English translation
Dear Amy,
What I have is tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT), a disease that eats away at bone.
My own lesion is in the knee joint. In 2024, through drug control and surgical treatment, my life is now unhindered except for strenuous exercise.
Thinking about it, it's quite amazing—I got this disease just as I started my freshman year, and now I'm already a junior. Before long I will also go from being a student to a working professional, ushering in a change of identity.
If you were to ask me what I have learned since getting a rare disease, I think it's that plans can't keep up with changes. In my freshman year I was full of ambition, starting a new life in a new place, with my parents not around and no one to rein me in. But once I learned I had this rare disease… all I can say is, man proposes, but Heaven disposes—haha.
Here I also want to say to Amy: sometimes, when things turn out as you wish, that's great; and when they don't, that's okay too. Life is unsatisfactory eight or nine times out of ten. Many things are simply fate—just do well what you can do in the present, and that's enough.
—— Zheming