RE: Wanbin Lu

[Lehong Jin]

Hi ZhongYi:   From the group e-mail, we learned that you were planning to see WB in the weekend and also took WB and XiWei to the airport yesterday.  Thank you so much for doing that!   I think that everyone would appreciate very much if you can please let the group know how WB was doing at the time and his status for long distance travel.   We wish that WB had a safe trip home and the arrangements in his hometown for his care and recovery have been organized well.   Thanks again,   Lehong Jin --- On Fri, 3/27/09, Zhongyi Sun <zhong...@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Zhongyi Sun <zhong...@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Wanbin Lu To: fo...@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, March 27, 2009, 6:12 PM I can take a look at Wanbin's laptop. Hope it can be fixed. At least I can do my best to recover whatever left on the hard drive, which may be very valuable to himself and his family.   I'll come to see him before lunch time tomorrow along with his long time friend Libbie. Let me know how can we meet so I can have the laptop during the weekend. I can come to your place to pick it up.   Zhongyi    Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:05:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu From: stone...@gmail.com To: fo...@googlegroups.com zhongyi: thanks. i'm taking your offer, as now i have a new reason. i just got wanbin's laptop, a sony vaio, from the care center. it's dead. the care center said that it was spill that killed it. the power light turns on when the button is pressed, but the screen doesn't. there are three lock symbols (each lock has a symbol in its middle: 1, A, up/down double arrows, respectively) on the computer, all of which turn on as well. maybe it's locked up somehow? the laptop was his most valuable possession. you might be able to resuscitate it. zheng feng: thank you for your repeated offers, and for everything you've done for wanbin, including your ice fishing expedition btw, i was in the care center, from noon to 1:30. that was right after wanbin's lunch time. he was in bed, taking a nap on and off. i asked him how many days we'd be on the way, he just stared back at me. i said in three days. and he nodded. he stood up, buckled and then zipped up his pants, and went back lying down again... his hands/figures work perfectly. i packed all his belongings, in his suitcase. he's ready to go. there are only a couple of days in between. regards, xiwei  2009/3/27 Zhongyi Sun <zhong...@hotmail.com> There should be no problem. Zheng Feng lives on the west side too..   I'll take a half day off and be there after lunch.   What time to you need me to be there exactly?   Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:29:43 -0500 Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu From: stone...@gmail.com To: fo...@googlegroups.com it's a great offer. zhongyi: thank you. but you live so far west. wanbin's legal guardian also lives pretty far, in new brighton. it will be easier for someone living on the east side to provide the ride--and deliver me back to woodbury. zheng feng: where do you live? xiwei On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Zhongyi Sun <zhong...@hotmail.com> wrote: Xiwei,   Thank you for everything you have been done as a true friend.   I'll see Wanbin off at the airport. I can drive my 7 seat van. All back sets can be removed if necessary.   Zhongyi   Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:25:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu From: stone...@gmail.com To: fo...@googlegroups.com hi, everyone: i'll accompany wanbin to china. i'll get wanbin's documents (medical records, passport, green card, ssn card, court papers) from his legal guardian tomorrow/friday. when the time comes, his medical team will give him some pre-trip procedures to prepare him for the long trip--you don't want to know what, but wanbin has "signed" off on them. we'll take nwa, departing at 3:15 pm, 3/30 (monday), from mpls/st paul airport. there will be a 1.5-hr stop-over at tokyo airport. we'll arrive at shanghai pudong airport at 9:40 pm, 3/31, local time (8:40 am here). the folks from his hometown will pick us up from there. i'll spend a night in his hometown, before heading to nanjing where i plan to meet friends in nanjing forestry university, his alta mater and mine. i'm due back to the states 4/7. if any of you would like to see wanbin off, please let me know. in fact, we'd like to have someone volunteer to give us a ride from woodbury to the airport. his health care center promised to get him ready for departure by noon. we should leave close to that time, as even healthy travelers must get going at about 1 pm--quite a bit driving to the airport. if no taker, tomorrow i'll ask his legal guardian to see whether she'd give us the ride. she's done a great job, given the circumstances: no one has been paid who has served wanbin all these months since his stroke. some of the bills will be paid eventually when his MA is approved. eventually, that is the hope. thanks to you, wanbin can leave all the mess behind. with that, we'll achieve the goal of getting him to china, soon. that is more like a commencement, an ending in one sense but a beginning for the long haul. so please keep pushing for more support/donations for him, to ensure that he'll get as much financial security as possible, as further down the road and into the future as possible... well wishers? volunteers? best regards. xiwei 2009/3/26 Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com> just filed a report on the fund drive at http://way-yin.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post_26.html and updated the donors list, including all contributions as of march 25, at http://way-yin.blogspot.com/2009/03/thank-you-on-behalf-of-wanbin-lu.html big thanks to all. please continue to pass the words and seek support for wanbin. gratefully yours, xiwei 2009/3/24 Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com> i agree. please send one-to-one messages to the intended party only, by clicking the email address of that party. send messages of some general concern to the group, by clicking "reply" (to forwb). to unsubscribe from the group, please send email to forwb+un...@googlegroups.com xiwei 2009/3/23 Chang Yi Xie <cx...@shaw.ca> I don't think it is a good idea to forward every email from everyone to everyone. It is simply too much a headache and not necessary.  ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Zheng <zhef...@gmail.com> Date: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:59 pm Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu To: fo...@googlegroups.com > > One correction of donors list from RuZhao. One name from BingDiao > group should be 齐大虎， not 齐大亮.  - Frank > > On 3/23/09, Frank Zheng <zhef...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This sounds about right. The nurse thought Lu wrote the name > and ask > > me what it means. > > > > Frank > > > > On 3/23/09, Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com> wrote:u > > > >> i suspect, though, that what zheng feng described his name as > his own > >> writing was actually what i had written for him. that was > monday, a week > >> ago. he had writen half a page. i looked at it. and then i > wrote his name > >> in > >> large strokes on the paper. another possibility is that he > succeeded in > >> copying my hand writing. i've seen many times his > handwritings over time > >> since the stroke. they never made any sense, except perhaps > for a few if > >> i > >> imagined hard enough... > > > >

[Zhongyi Sun]

We had a very smooth ride to the airport and Northwest provided a pick up at the curbside. I didn't come with them to check in since I can not leave my van there. The check in was supposed to be quicker than the others so I headed back after Wanbin was picked up. Wanbin was in a good spirit and the care center gave him a very good-looking haircut. He must be a little hungary since the care center put him on fasting less diaper changes.
 
That all I can tell so far and we can wait for detailed update from Xiwei. Thanks to everyone who keeps Wanbin in his/her thoughts and prayers.
 

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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 06:01:36 -0700
From: leh...@yahoo.com

[Xiwei Yin]

hi, everyone:

 

i just got this opportunity to write a message for the 1st time from china.

 

yes, wb made to his family, quite smoothly. it was a long journey from his health care center to mps/st. paul international airport to narrita/tokyo airport to shanghai pudong airport to yangzhong, it took 24 hrs in total.

 

he was very excited all the way, hardly slept except the last leg before landing in shanghai. he was quite restless and curious, like a 2-yr-old. he ate well. he talked quite a bit--by his standard.

 

the journey was smooth except in tokyo airport. he vomitted while in transit from the landing gate to the departing gate. the person who wheeled him in a wheelchair reported the incidence to the personnel in the departing gate. the people at the gate took it as a big deal, questioning whether wb should continue on his trip. after my checking with a handful of the people (all japanese with a broken english) at the gate, finally an american, part of the flight clew, came to talk with me. i showed him wb's discharge paper from the health care center, which showed nasea as one of wb's discharge diagnoses. i further explained to his wb's circumstances. he asked me whether i would think wb's should go on the trip if i were not wb's travel companion. i told him yes, because i'd observed no negative change in wb's condition since his leaving the health care center, etc... so he gave his green light. wb was whealed to the door of airplane. he was supported to walk from the door to his seat. he walked o.k. first, but his legs suddenly refused to make forward movement. i had to nudge his legs forward one at a time, and a few clew members were there cheering him on. as in a  very slow motion movie, he gradually and finally made his steps to his seat. 

 

after that, everything went smoothly again. three nephews of wb's picked us up at pudong internl airport. he started to talk even more after he was reunited with them. he even asked a question or two, about someone... when the van passed a bridge into the city of yangzhong, someone pronounced to him that he was in his hometown now. lu jian said that wb's eyes became wet.

 

we arrived in the local hospital c. 1:30 a.m. local time. much of wb's family was there greeting him. he was ushered in a wheelchair to a patient room. his sisters started to wash him and they became very emotional as they noticed how bony wb has become. but wb gradually came to live. he asked for his mother. he asked for his younger sister's husband (who actually had passed away more than 10 years ago). he had some other talks... when i returned to his room after having finished turning all the medical records to his future doctor, i was struck by all the family members surrounding him (now tugged in bed)--an incredible contrast to what i was used when he was in the u.s. health care center. everybody thanked profusely. so i said to wb: xie xie wo. he said right back: xie xie ni. overall, the amount of talk he did after being reunited with his family was more than the combined total i had heard from him in the u.s. since his stroke. what a difference!

 

the next morning when i went to his room, he was being surrounded again by a lot of family members. he looked very relaxed, and very much at home...

 

thank you all for having made his home-coming possible. seeing his great progress in talking and in mood made me feel that our effort has not been in vain, but has already produced some solid results.

 

dr. zhu, wb's new doctor, volunteerly took a night shift so that she could be in on his case when he arrived. she was working on his case again when i got there the next morning. the head of the hospital paid wb a personal visit. the hospital was ready to give wb a thorough check-up that very day...

 

wb's friends in nanjing forestry university plan to visit him tomorrow/friday. they've raised substantial fund to help with his family financially.

 

wb's in good hands now. wish him the best.

 

xiwei

[May John]

Xiwei,

 

What a relief to hear that WB finally reunited with his family! I am sure he will get better and better. I am very happy for him.

 

Thanks a lot for what you and many others have done!

 

Mei

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From: Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com>
To: fo...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2009 4:31:51 AM
Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu

[Zhongyi Sun]

Xiwei,
 
Thank you very much for the job well done!
 
I wish you have a smooth ride back to the US too.
 
Zhongyi
 

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:31:51 +0800

<br

[Shaoying Guan]

Very glad to here.

 

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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:31:51 +0800

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[Laosheng Wu]

Xiwei and All,

I am very touched while reading all the emails. I am so glad that he has finally reunited with his family. The journey would not be possible without you guys' persistence and effort. You are true friends of Wanbin and the rest of us. Thank you!

Wu, Laosheng

--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com> wrote:

[James]

Xiwei and All,

It is a good ending. May all the people with kindness find their true
destination.

Thank you all,

Deng, Xiaojia

[Xiwei Yin]

please see the latest updates at

http://way-yin.blogspot.com/search/label/Wanbin

including three items:

(1) "wb goes home, finally": an english narrative on wb's trip home
(2) updates on the fund drive (available also in the 4/10 edition of china tribune)
(3) a thank-you letter from wb's siblings,

as a reminder, please do not post messages to the group if they are meant for me or other individuals. some group members have dropped out because of too many such a message.

regards,
xiwei

[jim wu]

Mr. Yin Xiwei,

Thank you so much for the great effort to help Wanbin.  It is unfortunate for Wanbin to be in his situation, however he is fortunate to have a friend like you which can help when the family can't.    Everybody can save some money for the donation, however few can do what you have done with the dedication and time.

I feel regrettable myself that I could not see Wanbin in Woodbury before he left, after getting address fro Lao Geng.  But seeing his picture with his familiy (from you blog), I know you are doing the best for him and warms to the heart to all those who cares about Wanbin..

Again, thank you for what you have done.

Jim Wu

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From: Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com>

To: fo...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 2:25:33 PM
Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu

[May John]

Xiwei,

 

I just read your recent post. I am very happy to learn that WB improved dramatically, like you and many of us expected. Good for him!

 

Thanks for the great job you and many others have done.

 

Mei

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From: Xiwei Yin <stone...@gmail.com>

To: fo...@googlegroups.com

Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 2:25:33 PM
Subject: Re: Wanbin Lu

[Xiwei Yin]

the message below i just posted to huang ming (wanbin's elder sister's younger son). please see further down for his update on wanbin's latest. for those who are not as fluent in chinese, the update mentioned: wanbin gained weight from 53 kg at his arrival to 60 kg at the writing, could walk 300 m daily, ate a lot, spoke more clearly, and recognized every friend who had visited.

as a friendly reminder, please exercise constraint when writing to huang ming or other family members of wanbin's.

cheers.

xiwei

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黄明：

谢谢你能通报这样的好消息。谢谢，一是因为我知道你打电子邮件很费劲，二是因为我们确实都很盼望知道万斌的近况。

他每天进饭0.4 斤米+好多菜，每天增重＝(60-53)/10*2=1.4斤。确实进步奇快。谢谢你们照料有方。想必他的“三高”情况也控制得比较好吧。

不知他是否有疗理。这儿疗理分三类：语言、生活（行动、自理等）、职业（阅读、书写等）。希望能有这三管齐下，让他在最短时间内，在恢复上得到最大的突破。

万斌的事，我们现在只能说说而已，只好辛苦你们了。

请向他带好。请告诉他我们盼望哪一天他能给我们写点东西什么的。

祝他、祝你们安好！

殷锡纬

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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:08:03 +0800
From: huangm...@126.com
To: xiwe...@hotmail.com
Subject: 舅舅的身体近况

您好; 
          卢万斌的身体从美国回来的体重53公斤,现在是60公斤,每天能走300米左右,每天能吃3-4两米还有好多菜,说话清楚多了,以前的朋友来看他都能认识,现在的进步很快,总之非常感谢你们能这么快把他送回国.

                                                   黄明

[ruzhao...@comcast.net]

锡玮：

 

本期华兴报要出版，关于卢博士有没有要向大家讲的。

 

请明晚 10点前给我稿件。

 

谢谢！

 

Ruzhao 651-387-0234
----- 原始邮件 -----
发件人: "Xiwei Yin" <stone...@gmail.com>
收件人: fo...@googlegroups.com
发送时间: 2009年 4 月 10日, 星期五 下午 2:25:33 GMT -06:00 美国/加拿大中部
主题: Re: Wanbin Lu

[Ming Wang]

Dear May:   How are you and your family?   Here, it is all Christmas and new year holiday now. However, since there is an expt. that must be run continuously, I cannot take any days off during this holiday.   Wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!   Ming