Disabled soldier with two arms amputated and two eyes blind uses teeth and tongue to text on mobile phone

(Baonghean.vn) - A mine left over from the war took away his eyes and hands, but war invalid Truong Dac Ngo can still do many things a normal person can do, especially using a cell phone.

Watch wounded soldier Truong Dac Ngo use his tongue to text on his cell phone:

Although his eyes and hands are disabled, Mr. Truong Dac Ngo has many talents, partly due to the compensation between his senses, and partly due to hard work. People around him always admire him when they see him using his hands to hold the phone, his tongue to scan the keyboard, his teeth to type text messages, all of his movements are extremely skillful and give accurate results.

The happiness of War invalid Truong Dac Ngo and his wife. Photo: Cong Kien

Mr. Ngo shared: “In the era of information explosion, from young to old people all use mobile phones to communicate and access the Internet. Although my eyes can no longer see, my hands are no longer intact, I do not want to be left behind, I always want to keep up with everyone. That motivates me to practice using mobile phones.”

While on a mission to dig a hole to bury a telephone pole in Laos, soldier Truong Dac Ngo was unfortunately hit by a mine left over from the war, leaving him disabled, losing both his hands and eyes. Photo: Cong Kien

For that disabled veteran, using a mobile phone was a process of hard training. First, he had to master the operating principles, and ask his children to show him in detail the location and function of each key on the keypad phone. Then he learned how to save and check his contacts, how to text and send messages.

To do so, it is necessary to mobilize the maximum capacity of the mind, the rhythmic coordination between teeth and tongue, the right hand must always hold the machine firmly. And sometimes it is necessary to mobilize the sensitivity of the ears as well as trust in one's intuition. After a whole month of experimenting, Mr. Truong Dac Ngo was finally able to use the keyboard phone quite skillfully to serve the business and contact to visit brothers and friends.

Despite his injured eyes and hands, Mr. Truong Dac Ngo can still use the phone quite skillfully. Photo: Cong Kien

Mr. Truong Dac Ngo (born 1966) in Nghia Bac village, Quynh Nghia commune (Quynh Luu) joined the army in 1985, was an engineer, and mainly worked in Laos. In early 1987, while working with his teammates to dig a hole to bury a telephone pole at the edge of the forest, he was unfortunately hit by a mine left over from the war, leaving him disabled and leaving the army with a disability rate of 85%.

Mr. Ngo used his hand to hold the phone, his tongue to scan the keyboard, and used his teeth and tongue to type text messages. The movements were extremely skillful and gave accurate results. Photo: Cong Kien

The result of the operation of saving names to the contact list performed by Mr. Truong Dac Ngo. Photo: Cong Kien

Being a man of strong will and determination, he decided not to surrender to fate and married Mrs. Ho Thi Truc - a fellow villager. The couple stood side by side to overcome many difficulties and hardships in life and had 3 children (2 boys, 1 girl).

Currently, his family's main source of income is the gas cylinder business. With his determination and ingenuity, Mr. Ngo can install and replace gas cylinders for families in the commune. Thanks to his quickness, dynamism and hard work, his family has the conditions to build a spacious and quite fully equipped house.

Mr. Ngo also has many small talents that make many people respect him, such as installing and replacing gas tanks without help. Photo: Cong Kien

In addition, Mr. Ngo also has many other talents that make many people respect him, such as playing “mouth chess”, in the middle of the chess board, if someone announces their chess position and the opponent’s, he will immediately find the direction of movement for each chess piece. Or if a motorbike passes by, he can guess which brand it is and what kind of engine it uses.

War invalid Truong Dac Ngo confided: "To have the life I have today, I always set a goal to overcome myself, overcome the cruelty of fate, and try to do the work of a normal person."

Cong Kien