"I'd walk down the street in shorts and they'd give me a thumbs up: 'Hey, cool guy! Walking on the street, some people always pay attention to Wang Lin. They pretend not to care and the man with "mechanical legs" passes by, wrong behind, and then quietly look back. Anticipating these small gestures, Wang Would suddenly turn his head and look each other in the eye, and it was the other person who would feel shy.
Black cardigan, jeans pants, white shoes, let Wang Lin look unusual, is his trouser leg exposed that section of silver connecting pipe. On December 28, 2019, an iron piece more than 10 centimeters long and wide passed through Wang Lin's left lower leg. Wang Lin has a bigger world with his prosthetic legs
Unusual 'mechanical legs'
Born in 1990, Wang Lin is 32 years old. He has a loud voice and laughs at funny places. He looked younger than he really was, and had his hair cut short on the sides and long in the middle, with a braid and a spontaneous curl.
Sitting on a sofa, Wang rolled up his trousers and took off his silicone kneecap to show off his "mechanical legs". Inside the shoes, the outer layer is made of silicone "foot leather", which is made of carbon fiber. Up, there is a titanium alloy rod, and up again, there is a cavity about the thickness of the right leg. His left leg was much thinner than his healthy right.
When he first wore his prosthetic legs on the street, he received sympathetic or curious looks. "They walk past me as if nothing has happened, and then they look back at my legs." Wang recalled that shortly after his surgery, a mother walked past him with her child, who asked her, 'Why doesn't this brother have legs?' Mother and son muttered as they walked away. Wang Lin was very sad. "I don't want anyone to pity me."
For a long time, Wang Lin felt that hiding could not solve the problem, and he had to get used to people looking at him. So he began to roll up his trouser legs whenever he could. Before the accident, he never wore shorts in the summer. Now, on warmer days, he wears knee-length shorts and strolls along, smiling and nodding as people look at him.
Half leg "fly" out
On January 11, 2019, Wang was deeply impressed by the day. "It's almost The Chinese New Year, and I even grabbed the ticket home." At the time, Wang was 30 years old and working in machinery at a state-owned enterprise. At the time of the accident, he was on a business trip in Tianjin and was controlling the crane with a remote control. In the workshop, a piece of iron more than ten centimeters long and wide under high pressure at a very fast speed through his calf. Instantly Wang Lin fell to the ground. At first, he didn't feel any pain and was stunned. "Suddenly, HE couldn't stand up and fell down." When he tried to stand up, he found that he could not. Colleagues gathered around, only to find that half of Wang Lin's lower leg "flew" out, the ground has been covered with blood.
The doctor at the hospital told him, "You can't save this leg. You have to amputate it." In the process of waiting for the operation, he saw the medical staff gathered over, the last string he was holding loose and fainted. When I woke up, the surgery was over.
Laugh by day and cry by night
Caught up with the epidemic, Wang spent a year in intensive care. Men in their early thirties are burdened with car and mortgage payments and the burden of supporting their families. He was afraid of his parents' anxiety and his mother's impatience, so he kept it a secret from his family.
During those days and nights lying in the INTENSIVE care unit recovering from his injuries, without a mobile phone and unable to move, Wang Lin kept thinking, "What will happen in the future? How to live? How do I tell my parents?" Several patients in the same ward are better than his condition, but because of physical pain, everyone's mood is relatively depressed. In order to enlighten himself and relieve loneliness, Wang Lin talked with them during the day, "How did you break your bone, the big brother on the left?" "What about the one on the right?" In this way, the atmosphere in the ward became more active because of Wang's presence.
Optimistic and strong, Wang Lin only exists in the daytime. "At night, when others are asleep, I cry the same way." At that time, I was in a classic "net suppressing cloud". "My emotions came up and my tears could not stop at all. The pillow was wet the next day and my cheeks were red and wrinkled with tears."
During his hospitalization, the company's leaders visited him at home. The father realized what had happened to his son and, before anyone could speak, asked three questions: "Is my son still alive?" "Upper or lower body?" "Two legs or one leg?" After receiving the answer, Wang Lin's father, although unable to accept it, had to bear his grief and hid the fact of his son's amputation from his wife, telling her that his son was only injured and could not come back due to the epidemic.
At the end of March 2019, Wang returned home and was quarantined in the factory's staff hospital. It became clear that his mother was desperate to visit him in hospital. Lying on a hospital bed with her left leg empty, wang recalled that despite his father's preparations, "the mother couldn't help herself and went to the bathroom to cry." Wang Lin turned around and comforted his mother. "Isn't my son still alive?" "My world got bigger"
After amputation, Wang Lin was calm on the surface, but the psychological torture and pain behind it can be imagined. During his stay in the hospital, he began to find people with similar experiences online, learn their stories and chat with them in private messages to relieve his loneliness. Thus, Wang Began his life as a "robot man". The rehabilitation training after putting on artificial limbs is unbearable pain for ordinary people. Wang described the stinging pain as like walking directly on your knees. He fought against his body again and again, and sweat soaked his clothes. It only took Wang 20 days to walk and run from holding the rail to clenching his teeth.
Later, he rode his beloved motorcycle again, went mountain running with friends, and fell in love with skateboarding. "Cool," wang said of the "mechanical leg," as did his friends. In July 2021, Wang set up a we-media account called "Refueling Wang Lin." His first work was titled "Daily Life of a One-legged Knight." Videos showed him running on a red track against the wind and riding a motorcycle. The video has attracted a lot of likes, with many encouraging him in the comments section, saying, "It's awesome that you're trying to love your life."
"It used to be a life as far as the eye could see, going to work and earning money to support my family. Can you imagine? When I was 32 years old, I didn't climb Mount Tai. After my leg was amputated, I climbed Mount Tai in three hours." After getting back on his feet, Wang smiled even more. "I have been to many cities with my prosthetic legs, and I have freedom I never dreamed of before. My world has become bigger."
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