Page 7 of Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother

March 29, 2022 by Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. founder, Touch Display Research Inc.

Below is page 7 of my: “Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother”.

(Continued from page 6)

I remembered one day my grandpa and I were in the field. My grandpa felt ill. He threw up and he pulled a long pink worm that was longer than my hand, out of his mouth. I was five or six years old. I looked back and forth between at my grandpa and the long worm, worried.

My grandpa said, “Little Jen, don’t tell your grandma about this, Okay?”

I replied gently, “Okay.”

I had forgotten about this until I had grown up. Then I understand the long worm was a parasite, a common infection in China in the 1970s.

My forehead was stoned. China 1975

I was hospitalized when I was about five years old.

It started as a normal day, I was playing with another five or six kids in the village. Somebody said let’s run to some places, so we all ran. While I was running with other kids, one kid, Anno, was running in front of me. He suddenly turned back and threw a stone. “Bang!” That stone hit my forehead. I shouted “Aooo!” and used my right hand to touch my forehead. I saw blood flowing down my hand. I immediately started to cry. The other kids were all stopped running and looked at me. With my hand holding my bloody forehead, I walked back home.

When my grandparents saw I was bleeding, grandpa went to the kitchen and took some ashes from under the wok to put on my bleeding forehead. Then he wrapped a piece of cloth around my forehead. They said I can go to play again and I did. (Now I realized my grandparents lacked basic medical supplies and medical knowledge.)

Later that evening I started to have fever and felt sick. I lay on a bed with my whole family (grandparents and two uncles) around me. I struggled to sit up on the bed and throw up. My grandpa used his hands to catch my vomit. I remember it very clearly. I thought the vomit was very disgusting! How come grandpa didn’t mind? He still looked at me with deep love and concern for my illness.

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Touch Display Research, Inc. (https://TouchDisplayResearch.com) is a technology market research and consulting firm specializing in touch screen and emerging display technologies such as OLED displays, quantum dots, flexible displays, e-paper displays, ITO-replacement, Active pen, near-eye displays, smart windows, micro & mini LED, gesture controls, voice controls, eye controls and Batteries. Touch Display Research helps technology companies grow and connecting their technologies to the marketplace. We have been writing about OLED industry for over 10 years. We were the first company to publish Quantum Dot market reports. We were the first company to publish Active Pen market report, and ITO-replacement market report.  We have always been there to analyze new and emerging technologies. Touch Display Research provides reports, consulting, and due diligence to touch suppliers, display manufacturers, semiconductor companies, consumer electronics ODMs/OEMs, material suppliers, investors and venture capitalists. Battery Market Research is a subsidiary division of Touch Display Research, and focuses on battery technologies and market. For report and consulting, please visit our website: TouchDisplayResearch.com. 

About the Author

Dr. Jennifer K. Colegrove is the founder and CEO of Touch Display Research Inc. (www.TouchDisplayResearch.com), a market research and consulting firm that focuses on touch screen, display, sensor, battery and emerging technologies.

Dr. Colegrove has over twenty years of industry experience.  She holds many analyst “firsts”: She was the first analyst to write a comprehensive touch screen industry report since 2006 (therefore, she is called “Doctor Touch” by her colleagues); she was the first analyst to write an active pen industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write an ITO-replacement industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write a quantum dot industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write a touchless HMI industry report since 2014.

She has authored over one hundred market forecast reports and over one hundred published articles. She is frequently quoted by media and industry press including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Dr. Colegrove has been a featured speaker and session chairperson at over one hundred worldwide conferences. Dr. Colegrove has advised over two hundred companies through her standard reports or consulting projects in recent years.

She has five patent applications with one U.S. patent granted.

Dr. Colegrove has a Ph.D. from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University in Ohio. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors from Peking University in Beijing, China. To learn more about Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and her work, you can visit the website: www.TouchDisplayResearch.com  or JenniferColegrove.com