This Body, This Mind
by Chen Dongqin
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The body is carried around like luggage, and hope always remains elusive. "This Body, This Mind" is a diary of disease resistance and life journey, a journey inside and outside the ward. The lively younger sister among eight brothers and sisters, she once worked as a TV reporter and publishing editor. She loved life on the road and quit her job to travel around the world: Lhasa, the Grand Canyon in eastern Zhejiang, and Girl Mountain in Sichuan... In 2001, she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In the gaps between the attacks of illness day and night, a free and keen soul does not take a breath. She carefully recorded the life in the ward. Family affection and love gave her hope, and her open-minded character conveyed this love, making her a pillar of support for the patients around her. Only through suffering can the relationship between people get to the essence and get rid of the daily hypocrisy. After 2002, her condition was temporarily stable and she continued to travel to Qomolangma, Inner Mongolia prairie, Dunhuang, Taklimakan Desert, Kashgar, Shangri-La, Meili Snow Mountain, pursuing the care of life outside her own body. Until she was admitted to the hospital again in 2011, her ten years of records and thoughts were both painful and legendary, teaching people to look directly at the life-critical peak. Birth, old age, illness and death are inevitable paths in life.
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