(Minghui.org) My stepmother-in-law was struck by a car in March 2024, after visiting her daughter’s home. She fractured five ribs, and was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU).
After hearing about her situation, I brought her a Falun Dafa amulet, and some daily necessities. Given the severity of her injuries, she remained in ICU, where family members were not allowed to visit. By nightfall, everyone else had left, leaving only her daughter and me to take care of her.
My mother-in-law stayed in the ICU for 15 days before being transferred to a regular ward. She was hooked up to numerous tubes and was completely immobile. She required intravenous fluids every day and throughout the night. Her daughter and I took turns caring for her, sometimes staying awake all night.
Because her daughter had 36 mu [about 6 acres] of farmland and raised over 1,000 geese, her family was very busy. When my mother-in-law no longer needed late-night IV drips, I arranged for her daughter to go home during the day to manage the household and return in the evening to assist with care.
My mother-in-law couldn’t manage her bowels and bladder functions by herself, and frequently suffered from constipation, often requiring enema treatments. Once, even after flushing the rectum, she couldn’t relieve herself, and the doctor asked me to put on disposable gloves and manually remove the stool. As a practitioner of Falun Gong, I didn’t hesitate. I put on the gloves and helped her, even though the strong smell was nauseating.
People in the ward asked me, “What’s your relationship to her? Are you her daughter?” I replied, “I’m her daughter-in-law. She is my stepmother-in-law. She’s 79, and I’m 75 years old.”
Everyone was impressed and gave me a thumbs up, saying, “You’re amazing!” They asked if my husband had siblings. I told them my husband was the eldest of three brothers, and my two sisters-in-law were unwell and unable to care for her. I said, “I practice Falun Gong, and my Master teaches me to act this way.” They commented, “You don’t look like you’re 75—you look like you’re in your sixties!” I explained, “That’s because I practice Falun Gong, which keeps me healthy. I haven’t taken any medicine for 26 years.”
I took the opportunity to explain the facts about Falun Gong to them in detail. They all agreed that Falun Gong was good, and were happy to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. They said, “We’re lucky to have met such a good person.” They also told my mother-in-law, “You’re so fortunate!” My mother-in-law happily said, “If it weren’t for my eldest daughter-in-law taking such good care of me, I might not have survived.” I knew this was a way Master arranged for me to use this situation to validate Dafa.
Before being discharged, my father-in-law suggested giving 3,000 yuan monthly to have my mother-in-law stay at her daughter’s house for a while, but her daughter refused. My mother-in-law said to me, “Even if she agreed, I wouldn’t go. I only want to stay at your house because your family treats me well!” I understood that this was a test to help me improve my character and save more people. So I continued to care for her in the hospital as if she was my mother. Her relatives who came to visit her were deeply moved. I shared the truth about Falun Gong with them, and they too decided to quit the CCP organizations. I gave each of them an amulet and reminded them to often recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
I encouraged my mother-in-law and the patients in the ward to recite these words whenever they had the chance. My mother-in-law recovered quickly without any lingering issues. When she returned home, my father-in-law was overjoyed to see how well she had recovered, and couldn’t stop praising me as a good daughter-in-law.
My father-in-law, a retired government official, had been deeply influenced by the CCP’s propaganda, and was resistant to listen to the truth about Falun Gong. He even kept a portrait of Mao Zedong [former CCP leader] at home. I had asked him to remove it in the past, but he refused. However, after witnessing my dedication in caring for my mother-in-law, he was moved, and removed the portrait of Mao.
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