Devoted husband cares for paralysed wife for 56 years
A devoted husband has spent the last 56 years caring for his bed-ridden wife, who lost all sensation in her body when she was 20.Du Yuanfa, 84, of Sunjiayu, in east China’s Shandong Province, gave up his job as a coal miner in 1959, shortly after Zhou Yu’ai contracted a mysterious illness and became completely paralysed.
The couple had only been married for five months at the time, thePeople’s Daily Online reported, yet Du vowed to take care of her forever,He found out about the tragic turn in events when he received a letter informing him that she was “sick and bed-bound”, while working in a coal mine in a nearby city in Tai’an.
He returned home to discover his young wife was no longer able to look after herself, her whole body was stiff and she could not turn or even hold objects in her hands. The couple, who live in a simple stone-built home, were told that Zhou was infertile and would be confined to her bed for the rest of her life.
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