While in prison she kept herself occupied by studying philosophy, writing novels, and doing embroidery, but it was a very bleak time. She was still in jail when her mother died. The sadness of that occasion, along with worry about the future, triggered a relapse of her thyroid cancer. She received medical parole and soon thereafter applied to go abroad.
坐牢期間，她以念哲學、寫小說、女紅織繡來緩解情緒，然而母親去世的傷痛、對前途的擔憂與茫然終使得甲狀腺癌再發，她也因而被保外就醫，不久申請出國。