My amputation time is only two years, not long, prosthesis is now an indispensable part of me, I talk about the feelings of these two years.

Let me introduce myself first. My name is Li Jierong, from Guangdong province. I graduated from university in 2018. I had my leg amputated due to an accidental fall from a building in May 2016. At that time, I fell off the balcony and fell directly from the 6th floor. Fortunately, a small haystack downstairs caught my body, but my right leg hit the railing downstairs and cracked the whole road, and the white bones were exposed. At that time, I was conscious, went to the hospital, ICU, blood transfusion and limb preservation. Finally, my father told me with tears in his eyes that I might have to have my limb amputated. I felt very depressed, but I still calmly wrote down my name on the consent form for surgery. As the nurse wheeled me into the operating room, drugged me, I looked up and saw a chainsaw. It was the last time I would ever see the world as a "whole" person. Until I woke up to the pain and saw the first ray of sunshine in the world, I knew I was different.

 

 

Maybe because I used to exercise a lot, I had a good constitution, and I recovered in 22 days in hospital. Then I put on my prosthesis and went back to school. In less than two months, many people said that I was very strong, and I also thought that I could carry the pain of amputation. Later found that his heart that a barrier is the biggest obstacle.

After the prosthesis was fitted, I wore an outer package, and my trousers were almost invisible unless I walked. In fact, I think the most influential thing for me should be other people's eyes, because after the prosthesis is installed, there will be a certain difference between walking and normal people. I am afraid that I will attract the eyes of countless people when I walk on the road. Their glance back is enough to break down my psychological line. They think: What's wrong with his leg? They think: What a shame for such a young age... So for a long time, I hid in the dormitory at school, sometimes not even going to class, just because I was afraid of people's eyes. This should be a gloomy day in my life, depressed, buried in their own deep inferiority.

 

 

 

But time will heal a lot of things, and gradually I did not care about it, after all, I live for myself.

I remember the first time I took off the packaging and walked around in my shorts. I was very nervous. Sure enough, I turned my head 200 percent. Compared to normal people, my bare prosthetics are thin and long, and stand out on the street. I remember one of my grandmothers stopped me and asked me how I did my legs, with a sigh in her eyes. She said to me, son, why don't you put on a pair of long trousers so that no one can see it? In fact, we are not accepted more because of the traditional concept, the disabled in this society is always easy to attract attention, because we are different, different from the normal people, compared with the normal people, we are incomplete, exposing their defects is bound to attract attention.

With the prosthesis exposed, there were so many scenes that impressed me.

 

1. The crowded bus

There are more people in Guangzhou, so I often can't find a seat. Because the prosthesis is exposed, people often offer their seats to me. But I usually say no because I feel like I'm just like them. Once on the bus, an old woman saw me wearing prosthetics standing, very loudly beckoned me to come over, give me a seat. The prosthetics were supposed to be a draw, and when she yelled, everyone in the car looked straight at me. I politely declined, and then, much to my embarrassment, she said, Young man, your feet tell me you can't do it. Come and sit down. At this time the heart is running over ten thousand horse...

 

2. A candy from a passer-by

It was really a challenge for me to run the Hangzhou Marathon wearing artificial limbs for the first time. Maybe it's rare to run in prosthetics. There were countless people cheering me on, and one white-haired old runner even ran up to me on purpose to give me a thumbs up and say how tough I was. The most impressive or a weak girl, running has turned white, but still catch up with me, put a sugar in my hand, called me to replenish energy. She said she was weak as a child, a marathon is to want to challenge yourself, ready to give up halfway, but see I'm still in the running, they decided to run all the way to the end of the day, I saw her in the end, the in the mind is also very happy, because feel in the care of by others at the same time, also can bring them some things.

 

3. Be considered an object of study

Every time I go out with my friends and wear my prosthesis naked, they stare at my prosthesis for a long time, and they study how it connects, and they study how joints move, and they ask me all these weird questions, does your prosthesis shine? I see prosthetic limbs in movies that glow. Can your prosthesis walk on its own? Could your prosthetic arm fit a knife like the one in Kingsman...

 

 

 

The deepest impression is the first time to show the prosthesis home, all kinds of relatives in the home come to my home, all kinds of see my prosthesis, some people may not have seen prosthesis for a lifetime, so the psychology of people's curiosity let my life have a different place ----- prosthesis. I have a love-hate relationship with this thing, which is remarkable for all the obstacles IN my life without it.

Omnipotent prosthesis, wearing it I can run, can play basketball, can rock climbing, can swim...

In this society, most of our cognition of the disabled in the street beggars, poor people in need of help, and even god despise loser, but I want to say, we are god's love can not help but bite the apple, this one bite can not change our sweet. What I hope is that more disabled people can live confidently and live out their attitude. I often hear some inspirational stories about disabled people, but I think they are living out their own style. Although we are not perfect, we can do many things better than normal people. Maybe we are clumsy, maybe we are slow.

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