Diary on Shipeng’s 1996 Norman Oklahoma Accident
I stumble on this three page diary print out while searching for some paper records in a storage box. It was my day-by-day notes of what happen in Norman Oklahoma following his car accident in March 1996.
Although the notes is very personal, I have decided to post it here. I think Shipeng’s survival from Norman Oklahoma car accident marked an important milestone of his life.
I have also posted a few photos taken when we re-visted Norman around Octorer of the same year. In that trip we met again the doctors who saved his life. We met Pastor Tony Wong and friends from his Chinese Church who came to our help after they heard of Shipeng’s accident. We had also went to Oklahoma city to meet Shipeng’s co-workers. The company they work for was called Datatimes.
Soon after the accident. A friend gave me this cut out section of local newspaper to keep. I don’t remember who he/she was.
I can not remember why and how I kept these notes. It looks like that I typed/transfer the notes into an email-like file. It is so valuable 20 years later for me and Shipeng’s friends to read it again.
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Tony Wong is the pastor of Chinese Church in Norman. He and his wife Esther, and many other his church members, spent many days in hospital with us. We were strangers in Norman Oklahome when the accident happend. By the time we left, we made many friends. This picture was taken when we re-visit Norman in October. Shipeng was telling Tony about his recovery.
These were shipeng’s co-workers and friends in Oklahoma city in 1996. When I arrived at Norman hopistal around 2 AM in the night with Zhao Yi. His director (right, first) was there to greet us. Mark Brown (left, third) called me while I was in hospital. He introduced himself by saying “I am Mark, I am Shipeng’s best friend here at Datatime”. His manager Bill Goodwill (left, second) later visited us in Dallas and brought beautiiful hand-made toys to Aurea. Bill told us that he had lost one of his teenage son to cancer a few years earlier.