Woman Abandons Family After Husband Gets Paralyzed, And The Way Their Little Girl Started Taking Care Of Him Is Incredible
When tragedy strikes, family members need to stick together. But after Tian Haicheng from China got paralyzed in a car crash, his wife of 7 years abandoned him. Luckily, not everyone turned from him.
According to Chinese media, Tian was left paralyzed from the chest down after a taxi he took crashed into a ditch in March 2016. His wife left just two months later, taking their eldest on with her. “She told me on the day that she was going to stay in her mother’s home for a few days. But she never returned, and she took our son with her,” Tian said. Only his little girl, Jia Jia, stayed with him. And she’s been taking complete care of him ever since.
Jia Jia gets up every day at 6 am and massages her father’s muscles for half an hour. Before the little caretaker goes to school, she also brushes his teeth and washes his face.
While she’s out studying, her elderly grandparents, both farmers, look after her father. After she comes back, Jia Jia feeds her single parent his dinner and helps him move around the house using a DIY mobility device.
Jia Jia even shaves her father’s beard. “At the beginning, I didn’t know how to shave, and I cut dad’s face, and it bled,” she said. “But dad said it wasn’t painful. Now, I’m very good at shaving his beard. My grandmother says I shave it very clean.”
When asked about her mother, Jia Jia said she doesn’t miss her at all because “she doesn’t look after dad.” She misses her older brother, though. “I used to be very close to him.”
To document his daughter’s selfless work, the family man has set up an account on China’s live-streaming app Kuaishou. As of this article, as many as 480,000 people are following their daily struggles.
(h/t metro)
6-year-old Jia Jia has been helping her father to get about his daily life for 2 years now
He was paralyzed in a car accident in 2016, and she helps him move around the house using a DIY mobility device
Tian was left paralyzed from the chest down after a taxi he took crashed into a ditch in March 2016
Just two months later, his wife of 7 years left him, taking their eldest son with her
When asked if she missed her mother, Jia Jia said no. “She doesn’t look after dad. But I miss my brother. I used to be very close to him”
Jia Jia even shaves her father, “At the beginning, I didn’t know how to [do it] and I cut dad’s face and it bled”
“Now, I’m very good at shaving his beard. My grandmother says I shave it very clean”
Jia Jia gets up at every day at 6am and massages her father’s muscles for half an hour
Before she goes to school, the little girl also brushes his teeth and washes his face
She leaves her father only to go to school and while she’s there, her elderly grandparents look after her father
People were heartbroken to hear the story
And taking the older son with her... I hope when her time comes, the son will turn his back on her just as she did on her husband and little girl.
Load More Replies...Is there a crowdfunding campaign for the little family? I'd gladly donate for them.
That's just unbelievably beautiful and tragic in equal measure. Good luck to both of them and a big f**k you to the mother
As someone who lives in China I'm sure the grandparents live either with them or very close by. Grandparents in China are more actively involved in their grandkids upbringing and are in much better shape. The article stated that she does this before school. That's just her part, admirable though it still is.
She shouldn't have to care for him at all. China is supposed to have a good health care system. So why isn't a nurse coming in to help the father instead of expecting the little girl to do it.
Load More Replies...And yet here in America, kids are whining about not having the latest iPhone.
I know an American girl who has been looking after her veteran (quad) father without help since she was 13. She also has a part-time job and does home school. I'm not American. but I'm pretty sure this goes on all the time because of your health care system.
Load More Replies...I don’t know much about China, I’m sure if you’re not well off you won’t have support like in Canada or Europe for free. It’s sad the mom left...maybe she had no choice with no income to feed the whole family....who knows the whole story. The little girl is an angel though, I hope they find some help.
In China,everyone fends for themselves, which is the case with the mother leaving. It is true neither you or I know the whole story , but speaking from many previous incident ,it is not unusual for the wife to leave, No money no honey bro.
Load More Replies...i kinda get having hard time to deal with spouse's sudden disability, but separating siblings is just next level assholery, plus kids should be kids, what she's dealing with must be hard even for adults
Doesn't excuse up. and *leaving* him, though, just lying to him and disappearing. That is the shittiest response any spouse could've had, aside from straight up murder.
Load More Replies...And taking the older son with her... I hope when her time comes, the son will turn his back on her just as she did on her husband and little girl.
Load More Replies...Is there a crowdfunding campaign for the little family? I'd gladly donate for them.
That's just unbelievably beautiful and tragic in equal measure. Good luck to both of them and a big f**k you to the mother
As someone who lives in China I'm sure the grandparents live either with them or very close by. Grandparents in China are more actively involved in their grandkids upbringing and are in much better shape. The article stated that she does this before school. That's just her part, admirable though it still is.
She shouldn't have to care for him at all. China is supposed to have a good health care system. So why isn't a nurse coming in to help the father instead of expecting the little girl to do it.
Load More Replies...And yet here in America, kids are whining about not having the latest iPhone.
I know an American girl who has been looking after her veteran (quad) father without help since she was 13. She also has a part-time job and does home school. I'm not American. but I'm pretty sure this goes on all the time because of your health care system.
Load More Replies...I don’t know much about China, I’m sure if you’re not well off you won’t have support like in Canada or Europe for free. It’s sad the mom left...maybe she had no choice with no income to feed the whole family....who knows the whole story. The little girl is an angel though, I hope they find some help.
In China,everyone fends for themselves, which is the case with the mother leaving. It is true neither you or I know the whole story , but speaking from many previous incident ,it is not unusual for the wife to leave, No money no honey bro.
Load More Replies...i kinda get having hard time to deal with spouse's sudden disability, but separating siblings is just next level assholery, plus kids should be kids, what she's dealing with must be hard even for adults
Doesn't excuse up. and *leaving* him, though, just lying to him and disappearing. That is the shittiest response any spouse could've had, aside from straight up murder.
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