More than 350,000 people were injured in the quake, and among them, some 100,000 were hospitalized. Many of them are in need of rehabilitation like Tian after leaving hospital.
Sichuan has only been able to provide rehabilitation therapy for just 6,000 people. The situation may get worse - the search for injured people who need therapy in remote areas is still underway, according to local health authorities, meaning the total of those in need may continue to rise.
He only cried only two or three times, and that when he had an appendicitis operation just after the operation on his legs.
"I thought 'why do bad things keep happening to me?'. But I have already been the lucky one as I'm still alive," he said.
Wen Jia said she had learned an effective way to overcome her depressions after receiving a lot of psychological counseling.
"The psychological experts told me to think more about the happy time I spent with my classmates instead of the dreadful moment of their deaths," she said.
She also did a lot to help her classmates' parents who forever lost their children in the disaster. Once she heard that a couple wanted to break up because of the unbearable sadness of the loss of their children, which made them quarrel every day, Wen went to talk to them and asked them to move on in their lives and try to leave their pain behind.
And in Thursday's aftershock, although she was pretty scared, Wen organized her roommates to run down the stairs hand in hand and went back to look for former schoolmates from Juyuan Middle School.
"I experienced the quake and survived it. I have to be strong, "she said, with a smile.
However, she said she would never forget her classmates.
"I only hope I won't be afraid again when I recall the scene next time," she said.
(Xinhua News Agency November 11, 2008)