One of the great things about blogging is discovering people and news that you don’t see anywhere else. I’ve made some really good friends while blogging, and I’ve learned things that I would have never known about outside of the blogosphere.
I’ve got a blogger buddy named Lonnie B. Hodge (MFA, Ph.D.). He’s an American professor currently teaching in China. This is from his blog this week.
I had to read it a couple of times to make sure I was reading it right. But this is an example of true devotion and love.
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In Changzhou there was a special wedding held on the 12th of April. Hundreds of local citizens showed up for the marriage of a man and woman in Jinasu Province.
Psychologists might have a field day with this one, but I find it to be an example of extraordinary love, fildelity and optimism. It is also a haunting reminder of how tragically the health care system has evolved in China.
The couple were engaged last November, but the pregnant bride was hit by an automobile the same evening and lapsed into a coma from which she has yet to fully awaken.
The bride, Xiaoxiao, didn’t miscarry during the accident and gave birth on February 21 2006.
Xiaoxiao apears to be getting better say doctors, but medicine and aid needed for her full recovery have become too expensive for the family. The families have already spent the equivalent of thirty years of salary in order to care for Xiaoxiao.
Groom Cao Weixin has stayed by her side throughout her coma and, until now, regretted not being able to fulfill a promise of marriage to Xiaoxiao. He and the woman’s family decided on a wedding to honor his wish hoping too that it would trigger a remission for Xiaoxiao.
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I pray that I can always have this level of devotion to my gentle bride.
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1 Patty // Apr 25, 2006 at 9:13 am
Wow. That’s just. . . amazing. Before I had met my wife, I had no idea that I could care about someone so much. Like you, though, I wonder if my commitment would stretch this far.
I hope so.