Patient Story: two generations connected with He Eye Hospital

On March 29, Dalian He Eye Hospital received a four-year-old girl, named Leng Tianyi. She was dynamic and lovely with big eyes and eyelashes were long and pretty. However, she missed an indispensable component inside her vision system--lens. She suffered from congenital cataract since she was born. At her 4 years old, she received the cataract surgery at He Eye Hospital; she was the youngest cataract patient. This time she came for intraocular lens implantation. She might be unable to understand what surgeries and blindness mean to her at her age, but her parents deeply know what the brightness means to life.


Tianyi’s mom named Wang qiuxian was the champion of Gate Ball at the Paralympics Game held at Far East and Pacific Area. She suffered from congenital cataract in two eyes, left eye retinal detachment and vitreous opacities at her both eyes. Since she was born, it seemed that she would live in the dark world for her whole life. Until her 21 years old, things changed. In 1996, Shenyang He Eye Hospital was founded. Wang qiuxian did not hold high expectation but just try to see if treatable at He Eye Hospital. When Dr. He Wei gave her a full examination and told her She could recover her vision after surgery, Wang qiuxian could not believe it since she has never ever been confirmed like this before. So she chose to receive surgery without any hesitation—even if there was a slim chance, she never gave up. The deep desire inside her pushes her into the brightness.


Wang Qiuxian’s parents are also blind and for years they have been depending on one another. As President He Wei learned about her family status, which could not afford her surgery fees, he immediately decided to give her a free surgery. Upon unveiling her eye patch, Wang Qiuxian even fell to the ground because she was shocked by things in front of her, which were strange and unfamiliar, but she has been dreaming of for many times. She was also excited since it’s the first time to see her family and the world that could only be touched by hands before.
Due to her left-eye retinal detachment, a severe movement could trigger her blindness again, so she had to give up playing her favorite gate ball. She said it was really a pity not to be able to participate in the game anymore, and she felt really sad about that, but she didn’t regret it. She said if there was another choice, she would still choose to do the surgery, choose the brightness. Since the moment she saw the world, Wang Qiuxian has begun to regard He Eye Hospital as her own home.


Now Wang Qiuxian has her own family, but her daughter also suffered from the congenital cataract. In order to avoid taking the same path with her, Wang Qiuxian took her two-month-old daughter to He Eye Hospital for consultation and at her age of 4 months, He Eye Hospital performed cataract surgery for her. At that time she was too young to be implanted with IOL, but now it was the right time for her and also ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital landed in Dalian. Therefore, He Eye Hospital informed them of the news in the first time. Through screening, Tianyi was so lucky to be selected to board on the Flying Eye Hospital and accepted IOL implantation surgery on March 31. Now she feels better. It is learned that Tianyi can restore her vision to normal degree after the surgery. Upon hearing the result, Wang Qiuxian smiled sweetly. She said if light is the gift of God, then He Eye Hospital is the angel, spreading the light to the human world.”