Despite his rare condition, he’d still pursued his dreams with courage, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The twenty-seven-year-old man, Wen-Han Yo was diagnosed with Von Hippel-Lindau Disease, the illness will make the blood vessels grow too fast, forming tumors inside the body, the average age of people with this illness is no more than forty-six years, there were, three from Yo’s family out of the six total diagnosis across Taiwan. Wen-Han Yo, at the start of this year, found the tumors in his kidneys, but, before the surgeries, he’d spent three weeks, rode his motorcycle across China for an entire week, kept on stating, “There’s nothing to regret, illness is caused by fate, and, I’m in charge of my own fate.”
here’s the man who’s brave in tackling his own conditions, photo courtesy of UDN.com.
His mother died when he was just thirteen, back then, the doctors who’d treated her didn’t think it was the Von Hippel-Lindau Disease, after his mother passed, did the doctors discover, that it was, the rare condition which killed her, he and his older brother were screened for genetic markers, and, after the diagnosis was confirmed, a year later, he’d lost his left eye, because the blood vessels pressured down on it, and he’d become blind even after being treated for it.
Wen-Han Yo said, as he was told of his diagnosis, he’d not felt too much, the sense of destiny was more than being diagnosed, “If I’m to die at any day, I wouldn’t feel awful for not having experienced the beauties in this world that I’d wanted to experience; if I am to live on, I wouldn’t feel a bit hopeful toward how death is what will be setting me free.”
At the start of the year, Wen-Han Yo’s kidney developed tumors; he knew, that after the diagnosis of the rare condition, twenty years later, there would be tumors on the kidneys, and, the average age of those who’d been diagnosed was only forty-six, he’d optimistically laughed, about how he only started growing his tumors at age twenty-seven, that he’d lived, longer than most.
the chicke that he’d picked up off the roads that’s already grown into a rooster now, from UDN.com…
Before his surgeries, Yo set out with his map, rode out on his motorcycle from Beijing, traveled across China for a week. At first, it’s just, a normal kind of a trip, until he’d met “Bob” on the freeway of the Sailimu Lake, “Bob” was a chick that just hatched out, and, on that lonely, deserted freeway, fought for his own survival, and, he’d named the chick “Bar-Te-Er” (Mongolian for “hero”), and took the chick with him on his journey; and, on his trip, he’d nearly died, and it was, “Bob” accompanying by his side, that gave him the strength to fight on.
After treatment, Wen-Han Yo was released from the hospital last week, he knew, that the tumors will keep on coming back to him, but, “There’s nothing I’m afraid of”, what should be feared, is the inability to deal with one’s own conditions, and giving up the opportunities for meeting up with the wonderful things in life, his next step is taking a road trip on his motorcycle across South America.
So, this man, he fought hard, to live, and, although he’d undergone so many surgeries already, and there will, surely be more that he would be needing, but, his attitude of never being beaten by his own life, is amazing, something we can all take from here!
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