Before leaving for Algeria, Zhang Dingyu took a photo with his wife and daughter by the East Lake.
Remake of Changjiang Daily reporter Tian Qiaoping
Cheng Lin met Zhang Dingyu, from love at first sight to love of life
She unconditionally supports as long as he likes
On the morning of September 8, 51-year-old Cheng Lin was sitting in row 19 in the first district of the Great Hall of the People, watching without blinking General Secretary Xi Jinping hanging the "People’s Hero" medal on her husband’s chest, tears. Flowing down.
Her husband is Zhang Dingyu.
The moment she met him when she was 18, she was shocked.
She admired him and was attracted by his more and more advantages.
When she turns 23, he can't wait to marry her home.
I will live up to her for a lifetime.
Cheng Lin said: "I have admired Zhang Dingyu since I was 18 years old. In the next life, I will marry him!"
■ "He loves to read, has many hobbies, is very responsible, and very capable"
On September 14th, Cheng Lin and Zhang Dingyu's home had bright and clean windows, neat and comfortable.
In the middle of the TV cabinet is a photo of a family of three. On the right is the certificate and medal of the "People's Hero" signed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, and on the left is the certificate and medal of the national outstanding party members that they received together this time.
Cheng Lin sat down and slowly talked about the years she and Zhang Dingyu had together.
"I graduated from the health school in 1987 and was assigned to the hospital. The new nurse had to rotate in various departments. Towards the end of the year, I transferred to the anesthesiology department and saw him there."
Zhang Dingyu graduated one year earlier than Cheng Lin, and has been a resident in the Anesthesiology Department of Wuhan Fourth Hospital for one year.
"I especially love studying. I only ride my bike home every day to have a dinner and dinner. After dinner, I go back to the hospital to study until late, staying in the duty room." In that era when all people adore knowledge, college graduates are still very rare. Cheng Lin was shocked by Zhang Dingyu, who was about to turn 24.
Summer in Wuhan came early, and one day Zhang Dingyu asked Cheng Lin to go swimming in the Han River.
It turned out that he not only felt Cheng Lin's love, but he also fell in love with this kind and honest beautiful girl.
Zhang Dingyu's home is on Hanzheng Street, and Cheng Lin's home is on Changdi Street. They both grew up playing in the Han River.
The two young men are in love.
When Cheng Lin goes to get off work, Zhang Dingyu will send her dinner, and he will go back to the department to read. When Cheng Lin gets off work at one o'clock in the evening, Zhang Dingyu will carefully send her home and return to the hospital.
Cheng Lin recalled her first birthday after falling in love with Zhang Dingyu.
At that time, there were not many flower shops in Wuhan. Zhang Dingyu, who loves to study, often went to the foreign bookstore on Zhongnan Road and knew that there was a flower shop next to the bookstore.
He rode a bicycle, bought flowers and rode back, took a shower and happily sent to Cheng Lin's house, giving Cheng Lin a big surprise.
The bigger surprise was that after sending the flowers, he took Cheng Lin out for a Western meal.
"He is a person who knows romance very well." They went to the Hongshan Stadium in Wuchang to watch Wang Jieshi, Xie Lisi, and Jiang Dawei's concert. There were few cars and many people, so they simply walked back from Hongshan Stadium and sent Cheng Lin home first, Zhang Dingyu Go back to the hospital duty room.
"We don't feel tired at all!"
At that time, Zhang Dingyu's home on Hanzheng Street was only 20 square meters, one large and one small room, without a separate kitchen or toilet.
Zhang Dingyu's 5-year-old nephew has been taken by Zhang Dingyu's mother.
In the long five years, Cheng Lin's father saw that the future son-in-law is a person worthy of entrusting his daughter.
On the eve of the wedding, Cheng Lin’s father’s only worry was: "You are married, how will you live?" Cheng Lin said, "It doesn't matter, he will find a way."
The solution Zhang Dingyu and his mother thought of was that he and Cheng Lin lived in the inner room with a foldable sofa bed in the outer room. The sofa bed was put away during the day and opened when sleeping. Mom and nephew would sleep on it.
"He loves to read, and he also specializes in photography. He has a lot of interests, is very responsible, and very capable." Cheng Lin's worship has not been obliterated by the poor material life, on the contrary, she is more and more satisfied with her husband.
■ No matter what he does, she unconditionally supports
In the spring of 1997, Zhang Dingyu told Cheng Lin that he would sign up for the foreign aid medical team.
Cheng Lin supported him as always: "Go ahead." After 5 years of marriage with Zhang Dingyu, Cheng Lin knows her husband better. He is learning English every day and reading aloud when he is free, eager to have the opportunity to go out and take a walk. , She can't hold her back.
After 6 months of training, in December 1997, Zhang Dingyu set off with the Hubei medical team to Algeria.
At this time, Zhang Dingyu had just turned 34, Cheng Lin was 28, and their daughter was 3 years old.
The society of the destination country is turbulent, and the medical team cannot leave the station.
Zhang Dingyu knew that Cheng Lin was worried about his safety, so he wrote and called. Later, the medical team said that the phone bill was high, so he consciously stopped calling.
In the past two years, Zhang Dingyu’s letter to Cheng Lin is more like a diary. Every day, I went to see which scenic spots I went to, and I wrote it down. The scenery would be photographed and shared with Cheng Lin who was thousands of miles away. I would write in the letter. Will be introduced in detail in the photos.
The date on a letter is several days, all in a diary form, basically sent once a week.
"Dear lover", this is the beginning of most of his letters, a few will write "Dear Cheng Lin" or "Cheng Lin".
Cheng Lin told the Changjiang Daily reporter that the letter would have to be on the road for more than ten days. After calculating the same number of days, Cheng Lin had to go to the mailroom to check it out.
Once, Zhang Dingyu sent back a bunch of her own hair in a letter, and Cheng Lin immediately understood what he meant, and quickly cut off a small piece of her hair and sent it.
Zhang Dingyu often writes his usual home as a love letter.
He wrote in a letter: "Dear love, I haven't received your letter for nearly a month. The last letter is the letter you received on June 6 and wrote on May 24. There is a photo you took in the department. You are beautiful and the same in work clothes. I put this photo on my desk. I can see you as soon as I look up. I can see you staring at me affectionately with your eyes, encouraging Follow me and push me, I like it very much."
After Zhang Dingyu left, Cheng Lin's mother said to Cheng Lin: "You come back to me and I will take care of you and your child." Cheng Lin did not promise her mother. She was worried that her mother-in-law would take care of her nephew by herself. She would take care of Zhang Dingyu. Good them, let Zhang Dingyu rest assured.
In the two years apart, Cheng Lin and Zhang Dingyu had more than 120 correspondences.
"When I feel lonely, I will take out his letter and read it over and over again."
From the end of 2010 to the beginning of 2011, Zhang Dingyu went to Pakistan with Médecins Sans Frontières to participate in international rescue for 3 months.
The daughter is in sophomore year.
On May 12, 2008, Wenchuan earthquake occurred.
Within two days, Cheng Lin heard Zhang Dingyu answer a call at home, asking him to choose a few people from the hospital to Wenchuan, who was already the vice president.
Zhang Dingyu said: "I'll go!" So he became the captain of the third medical team from Hubei Province to Wenchuan.
No matter what Zhang Dingyu does, Cheng Lin always supports it unconditionally, "as long as it is what he likes."
■ "I can't bear it for him, I can only accompany him more and take good care of him"
Zhang Dingyu's illness was discovered by Cheng Lin who took him to the doctor to find out that his gait had changed.
In 2013, Zhang Dingyu was transferred to the director of Wuhan Blood Center, and his knee joint was always painful.
He returned to the Pain Department of the Fourth Hospital to get sodium hyaluronate, which has a certain effect on cartilage damage.
Zhang Dingyu goes to fight irregularly.
In the first half of 2017, Cheng Lin saw that Zhang Dingyu's way of walking changed a little. He couldn't lift his legs while walking at home. Friends and acquaintances said that they didn't see anything, "I'm with him every day, and I can see a little change in him." .
Cheng Lin insisted on making an appointment with Zhang Dingyu for an expert consultation.
The doctor who has been giving Zhang Dingyu sodium hyaluronate reminded that since the pain has not been treated well for so many years, is it a neuron problem?
Cheng Lin took Zhang Dingyu to a neurology expert in her hospital and did a physical examination, and found that Zhang Dingyu's lower limb muscle tension was all increased.
In October of this year, Zhang Dingyu was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as "gradual freezing disease", which is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells related to movement in the brain and spinal cord, causing the death of motor neurons. The brain cannot control muscle movement. The main clinical manifestation is gradual muscle atrophy and weakness, and the patient will eventually die due to respiratory failure.
Measuring hip and thigh circumference can intuitively understand the condition of muscle atrophy in patients with progressive freezing.
Every 3 months, Cheng Lin, who has worked as the head nurse, measures Zhang Dingyu at home.
"Every time the amount will be a little less, every time I will report a little more, sometimes 0.5 cm, sometimes 1 cm, so that he feels better, but I feel sad."
After discovering the disease, Cheng Lin put away all the foot pads at home, fearing that he could not lift his foot to kick it and fall.
In the past, Zhang Dingyu liked to rush to serve food and soup at home, and Cheng Lin would not let him do it, for fear that he would cut his hands and feet after falling.
Sometimes Zhang Dingyu wants to do something for Cheng Lin: "If I can't serve vegetables and soup, I'll help you wash the dishes. Then I can't do anything while sitting in a wheelchair and watching you do things. It will be uncomfortable." At the end, he Find a sentence: "You think I would think too much!" Cheng Lin turned her back to wipe a tear.
Cheng Lin wanted to take Zhang Dingyu to Beijing and Shanghai to take a look again. Zhang Dingyu said, "What's so beautiful? It's clear, and there is no good cure." At the beginning, Cheng Lin liked the advantage of learning. Zhang Dingyu has always Keep it up.
After eating every day, Zhang Dingyu started to study motionlessly.
Zhang Dingyu, who has super learning ability, checked the literature and understood his disease clearly.
Because the muscles are constantly shrinking, from the second half of last year to the present, Zhang Dingyu’s feet have become smaller, the size 41 shoes he used to wear have become bigger, his thighs and calves have become thinner and thinner, and the gluteus maximus muscles on both sides have sunk a lot. Cheng Lin gave him Prepared a size smaller shoes and a size smaller pants.
Zhang Dingyu's sense of taste also disappeared. Everything he eats is like chewing wax. Cheng Lin made soup for him because Zhang Dingyu said that the soup tastes better.
Zhang Dingyu refused to let Cheng Lin measure his hip and thigh circumference. He said, "I know very well that it will definitely become thinner and thinner."
Cheng Lin sometimes secretly took some small videos behind Zhang Dingyu, she wanted to record the progress of Zhang Dingyu's illness, "I dare not show it to him!"
Cheng Lin knows that muscles, health, and she is slowly leaving the person she loves for life in the days and nights.
But even so, Cheng Lin never prevented him from taking on so much and so heavy work.
Cheng Lin said: "He is the kind of person who works very hard, is very hardworking, and has a strong willpower. He is also very resistant to stress. He likes to do what he likes all his life. Let him do it."
Since the epidemic, Zhang Dingyu's gait has become more and more serious, because his leg muscle atrophy has become more and more serious.
Every morning when she opens her eyes, Cheng Lin will see her husband start to fight the disease.
Pain is only one aspect. Every day when Zhang Dingyu gets up from the bed or from the chair, he has to grind for a while and balance before moving.
The distressed Cheng Lin said: "I can't bear it for him. I can only accompany him more and take good care of him. When he returns home, I will always be there!"
Changjiang Daily reporter Tian Qiaoping