Your life isn’t as bad as this guy’s, so quit your whining.
Written By: Due-East on July 12, 2007
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 The epitome of a strong will to live, Mr. Peng Shulin |
| From the I’m a loser for complaining that I have to walk across the room to turn the lights on when some people don’t even have legs desk comes this story from China. Mr. Peng Shulin was cut in half by a “lorry” (that’s vehicle exceeding 7.5 metric tons maximum laden weight, but the Brits can’t call it a “big truck”…no, they have to make a new word for everything – Yes, Amelia, I’m making fun of you Brits) back in 1995 and has been bed-ridden ever since. Well, until last year when the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing heard about his situation and came up with a plan to get him up and walking around again. The doctors invented an egg-like cup device with bionic legs for him to sit in so that he would be able to move around. He’s said to be delighted with the new device which the article says is designed to mimic the way his real legs would have worked. |
| It’s pretty amazing, but even more amazing is the fact that he survived the accident at all. The article says it took more than twenty doctors and a lot of skin grafts taken from his head and transferred to his torso to save his life. He only has half of a body left. And the amazing thing is that he manages not only to have the will to live, but the ability to smile. Mr. Peng, my hat’s off to you… |
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OMG, HE’S NAKED!
Yeah, so I guess it would be kinda weird to sign this thing like a cast…