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China has the world’s second largest economy.
Its major cities are developing at phenomenal rates of growth.
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Over sixty percent of the population
lives in rural areas, where poverty and inadequate healthcare persist.
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RESTORING THE LIGHT
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Good morning everyone.
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Good morning.
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Time to report duties.
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[Huimin Eye Clinic, Yinchuan City, Ningxia]
8 admitted, 2 inpatients, 1 surgery
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7 in observation, 8 in prep, 2 discharged.
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Xu Xuehui, male, age 66, cataracts in both eyes. Temperature 36.4 degrees
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Pulse: 65 per min. Respiration: 19 breaths per min. Blood pressure 110/75mm.
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We often go to the countryside.
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We see a lot of people who have never set foot in a hospital before.
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Their diseases are easily preventable and curable with basic medical care.
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But they don’t have the means to get it.
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How’s this eye doing?
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It’s alright.
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-So we’ll do the other eye.
-Yes
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Some people have never been in a hospital their entire life.
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Some have never even left the mountains.
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So we can say their state of healthcare is very behind.
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After I pursued ophthalmology and
started interacting with patients,
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especially those from the impoverished countryside, I felt we needed to expand our work.
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It’s not really about what you get back in return.
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The feeling of giving people back their sight is really wonderful.
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The surgery went well.
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Thank you.
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[The Wang Family]
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I feel bad for my grandmother
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not being able to see clearly, her vision worsening day by day.
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This makes her really stressed and anxious.
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My life has been hard for almost 70 years.
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I don’t like to talk about the past because it makes me sad.
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Last year, I wanted to have an eye surgery.
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The doctor said I had high blood pressure and heart disease.
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So it didn’t happen.
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To be honest, people like us, neither do we have money
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nor is it easy to see a doctor.
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My life has been so difficult.
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All I can do is just keep living it.
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What else can I do?
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Just keep living
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[The Li Family]
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Last year, we went to school to see the teacher.
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The teacher said, “your kid can’t see, so we can’t accept him.”
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And my mom asked if I can enroll, they said no.
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When I wake up in the morning at 6am, my daughter-in-law has already left for the fields.
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I was telling my daughter- in-law that this is harvest season and I want to lend a hand.
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I told her that after the wheat harvest,
I will rest and not work anymore.
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I told her I can’t do anything more because
I can hardly see where I’m walking.
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Southern Ningxia Province is very economically disadvantaged.
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Traditionally their income comes from what they farm.
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When he was 1, he had a cold. We went to a small clinic
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and they said he had cataracts.
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We spent over one thousand yuan in the small clinics,
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then we went to see a medical team doing a tour.
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They said our boy got the wrong medicine.
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His eyes got the wrong treatment.
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The medical team in Guyuan said
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to wait till our boy is 10 to see if he can get an operation.
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We don’t have any money and when we went to the small clinics, we wasted a lot of it.
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Rongrong can’t be a laborer. I tell her,
you have to go to college.
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If you don’t make it, you can’t be a laborer because of your foot problem.
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Do you feel pain? Yes, when you pressed this side.
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I’m actually not quite clear what happened.
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My mom says that when I was four months old, blisters appeared on my feet
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then pus flowed out.
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They gradually started to rot
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In the beginning, the problem wasn’t too serious.
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It flared up only in the summertime, when it was hot.
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I’d go to the hospital once a week, spending over 100 yuan each time.
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Injections and medication.
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Finally, my foot got better, but only for a couple of months. Then it started to fester again.
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From then on, it never improved. For the following five years, for all of secondary school, it didn’t get better.
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This looks like a vascular infection.
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-I haven’t done a sonogram.
-Vascular infection. Get a sonogram to see.
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Why haven’t you gotten a proper exam?
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I’ve seen doctors and they say to have an operation,
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but that the following year the problem would come back.
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They said that even if I amputated, the problem would come back.
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The money in our household is tight.
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When we went to Pengyang, they told us we had to go to Baoji to get treated.
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We couldn’t go to Baoji. She has to go to school.
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We have to send three kids to school.
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We couldn’t afford to get her treated.
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Save the yolk for the cat.
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Let’s eat the egg.
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What?
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[unintelligible]
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OK, I peeled the egg. Take that.
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Take that.
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Ow, you just hit me!
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Don’t think I wouldn’t dare.
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I’ll hit you with my candy.
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Don’t think I wouldn’t dare.
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You eat it.
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You peeled it!
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I don’t want it.
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What do you want to do when you grow up?
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I want to go to school and drive.
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Why do you want to drive?
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I wanna be a driver and drive people.
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I wanna do something and drive people.
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Why do you want to drive people?
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I could earn lots and lots of money.
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I could make 10,000 a year.
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But I can’t see. Even if I can’t see, I’m still going to drive.
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We don’t have money at home.
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Both our kids are disabled.
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We’re going to see if we can adopt another kid.
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That way, one day, when we’re gone,
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that new child can help this one who can’t see.
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The new kid can support him. That’s what we’re thinking.
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Our daughter is also disabled.
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One day she’ll get married off and live with others.
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We’re going to keep asking around to see if we can adopt another boy.
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It’s fine if we’re both here, but what about one day when we’re gone?
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If we can restore just one of his eyes,
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then a disabled person might want to marry him and have his kids.
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You raise a son so that he can take a wife
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and leave kids to continue the family line.
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I hope that his vision will be restored.
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I just have a very simple wish
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that I could earn money to give my family a better life.
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Pay back all our debts.
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That’s all.
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I tell her, if you pass the college exam, my heart will be at ease for the rest of my life.
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The Chinese way has always been:
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you go to school, then college, then you get a job.
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You leave the mountainous rural areas.
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You drew a new picture today.
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The teacher said if it’s too hard to color all the waves, to do it this way.
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-So was the teacher OK with this? -Yes
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What did she say?
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That my picture was different from the others.
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That it was uglier?
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That it was prettier.
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As I said previously, I’m also from the southern mountains of Ningxia.
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Our financial situation was not so great when I was young.
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Because we were poor,
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the only way to change our life was to go to school
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to get an education and finally to leave that place.
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Starting in 2001,
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I went to a relatively large hospital in China to study.
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It broadened my horizons considerably.
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I was no longer satisfied at the old job, so I quit.
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I went to a lot of different places.
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In the beginning, I took up jobs at private eye clinics
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to accumulate some experience.
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Then I thought of Ningxia Province.
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First, I was born in Ningxia.
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I thought it was my duty to do something for the people here.
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Second, I think the more impoverished a place is,
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the greater the occurrence and complexity of eye disease.
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As an eye doctor, I would be able
to develop my medical experience.
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My second granddaughter, Ningning, is healthy. She helps with everything.
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Ningning’s feet are fine.
She’ll have no problem being a laborer.
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I’ve lived here for more than 20 years.
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My mother-in-law has lived here for sixty-some years, maybe more.
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How did you get your new house?
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Thanks to the Party and the government
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they gave us a few thousand to build a new house.
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When I was young, people lived primarily in caves.
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You’d pare away a side of the mountain,
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then dig out a cavern.
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It was cheap and practical, didn’t waste any materials, just required labor.
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This is my mom and my brother.
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This is my Grandma. This is my sister and me when we were little.
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This one and this one.
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Rongrong used to love decorating things.
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When we were living here, she decorated our home really nicely.
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Now it’s not nice anymore.
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Good morning everyone.
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Good morning.
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Time to report duties.
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I have two announcements. The first is
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today we are organizing a mobile clinic to the Pengyang countryside.
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We’ll announce the team members shortly.
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I packed forty 5mL syringes and ten 10mL syringes
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-One triple-mirror. -Check
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A lot of the rural elderly women can’t understand Mandarin.
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We have to be detailed, patient and conscientious.
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We must not lose our temper, because
they can’t understand what we are saying.
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We must be patient with them.
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When we do this kind of work, we have to cover our costs.
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Given the current financial condition of the hospital,
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we can’t afford to incur loss or we can’t continue operations.
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Still, we must give the patients the most appropriate care at the best cost.
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But we need to control our cost.
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Let’s say we overspend on one patient
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for example, use up a lot of our resources for one free surgery.
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If many others require this, we wouldn’t be able to continue operations.
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So please be aware of the degree of expenditure.
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All the same, we must do our best to satisfy patient needs
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and solve their problems.
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When I was little, I would get some sticks and draw things in the yard.
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Back then my father was very strict.
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I didn’t dare talk to him. I’d hide away from him.
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I’d talk to my mom. I’d follow her around since she was busy.
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I told her, I’m going to be a painter when I grow up.
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My mom didn’t say much in return. She said, be one if you like.
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This is a picture of an old man. I copied it from a book.
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In Xi’an, there were hundreds of studios and professional model companies.
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Those models were all street sweepers.
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Most were in their 40s or 50s, some even in their 60s.
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When we first got there, none of us had any money.
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We were all from Pengyang, the few of us that went.p
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We all felt really poor.
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Buying paints and pens all cost a lot of money.p
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We’d often eat buns and not have a real meal for an entire month.
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These buns were about this big.
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You could buy five for 1 yuan.
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Eating like this, we all soon got stomach pains.
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Finally, our teacher got mad and said we couldn’t eat buns all the time.
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Our health would deteriorate and we wouldn’t have enough energy to learn anything.
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Maybe learning art will cost a lot of money.
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But I’ve chosen it, and I will not give up.
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I will continue my studies. The money problem I will have to deal with later.
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When I get to college, maybe I could get a loan.
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Now, I can only rely on my father to think of a solution.
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[Yinchuan City Capital of Ningxia Province]
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How much does the plant pay you per day?
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55 yuan
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If your daughter goes to college, what are you going to do about her tuition?
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Get a loan.
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Who will provide a loan? The village?
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We’d have to ask people we know. Pay interest.
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-A bank loan? -Yes
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-It’s going to be over 10,000 yuan a year. -Yes
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Will 10,000 be enough?
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For one year, no.
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If she gets into this college, every year will cost 28,000 yuan.
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I miss him, but he can’t just stay home.
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Look at all my grandkids. We need money to pay for their schooling.
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What’ll happen if he stays home?
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We don’t make any profit from our crops. There’s nothing.
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So he has to go away to work.
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He leaves after the planting season.
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He left for the city 2 months ago.
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“Free eye exams today”
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-Can you do surgeries for glaucoma? -Yes.
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00:26:10,345 --> 00:26:12,678
Can we see doctors today?
243
00:26:12,775 --> 00:26:14,479
Bring them over for an exam.
244
00:26:14,663 --> 00:26:16,343
It's for mixed glaucoma.
245
00:26:16,581 --> 00:26:18,841
Bring them over for a checkup and we’ll see what we can do.
246
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,592
-They’re in the village clinic?
-Yes
247
00:26:22,221 --> 00:26:24,749
Please hurry.
248
00:26:48,865 --> 00:26:54,783
We have free eye exams at the clinic today.
249
00:27:11,214 --> 00:27:13,611
Please be patient, you have to register first.
250
00:27:14,917 --> 00:27:18,685
Get some paper and jot down his symptoms.
251
00:27:19,348 --> 00:27:21,851
Please look at which side the letter is facing.
252
00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:23,013
Your age?
253
00:27:23,562 --> 00:27:25,171
62 years old.
254
00:27:26,793 --> 00:27:29,000
Your phone number?
255
00:27:29,311 --> 00:27:32,348
I don’t have a phone.
256
00:27:45,205 --> 00:27:48,827
Come and sit here.
257
00:27:57,885 --> 00:28:00,432
How many fingers are there?
258
00:28:02,474 --> 00:28:04,645
Look at my fingers. How many?
259
00:28:04,862 --> 00:28:06,700
-I can’t see. -You can’t see.
260
00:28:06,787 --> 00:28:08,900
You can’t tell.
261
00:28:09,413 --> 00:28:12,328
Come let’s check your eyesight.
262
00:28:17,605 --> 00:28:19,380
Is there any light in front of your eyes?
263
00:28:20,715 --> 00:28:23,316
Is there light?
264
00:28:23,468 --> 00:28:24,636
What?
265
00:28:25,091 --> 00:28:26,786
What about now? Is there any light? No.
266
00:28:27,126 --> 00:28:27,493
No
267
00:28:27,609 --> 00:28:28,280
Now?
268
00:28:28,778 --> 00:28:30,168
-Yes
-Is there light?
269
00:28:30,238 --> 00:28:30,600
Yes
270
00:28:30,701 --> 00:28:31,336
Now?
271
00:28:31,620 --> 00:28:32,302
No more.
272
00:28:33,121 --> 00:28:34,891
It seems he has light perception.
273
00:28:35,305 --> 00:28:36,538
Is there light?
274
00:28:36,922 --> 00:28:37,789
Yes
275
00:28:39,497 --> 00:28:40,217
Now?
276
00:28:40,482 --> 00:28:41,121
Yes
277
00:28:41,187 --> 00:28:42,086
Now?
278
00:28:42,202 --> 00:28:43,227
No.
279
00:28:55,253 --> 00:28:56,500
Look at me.
280
00:29:00,459 --> 00:29:02,488
Both eyes have conjunctivitis.
281
00:29:02,755 --> 00:29:05,696
As well as cataracts.
282
00:29:06,416 --> 00:29:09,275
Right now, both eyes require surgery.
283
00:29:09,850 --> 00:29:12,184
-Both eyes? -Yes
284
00:29:15,873 --> 00:29:19,540
She’s been diagnosed with cataracts before
285
00:29:19,783 --> 00:29:25,682
but due to her high blood pressure and heart disease,
286
00:29:25,803 --> 00:29:28,931
she didn’t get her operation at the local hospitals.
287
00:29:29,588 --> 00:29:32,634
After her exams with the doctors here however,
288
00:29:32,937 --> 00:29:36,968
we feel she is able to undergo surgery.
289
00:29:37,076 --> 00:29:39,775
Certainly, we’ll have to take some appropriate pre-op measures
290
00:29:40,058 --> 00:29:42,226
to ensure she has the best conditions for surgery.
291
00:29:42,934 --> 00:29:43,620
Adjust his head.
292
00:29:43,909 --> 00:29:45,459
Don’t move. Look at me.
293
00:29:47,190 --> 00:29:48,190
Look at me.
294
00:29:49,231 --> 00:29:52,661
He still has some light perception. He’s afraid of the light.
295
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:54,120
Look at me.
296
00:29:55,772 --> 00:29:58,992
We should finish all our tests first to see.
297
00:29:59,801 --> 00:30:04,420
His condition permitting, we may suggest a corneal transplant for his right eye
298
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,376
to see if he can regain some vision.
299
00:30:08,695 --> 00:30:11,162
For this boy who is blind in both eyes
300
00:30:11,469 --> 00:30:13,770
this is something we should try.
301
00:30:14,087 --> 00:30:16,858
However, it is difficult to predict what will happen after the operation.
302
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,004
People here have certain preconceived notions.
303
00:30:22,452 --> 00:30:26,405
It is very rare, virtually impossible, that someone would donate their cornea.
304
00:30:29,741 --> 00:30:31,707
It will be difficult to give him an operation.
305
00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:40,003
Will you receive your college notice soon or will you have to wait another day?
306
00:30:40,577 --> 00:30:47,030
I won’t be able to receive a notice,
but I can find out my score.
307
00:30:47,736 --> 00:30:53,029
After I get my score, based on the cutoffs I can list my college preferences.
308
00:31:04,513 --> 00:31:08,985
I’ll just go see my score. If it’s high, I’ll be happy. If not, I can’t do anything about it.
309
00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:12,804
All I can do is wait.
310
00:31:14,768 --> 00:31:16,759
So you know all the scores.
311
00:31:18,221 --> 00:31:19,504
Did you check mine?
312
00:31:20,630 --> 00:31:21,414
What was it?
313
00:31:23,377 --> 00:31:24,012
What?
314
00:31:25,741 --> 00:31:26,741
I made it?
315
00:31:30,221 --> 00:31:32,343
What was the cutoff?
316
00:31:34,385 --> 00:31:39,043
If my score’s over 400, I want to list Xi’an Science and Technology University.
317
00:31:39,388 --> 00:31:42,037
Science and Construction Technical University?
318
00:31:42,167 --> 00:31:43,167
Yeah.
319
00:31:43,592 --> 00:31:45,788
If 200, you’ll list Ningxia University?
320
00:31:45,975 --> 00:31:49,896
This year, Ningxia University raised its cutoff to a higher standard.
321
00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:58,206
If I listed Ningxia University, it would be safer. Yes.
322
00:31:58,896 --> 00:32:02,247
[High School Principal’s Apartment]
323
00:32:03,197 --> 00:32:08,593
The art major only admits one student from my province. I’m afraid to list it.
324
00:32:08,882 --> 00:32:15,939
There are still those who have scores higher than you.
325
00:32:16,365 --> 00:32:18,771
The art major only takes 3 students nationally.
326
00:32:19,265 --> 00:32:22,265
Wow, each major only takes 2 to 3 students.
327
00:32:23,217 --> 00:32:24,388
What should I do?
328
00:32:24,515 --> 00:32:29,350
This is your future. You’re going to have to think about it carefully.
329
00:32:32,288 --> 00:32:33,288
Grandma
330
00:32:37,797 --> 00:32:38,670
What did you score?
331
00:32:38,865 --> 00:32:39,651
Guess?
332
00:32:40,745 --> 00:32:42,327
If not 300, then 200.
333
00:32:45,095 --> 00:32:47,010
I scored 401.
334
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,057
I just scraped by 400.
335
00:32:52,006 --> 00:32:53,006
So little?
336
00:32:53,745 --> 00:32:56,471
So little? Other people only got 200.
337
00:32:57,338 --> 00:32:59,538
Luckily I got into a university.
338
00:33:00,994 --> 00:33:02,730
Yes, luckily.
339
00:33:04,157 --> 00:33:07,204
Otherwise you’ll have to be like your uncle, digging caves for a living.
340
00:33:13,126 --> 00:33:14,788
I can dig caves.
341
00:33:26,362 --> 00:33:28,635
I have a terrible habit.
342
00:33:28,979 --> 00:33:33,110
When I need money to accomplish some difficult task, I sell my home.
343
00:33:42,376 --> 00:33:45,756
My first investment was a failure.
344
00:33:45,977 --> 00:33:47,149
I lost everything.
345
00:33:47,589 --> 00:33:48,589
This time to start the new clinic, I sold it again.
346
00:33:50,470 --> 00:33:53,565
My wife is very against it.
347
00:33:54,819 --> 00:33:56,945
But during critical moments, she is still supportive.
348
00:33:58,738 --> 00:34:02,088
I’m going downstairs to take a look.
349
00:34:08,218 --> 00:34:09,284
What’s going on?
350
00:34:12,687 --> 00:34:14,421
Look what you’ve done.
351
00:34:14,542 --> 00:34:16,140
What?
352
00:34:16,448 --> 00:34:19,782
Look what you’ve done, calling the local TV crews to come.
353
00:34:20,167 --> 00:34:22,316
We’re just shooting a short film, what’s wrong?
354
00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:24,248
-Huh?
-A short film
355
00:34:24,467 --> 00:34:27,382
You should have at least told the management.
356
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,172
We’re just shooting their personal life.
357
00:34:30,237 --> 00:34:32,133
Personal or not, you don’t have the right-
358
00:34:32,209 --> 00:34:33,596
What does their personal life have to do with the management?
359
00:34:33,662 --> 00:34:35,363
You can’t come here.
360
00:34:35,676 --> 00:34:37,784
When you rent, you can just get kicked out anytime.
361
00:34:38,586 --> 00:34:40,822
We’re at the end of our lease, so they want to kick us out.
362
00:34:41,182 --> 00:34:42,491
These days I’m really anxious
363
00:34:42,748 --> 00:34:45,173
and stressed about renting or buying a new place.
364
00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:50,432
Work has been busy so I don’t have time to househunt thoroughly.
365
00:34:51,392 --> 00:34:52,758
How many characters do you have left?
366
00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:55,692
“Yuan” and…
367
00:34:55,717 --> 00:34:56,520
Where do you have to write to?
368
00:34:56,919 --> 00:34:59,717
To Lesson 21.
369
00:35:10,769 --> 00:35:15,477
-Sorry, I lost my self-control. -No, please don’t say that.
370
00:35:15,659 --> 00:35:18,944
It’s our fault. Our filming raised this issue.
371
00:35:19,168 --> 00:35:20,168
Not really.
372
00:35:21,072 --> 00:35:24,944
Everytime we have to deal with moving, I get upset.
373
00:35:27,262 --> 00:35:33,021
For the sake of his clinic, I’ve already sold our home twice.
374
00:35:33,265 --> 00:35:34,972
Every year, we have to move house.
375
00:35:35,899 --> 00:35:42,289
When the landlord forces me to leave, I’m sure to cry and become upset.
376
00:35:43,149 --> 00:35:47,351
I sell our home to support his clinic
377
00:35:48,799 --> 00:35:50,321
to support his career.
378
00:35:52,673 --> 00:35:54,795
I get pushed around and forced to vacate.
379
00:35:54,896 --> 00:35:58,815
It’s the same problem for my daughter, changing schools
380
00:35:59,010 --> 00:36:00,848
from one to the next.
381
00:36:03,046 --> 00:36:04,046
I’m sorry.
382
00:36:26,860 --> 00:36:30,012
Yanhua, get up. It’s time for class.
383
00:36:32,894 --> 00:36:33,894
One, two, three!
384
00:36:34,176 --> 00:36:35,463
Sit up straight!
385
00:36:36,167 --> 00:36:37,100
Four, five, six!
386
00:36:37,410 --> 00:36:38,554
Hands behind back!
387
00:36:38,803 --> 00:36:39,871
Seven, eight, nine!
388
00:36:40,074 --> 00:36:41,329
Raise your head!
389
00:36:41,969 --> 00:36:47,402
Today, we are going to review the songs we’ve learned before.
390
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,653
The sun is shining. The flowers are smiling at us.
391
00:36:51,783 --> 00:36:57,924
The bird chirps “Good Morning” and
asks me why I carry a schoolbag.
392
00:36:59,714 --> 00:37:03,321
Are you happy playing with your sister at school?
393
00:37:03,502 --> 00:37:04,502
Yeah, I’m happy.
394
00:37:05,527 --> 00:37:06,830
Do you like school?
395
00:37:06,906 --> 00:37:07,339
I like it.
396
00:37:09,121 --> 00:37:12,968
I can sing in school! You heard me sing.
397
00:37:13,324 --> 00:37:14,324
Now you can sing.
398
00:37:14,438 --> 00:37:18,809
Mothers are the best thing in the world.
399
00:37:20,599 --> 00:37:22,201
Kids who have mothers-
400
00:37:22,317 --> 00:37:25,853
Kids who have mothers are like bundles of treasure.
401
00:37:26,212 --> 00:37:29,818
Being hugged by mom
402
00:37:29,818 --> 00:37:34,278
is like all the happiness in the world.
403
00:37:35,873 --> 00:37:37,682
Did your sister teach you to sing?
404
00:37:38,516 --> 00:37:39,253
-Yes -Yes!
405
00:37:40,178 --> 00:37:41,721
They’re playing tag.
406
00:37:41,908 --> 00:37:42,908
Go play.
407
00:37:43,062 --> 00:37:44,539
They’re playing tag!
408
00:37:49,451 --> 00:37:56,655
I think the brother and sister were very good together today.
409
00:37:57,361 --> 00:38:00,958
I think it will work, on a certain level.
410
00:38:01,126 --> 00:38:04,501
-Did Juncheng sing well? -Yes!
411
00:38:04,660 --> 00:38:05,762
Good, let’s give him a round of applause.
412
00:38:06,072 --> 00:38:08,982
One, two, three, you’re so great!
413
00:38:09,166 --> 00:38:12,003
One, two, three, you’re so great!
414
00:38:12,407 --> 00:38:14,000
Good, now you may go back to your seat.
415
00:38:15,528 --> 00:38:18,696
But longterm, I’m not sure how it will go.
416
00:38:47,182 --> 00:38:54,232
The daughter has epilepsy.
417
00:38:54,706 --> 00:38:56,906
She often has seizures at school.
418
00:39:00,994 --> 00:39:06,498
Sometimes at school, she’ll have a spell and faint.
419
00:39:07,150 --> 00:39:09,441
She loses all consciousness.
420
00:39:10,741 --> 00:39:15,773
It happens so fast, sometimes during class
421
00:39:15,947 --> 00:39:18,807
or she may fall suddenly in the yard.
422
00:39:19,311 --> 00:39:25,927
Our teachers and students call me right away and I help her up.
423
00:39:26,083 --> 00:39:30,098
I’ve seen this happen many times.
424
00:40:01,565 --> 00:40:07,905
Juncheng is completely blind.
425
00:40:08,619 --> 00:40:13,078
He will have difficulty going to school.
426
00:40:13,683 --> 00:40:18,150
We don’t have this kind of teaching experience.
427
00:40:18,793 --> 00:40:24,374
Our method is to use the blackboard and read from books.
428
00:40:24,453 --> 00:40:28,719
It will be hard to teach a child like him.
429
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:03,240
I’m house-hunting right now. Do you think you can fit me in, in half an hour?
430
00:41:05,864 --> 00:41:10,701
Individual. I’m not a broker. I want to buy an apartment.
431
00:41:12,086 --> 00:41:18,250
My budget is around 200,000 yuan,
432
00:41:18,801 --> 00:41:23,939
I prefer lower floors, 2nd to 4th floor is fine.
433
00:41:26,772 --> 00:41:28,926
We can’t live here.
434
00:41:29,291 --> 00:41:31,675
This bedroom can’t fit anything.
435
00:41:32,145 --> 00:41:34,425
We could put a desk in here.
436
00:41:34,591 --> 00:41:37,079
You can’t even fit a bed.
437
00:41:37,202 --> 00:41:39,628
What’s that area for?
438
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,921
You could hang your clothes there.
439
00:41:44,022 --> 00:41:45,361
It’s a bad design for hanging clothes.
440
00:41:45,816 --> 00:41:47,430
Such a poor design.
441
00:41:49,254 --> 00:41:51,813
It’s fine for two people. With a kid, it doesn’t work.
442
00:41:51,978 --> 00:41:54,710
You can’t even fit a bed in that room.
443
00:41:55,076 --> 00:41:56,076
It’s too small.
444
00:41:56,718 --> 00:41:59,672
We need the right environment for our child to study in.
445
00:42:01,747 --> 00:42:02,999
What do we do?
446
00:42:04,404 --> 00:42:06,059
They want cash right?
447
00:42:06,513 --> 00:42:08,486
They’ll accept bank loans.
448
00:42:09,135 --> 00:42:13,367
Half of 340,000 is 170,000. That’s hard too.
449
00:42:15,583 --> 00:42:19,225
We can only look at places that cost about 200,000.
450
00:42:29,872 --> 00:42:32,839
Maybe we can live in an unfinished house.
451
00:42:34,566 --> 00:42:39,794
You said so yourself. Skip the fixtures;
we’ll just buy furniture.
452
00:42:45,427 --> 00:42:47,577
I’ll bring the stool in.
453
00:42:55,723 --> 00:42:59,254
Nothing is more important than life.
454
00:43:01,524 --> 00:43:05,947
I am really hoping her eyes will get better.
455
00:43:07,471 --> 00:43:13,909
I wish there was something I could do to help her.
456
00:43:53,531 --> 00:43:54,840
Be careful of the steps.
457
00:44:09,670 --> 00:44:14,730
After I get my operation, I want to see everything.
458
00:44:15,085 --> 00:44:18,559
The mountains, the water,
459
00:44:18,660 --> 00:44:22,437
I want to thread a needle.
460
00:44:22,791 --> 00:44:25,916
And do it myself, with my own eyesight.
461
00:44:48,773 --> 00:44:50,627
Regarding the risks of the operation
462
00:44:51,107 --> 00:44:56,372
we’re not performing general or local anesthesia, so there won’t be much risk there.
463
00:44:56,899 --> 00:45:02,509
The risks in her situation have to do with her heart condition.
464
00:45:02,595 --> 00:45:07,586
It’s good she’ll be awake. We can communicate if she feels any discomfort.
465
00:45:07,745 --> 00:45:09,885
If anything goes wrong, we will simply stop the operation.
466
00:45:10,627 --> 00:45:12,977
My opinion?
467
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:16,874
If there are no big risks, I’ll do it.
468
00:45:18,095 --> 00:45:21,815
I can’t say there is absolutely zero risk.
469
00:45:22,314 --> 00:45:28,658
But the fact we’re at this stage means you have the right conditions.
470
00:45:28,915 --> 00:45:31,604
We can deal with any relative situations as they arise.
471
00:45:32,182 --> 00:45:36,664
If you had serious risks, I wouldn’t sit here with you for this discussion.
472
00:45:36,908 --> 00:45:38,545
I’d ask you to go home.
473
00:45:39,461 --> 00:45:41,488
That’s as much as I can say.
474
00:45:44,201 --> 00:45:48,963
One on her name and one on the “I agree.”
475
00:45:53,501 --> 00:45:55,204
I can’t see.
476
00:45:57,621 --> 00:46:00,029
Put one on the “I agree” also.
477
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:09,084
It’s ok. It’s all part of the process.
478
00:47:07,961 --> 00:47:09,987
Relax. Don’t be nervous.
479
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,973
Close your eyes gently. The operation is finished.
480
00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:45,186
Was it painful?
481
00:47:45,576 --> 00:47:46,576
No
482
00:48:05,896 --> 00:48:08,835
We can barely provide for even our daughter.
483
00:48:09,679 --> 00:48:13,016
Every year we spend hundreds and hundreds on her medicine.
484
00:48:13,664 --> 00:48:16,150
The year before last, we sold one of our animals.
485
00:48:16,558 --> 00:48:21,215
One bottle of pills costs 100 yuan and lasts a week.
486
00:48:21,624 --> 00:48:25,266
Sometimes, that isn’t even enough.
487
00:48:25,848 --> 00:48:27,998
The more she takes, the more I worry.
488
00:48:28,552 --> 00:48:32,753
We only have one bottle left to last her till harvest time.
489
00:48:41,515 --> 00:48:44,659
My son is still so young.
490
00:48:45,396 --> 00:48:46,967
You’ve taken him to school this time.
491
00:48:47,610 --> 00:48:49,611
Later, I’m afraid the teacher won’t accept him.
492
00:48:50,674 --> 00:48:53,411
And then, it’s going to be harder.
493
00:48:53,751 --> 00:48:57,593
Later, we won’t be able to find you again either.
494
00:48:58,707 --> 00:49:00,507
I don’t know what to do.
495
00:49:12,351 --> 00:49:16,315
We’re going to remove this cloth today.
496
00:49:28,656 --> 00:49:31,311
-Can you see? -Yes. I can see.
497
00:49:33,933 --> 00:49:34,933
How many fingers here?
498
00:49:35,611 --> 00:49:36,611
Five.
499
00:49:41,847 --> 00:49:46,570
After such a big operation, you can hardly see the incision.
500
00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:49,552
It was very successful.
501
00:49:50,022 --> 00:49:54,449
I’m so happy she can now see all sorts of things.
502
00:49:54,885 --> 00:49:56,183
I’m really happy.
503
00:49:57,264 --> 00:50:01,436
I told Grandma, your eyesight is now better than mine.
504
00:50:04,888 --> 00:50:07,643
You don’t have to say anything, just point.
505
00:50:10,084 --> 00:50:13,762
[Department of Orthopaedics]
506
00:50:16,479 --> 00:50:17,525
Can all of us come in?
507
00:50:17,756 --> 00:50:18,756
Yes, please come in.
508
00:50:20,251 --> 00:50:21,505
-What are these? -X-rays
509
00:50:28,860 --> 00:50:29,765
Is this the artery?
510
00:50:29,910 --> 00:50:31,845
Yes, this one and this one.
511
00:50:31,990 --> 00:50:32,884
The rest are veins.
512
00:50:33,044 --> 00:50:36,615
This is the superficial femoral artery, the profound femoral artery and the femoral vein.
513
00:50:43,154 --> 00:50:46,205
Please keep this position and don’t move, ok?
514
00:50:59,596 --> 00:51:04,603
If we still don’t have enough money, we can sell our cows for my daughter’s treatment.
515
00:51:04,653 --> 00:51:09,545
How much can you sell the cows for?
516
00:51:09,917 --> 00:51:12,109
About 10,000 yuan.
517
00:51:17,993 --> 00:51:21,146
The doctor said that there is nothing wrong with the blood vessels.
518
00:51:21,542 --> 00:51:25,077
The blood vessels should be fine.
519
00:51:47,260 --> 00:51:50,295
You must face reality
520
00:51:50,630 --> 00:51:53,180
and still look to a better tomorrow
521
00:51:53,489 --> 00:51:55,455
There’s a bright side to everything.
522
00:51:55,512 --> 00:51:58,200
If you have hope,
523
00:51:58,287 --> 00:52:00,858
everything will work out fine.
524
00:52:03,162 --> 00:52:07,405
We can’t do anything on our own.
525
00:52:08,044 --> 00:52:12,010
You’ve come to our home and you
see how we live, what we eat.
526
00:52:13,174 --> 00:52:14,241
Two meals a day.
527
00:52:14,784 --> 00:52:21,961
We survive on what we grow.
528
00:52:23,140 --> 00:52:24,818
This is our life.
529
00:52:29,376 --> 00:52:30,376
The work I’ve been doing
530
00:52:32,643 --> 00:52:36,184
is enabling me to look at life differently.
531
00:52:36,839 --> 00:52:38,174
I’m not saying I’m smart.
532
00:52:38,492 --> 00:52:42,000
Through hard work, I’ve come to a deeper understanding of life.
533
00:52:42,575 --> 00:52:43,575
It’s a good thing.
534
00:52:43,950 --> 00:52:50,391
It’s an abundance that can’t be measured on the same level as monetary wealth.
535
00:52:50,703 --> 00:52:54,246
I think what I’ve gained is far greater than what I’ve given up.
536
00:53:16,932 --> 00:53:27,234
Grandma Yuan received her second cataract operation successfully. With her vision restored, she can now work in the fields once more and has a renewed spirit for life.
537
00:53:37,273 --> 00:53:48,149
Since filming, Dr. Zhang purchased a new home. However, he closed down Huimin Eye Clinic. He is now part of a major hospital.
538
00:53:57,559 --> 00:54:10,031
Rongrong secured a loan and is attending Ningxia University as an art education major. Having rejected local doctors’ suggestions for amputation, her bone infection persists.
539
00:54:19,958 --> 00:54:32,483
Juncheng’s mother abandoned the family. Shortly after, Juncheng’s sister had an epileptic seizure while walking home from school. As no one was around to help her, she passed away.
540
00:54:40,352 --> 00:54:44,954
Juncheng did not receive a cornea.
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