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Falun Dafa saved my life

I started to practice Falun Dafa in April 1997. I had many illnesses before that. I had heart disease, my joints hurt, and I had cervical vertebra issues and atrophy gastritis. I had suffered from gastoenteritis since I was young, and it became worse as I grew older. When I got sick, I'd keep throwing up, even when my stomach was empty and there was just bile. I'd throw up when I saw a certain color. I wouldn't be able to taste anything. I could only eat preserved vegetables and drink water. I also suffered from insomnia and had a constant headache. I had to hit my head against the wall because the headache was so bad. I fainted once when I did this. Because of my cervical vertebra problems, it was always painful for me to look up or down. The heart disease was even more dreadful, and there were times I'd nearly died. I'd sweat all over. I had to be hospitalized several times every year. My medical bills were enormous. I was such a burden to my husband and my children.

In the midst of all my sufferings, I happened to meet a Falun Dafa practitioner. When she learned about my condition, she sincerely introduced Falun Dafa to me. She said practicing could bring about a miracle, but I didn't really believe her. Doctors weren't able to cure me. Would Falun Dafa be able to? Was it so powerful? I decided to give it a try. I went to the practice site. I saw many people there, including the elderly, young men, and kids. They were all very nice to me and they taught me how to practice the exercises. I started to practice. Every night I went to a fellow practitioner's home for group study. After ten days, I felt I had more energy. In a few months, all my illnesses were gone. I could eat anything that I liked, and I threw away all my medications.

From then on, I have never stopped studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. I followed the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance to be a good person. My illnesses never came back. Because of all my positive changes, my husband started to practice Falun Dafa as well.

Police harassment

The police kept harassing me and threatening my family, but I was determined to practice Falun Dafa.

Jiang's regime began to persecute Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. My employer sent a dozen people to my home. They forced me to watch the TV programs that slandered Dafa. They tried to make me write the so-called repentance statement." They forced me to turn over all my Dafa books. After August 21, 1999, everyday people showed up to monitor me. They took this as their job. Some of them stopped coming when they learned the truth. Whenever there was a sensitive occasion, they'd send people to my home and they kept calling me and harassing my family.

Initially after my husband started to practice Falun Dafa, his illnesses, including cerebral thrombus, pharyngitis, heart disease, and edema, were all gone, too. He also threw away all his medications that cost hundreds of yuan. But the persecution made him anxious. He suffered a lot during the Culture Revolution. He knew every movement launched by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was to persecute people. As a result, he dared not practice anymore. His cerebral thrombus came back in August 1999 and he was hospitalized. We spent 30,000 yuan in about 20 days on his medical bills. In the past nine years, he has been hospitalized five or six times and it has cost us over 50,000 yuan. But he has still not recovered. He can't get out of bed or take care of himself. Our children worry about him. They can't focus on their work anymore. Other people asked him to continue to practice Falun Dafa. He said, "I'm scared. I don't want the police to arrest me or beat me up." He often claimed that a few people were beating him up. In fact, he was so scared that his mind was not clear any more.

My children worry about me, too. They've asked me to write the so-called guarantee statement. I said, "Isn't your dad an example already? How can I write it? I've benefited so much from practicing Falun Dafa. It is not wrong to follow Truth-Compassion-Forbearance to be a good person. Dafa gave me the courage to live. I'm determined to practice." My children understood what I was talking about. They haven't said anything else since then.

In 2003, Zhao Yuxia, the head of the Politics Protection Department of the Public Security Bureau in our local area, together with Baoding City Police Station officers arrested several practitioners. They talked to my children, saying, "Your mother is also a Falun Dafa. Give us ten thousand yuan. Otherwise, we'll arrest her, too". My kids were afraid for me so they managed to gather six thousand yuan and gave it to Zhao. Zhao just took the money without giving them a receipt.

I'm old now. I only want to be a good person and have a healthy body so I am not a burden on my kids, and they can focus on their work and I can have a bright future. Because of the CCP persecution, my family has ended up like this. My husband was so scared that he lost his mind. All his illnesses returned, and he can't get out of bed.

It's not just my family. Several other practitioners are being brutally persecuted in my county. Ms. Liu Dongxue and Ms. Wang Jinling died because of the constant harassment. Several practitioners were illegally sentenced to forced labor or prison. Some had to wander about to avoid further persecution. They all used to have a very good family lives. Now their families are broken and their beloved ones are dead. Despite the inhumane persecution over the past nine years, Falun Dafa practitioners haven't given in. They have braved all the dangers in order to help people understand that the CCP's persecution is all based on fabrications and lies. They hope that people will learn the truth.