"Dignified Care" Helps Boys with Cerebral Palsy Dream Blossom
He got 551 points in the college entrance examination, and was admitted to Hefei University of Technology; the postgraduate entrance examination scored 403 points, and the re-examination score was fourth, and successfully "going ashore" at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics... It is hard to imagine that the protagonist of this experience was a congenital cerebral palsy, who was barely able to walk and talk until he was 3 years old. The post-00s boy.
The boy, Min Denghua, was born in 2000 in an ordinary peasant family in Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province.
The birth of this fat boy brought a lot of joy to the whole family.
But when he was more than two years old, his parents found that he could not walk or talk.
"The lack of oxygen at birth led to congenital cerebral palsy." The doctor's words made it difficult for the whole family to accept.
Although they were hit hard, Min Denghua's parents did not give up, and found hospital treatment for their children while working part-time.
Two-year-old Min Denghua needs rehabilitation training and acupuncture treatment every day. When practicing walking, due to lack of physical coordination, he kept falling and standing up, and he would fall more than 30 times a day.
After staying in the hospital for almost half a year, Min Denghua's mother Yu Liurong decided to take the child home to continue rehabilitation training.
She said, "Even if the family runs out of money, I will still treat the child with borrowed money!"
When he was about 3 years old, Min Denghua was barely able to speak. He needed a fixed support to walk. His body twisted and twisted like a dance, and his hands could not move normally. Simple straightening movements would make him very painful.
However, the day-to-day training and the company and encouragement of his parents gradually cultivated Min Denghua's optimistic and self-improvement qualities.
In order to treat the child and repay the debt, Min Denghua's parents work outside all year round, and the child can only be taken care of by his grandfather.
The home on the top of the mountain and the school at the foot of the mountain are separated by two kilometers of rugged mountain road. When Min Denghua was in the first and second grades, he was carried by his grandfather to the school, and it took more than two hours to walk one way.
To this end, the school provided Min Denghua with a dormitory, and his grandmother took him to live in the school.
Later, when Min Denghua was admitted to the middle school in the county seat, Yu Liurong gave up his job in other places and came back to rent a house to take care of his children's daily life.
Writing and drawing straight lines, which are trivial things that ordinary people can do easily, are no small challenges for Min Denghua: often when he writes, the paper will run away and the words will be spent.
In junior high school, because of his slow writing, he often couldn't finish the test papers in exams. When he returned home, he cried to his mother and shouted, "It's not fair, it's not my fault for writing slowly!" Yu Liurong was also very sad, but she always encouraged Min Denghua to grit his teeth persist in.
To this end, Min Denghua writes calligraphy whenever he is free, and practices how to concentrate and overcome the shortcomings of writing through horizontal and vertical strokes.
Min Denghua often practiced recitation in places where no one was around because he could not speak clearly, so that he could communicate with people without being nervous.
With tenacious will, in 2018, Min Denghua was admitted to Hefei University of Technology, majoring in new energy materials and devices, with a score of 551 in the college entrance examination.
During the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, Min Denghua often thought, "Without my parents, I will definitely encounter difficulties in daily life. In addition, with my physical condition, reading may be the only way out."
Before school started, Min Denghua tried to learn how to do housework. He soaped his clothes. Although he rubbed hard, his hands couldn't work hard, but he worked hard to overcome it.
The Tuanyuexi County Party Committee and the Azalea Charity Association, a non-profit organization affiliated to the regiment, have also always cared about Min Denghua and continued to give him financial support during his three years of high school.
In 2018, the Youth League Committee applied for a "Panpan Scholarship of Love and Dream University" of 10,000 yuan for him.
After he was admitted to university, his mother wanted to continue studying with him, but Min Denghua refused.
Out of concern, the school wanted to arrange for him to live in a dormitory on the first floor alone, but Min Denghua also declined. He wanted to integrate into the collective life.
Min Denghua was often late for class due to the inconvenience of walking.
The class committee took the initiative to explain the situation to the teachers of each subject and allowed him to come to class later.
New energy is an engineering major, and experiments are often required. It is difficult for Min Denghua, who has limited mobility, to complete it successfully.
On the advice of his counselor and lecturer, he was ready to transfer to the School of Economics.
The school approved him to transfer majors half a semester in advance.
When changing majors, the classmates also gave Min Denghua a surprise - on the afternoon of March 22, 2019, everyone held a farewell party for him.
Although it was a small event, in Min Denghua's view, it was a grand ceremony.
"I hope you have a smooth sailing and make great achievements" "Come on, I believe in you"... The cards are filled with everyone's blessings to him.
Min Denghua held back his tears and said, "Although I have turned to another major, I am fortunate to have you on this journey, and I will definitely continue to move forward!"
In the first semester of freshman, the economics major has entered a more technical learning stage.
Min Denghua found that economics is not easy to learn, he was very distressed.
The class set up an academic support group headed by the study committee to help him fill in the missing courses and catch up with the progress of the new courses.
Counselor Wang Qingsong took the lead in setting up a special working group for the class committee, and asked the school committee to include Min Denghua in the group when organizing class activities, class grouping, and subject competitions.
"We cannot exclude Denghua from subject competitions or special groups just because he has just arrived and is not suitable for his studies." He instructed the class committee to create an equal learning and living environment for Denghua.
After changing majors, the credits must be exchanged. Wang Qingsong coordinated with the teachers of the Academic Affairs Office to help Min Denghua calculate the credits again, reminding him of the courses and credit requirements that he should complete each semester.
Min Denghua is slow to write, and the college will also facilitate him to apply for the examination and extend the examination time during the usual school and national examinations.
In daily life, Wang Qingsong also often reminded the class committee to treat Min Denghua with an equal attitude and achieve "dignified care".
"Denghua can be admitted to Hegong University, which shows that he is very good, and there is no doubt about his ability." Wang Qingsong emphasized to students many times that Min Denghua was only unclear in speech and inconvenience, and was no different from others.
The college also actively applied for policy grants, national grants, and issued transportation subsidies and winter clothing subsidies for him.
In Min Denghua's view, the greatest help teachers and classmates can give him is psychological acceptance. "They didn't discriminate or pity me, and they didn't look at me in a strange way."
In the last semester of his junior year, Min Denghua decided to take a postgraduate entrance examination, with the goal of majoring in finance at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
"I'm not very athletic, and I want to do some behind-the-scenes research to contribute to the country as much as possible," he said frankly.
The road to research has not been smooth sailing.
The biggest difficulty is writing. For a long time, due to physical incoordination, writing is "ugly and slow". Min Denghua often doubts whether he can finish the entrance examination paper.
For this reason, he insisted on practicing calligraphy for half an hour every day after studying.
In the early stage of postgraduate entrance examination, Min Denghua studied 8 to 10 hours a day.
In the later period, he basically only slept 6 hours a day and studied for 12 hours.
Wang Qingsong could sense his anxiety, and encouraged Min Denghua to go to the school's psychological counseling center for decompression counseling, receive "one-to-one" psychological counseling, and adjust his attitude towards postgraduate entrance examinations.
"Pick-in: I have memorized 120 words, recited political economy, and strengthened microeconomics. Come on!" "Researcher" Cao Xuanming accompanies Min Denghua to check in in QQ and WeChat groups every day to analyze math and English problems.
If Min Denghua is lazy, Cao Xuanming will criticize and urge him.
When he was in a low mood or even collapsed, everyone invited him to dinner and chatted with him.
Min Denghua also called his parents to talk about the pressure.
"My parents were not literate and couldn't say anything big, but they always comforted me, which gave me a lot of strength," he recalled.
On March 30, Min Denghua waited for the admission notice of the financial technology major of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
"All efforts are rewarded in the best way. I will not forget everyone's encouragement and support. I will continue to work hard and stand at a higher place in the future!" Recently, Min Denghua is busy writing his graduation thesis and teaching himself programming on the website.
He said that in the future, he would like to pursue a doctorate in finance.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Wang Lei Wang Haihan intern Zhou Ziqi Source: China Youth Daily