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Many people in the world know he Kuan Yew as a statesman, a brilliant business minds. Writer, critic Catherine Lim Singapore's reputation once described him as an arbitrary reason, arid. Few people know that every night he sat reason to wife lying in more than 2 years, storytelling echographe and reading poetry to her.
Only in death is separated couple 05/12/2008 I remember one day. That day, father former echographe Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and incumbent Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong court will confront President opposition Singapore Democratic Party, Dr Chee Soon Juan, in the defamation lawsuit father Li is the plaintiff. This is a landmark echographe event in the history of Singapore. Foreign journalists like me very excited, be present at the hearing in the morning. But to 6pm father Li did not come. After that you believe, that day his wife Li, Ms. Chi Ngoc Kha, was a series of strokes causing brain hemorrhage. Since then, she was bedridden, unable to speak, though still perceive. I suppose that the variables that made his father echographe reason not to judge according to plan.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kuan Yew celebrate his 80th birthday on the day 09.16.2003. Not long after that, she suffered a stroke while touring England with him, but recovered and weakened. Old age is like the dew of tears, his daughter Li, Dr. Li Wei Spirit in an editorial titled "My dear Mama" (my dear mother) published in the Straits Times newspaper last Friday with paragraph 29.8 " But I can not do anything to help my mother back as before the stroke she suffered terrible knock on the day 05.12.2008. Since then, she struggles bedridden. My father struggled equally well. " Ms. Ling admits in Li family, her father was the most miserable situation before she Chi: "The most painful and quietly endure every day is my father." In 2009, she also wrote a different Linh said that, while her mother forest scene "tired legs shaking hands", every meal he sat beside Lee, picked up each grain of rice dropped her, put his cup, delicious heal. In an interview in early September this year with Seth Mydans journalist of The New York Times, echographe Mr. Li was first told about the current status of his wife almost turns 90 today: "She is at home and is Nurses care. Previously, we share a room, I now move on to the next room. I was familiar with the sound of wheezing and moaning when her throat was dry and it must be pumped out Biothene to suck talks. She can not sit up, very difficult to breathe. echographe Sometimes the nurses help her sit up, whipped her back for comfort. " "It is painful," said Li upset.
Choose a place for her to go gently or just survive in pain is tormenting him: "I can chase away all the nurses. echographe Then the maid did not know how to make her breathe, that she pneumonia, and end all pain ". But, "one doctor told me: Maybe he thought he would see softer when she is gone, but he will feel sad and empty. So at least she's still a man here, a daily that he can talk to and understand what you said. "
Li agreed with that advice: "Have 2 years, then in May, June, July, August, September, a total of 2 years 4 months. It has become part of my life. " And he said that he can only do what's echographe best for her feel alone, as nurses looking good, to know how to help her sit and massaging her; equipped with an airbag hospital bed, her back to no sores.
But his reason for not to hurt the woman he loves most knock yourself: "What do I do? I can not collapsed. Life must continue. I tried to make themselves busy throughout the day. " Even at the age of 87, Li was held Minister in the Cabinet echographe Advisor to the hectic schedule of the tour, welcomed the guests, foreign scholars, echographe public speaking and Singapore businessmen, politicians in the world.
And every night, he came to the bed talking to her, "I told her to hear my work during the day and read the poems that she loved. She understood and tried to listen to my knowledge. " Pride and Prejudice, echographe Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, The Canterbury Tales comic poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, poetry echographe Shakespeare ... the works and authors that Mr. Li's wife chose the bookcase and read to her. Youth, she Chi attendance office and especially loved English literature.
"Sometimes in moments of silence, the beautiful memories of the day we returned together," Li told Seth Mydans. "Does every time he came to visit her, the old memories back?" Seth asked. "Oh no, not at that. My daughter has found dozens of old photographs and digital images stored in the group Singapore Press Holdings press. When I look back on it, I think how lucky I am. I've had 61 years of happiness inside her. We then will have to go. I'm not sure who will go first, her or me. So I told her, r