(Clearwisdom.net) Before I began practicing Falun Dafa, I was at death's door—the doctors at the hospital had “sentenced” me to death.
One day in 1990, I suddenly suffered a severe headache when I was leading soldiers on patrol. From then on, I frequently got headaches that interfered with my ability to continue working in the army, so I applied for early retirement.
In 1994, I went to Beijing 301 Hospital for an exam. They found a tumor in my brain. The doctor said that it was a pituitary adenoma and that I would need an operation. A month later, they operated on me. Because the adenoma was pressing against many nerves, the head surgeon was afraid that cutting directly into the area where the tumor was located would damage my brain and turn me into a vegetable. Instead, they used an instrument to cut out a portion of the tumor and remove it via my nasal cavity. After the operation, I lost some of my sense of smell and my head hurt worse than ever.
Less than a month after I returned home, my condition worsened. I had to go back to the hospital, where they found that the tumor had grown bigger than before. Introduced to him by a friend, my father then took me to the Beijing Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital.
In approximately May 1994, the vice president of the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital, who is also a doctor, operated on me. Before the surgery, doctors told my parents that there were three possible outcomes of the surgery: 1. My kidney function could be affected; 2. I could be blind in my left eye; or 3. I could be a vegetable. When they told me this, I immediately said, “Go ahead and do the operation—as long as my head stops aching!” I really couldn't bear the pain any longer.
After the surgery, my left eye went blind and my kidneys were affected. However, the pain in my head was still there, and I couldn't fall asleep all night. President Zuo of Beijing Sino-Japanese Hospital told my father, “The survival rate for patients with a tumor in that part of the brain is very low. Another surgery will have to be done in three or four years.”
At that time, ordinary analgesics couldn't help relieve the pain in my head. Only injections of pethidine and antongding could help provide some relief. After my first surgery and before I started practicing Falun Gong in 1996, I had received about 9,000 injections of antongding and 2,000 injections of pethidine. I had also taken approximately 800 dihydroetorphine tablets. (According to the doctors, patients who take dihydroetorphine more than seven times will become addicted to it.) I also tried to put opium in cigarettes to smoke, but it didn't help lessen the pain. As a result of overusing the medications, a dent developed on my hip where I got the injections, and my arm and hip muscles hardened. In time I couldn't absorb any medicine. During that period, I also took carbamazepine tablets, a kind of sedative. Directions for that drug state that it cannot be taken for more than seven days. I ignored that and took it for more than two years. As a result, I became seriously anemic. A doctor who knew my father said, “Your son will have to rely on blood transfusions from now on. There is no other effective medical treatment for him. You should get ready for his funeral.”
In July 1996, I contemplated committing suicide because I could no longer bear the pain. At that time, my mother had already begun practicing Falun Gong. She said to me, “Come practice Falun Gong with me!” So, I began practicing Falun Gong. From then on, my life experienced a fundamental change!
My mother read Zhuan Falun to me every day. By the third or fourth day, I decided to stop taking the medications to which I had become addicted. Ten days later, I could sit with my legs crossed on the sofa while reading the books. Furthermore, the pain in my head disappeared, I could urinate easily again, and I could sit up to eat without rushing to go back to bed. (I was previously only able to squat and eat a little.) I was also able to walk to the restroom. Prior to that I always crawled to the restroom because I felt too dizzy and couldn't stand up from being overdosed with drugs. However, what was most magnificent was that I understood the true meaning of life after reading Zhuan Falun.
All my friends and relatives learned that my pituitary adenoma disappeared after I began practicing Falun Dafa. They have all said that Falun Dafa is amazing!
My father has been working as a city-level deputy mayor. News of my experience shocked those who worked in the city government as well as the department of politics and law. They all talked about it and told one person after another. Many more wonderful things happened to me after I started practicing Falun Gong, but I won't list them here.
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution on July 20, 1999, it defamed the practice and made up rumors using the media. However, my firm and righteous belief in Teacher and Dafa has never been shaken no matter what lies the CCP and Jiang used, and no matter how they defamed Teacher and Dafa, and no matter how they've treated me, even firing me for refusing to give up my belief.
My life was given by Master! I am able to be here today only because I practice Falun Dafa!
Category: Health Benefits
