A man in Taiwan’s central county of Nantou has been attending to his mother in the hospital almost every night for four years, hoping she will one day wake up and stroke his head again.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/03
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—A man in Taiwan’s central county of Nantou has been

attending to his mother in the hospital almost every night for four years, hoping she will one day wake up and stroke his head again.

“Dear Mom, A-Chen is here to begin helping you rehabilitate. Mom, please keep patience if there is any discomfort.”  A man with the pseudonym of “A-Chen” (阿楨) could be heard softly talking to his mother behind drawn curtains in a ward at Nantou Christian Hospital almost every night. A-Chen’s mother has been unresponsive because she suffered a severe stroke four years ago which sank her into a coma. While A-Chen turned his mother over to her side, gave her a bed bath, and massaged her arms and legs, he kept talking to her about recent occurrences.

The hospital said that A-Chen’s mother had her first stroke in 1997, and she suffered three other strokes before the massive one four years ago. The tools A-Chen’s mother had relied on to help her walk and rehabilitate before the fateful stroke had changed from regular canes to quadricanes and to wheelchairs with the increased severity of the strokes. But the last stroke has left her unconscious since then, and she is being kept alive on a ventilator.    [FULL  STORY]