During The New Year's Day, 24-year-old girl Chen Linqiong used a video to describe her experience in the 2021 examination against cancer, she said: "2021 is finally over, this year is too bitter and too long, life should not be worse than this, experienced a diagnosis of cancer, broke up with her boyfriend, and wiped away tears to prepare for the examination." I hope that if you watch this video, you can think of a girl who has 'succeeded' in fighting cancer and has also taken the graduate school, then you must be able to (survive all the pain)! Recently, in an interview with the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter, she said: "After the health problem, I found that other things are small things, the whole treatment process is very long, I feel more and more about the preciousness of time, I want to use it to learn." If I can get into graduate school, I would also like to study for a ph.D. and study my favorite major and field. ”
A 24-year-old girl was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer
Wipe away tears bravely to receive treatment
Guangdong girl Chen Linqiong was born in 1997, before January 2021, she was a beautiful little girl who loved fitness and liked to go shopping and shop. At the end of New Year's Eve with friends last year, she received an offer from a favorite company, ready to quit from the place where she had worked for two years and start a new life, but a medical examination pressed the pause button on all her plans.
Chen Linqiong before the illness
Because there was always sputum bleeding, she hesitated for a long time and decided to take time to go to the hospital for a physical examination. After doing the nasal endoscopy, she was lying on the bed when she heard the doctor standing next to her say, "Nasopharyngeal cancer is highly suspected." ”
"My tears fell right away." Chen Linqiong told reporters: "It's not because of pain, it's fear." Her hometown is in Chaozhou, she has been working alone in Zhuhai after graduation, and the physical examination at that time was also a person, but she never thought that the word "cancer" would be so close to her. The doctor asked her to do a biopsy first, and she immediately called her father, and her voice was trembling with panic. There was no anesthetic in the biopsy, and the forceps reached into the nasal cavity to clip out three pieces of diseased live bodies (pieces of flesh in the nasal cavity), and then the nose kept bleeding, and she just wanted to cry, and she couldn't even wipe the blood.
A week after the diagnosis, Chen Linqiong relied on the phone calls and WeChat messages of family and friends to support her, "My friend is more optimistic, she told me, 'Impossible, you are so young', I was persuaded by her, I think I should be really fine." "But the test results came out, she was not so lucky, diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, but fortunately not advanced."
"At this time, I didn't collapse as much as I did at the beginning, I didn't cry, and I accepted the result well." After planning to be hospitalized, her parents came from out of town to accompany her. Chen Linqiong sent a letter of apology to the personnel commissioner of the new company who was about to join, and said goodbye to her original plan for 2021. She cut off her favorite long hair and broke up with her boyfriend, who had been in love for half a year. At that time, the movie "Send You a Little Red Flower" that focused on anti-cancer families had just been released, and her girlfriend also gave her a knitted little red flower like in the movie, and she carried it with her, ready to meet the long anti-cancer life.
The little red flower that her girlfriend gave her
A long course of chemotherapy
Mood tends to be depressed
From the end of January 2021 to the end of May 2021, Chen Linqiong basically spent nearly half a year in the ward. She didn't want to do anything at first, so she lay down on the bed and slept. As soon as there is more free time, she begins to think wildly, missing the days when she is not sick, before she wanted to lose weight and could not lose, the weight during the anti-cancer period suddenly dropped to 90 pounds, but she wanted to be fat back, playing mobile phone brush brush will envy others' colorful life, "think more, and start to cry sadly." ”
"Four wisdom teeth were extracted in three days, followed by radiation therapy after chemotherapy, three rounds of chemotherapy, more than 30 times of radiation therapy ... There was no sense of taste, the mouth was full of ulcers, I couldn't eat anything, and my neck began to fester. Obviously, it was the memory of a few months ago, but she felt as if a long time had passed, but fortunately, in these difficult times, she had friends and family with her. During that time, Chen Linqiong liked to send a diary on social platforms, named "Anti-Cancer Diary", she used this way to find netizens who were similar to her own experience and pour out her inner pain.
Chen Linqiong was treated in the hospital
Whenever her friend has time, she will run to the hospital to visit her, and her parents will take care of her. Chen Linqiong was most impressed that the next day after the chemotherapy, more than one o'clock in the morning, her mother could not sleep to get up to go to the toilet, she also woke up, but also could not sleep, at eight o'clock in the morning began to infuse, people were sleepy, got up to wash and suddenly fell in the bathroom. The mother shouted in fright and called the doctor. Since then, her mother has helped her to the bathroom.
But Chen Linqiong said that even if she can feel the companionship and care of the people around her, it is still difficult for her to control depression. Physical pain brought her a lot of pressure, she had persistent insomnia, sleep disorders. On a ct scan, she met an older sister who was beautiful and in a good mental state, "She asked me what was wrong, I said 'very bad, nasopharyngeal cancer', she looked at my list and smiled and said, 'Then my worse'. She has been treated for more than 9 months, had surgery, came over for two months to review, found that it was transferred, and her light and breezy tone made me see the strength of strength . ”
Set your entrance goals
Heal yourself with learning
"The whole treatment process is very long, radiotherapy and chemotherapy will take half a year, and then there will be a few months of recuperation, basically 2021 will be put in." I realized more and more the preciousness of time and wanted to use it for learning. Chen Linqiong thought about working part-time, reading books scatteredly, and felt that she had not been able to use the time well, and finally she decided to prepare for the postgraduate examination of psychology at Guangzhou University.
"I actually studied business English as an undergraduate, but I have always been interested in psychology, and during my treatment, I read a lot of psychology books to combat depression." Chen Linqiong told reporters that her goal is: no matter what the results of the examination and research are, we must persist until the moment of entering the examination room.
When she was discharged from the hospital and went home to recuperate, she changed the daily anti-cancer diary to a research diary, and transformed the anti-cancer stage into a self-learning process. Every day at dinner is still listening to lectures, social software collection is no longer personality dressing, makeup tutorials, but the learning materials of various subjects, "depression slowly disappears in learning, just like finding a new goal for yourself, with the meaning of life." ”
Chen Linqiong's desk was piled up with thick examination materials
Chen Linqiong said that before graduating from undergraduate, she has not been a child who loves to learn, but this time from passive learning to active learning, the mentality of reading books has changed, "for example, looking at politics and history, the characters in the books seem to have flesh and blood, and I understand the pain they have experienced better." She believes that it is this anti-cancer experience that has matured herself, so she gradually let go and learn to reconcile with pain.
I was very excited after the exam
Joke about yourself like a pig rushing out of a fence
On the day of the exam, Chen Linqiong got up particularly early and entered the exam room with a rapid heartbeat. After the exam, she sent a message to her friend: "I can't sleep at all, I'm so excited, I'm like a pig rushing out of the fence after the exam!" At present, Chen Linqiong is still in the stage of anti-cancer recuperation and is also waiting for the results of the examination. Around the Spring Festival in 2022, the graduate school exam results will be announced one after another, but she looks very indifferent, "I don't know what the exam results will be, of course, I hope to go ashore, but in 2022 I hope to be healthy and happy, and keep my hair long." ”
Chen Linqiong, who cut her hair short, hoped to keep her hair long
On the road to anti-cancer, in addition to the care of the family, friends Lin Ruochen and others have also been waiting by Chen Linqiong's side. When interviewed by the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter, Lin Ruochen asked the reporter to bring Chen Linqiong a blessing: "I hope you can go ashore, get better and better every day in the future, always be healthy and happy, and we will retire together." ”
If she can successfully enter graduate school, Chen Linqiong said that she will also study for a doctorate and study her favorite majors and fields. After graduation, I want to become a qualified counselor and share this experience with people in pain, "After experiencing cancer treatment days, I can better appreciate what others call pain." ”
Chen Linqiong looks forward to getting better in 2022
Looking at the anti-cancer diary she had written before, she laughed embarrassedly and used the three words "emotional" to describe those words, "I want to tell others that at that moment, you must be particularly sad, but after you walk out, look back, you will find that it is not so difficult." 」 ”
Purple Cow News trainee reporter | Sun Qingyun
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Edited | Wan Huijuan
Editor-in-chief| Chen Dichen
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