Entering ChinaMore than two years ago, due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, Ms. Ye’s 73-year-old father Ye Changjin became a vegetative person. Turning over, patting the back, suctioning, eating, drinking, taking feces, pouring urine, wiping the body, massaging…… She never gave up and took care of her, and her father miraculously regained consciousness, not only able to respond to his daughter’s appeal with a wink, but also occasionally laugh at her.
Ms. Ye chatted with her father (photo by Bai Feifei)
“The kindness of parents is greater than the sky, and you can’t repay it in your life!” For more than 1,000 days and nights after her father’s illness, Ms. Ye was busy on the way to restore her father’s health. She believes that filial piety can create miracles.
Transferred to the hospital three times, he insisted on saving his father despite advice
April 21, 2022 is a day that Ms. Ye will never forget. On that day, my father was pale and confused due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, and then fell unconscious and was rushed to a hospital in Xiangyang for emergency treatment. Prepare ECG monitoring, open respiratory passages, venous passages…… Ms. Ye looked at her father lying on the hospital bed, and let the medical staff nervously rescue her, she was so anxious that tears could not stop flowing down. “Respiratory arrest, intermittent pauses in the pulse!” The hospital issued three critical illness notices in one day, and my father’s life was hanging by a thread in an instant. Ms. Ye, who collapsed beside her, had bits and pieces of getting along with her father for more than 40 years in her mind. There was only one thought in her heart: “I want to save my father, I can’t lose my father!”
After emergency rescue, the father, who stopped breathing for more than 20 minutes, temporarily saved his life, but his vital signs could only be maintained by various medical support. “The patient’s condition is in danger at any time! We are really not sure if you can recover your health, so we recommend that you go to a higher-level hospital to have a look! The doctor’s words made Ms. Ye fall into despair. Looking at my father who was dying on the sickbed, a strong sense of responsibility surged into my heart: No, I can’t watch my father leave like this, even if there is a glimmer of hope for life, I have to save my father’s life. Ms. Ye endured the pain in her heart and firmly told the doctor: “I will do my best to transfer to the hospital for rescue!” ”
Ms. Ye followed 120 paramedics to escort her father, who was wearing a ventilator and a makeshift pacemaker, to a hospital in Wuhan. In the next two months, the hospital issued a critical illness notice many times, and the consulting experts also told her: just do your best, if you insist, the medical expenses will be spent, and people may not be able to keep it, and they will lose both people and money in the future. “Father’s life is only once, I want to do my best!” When neither the doctor nor his father’s relatives had any hope, Ye Jundan still insisted. Subsequently, after inquiry, he transferred his father to another hospital, under the joint consultation and treatment of experts in the hospital’s ICU, traditional Chinese and Western medicine, respiratory department and other departments, coupled with Ms. Ye’s careful care day and night, his father’s condition was improved, and he passed the most dangerous period of his life.
Night and night escort, six round-trips a day to and from the couch
From Xiangyang to Wuhan, he was rescued in the ICU of three hospitals for several months, and in October 2022, Ms. Ye’s father, Ye Changjin, was finally out of danger. Although his life was saved, Ye Changjin was in a vegetative state, unconscious, inductive, unable to move, and could only rely on medical treatment to maintain his life, and could only rely on external forces to eat, drink, and move.
Ms. Ye slept next to her father’s hospital bed to accompany her (photo provided by the correspondent)
“The patient’s recovery is a difficult process, turning over every two hours, paying attention to suctioning at all times, cleaning up urine and urine in time, and eating three meals a day…… Under the doctor’s advice, Ms. Ye took her father back to Xiangyang and began a long rehabilitation treatment. Her father’s hospital bed was close to the bathroom, Ye Jundan went to work during the day and asked a nurse to take care of her father, and at night, she set up a folding chair at the door of the bathroom to accompany her every night. Every two hours, I get up to suck my father’s phlegm and turn over, and the only sleep time I have is woken up by other roommates from time to time. Every day at 5 o’clock in the morning, Ms. Ye had to get up early again, and after changing her father’s urine bag, wiping her body, brushing her teeth, and washing her face, she rushed to the vegetable market to select fresh ingredients to make liquid food for her father. Two taels of lean meat, various vegetables, an egg and some brown rice are beaten into a paste and injected into the stomach through a syringe. At 8 o’clock in the morning, she hurried to work again.
In order to supplement her father’s nutrition, after getting off work at 6 o’clock every night, Ms. Ye would cook some chicken soup and pork rib soup at home and send them to the hospital, go home at 9 o’clock in the evening to tutor her son in his studies, and rush back to the hospital after his son rested at 11 o’clock at night. So back and forth, I don’t dare to slack off for a day. After seeing Ms. Ye busy, the patients and their families sighed: “It’s rare to see a woman as tenacious and persevering as her!” Ms. Ye just smiled faintly, she knew that the love between her family was enough to support this hardship. If I don’t work hard, my father won’t be able to save his life! During the interview, Ms. Ye was always optimistic and confident.
Thousands of days of perseverance, soul connection to create miracles
In July 2024, Ms. Ye’s mother was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. While serving her father in front of the hospital bed, Ms. Ye anxiously cared about her mother’s condition over the phone. I thought that Father Ye didn’t feel it, but who knows, when it was 12 o’clock that night, he still didn’t sleep with his eyes open. Ms. Ye stroked her father’s face with her hand: “Are you worried about your mother?” She suddenly noticed that her father had winked at her. Mommy is fine, just a little unwell, it will be fine soon, you go to sleep! The father blinked again, then obediently closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep. Father has a sense! Ms. Ye was so excited that she couldn’t sleep all night. Originally, the doctor said that it would be good to be able to last for two years in a situation like my father, but now my father is not only maintaining various physiological indicators well, but also gradually recovering his consciousness. “Father will be fine!”
Ms. Ye massages her father (photo by Bai Feifei)
Hearing that massage is conducive to recovery, Ms. Yip sought advice from a masseuse, taught herself massage techniques, and gave her father a full body massage every day. Pinching legs, patting the back, rubbing hands…… Ye Jundan has mastered more and more nursing skills, and whenever she is free, she accompanies her father, sings for him, tells jokes, and thinks of ways to make his father happy. “You smile so beautifully, like a spring flower!” On February 18, 2025, when the reporter was interviewed, in Ms. Ye’s singing, Ye’s father grinned to his daughter, “Father actually has a smiling expression.” At this moment, Ms. Ye’s eyes were wet, and tears suddenly rained down. It has been 1,035 days since I was sick, “I knew that as long as I persisted, there would be miracles!” ”
“More than 1,000 days and nights of never giving up, it’s really moving!” The head nurse of the hospital said that Ms. Ye also bought a wheelchair and a walker for her father, and she firmly believes that his father can stand up again. “Recovery is a long process, because with love, with tenacious spirit and perseverance, any difficulties will be overcome, and patients will definitely get better and better!”
“Why can you be so strong as a woman?” In the face of the reporter’s question, Ms. Ye calmly replied: This is due to the support and understanding of relatives and friends, and the support and encouragement of leaders and colleagues, otherwise, it is difficult to persist for a long time by fighting alone. “As an only child, I have to take on the responsibility of the family, I enjoyed the pampering of my parents when I was a child, and when my parents are old, I have to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the elderly. My child is also an only child, and I have to set a good example for my son so that the filial piety family style can be passed on. ”
