(Minghui.org) The provincial cancer hospital called us again this year to check on my wife. This is the third year that we have received a follow-up call from them. My wife said, “Let's write them a letter to tell them the facts.” So I wrote them a long letter.
In August 1997, my wife and I took a walk along the Songhua River and saw people exercising. A small red banner nearby said, "Falun Dafa." When I went up to the banner, a young man came over and told me about Falun Dafa and suggested I give it a try. I asked how much I needed to pay, and he said it was free. I had heard that Qigong could improve health, and this was free, so I was happy to learn. He taught me the first exercise. I later had a look at the banner on display and learned that Falun Dafa was founded by Mr. Li Hongzhi.
At first I thought it was just another form of exercise to improve health. I did not take it seriously. Although I practiced with the group, I did not put my heart into it. I did not do the exercises or study the Fa every day. About a month later, I suddenly realized, “My arm doesn't hurt anymore. My neck doesn't hurt, either. Wow, this practice can heal people.” I was quite surprised.
Before that, I had cervical vertebrae hyperplasia, which made my neck and left arm hurt. Sometimes I could not ride a bike. Medicine and therapy did not help. Yet my symptoms completely disappeared after practicing Falun Dafa. Amazing! I told my friends and relatives and persuaded them to come learn.
I first encouraged my wife. Although she supported me in practicing Falun Dafa, she did not want to practice herself. She thought that, as a Christian, she could not practice Falun Dafa.
She was in very poor health. She had been sickly since childhood and had serious stomach problems. After we married, she suffered from heart problems, severe insomnia, concussion damage, gynecological issues, inflammation of the colon, and other ailments. It cost us more than 2,000 yuan annually just for her medication. With our limited income at the time, this was a significant amount for us. Her colon lesions caused her constipation. Her abdomen was often bloated and she was in a lot of pain. Medication did not do her much good, and she suffered greatly every day.
Witnessing how I had improved, and with my persuasion, she wanted to give Falun Dafa a try. In September she learned the first exercise. Although she had not really mastered it yet, a miracle happened. Next morning she rushed to the bathroom. Her constipation disappeared, and she felt wonderful. After that she threw away all her medications and began to firmly practice Falun Dafa.
In July 1999, Jiang's regime and the CCP started the persecution of Falun Dafa nationwide. Master Li was slandered, and many practitioners were arrested, beaten, injured, maimed, even killed. I was confused. Fearful, I was about to give up the practice. But I had benefited from it and really did not want to let it go. My wife firmly believed that Falun Dafa was good and that we should not give it up. Influenced by me, she became somewhat depressed and put all her energy into her job. We did not do the exercises much or study the Fa. We almost stopped practicing. We did not have the courage to tell others that Falun Dafa is good.
After dinner one day in January 2000, my wife had symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. Her stool was black. A test showed she was bleeding internally. Our understanding of the Fa was low at the time due to a lack of study. We thought it was illness. We were really afraid. In March she went to a hospital for treatment. The diagnosis was gastric bleeding. They found a tumor in her stomach and said it was malignant. We were referred to a bigger hospital for further testing and surgery. We returned to Harbin City, and went to the Provincial Cancer Hospital for treatment.
The sudden change made me very sad. How many people recover from cancer? If my wife passed away, what would happen to our family? Our two children could not stop crying after they learned what was happening. Especially when my wife was about to leave home to go to the hospital for treatment, she and our children could not stop crying. It was as though she would never come back.
As she awaited surgery at the cancer hospital, both of us calmed down somewhat. Sometimes I read her the book Zhuan Falun. I thought we could not leave Dafa anymore.
The hospital said the tumor was a "malignant fibrous histiocytoma." On March 30 my wife had surgery. Three days later she asked to stop all medication. On the seventh day the first round of stitches were removed. On the eighth day she was discharged at her request before the second layer of stitches were removed. My wife realized that she could not rely on ordinary methods to get better. As a practitioner, she had to study the Fa and do the exercises.
On the fourth night at home, my wife suddenly developed a high fever. She was very hot and her eyes were red. At that time I could not be calm anymore. I tried to persuade her to go to the hospital. She said it was not a big deal and adamantly refused to go. We studied the Fa together as usual. On the third morning her fever went down. Even though she'd had a high fever for 36 hours, she suffered no ill effects. Eight days after she returned home we went to a small hospital to have the second round of stitches removed. She did not take any medicine or get any injections after she returned home--we just did the exercises and studied the Fa. She recovered, and both of us overcame our passiveness and actively started Fa-rectification period cultivation.
In December 2000, the same year my wife had surgery, she and fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. They were taken to the Chaoyang Detention Center. Later they were taken back by our local police to the local detention center. My wife was detained for three months. In detention, the environment was hostile, and the food was poor. My wife, a cancer survivor who had been discharged from the hospital not long before, did not collapse. How did she survive? She recited the Fa and did the exercises when conditions permitted.
From 2001 to 2003, the Provincial Cancer Hospital called us every year. At my wife's urging, I wrote a long letter to the hospital in 2003. I sincerely thanked the hospital staff for their care. I told them that my wife and I were both Falun Dafa practitioners, and that Dafa had saved my wife, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. She was very well now. It was a miracle that modern medicine cannot explain. Falun Dafa, I wrote, is extraordinary, and we hope your hospital staff will believe that as a result of my wife's experience.
Why did the hospital call to check on her every year? Because they want to know how long patients with this type of cancer can survive. The day before my wife's discharge, the surgeon in charge asked me to show the director my wife's medical record. The director was a middle-aged woman whose family name is Li. She took a look at the report and said, “Ah.” First she looked up at me and asked, “Are you the patient?” I said, “I am the husband.” I asked her whether my wife should have chemotherapy. She said that we could give it a try if we had the money. Otherwise, it wouldn't be necessary, because chemotherapy did not have much of an effect – and sometimes no effect – on that kind of cancer. I asked how much longer my wife would live. She replied that the survival rate for malignant fibrous histiocytoma in the stomach was only one in one thousand. That is the most deadly stomach cancer. Such patients usually survive one year at most.
However, my wife, who was told she was about to die by modern medicine, has survived and is now more healthy than many younger people. If my wife were not a Falun Dafa practitioner, and had not insisted on practicing, we both believe that she would have died a long time ago.
Falun Dafa is extraordinary and cannot be explained by modern science. From the perspective of modern science, all kinds of extraordinary physical changes that have occurred in true Falun Dafa practitioners are all miracles. They cannot be explained by modern science. I believe my wife's experience will encourage the medical staff, related personnel, and others to consider Falun Dafa. From this they can learn just how extraordinary Falun Dafa is and realize that Falun Dafa really is good. Maybe that is why we've never received another phone call from them after I sent my letter.