‘She’s my first love’: videos of devoted truck driver husband in China taking paralysed wife everywhere to care for her go viral
- A man who takes his disabled wife with him everywhere, even when working as a truck driver, has touched millions in China
- His sole ambition is to earn a good living and upgrade to a nicer vehicle so they may travel farther and give his wife more room for rehabilitation on board
Videos of a man carrying his paralysed wife on and off a truck and taking care of her daily needs, including cleaning, changing her clothes, and exercise has brought many people in mainland China to tears.
The man, Nie Jianwen, 39, is a truck driver from Longnan in Gansu province, northwest China. According to Nie, his wife, Cao Yingying, suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2020, leaving her paralysed.
He has been working as a truck driver based in Shanghai since 2007, thousands of kilometres away from his hometown. But he decided to take Cao to be on the road with him in 2020 after she became paralysed so he can care for her full time.
“There are already two young children at home, and it’s beyond my 76-year-old mother’s capacity to take care of a third person who is disabled,” Nie told China Youth Daily.
After his wife became paralysed, Nie became her sole carer, washing her daily, changing her clothes — even helping her to put on make-up.