Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:20:50 +0000 and update April 13 2009
From: Christian Hottas
Subject: Shu jung Lu Chiu (Chiu Chu-jung )- latest & good news
There are latest (good) news about Shu-jung Lu Chiu, the taiwanese runner with the fasciitis after the Trans Gaule stage race in early September.
On the forum website of the German Ultrarunning Association (DUV) you can find the following statement of the Trans Gaule RD Jean Benoit Jaouen:
I have visited Lu Chiu last Tuesday September 23 at Montpellier Hospital. Since her wake up on Sept. 11 after 5 days when we could fear a fatal evolution of the infection, her health condition is going better in a satisfying way. The healing is also good and her repatriation towards a Taiwanese hospital where she will continue her treatment and will have a graft of skin on her left leg has been possible
last Friday Sept.26. Lu Chiu can now speak normally and has started again to eat normally. Her healthy organism is probably one of the reason of her recovering, which seems now in a good way. These last 4 weeks in Montpellier she has been rallied round several hours a day in her hospital room by her husband Lu and one of her two daughters.
All of them radiate an impressive strength of life. Sorry for having wondered those who knew her, Lu Chiu welcomed me with saying All is ok except my legs…. And her husband Lu told me the worst has been avoided. I saw them smiling together and I could see a smile on Lu Chiu face. To see her again was comforting as was the love of her family. We can be confident for her future. I think now that she will have again a normal life as quick as we can hope, helped by her family and the mental strength she showed in the past in her sport practising. ment and Yea-Lih, a french-taiwanese couple in Montpellier gave and exceptional help and support to Lu Chiu and her family, with daily translations with the staff of the hospital during 3 weeks. They also helped them for the procedures to the Prefecture and found for them a flat near hospital. Even at the Prefecture Office foreigners hey showed solidarity with not charging the hundreds of euros for the extension of their visas. All the costs of the hospital raise several ten thousands euros. The big firm where Lu Chiu works (an iron factory with 900 0 workers) sent a taiwanases doctor to Montpellier and advanced two thirds of the amount of money while the last third has been paid by Lu Chiu’s family. I have proposed to advance a part of the money in the name of the Transe Gaule organisation but Mr Lu has declined my proposition telling it was not necessary. I have been told that Lu Chiu has A good Insurance cover so the costs should be paid back after her return to Taiwan. But I also understood that other costs will be necessary for her recovering and future orthopaedic equipments. Many of you have asked what could be done to help and it’s certainly for these treatments to come that we can give financial contribution to express our solidarity. In the name of German runners, Cornelia Bullig (recent winner of the 6 Days of Antibes, France) will organize a 24 hours race for Lu Chiu, October 25-26 (date to be confirmed). As Transe Gaule will not take place in 20 09, I will probably propose a meeting/race next summer (probably August) for Transe Gaule former runners, for sympathizers and for all those who would like to help giving some money. Every other personal initiative in the same aim is possible, I’ll give soon the wording of a bank account for that purpose. Message of support to Lu Chiu (Cornelia Bullig’s blog): http://www.guestbook-free.com/books3/cosibullig/
The race in Germany: http://www.cosibullig.de/132062/home.html
The competitors: http://www.cosibullig.de/132062/132145.html (including R
en A9 Strosny*, Angela Ngamkam* and Regina Van Geene**) The first
name Shu Jung means nice face. We will see again the nice Lu Chiu full of life, I want to believe that.
Take care of you.
JB Jean Benoit Jaouen,
RD Transe Gaule
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Ultra-marathon champion embraces life after having leg amputated
Central News Agency
(CNA photo 50, 51, 52) Elizabeth Hsu CNA staff writer As recently as eight months ago, Chiu Chu-jung was Taiwan’s most formidable female ultra-marathon runner. Competing around the world, in places as distant as Japan, New Zealand and Greece, Chiu challenged, and defeated, some of the best long-distance runners in the world.
… The “Ultra-Marathon Mom” as she’s known can now stand and walk a few steps with the help of a prosthetic leg made for her.
Her next step, Chiu said, is to “start learning from the beginning” in the hope of returning to her old running haunts.
“I am now in an ultra-marathon race of my own, ” acknowledged Chiu, with the destination the ability to run again.
She figures the discipline she learned in long-distance running will serve her well in her latest journey.
“The only secret of success in running is to persist until the very end, ” said Chiu, who now has set a longer-term of participating in the Paralympic Games one day in the future.
“Life is long. One should not give up or be pessimistic (because of some tribulations).”
Read the whole article from the Taiwan Times
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