Time: 10:42AM September 16th, 2012
Place：Garden Hutong
Character：Auntie Heng，98
“This leg and hand don’t work anymore,” Auntie Heng repeats with her bum leg and hand draped over the arm of the chair.
Auntie says her last name is hèng, but she doesn’t know which character, “I haven’t studied before.” Each day Auntie Heng sits on her armchair in this positionbasking in the sun for a while and then takes a slow walk around the block while carefully extending her can for balance.
Heng Ayi came to Beijing from Anhui to get care for her illness. Previously she was living with her second son in Beijing’s Tong County, and three months ago she came to live on Garden Hutong. The one-story house behind her armchair is her third son’s home. Her third son delivers gas to people’s homes while her eldest son sell fruit in the neighborhood. Almost all of Auntie Heng’s children have all left their hometown. Her fourth son is in Tianjian, and her daughter is in Shanghai. Her two granddaughters are about to graduate from college. Today, there are only three daughter-in-laws left back home to take care of the fields.
Auntie Heng is most concerned with getting over her malady, “My kids only take care of my illness. I don’t think of anything else”… “When it’s better no one will have to take care of me anymore.”
She asks us, “Do you think this leg can get better?” And we respond, “It will.” She laughs, “If you think it will get better then it will!”
At the end when we take a photo, she is a little embarassed, “Can I sit like this?”
As we prepare to go after taking the photo, she grasps her cane and pushes herself out of the armchair. Hobbling against her cane, she prepares for her walk, “The more I walk the better it will get!”
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时间：2012年9月16号10:42
地点：花园胡同
人物：Heng阿姨，68岁
“我这腿和手不能动了”，Heng阿姨一只腿斜斜地跨在一只沙发扶手上，一只手搁在那只腿上，反复地说。
阿姨说她姓hèng，但她说不出来是哪个字，“我没念过书”。每天heng阿姨都会坐在沙发椅上晒太阳，用这样的姿势坐上好长一段时间，然后起来扶着枴杖走一圈，歇歇再走。她搭在沙发扶手上的腿还有放在上面的手已经没有知觉。“脑血栓”，“不能动了”，“有天做着做着饭忽然就不能动了”。
因为治病heng阿姨从安徽老家来到北京，之前在通县二儿子家住，三个月前来到花园胡同。她坐的沙发椅背后的平房是她三儿子的家，她的三儿子在胡同里送煤气，大儿子在附近卖水果。Heng阿姨的孩子几乎都在外地，四儿子在天津，有一个女儿在上海，两个孙女都准备大学毕业。如今老家只有三媳妇在种地。
Heng阿姨现在最关心的就是病什么时候能好，“孩子们都光照顾我的病，啥都不想”，“好了谁都不用伺候我了”。我们短短的对话期间她三次问我们，你说这病能好么？我们总说，会好的，会好的。她脸上露出带着希望的笑，“想起来能好就能好！”
末了我们给她拍照，她有些难为情，这样坐可以吗？我们给她拍完照准备离开，她也靠着枴杖从椅子上站起来，准备驻着枴杖走走，“多走走能好！”