Half Man – Half Price Store
The Story of Peng Shuilin
In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don’t have. Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,”I want to be slim.” Skinny people say,”I want to be fatter.” Poor people want to be rich and rich are never satisfied with what they have.
PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province , China . In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half. His lower body and legs were beyond repair.
PENG Shuilin is 78cms high. He was born in Hunan Province , China . In 1995, in Shenzhen, a freight truck sliced his body in half. His lower body and legs were beyond repair.
Surgeons sewed up his torso. Peng Shuilin, 37, spent nearly two years in hospital in Shenzhen, southern China, undergoing a series of operations to re-route nearly every major organ or system inside his body. Peng kept exercising his arms, building up strength, washing his face and brushing his teeth.
He survived against all odds. Now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again after a decade.
Considering Peng’s plight, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing devised an ingenious way to allow him to walk on his own, creating a sophisticated egg cup-like casing to hold his body, with two bionic legs attached.
It took careful consideration, skilled measurement and technical expertise. Peng has been walking the corridors of Beijing Rehabilitation Centre with the aid of his specially adapted legs and a resized walking frame.
RGO is a recipicating gait orthosis, attached to a prosthetic socket bucket. There is a cable attached to both legs so when one goes forward, the other goes backwards. Rock to the side, add a bit of a twist and the leg without the weight on it advances, while the other one stays still, giving a highly inefficient way of ambulation. Oh so satisfying to ‘walk’ again after ten years with half a body!
Hospital vice-president Lin Liu said: “We’ve just given him a checkup; he is fitter than most men his age.” Peng Shuilin has opened his own bargain supermarket, called the Half Man-Half Price Store. The inspirational 37-year-old has become a businessman and is used as a role model for other amputees. At just 2ft 7ins tall, he moves around in a wheelchair giving lectures on recovery from disability. His attitude is amazing, he doesn’t complain. “He had good care, but his secret is cheerfulness. Nothing ever gets him down.”
You have a whole body. You have feet. Now you have met a man who has no feet. His life is a feat of endurance, a triumph of the human spirit in overcoming extreme adversity. Next time you want to complain about something trivial, don’t. Remember Peng Shulin instead.
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April 7, 2010 9:46 pm
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By armygirl, April 8, 2010 @ 8:46 pm
That is so amazing..the pain and loss he had to go through but he did!
By Austin, May 24, 2010 @ 11:32 am
Just goes to show: Attitude is everything! I’m certain there were some who held fear in their hearts/minds regarding this man’s prognosis but, it seems his medical team did not and nor, certainly, did he. Life really is all in how you look at it, the kind of thoughts upon which we focus our attention. This guy obviously did not focus his attention on thoughts of any kind of failure, fear or pain: They probably crossed his mind but his results show he could not have paid much, if any, attention to them. The Christian Bible says – among other things! – “As a (person) thinketh in (their) heart, so (are they)” Another bit of wisdom along the same lines: “Change your thinking – change your life” and … “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at … change.” This man’s life and triumphs demonstrate – to me, @ least – that something along those lines was going on in his mind/heart, or he’d not be where he is today. Think on these things. Blessings always, all ways, Austin
By Olive Metet, July 8, 2010 @ 12:25 am
This is A real Life changing story. Despite the pain the agony, and many more frustrations How I pray that we start appreciating what we have and rejoice day by day! indeed it is an inspiration that if your attitude is right then your life is on the right track!!!!I believe it was all about love and compassion that the doctors had towards this blessed man.