In September 1955, Zhang Haidi was born in an intellectual family in Wendeng County, Shandong Province. Lingling was her nickname. Before the age of 5, Zhang Haidi had a happy childhood, happy and lively, jumping and running around all day long.
Unfortunately, the time for jumping is so short. One bright morning in 1960, she had just finished a "class" in the toy room. She and her friends were laughing and running out the door when they suddenly fell. From then on, Zhang Haidi lost feeling in her legs, and Zhang Haidi also lost her memory about her legs. She clearly remembers many life scenes in her childhood, but she doesn't know how the legs move or what it feels like when a person walks.
What disease do you have that is so terrible? Zhang Haidi didn't know that she was suffering from spinal hemangioma. The disease recurred and was very difficult to treat. In 5 years, she underwent 3 major surgeries, 6 pieces of spinal boards were removed, and she finally became a high paraplegic. In this way, Zhang Haidi, who was originally innocent and lively, could only lie in bed all day. At that time, doctors agreed that it was difficult for patients with high paraplegia to live beyond the age of 27.
Watching her friends happily carrying schoolbags to school, one day Zhang Haidi couldn't restrain her desire and said to her mother: "Mom, I want to go to school!" But because of her own life, she couldn't. Self-care, not accepted by all schools.
The illness was ruthless. Whenever the pain tortured her, the strong Zhang Haidi did not shed tears. When the pain was really severe, in order to distract her attention, she pulled her hair fiercely, intending to use a kind of pain to Instead of another kind of pain. Gradually, the hair she pulled out can be braided into a braid!
For Zhang Haidi, home is a special school. In this special school, Zhang Haidi, who is smart and studious, learns pinyin, looks up the dictionary, and learns new words one after another. She lay on the bed, supported her body with her arms, and copied the book. No one pressed. No one checks and supervises. There are no exams or competition in exams, it’s all up to you. I finished studying one primary school textbook after another. But it’s very difficult, you have to take a lot of detours, and it takes a lot of time. She did an arithmetic problem 12 times and got 12 answers! She doesn't like arithmetic in the first place, come on, just forget about it! But no, you have to learn it hard. Finally got it right the 13th time. The effort is doubled, but the joy of success is also doubled. As a result, her consciousness of learning, her joy in learning and her will to live, as well as her thinking ability, grew along with her knowledge.
In April 1970, Zhang Haidi followed his father Zhang Tanfu and mother Bi Jiangjiao, who led educated youths to the countryside, in a large truck to Shanglou Village, Shibalipu, Shen County, and began of rural life. At first, Zhang Haidi felt that the countryside was very strange. There were no electric lights and running water, and life was very difficult. However, Zhang Haidi soon felt a truer and simpler love among those simple villagers. She found that there were no music teachers in primary schools, so she took the initiative to teach singing at the school. After school, he also helps students organize self-study groups, giving students haircuts, sewing buttons, and mending clothes.
When Zhang Haidi saw the suffering caused by the lack of medical treatment and medicine for the local people, he came up with the idea of ??learning medical skills to relieve the people's pain. She used her pocket money to buy medical books, thermometers, stethoscopes, mannequins and medicines, and worked hard to study books such as "Acupuncture", "Human Anatomy", "Internal Medicine" and "Practical Pediatrics". In order to identify the internal organs, she cut open the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys of small animals for observation. In order to familiarize herself with acupuncture points, she painted red, red and blue dots on herself, and practiced acupuncture on herself to feel the feel of the needles.
"The book says how to insert the needle into the cabbage pimple or the radish. After a few days of inserting the needle into the cabbage pimple, I felt that the doctor wanted to In this way, you have to feel it yourself first. Someone asked me, Heidi, if you have no feeling in your legs or below your chest, wouldn’t it be painful for you to inject acupuncture on yourself? I said it was the opposite. When I first started acupuncture, I want to know how it feels after pricking the most painful places, such as the acupuncture points on the face, including the Yintang point. "The hard work paid off, and she finally mastered certain medical skills and was able to treat some. For common diseases and frequently-occurring diseases, more than 10,000 people have been treated for more than ten years. "A doctor once told my parents that if I get a urinary tract infection, lung infection, or bed sores, I will die from the infection. I am a doctor for others, and I am also a doctor for myself. When I was 15 years old in the countryside When I was a child, I developed bed sores. I lit a small oil lamp at night and cut off the ulcerated flesh on my body in front of the mirror - so what I fear most now is the sound of scissors. ”
Back then. , Zhang Haidi, as an unemployed young man, also had an inferiority complex. "For more than a year, I applied everywhere, wrote letters from all directions, and often stayed at the door of the recruiting unit for half a day. I really wanted to do something for society, but no unit wanted me. In the eyes of others, I am a useless person." So, Zhang Haidi thought of committing suicide.
On July 14, 1974, Zhang Haidi took advantage of his parents to go to work, packed up his things, wrote a suicide note, saying that he did not want to be a bystander in the boiling life, and then took 30 tablets of Hibernation Spirit at one time, and then I injected myself with 6 hibernating spirits.
While lying there quietly waiting to leave this world, Zhang Haidi suddenly thought of the folks in Shanglou Village and was really reluctant to leave them; and then thought of Paul's suicide in Haidian Park. He was also desperate, but in the end he still Overcame cowardice and disability and became a strong man in life. Thinking of this, Zhang Haidi struggled to get up. But the medicine took effect and I couldn't get up. So, she shouted desperately: "Come here, help me, save me!"
After five or six days of rescue, Zhang Haidi finally regained consciousness. Seeing her relatives, friends, doctors and nurses around her, she felt extremely ashamed and said to everyone: "I was wrong. From now on, I will live bravely. Even if I die, I will die laughing."
< p> In the future, a reporter once asked Zhang Haidi: If you could have a second life as a healthy person, what would be your greatest wish? Zhang Haidi said: "If I could live again, I would realize the thing I want to do most, which is to be a doctor. This has also been a dream of mine since I was a child. When I was 15 years old, I taught myself medical skills to treat the villagers. But there was no chance to really put on a white coat and become an angel in white."Later, she moved to the county town with her parents and had no job arrangement for a while. She was inspired by the deeds of Paul Korchagin and Wu Yunduo, and inspired by Gao Yubao's experience in writing books. She decided to take the path of literary creation, use her own pen to create beautiful images and enlighten people's hearts. She read many Chinese and foreign classics, kept diaries, read novels, memorized poems, and copied Chinese chapters and aphorisms. In addition to reading and writing, she also practiced sketching, learning life drawing, copying famous paintings, learned to read simplified musical notation and staff, and was able to play the accordion, pipa, and guitar. Wait for the instrument to play the song.
Having identified the goal, no matter how many difficulties and obstacles are in front of him, he must overcome it and reach the other side of success. This is Zhang Haidi's character. Once, an old comrade brought a bottle of imported medicine and asked her to help translate the instructions. Seeing the comrade walk away in disappointment, Zhang Haidi determined to learn English and acquire more knowledge. From then on, she wrote English words on the walls, on the table, on the lamps, on the mirrors, and even on her hands and arms. She also stipulated that she would not go to bed unless she memorized 10 words every night. When guests came to the house, anyone who knew a little bit of English became her teacher. After seven or eight years of hard work, she was not only able to read newspapers and literary works in English, but also translated the British novel "Seaside Clinic". When she handed over the translation of this book to the editor-in-chief of a publishing house, This veteran comrade who was over fifty years old was moved to tears and enthusiastically wrote the preface to the book - "The Road Extends at the Feet of a Paralyzed Girl".
In order to treat Zhang Haidi, my mother sold her watches, clothes and other items, and also owed a lot of debt. She never complained and silently fulfilled her sacred obligation as a mother. Although the family was poor, her parents always tried their best to meet her requests. Whatever books Zhang Haidi likes, no matter how much money they cost or how far they travel, her parents will always find ways to buy them for her. On birthdays or holidays, books have become the best gifts from her parents.
Faced with the cruel challenge of fate, Zhang Haidi did not feel depressed or sinking. She fought against the disease with tenacious perseverance and perseverance and withstood severe tests. Although she did not have the opportunity to enter school, she studied hard and completed all the courses in elementary and middle schools. She taught herself college English, Japanese, German and Esperanto, and also worked as a radio repairman. Later, he also studied undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
In 1981, Zhang Haidi was awarded the title of Advanced Worker by the Shenxian Broadcasting Bureau. In December of that year, "People's Daily" reported Zhang Haidi's deeds for the first time; in 1982, Zhang Haidi was awarded the "Model Communist Youth League Member" in Liaocheng Area " and the title of "March 8th Red Flag Bearer"...
Today, Zhang Haidi always says that people must have the courage to fight against the misfortunes in life. There will always be ups and downs in a person's life, it depends on how you deal with them - Zhang Haidi likes to speak boldly, because she combines her life with motto-like rhetoric.