Accompanying childhood were slides, chocolates, running wildly around beaches and courts. Accompanying him are Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and a wheelchair that has been with him for a long time. “It’s so sad,” “It’s painful,” “But for the sake of an illness, you have to persevere and continue to persevere!”

"All the people with SMA are so smart, they all go to university. Will you go to university too?" "Don't think like that. Probably not." "Why not?" "If I give you so much hope, won't you be even sadder when you're disappointed?" The above is a daily exchange between Tse Cheuk-yau (YY), who has SMA (spinal muscular atrophy), and her mother.

"I want to go to Egypt to see the pyramids and the tombs of the Pharaohs", "I love history and want to see some ruins." When she was two years old, she was attacked by a rare type of cancer, glioma - a glial tumor of the spine. Kiki, who was born healthy and normal, left her paralyzed from the chest down, her life is threatened by sequelae. But limited mobility cannot limit unlimited dreams.

“Mummy…” His mother hurries to come and fit the tube for him. “Mummy…” His mother rushes to come and turn him around. “Mummy…” His mother stretches out a hand to switch the TV channel for him while busily taking care of his younger siblings. He is 11 years old, with normal intelligence, but an abnormal body. “Do you know what disease you have?” The naive little boy answered with his slightly weak voice, “ I don’t know.” All he knows is that he experiences all these - lying on the bed all the time with different tubes connecting him to a ventilator and entering his stomach through a gastrostomy and so on – just to survive.

Admitted to the hospital when she was only 11 months old, her daily routine became an endless cycle of emergency resuscitation and intubation. When doctors wanted to give up on treatment, she proved them wrong with her thirst for life, willingly trying new drugs in order to be able to sit up. This is the story of a resilient warrior suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This is Josy Chow’s story.

"What illness do you have?" "I don't know! I really want to know too, if only someone could tell me..."