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发表于 8-9-2011 21:53:51|来自:新加坡
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本帖最后由 jjrchome 于 8-9-2011 22:28 编辑
雪梅斑竹,背景介绍(英文)如下:
Man being Paralysed by Fall, Causing Family Dire Consequences
SOURCE: The Straits Times, AsiaOne
Sembawang resident Aw Kian Chow was walking back to his flat in Block 415, Sembawang Drive on a wet evening in August 2008 when he took a tumble on a sloping ramp near his block.
He fractured his spine and became paralysed from the neck down.
Now, three years down the road, the 46-year-old father of two young children isstill bedridden and cannot speak; he also needs life support equipment, regularhospital care and caregivers to turn him on his bed every three hours to drainout mucus and other fluids.
His condition has thus precluded all prospects of holding down a job, and madehis wife, a bank officer in her 30s, the family’s sole breadwinner.
The family has since moved out of the five-room flat in Sembawang into a smaller flat elsewhere so the family can meet his ongoing, hefty medical bills.
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