‘I love you’: wife develops numeral code to communicate with husband left unable to speak after cerebral haemorrhage
- Couple who say it was ‘love at first sight’ still together after heart attack and cerebral haemorrhage leaves husband unable to talk
- Pair now communicate through sounds and numbers in a unique code
“51, 63, 26, 84 ...” Luo Caiyun murmurs a series of numbers to her paralysed husband Hu Minglang.
After deciphering Hu’s different mumbling sounds and observing his limited head movements - a nod as in agreement and a shake of his head to express disapproval, Luo then translates the numbers he gave a nod to into Mandarin pinyin based on the code chart she invented. There it is, Hu is trying to tell her: “My mouth hurts, my mother pressed it too hard yesterday.”
This is the couple’s daily routine of communicating using a series of codes invented by Luo after an unexpected illness took away Hu’s capacity to talk and walk in 2012, according to the Yingzhou Evening News.
Luo, 37, and Hu, 51, are from Fuyang in the southeastern Chinese province of Anhui. The two met at a non-profit event in 2007, fell in love instantly, and married in 2009.
Disaster, however, befell the couple only two years into their marriage.