‘Mum, good’: Chinese woman wakes vegetative daughter-in-law after 17 years of care
Xuan feeds Xu liquid food spoonful by spoonful, taking an hour per meal, and turns her over 10 times daily to prevent bedsores
A woman in eastern China has been devotedly caring for her daughter-in-law for 17 years, ever since she fell into a vegetative state, moving social media users.
The younger woman, surnamed Xu, fell into a vegetative state in 2009 after being struck by a truck in her village in Qingyun county, Shandong province. The accident happened just one month after she got married, Shandian News reported.
Since then, her mother-in-law, Xuan Fengying, has cared for her around the clock.
“She married my son, so she’s my child. How could I abandon her?” the 68-year-old Xuan was quoted as saying.
