When Half is Enough
Thisis an incredible story ...
"Half Man - Half Price Store"
The Story of Peng Shuilin
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 rich are never satisfied with what they have. PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Provinc 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 hospital in
> Shenzhen,
> southern China,
> undergoing a series of
> operations to re-route nearly every major
> organ
> or system inside his body.
>
> Peng kept exercising
> his arms, building up strength, washing his
> face
> and brushing his teeth.
>
>
> He survived against
> all odds.
> Now Peng Shulin has
> astounded doctors by learning to walk again
> after a decade.
>
>
> Considering Peng's
> plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation
> Research Centre in
> Beijing
>
> devised
> an ingenious way to allow him to walk on
> his own,
> creating a
> sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold
> his
> body, with two bionic legs
> attached.
>
>
> It took careful
> consideration, skilled meaasurement and
> technical expertize.
> Peng has
> been walking the corridors of
> Beijing Rehabilitation Centre
>
> with the aid of his
> specially adapted legs and a resized
> walking
> frame.
>
>
>
>
> RGO is a recipicating
> gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic
> socket
> bucket.
> There is a cable
> attached to both legs so when one goes
> forward,
> the other goes backwards.
> 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
> inefficent way of ambulation.
>
> Oh so satisfying to
> 'walk' again after ten years with half a
> body!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hospital vice-president Lin Liu
> said: "We've just given him a checkup; he
> is
> fitter than most men his
> age."
> Peng Shuilin
> has opened his
> own bargain supermarket,
> called the
> Half Man-Half Price Store.
>
> The inspirational
> 37-year-old has become a businessman
>
> and is used as a role
> model for other amputees.
> At just 2ft 7ins tall,
> he moves around in a wheelchair giving
> lectures 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.
> Next time you want complain about something trivial don't.
> Remember Peng Shulin instead.
"Half Man - Half Price Store"
The Story of Peng Shuilin
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 rich are never satisfied with what they have. PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Provinc 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 hospital in
> Shenzhen,
> southern China,
> undergoing a series of
> operations to re-route nearly every major
> organ
> or system inside his body.
>
> Peng kept exercising
> his arms, building up strength, washing his
> face
> and brushing his teeth.
>
>
> He survived against
> all odds.
> Now Peng Shulin has
> astounded doctors by learning to walk again
> after a decade.
>
>
> Considering Peng's
> plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation
> Research Centre in
> Beijing
>
> devised
> an ingenious way to allow him to walk on
> his own,
> creating a
> sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold
> his
> body, with two bionic legs
> attached.
>
>
> It took careful
> consideration, skilled meaasurement and
> technical expertize.
> Peng has
> been walking the corridors of
> Beijing Rehabilitation Centre
>
> with the aid of his
> specially adapted legs and a resized
> walking
> frame.
>
>
>
>
> RGO is a recipicating
> gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic
> socket
> bucket.
> There is a cable
> attached to both legs so when one goes
> forward,
> the other goes backwards.
> 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
> inefficent way of ambulation.
>
> Oh so satisfying to
> 'walk' again after ten years with half a
> body!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hospital vice-president Lin Liu
> said: "We've just given him a checkup; he
> is
> fitter than most men his
> age."
> Peng Shuilin
> has opened his
> own bargain supermarket,
> called the
> Half Man-Half Price Store.
>
> The inspirational
> 37-year-old has become a businessman
>
> and is used as a role
> model for other amputees.
> At just 2ft 7ins tall,
> he moves around in a wheelchair giving
> lectures 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.
> Next time you want complain about something trivial don't.
> Remember Peng Shulin instead.
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