After Being Paralyzed for Eight Years, I Stood Up and Walked Again!

I am a 52-year-old Dafa practitioner from Hebei province. Before I practiced Dafa, my husband lost his life in an accident, leaving behind a 70-year-old mother and three children aged 11, 7, and 4, respectively. I needed to support the family alone, and life then was so miserable. What made things worse was that my mother-in-law also died two years after my husband, and I suddenly came down with migraines and rheumatoid arthritis in succession, which paralyzed my limbs and finally deprived me of movement completely.

For the following 8 years, my life was maintained by daily injections and transfusions. In order to cure my diseases, the family borrowed from the relatives as much money as they could and searched everywhere to find better medicine. In spite of all their efforts, my health improved very little. In summer, when the disease lessened a bit, I could barely get down to the ground with crutches. In winter, I was completely paralyzed in bed, and my whole face was swollen frequently. I had to depend on my daughter to look after me all the time, and she suffered a lot too. In the hearts of my children, their fondest wish was that their mother would recover from her diseases.

November 20, 1997, is the day I will never forget, because on that day I began to practice Falun Dafa with the help of fellow practitioners. Just after more than 10 days of practice, the miserable paralysis ended, and I could stand up again!

Because I am almost illiterate, the practitioners in my village came to my home to read Zhuan Falun. Seven days later, I could get down to the ground without crutches. On the 11^th day I was determined to go to the practice site to learn the movements. It snowed slightly that day, and the road was slippery. Stepping on the snow, I cautiously moved with crutches, but still fell down to the ground heavily. I thought at that moment that I must go to the practice site myself, since I had been able to walk with crutches after being paralyzed for so many years in bed. I got up and arrived at the practice site finally. After I told the practitioners what happened on the way, the instructor said, "Why use crutches after you have been able to walk?" I understood immediately and threw away the crutches. The practitioners and the people in the village all regarded it as a miracle. Seeing that my health had improved, the people in my village happily led me back to my mother's home. I walked over 10 kilometers at a stretch after practicing Dafa for only 10 days.

The people who accompanied me home told my mother, "We come together with your daughter." My mother replied, "It is totally impossible." But when she saw me standing in front of her, she was excited and surprised, "How could you make it, and what happened with you?"

I happily answered, "It is true, and my diseases are all gone after I practiced Falun Dafa. I walked all the way here myself." Seeing the great change in my health, my younger sister and my daughter also started to learn Dafa.

During that period the practitioners frequently went to different villages to promote the Fa, and I always followed them by walking. The distances varied from 10 miles to tens of miles, and sometime we needed to go to a place via a tractor. Wherever I went, my miracle was talked about, and all the people in the area knew that it was Dafa that save my life.

After July 20, 1999, many people have been cheated by the deliberate and evil slander of Falun Dafa by the media in China, and some of them began to doubt my story. They asked me, "You didn't take medicine, really?" I definitely replied, "The hospital didn't cure me, and I recovered with the practice of Falun Gong without a single drug."

Once the leader of the village called me to his place and asked me in front of the township leaders whether my diseases were cured by medicine or by Falun Gong.

I said, "You fully know the situation of my family and the condition of my former diseases. I was cured completely by Falun Gong." Another time a township leader met me and asked, "I heard you are still practicing." " Why should I give it up?" I answered, "My master teaches us to be good people; how can you say we are wrong?" Hearing this, the man walked away in silence.

I am determined that I will never say anything against my conscience and that I must never be unworthy of our Teacher's great benevolence and salvation. I will tell all the people my true story and let people understand the miraculous power of Dafa.

Narrated by a practitioner in Mainland China.