One morning in June 2021, in Shaoyang, Hunan Province, a young mother was walking to school with a child in one hand.
Walking to the school gate, one of the children waved goodbye to his mother and brother and turned around to enter the school.
Suddenly, the younger brother broke free of his mother's hand and shouted that he wanted to go to school with his brother.
"Mom, when can I go to school with my brother?" My brother's kindergarten is so beautiful, I want to follow my brother, I don't want to get injections. ”
The little child looked at her mother with tears in her eyes, but the mother could only hold back the tears and pull the children away.
What happened to the family, and why can't my brother go to school like my brother?
The mother's name is Mao Qianrong, the younger brother who cannot go to school is called Luo Yucai (with his father's surname), and the older brother is called Mao Yuyuan, a pair of twin brothers.
After sending his brother, Mao Qianrong also took his younger brother to catch a car and take a bus for several hours to the provincial city for chemotherapy.
But Xiaoyu kept clutching the railing at the door, crying and asking his mother when he would be able to go to school, he didn't want to go to the hospital, he wanted to go to kindergarten like his brother.
Xiao Yucai is only the age of kindergarten, life has just begun, how can he suffer from such a serious illness?
All this also starts from the marriage of my mother's hairy rong.
In 2013, Mao Qianrong got married. The husband was introduced to him, there was no free love, there was no love at first sight, both sides felt that the personality was compatible, and the two came together.
After marriage, the two naturally hope to have a child and make this small family more lively, but a whole year has passed, but there is no movement, which makes the little couple anxious.
The two went to the hospital together for examination, and the examination found that it was because the two could not conceive naturally due to physical reasons.
This news is like a basin of cold water poured on this little couple, for them, children are not the icing on the cake but a very important part of the family composition, with children life will have hope, struggle will be meaningful.
Unwilling to give up, the couple consulted around, looking for ways to conceive their own children, and eventually learned about IVF. In this way, they chose to get their own children through artificial conception.
It has to be said that the progress of medical technology not only promotes the development of mankind and makes the world more possible, but also allows families like Mao Qianrong to have their own children.
In the two years from 2014 to 2016, the couple underwent four embryonic conceptions before and after.
In the town, no matter what the news, it will spread quickly, and the rumors of the neighbors will not fall into their ears.
In fact, there are also some elders and relatives and friends who discourage them, after all, the family conditions of the two are not particularly good, and if they really spend money to have children all the time, it is not very cost-effective.
The family advised the couple to simply adopt a child and take good care of it, and there was no difference. But Mao Qianrong and her husband insisted on having children despite these persuasions.
Two years also cost the young couple more than 100,000 yuan, but fortunately the results were successful - in July 2016, Mao Qianrong was successfully conceived, and they were about to usher in their own little baby.
The hard-won little life made Mao Qianrong more cautious than other expectant mothers, she quit her job to concentrate on childbirth, and because she was worried about what accidents would occur in the first few months, she also rented a room near the hospital.
After more than two months of pregnancy, Mao Qianrong's condition gradually stabilized, and after the hospital examination confirmed that there was no problem with the health of the fetus, Mao Qianrong returned to his hometown of Shaoyang, Hunan Province, and raised a fetus at home.
On February 22, 2017, Mao Qianrong, who was more than seven months pregnant, suddenly felt severe pain in his stomach, and Mao Qianrong did not want to have any accidents, so he immediately went to Chengbu County People's Hospital for examination, and was told that there was a possibility of premature birth, and could only live in the hospital for observation in order to respond to the emergency in time.
Sure enough, the next morning, Mao Qianrong gave birth to a pair of twin sons.
Because the two children were not yet full-term at birth and were twins, they were also much lighter than normally born children.
The little life is warm and fragile, looking at the newborn child, Mao Qianrong and her husband can't help but shed tears, how difficult it is along the way, only they know.
Fortunately, the two children were born safely.
For the arrival of these two children, Mao Qianrong and his wife not only paid a lot of time and money, but also suffered psychologically and physically, especially Mao Qianrong, and the pregnancy reaction made her highly nervous, even if she was born, she was afraid of any accidents in the child.
In order to let the child remember the difficulty of his wife, the husband and his wife discussed and decided to let his brother and mother be surnamed Mao, called Mao Yuyuan, while the younger brother and his father's surname luo, named Luo Yucai.
Looking at these two little lives waiting to be fed, the whole family is full of life, And Qian Rong feels that the suffering he has suffered before is worth it, and the birth of the child also blocks the mouths of those neighbors.
Although after becoming pregnant, Mao Qianrong quit his previous job in the village committee and concentrated on childbirth, the family only relied on her husband to work at the construction site to maintain her life, and borrowed a lot of money for test management, but Mao Qianrong was still very optimistic. After all, now that the family is happy and happy, Mao Qianrong feels that there is hope for the future.
After all, I and my husband are also young, and they have children, and when the children grow up and can go to school, they can also take time to work to subsidize the family, and pay off the money owed by the test tube and the birth of children with the efforts of the family, and the future will definitely get better and better.
Although the money earned is not much, as long as the family is together and works hard together, it will certainly be able to make the family business flourish and flourish.
Mao Qianrong is full of expectations for the future, but the unknown ordeal is like a sudden asteroid, rushing into the family.
In October 2020, Mao Yuyuan and Luo Yucai were already three years old, which was the age of liveliness and activity, but his younger brother Luo Yucai suddenly began to have a fever, stumbled when walking, could not lift his strength, and often cried that his stomach hurt.
Mao Qianrong was very distressed, afraid of what accidents the child had, worried that the medical conditions of the hospital in the county were not good, so he took Luo Yucai to the central hospital in Shaoyang City for examination.
After a series of delicate examinations in the hospital, the result was that Mao Qianrong had "cardiac arrest".
The doctor said that Luo Yucai may have suffered from malignant tumors or leukemia, and proposed that Mao Qianrong go to the big hospital in the provincial city to re-examine and confirm it.
Mao Qianrong is like five thunderbolts, and he does not want to believe it for a long time - his child is only 3 years old, how can the terrible words such as "leukemia" and "tumor" linked to death be associated with children?
She didn't believe that fate would be so cruel to her, but her child's body could not be delayed for a day.
So on October 28, 2020, he took Luo Yucai to Changsha for examination, and went to several large hospitals in Changsha to prevent the diagnosis, and finally found out in the Hunan Provincial People's Hospital.
After the doctor's examination, he told Mao Qianrong that Luo Yucai was diagnosed with neuroblastoma (stage IV high-risk).
This disease is very rare, and Luo Yucai's condition is also quite complex, the tumor has begun to metastasize, bone marrow, skull, lumbar spine, thoracic vertebrae, pelvic bones and other places, so the child will walk without strength, stomach pain, fever.
This complex development of the disease also leads to Luo Yucai's current inability to carry out radiotherapy and surgery, and can only carry out some conventional chemotherapy first, and then use a targeted drug called GD2 to clean up the remaining cancer cells in Luo Yucai's current body.
The first stage of chemotherapy requires fourteen courses of treatment, which is already a huge expense for this family of four, GD2 is an imported anti-tumor targeted drug, and the price is more expensive.
The torture of the child by the disease and the child's life-saving money have become a bloody reality in front of the family.
Neuroblastoma is also known as the "king of childhood tumors", its malignancy is high, the disease develops rapidly, the treatment is difficult, and most of them are already advanced when they are found, because neuroblastoma is not painful or itchy in the early stage, and there are no symptoms.
The vast majority of them are found by parents to have lumps in their children's stomachs, and where to transfer leads to corresponding symptoms - transferring to blood will lead to anemia, transferring to the legs will cause leg pain, transferring to the eyes will lead to blindness or bruising, and transferring to the spinal cord may lead to paralysis of the baby.
Malignant tumors are not very far from children, and neuroblastoma accounts for 8%-10% of them.
However, this malignant tumor often found in children is not incurable, and the cure is also different according to individual differences, malignancy, and early and late stage stages.
As far as neuroblastoma is concerned, if it is a phase I, II, or III case, the cure rate can reach more than 80%, and if it is a high-risk situation in stage IV, the survival rate may be only about 20%.
Luo Yucai is already a four-stage high-risk type, Mao Qianrong can't believe this cruel fact, the child he worked so hard to give birth to, invested all his and her husband's hard work, watching him grow up, how can he suffer from such a serious disease?
She felt that God was unfair to her, that it was more difficult for her to get pregnant than others, that she had to give birth to a child, and now she was suffering from this terrible disease.
Yes, since stepping on the road of IVF, Mao Qianrong has done it 4 times, and it is difficult to realize his and her husband's wishes, but he did not expect that after 3 years, the whole family would fall into despair.
She also thought about whether she should not have children, but the result of thinking again and again was that she wanted children too much, even if she paid everything for it, she was willing.
The malignant tumor is like an emotionless killer, raging in Luo Yucai's body, which also causes the child to become increasingly haggard, without the vitality and vitality of the past.
Sick in the child's body, the pain in the mother's heart, Mao Qianrong felt the cruelty and ruthlessness of the disease, but she is the mother, is the child's protective umbrella, she can not be knocked down, can only wipe away tears, forced to endure sadness with Xiao Yu to embark on a long road to seek medical treatment.
Hospitalization requires a lot of money, and the husband can only work harder, while Mao Qianrong can only accompany his young son to the hospital alone.
Every corner of the hospital can see the figure of Mao Qianrong running up and down, and she also has to pretend to be optimistic and coax Xiao Yucai, hoping that he can obediently accept treatment.
Because Mao Qianrong and his wife are not at home, so the brother Mao Yuyuan can only be handed over to his aunt to help take care of, the child is still small after all, Although Mao Qianrong is in the hospital, he is also concerned about the family's xiao Yuyuan, hoping that the other child can be healthy and healthy.
Relying only on the income of the husband and wife, there is no way to bear the cost of their son's treatment, and Mao Qianrong can only pull down his face to borrow money from his relatives.
No one wanted to see a child of several years old suffer from disease, so several sisters of Mao Qianrong cobbled together 200,000 yuan of Mao Qianrong, which was also saved from between their teeth by their families. Borrowing this money, the child has the money to continue treatment.
Since Luo Yucai fell ill, Mao Qianrong's mood has been like a roller coaster, and her spirit is also highly tense, and the embarrassment and pressure of lack of money and borrowing money have made her breathless.
But the mother is great, she is a giant in the life of her children, even if the sky falls, she will use her shoulders to hold up the small sky above her children's heads.
She knows that she must not give up on herself, let alone have an emotional breakdown, and can only be strong to survive in order to see her children grow up healthy and healthy.
Although the illness prevented Luo Yucai from going to school like his brother, the brothers' feelings were not affected by the brief separation.
When they were together, the two little heads often got together to talk and laugh, snuggling up like they were in their mother's belly.
The older brother would tell his younger brother about life in kindergarten, and the younger brother would tell his brother what he had seen in the hospital.
What a harmonious and happy family, it would be better if there was no disease, and Yucai could go to school like a brother and make new friends - thinking of this, Mao Qianrong secretly wiped tears from his back.
What made her even more sad was that she looked at Xiao Yucai's carefree smile and thought that the child did not know how serious his illness was, but the scene she saw inadvertently deeply stung Mao Qianrong's heart.
She heard her brother tell him in a serious way that she had seen a child in the hospital being put in a bag by a doctor, and the child's family was crying.
"Mom said it was a child who went far away and would never come back."
After saying this, Luo Yucai took his brother's hand and told his brother very seriously that he should not let his brother follow when he went to the hospital, because he would not be able to come back and see his parents when he went.
Seeing his son say such a thing at a young age, Mao Qianrong felt ashamed and painful.
In the eight months after the diagnosis, Luo Yucai experienced eleven courses of treatment, spent a patchwork of 200,000, and the only way to treat the disease at present is to continue to use GD2 targeted drugs.
In order to eliminate cancer cells, at least five courses of this drug must be used, and nearly one million medical expenses are needed, which is tantamount to a huge amount of money for a family with a dime.
Fortunately, the story of Luo Yucai's family has received widespread attention from the society through media reports, and now it has raised enough treatment funds. We believe that the cute Luo Yucai children will get better one day, successfully overcome the disease, and go to school with their brother.
I sincerely wish this unfortunate and suffering family that they can usher in their own happiness.
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