurement, and technical expertise. Peng has been walking the corridors of Beijing Rehabilitations Center with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame.
RGO is recipication gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic socket bucket. There is a cable attached to both legs so when one goes forward, the other goes backward. Rock to the side, add a bit of a twist, and the leg without the weight on it advances, while the other one stays still, giving a highly efficient way of ambulation. Oh, so satifying to "walk" again after ten years with half a body.
Hospital vice-president, Lin Liu, said, "We've just given him a check-up, and he is ftter than most men his age." Peng Shuilin has opened his own bargain supermarket called the Half Man -Half Price Store.
The inspiration 37 year-old has become a businessman and is used as a role model for other amputees. At just 2'7" tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lecutres on recovery from disability. His attitude is amazing, he doesn't complain. "He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down."
You have a whole body, You have feet. Now you have met a man who has no feet. His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity. The next time you want ot complain about something trivial, don't. Remember Peng Shuilin instead.
The inspiration 37 year-old has become a businessman and is used as a role model for other amputees. At just 2'7" tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lecutres on recovery from disability. His attitude is amazing, he doesn't complain. "He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down."
You have a whole body, You have feet. Now you have met a man who has no feet. His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity. The next time you want ot complain about something trivial, don't. Remember Peng Shuilin instead.
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