Her weakened constitution meant that what started as a cold for Liu would often lead to respiratory failure, and she found herself in the emergency room over 200 times. Her body was marked with scars from the futile attempts to find an effective location for injections, and eventually medical staff had to rely on injections directly to her carotid artery to save her life.
常因感冒惡化而呼吸衰竭，淑藝從小到大歷經二百多次急救，身上早已千瘡百孔，光是要找到可以打針的地方都是酷刑，最後只能靠頸動脈注射，以求保命。不論是病痛纏身、物質匱乏、生死邊緣掙扎，淑藝始終沒有陷入愁苦，一次次從谷底匍匐而出。