Liu Fang

Liu Fang's art work online, click here

Hi 大家好！
刘芳八月初和爸爸到了成都华西医院，进行了复查，医生告知不需要取出刘芳身体里的钢钉，可能会终生保存在身体里吧。

现在刘芳每天都会在家进行一些康复锻炼，她会戴上辅助器进行站立和行走，但是能坚持的时间都很短。爸爸会用我们援助会捐赠的康复治疗仪帮助她的下肢恢复知觉，这次与她见面，感觉她胖了一些，腿部没有萎缩的迹象，反而还长粗了一点点。只是每天的四次导尿还需家人帮助，大便则是需吃“开塞露”进行通便后，几天排一次大便。刘芳的情绪都很不错，不像以前那样郁郁寡欢。

今年九月，她会和奶奶一起来到四川德阳东汽中学，就读初中一年级，在校期间的饮食起居都由奶奶照顾，东汽中学是地震后国家投资上亿重建的无障碍住读式中学，校园环境优美，通道和教室都有充分考虑残疾学生的便利设施，刘芳能在这里就学，应该是幸运的。

谢谢大家的帮助！

彭红

刘芳已在12月26日提前出院，爸爸考虑到在县医院住院，因生活费需要自理，开销太大，就决定还是去离家较近的镇医院，这样米面和小菜可从家里带上来，降低生活费，节约点钱。回家后，连日下雨，道路泞烂，无法行走，目前暂居家中，等路干些，就去镇医院住院。现在爸爸每天为她换药，病情还算稳定，很久没回家了，见到了小伙伴和弟弟，刘芳情绪也不错。

Liu Fang is now home under the care of her father who decided against sending her to the county hospital because of high costs. Instead, she will be transported to the local hospital in her township once the muddy roads due to recent bad weather dry up. Her father (who won't be returning to work in Jiangsu) is now the primary caretaker. After a long absence from home, Liu Fang is in good spirits to see her little brother and friends.

Liu Fang will be discharged from West China Hospital on Dec. 29 after which she'll receive treatment for bed sores at her hometown hospital in Nanbu County. The government sponsored treatment for quake victims officially ends some six months after China's worst earthquake in recent decades.

Any medical experts out there to comments and/or give suggestions on the best long-term treatment of spinal chord injury (T6 vertebrae fracture)?

Nian donated a laptop computer to Liu Fang. We are trying to figure out a way to deliver it to her.

LIU FANG is recovering well after a surgery to remove bedsores on her back last Wednesday, Sept 10, according to our friend Lan. Her father landed work in Jiangsu and will be leaving shortly. Liu's grandmother will be the primary caretaker at West China (Huaxi) Hospital where she has been provided care by the government until year-end.

LIU FANG is a special case in that she is not an amputee child but a parapalegic. She injured her spinal chord after falling down a slope in the aftershock on May 27 outside her school. She did not speak nor engage in eye contact with Hong, our main Chengdu coordinator, during the first visit at Huaxi Hospital of Sichuan University. Her care has fallen on her father, a migrant worker who's also raising her nine-yr-old brother and supporting aging grandparents. Fang's mother died after battling cancer before the quake.

In the weeks since our first meeting, we are happy to report that Liu Fang has opened up emotionally. (video clip coming soon) We have been in discussion with her doctors as well as doctors elsewhere in regards to long-term treatment.