On February 12, 2017, just after the Lantern Festival, Gao Hongmei's family was still immersed in the celebration of the New Year reunion, but this day also meant that his son's happy winter vacation was over, and he had to return to school the next day.
Gao Hongmei's front foot is still carefully sorting out all the things to be used for her son to register for the next day, reminding her son to put away his winter vacation homework and don't miss it. On the back foot, the son's physical reaction made the Gao Hongmei family go to the inflection point of fate, and the peaceful and happy life was broken from then on.
After dinner and packing up the school supplies, Gao Hongmei told her son to take a shower and change into clean clothes to welcome the arrival of the new semester.
The son heard his mother's command, obediently answered, took his clothes and went into the bathroom.
After a while, the son came out of the shower, but the whole person's appearance frightened Gao Hongmei.
When my son first went in to take a shower, everything was normal, but he came out of the bathroom with a big belly.
Seeing the abnormality of her son's body, Gao Hongmei quickly asked her son what was wrong? The son replied that he did not know why his stomach had become so large.
Gao Hongmei asked her son if he was in pain? The son said that when he coughed these two days, his stomach would hurt and he felt like there was water in his stomach.
After listening to her son's description, Gao Hongmei felt that the situation was a little wrong, and she was very anxious, so she immediately took her son to the community hospital. However, at this time, Gao Hongmei did not realize the seriousness of her son's condition, thinking that it might be the New Year's Day, the son ate something bad or ate braced, it is estimated that the doctor prescribed some medicine to treat bloating.
Who expected to arrive at the hospital, as soon as the doctor saw his son's illness, his face was very solemn, so gao Hongmei quickly took the child to the big hospital to see.
When Gao Hongmei saw the doctor's expression, she had a bad premonition in her heart, and the whole person began to become nervous. She asked the doctor, what is the illness of her son? The doctor just didn't answer well, they can't be diagnosed here, let Gao Hongmei or take the child to the big hospital for a comprehensive examination is better.
Gao Hongmei looked at her son's stomach, which seemed to be a little bigger than when she first came out of the bathroom, and swollen from her chest down. Even if she didn't know how to heal, she could see that her son's illness was a little unusual at this time.
The next morning, Gao Hongmei asked for a leave of absence from the school and asked her husband to take her son to the First People's Hospital of Zhengzhou City for examination. However, at 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Gao Hongmei, who was anxiously waiting for news while working, never received a call from her husband to tell her about her son's condition.
As a mother, Gao Hongmei began to panic inexplicably, and finally couldn't sit still, asked the company for leave and rushed to the hospital.
When she arrived at the hospital, Gao Hongmei first found her husband, and when she met, she asked: "This has been checked for a morning, how can there be a test result, why don't you call me?" What is our son's illness? What kind of illness can such a big child get? ”
The husband looked at her and stopped talking, and finally only said to her: "The situation is not good." ”
Gao Hongmei was stunned when she heard the moment, completely unwilling to believe what her husband said, subconsciously rejected this information, and directly retorted to her husband: "What can be bad, the baby is not a little puffy, the stomach is a little big." You don't tell me what happened to the child, I went to the doctor myself. ”
Seeing that his wife was going to go directly to the doctor to ask about the situation, the husband also knew that he could not hide it, so he had to call her to a relatively secluded corner at the end of the hospital corridor, and then told Gao Hongmei the truth about his son's condition with red tears and trembling voices.
It turned out that my son had cirrhosis of the liver and had to be hospitalized.
As soon as Gao Hongmei listened, her brain "buzzed" and suddenly became blank, and she could not accept this fact. In her cognition, cirrhosis of the liver is a disease that only older people get, and her son is only 10 years old, how can he get such a disease?
After a few seconds, she couldn't help but cry, and her mouth said: "Impossible, impossible." The husband also squatted on the ground and shed tears.
Just then, my son's attending doctor came out of the examination room, saw that the couple was so sad, and walked over to comfort them.
Gao Hongmei, like seeing a savior, pulled the doctor and asked, "Doctor, how did my son get this disease at such a young age?" Could it be a misdiagnosis? ”
The doctor did not get angry in the face of Gao Hongmei's questions, and gently said to Gao Hongmei: "I understand your feelings as parents, but this disease is certainly not misdiagnosed, just do a simple color ultrasound can see it." You should still hurry up and transfer your child to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, where the treatment of liver disease is more professional. ”
At this point, Gao Hongmei and his wife had to follow the doctor's advice and take their son to zhengda first affiliated hospital for treatment at the first time.
However, for the Gao Hongmei family, the high medical expenses are the first hurdle they need to face. The cost of the early stage is 40,000, plus the cost of the subsequent transplant is almost 200,000 or 300,000, not including the cost of anti-rejection therapy in the later stage.
Gao Hongmei comes from a rural area in Yanjian County, Xinxiang City, Henan Province, and has a son and a daughter after marriage with her husband. In order to give her children a better education, Gao Hongmei and her husband came to Xinzheng City to work as a cleaner in a property company in the city.
Although the life of a family of four is not rich and the life is plain, it has the small happiness of an ordinary family. The son's sudden illness completely shattered the simple little happiness of the family, and the Gao Hongmei family was breathless.
But even so, his son's illness always has to be cured, even if he smashes pots and sells iron, and borrows money everywhere, Gao Hongmei will also save his son.
When she arrived at the Zheng University First Affiliated Hospital, Gao Hongmei still had a glimmer of hope in her heart, hoping that her son's condition was not so serious, and it may have been misdiagnosed before.
However, after some examination, the attending doctor took his son's liver tablets and showed them to Gao Hongmei and his wife. On the film, it can be clearly seen that the liver is only a little left, it is all water, it is severe cirrhosis, and the only effective treatment is liver transplantation.
"Liver transplantation" is a very unfamiliar word for Gao Hongmei's family, and it has no concept at all. But after learning that this treatment method can save her son's life, Gao Hongmei insisted on giving her son a liver transplant without hesitation.
A mother, the son is equal to her half life, there is hope of treatment, naturally can not give up, as long as you can save the child's life, anything.
After trying to find a way to get enough medical expenses in the early stage, another new level was placed in front of Gao Hongmei.
To know that liver transplant surgery means that a healthy liver source is needed, but at that time, there were 1.5 million patients in need of organ transplantation in the mainland, but only 10,000 people could get transplants, and the ratio of supply and demand was 1:150.
More critically, Gao Hongmei's son is only 10 years old, and the requirements for liver sources are more stringent, and it is impossible to wait for a suitable liver source. If you wait like this, I don't know if my son's life can last until the day when he has a liver source.
The best way to solve this problem is for the child's relatives to provide him with a liver source and perform an inter-parent transplant.
Upon hearing that there was such a solution, the Gao Hongmei family did not hesitate and immediately agreed.
Gao Hongmei's husband wanted to use his own liver to save his son, but after doing the enhanced CT, his liver did not meet the conditions for transplantation. Faced with this result, her husband looked at Gao Hongmei guiltily and said to her, "Now I can only use you." ”
Gao Hongmei didn't say a word, nodded her head in agreement, and said to the doctor: "Doctor, use mine, as long as you can save the child's life." ”
Now all hope can only be pinned on Gao Hongmei, if Gao Hongmei's liver does not meet the requirements, then the son can only wait in line for the source of the liver, and it is unknown whether he can save his life during the waiting process.
After the examination, Gao Hongmei waited anxiously for the results of the examination, fearing that if her physical examination results were not up to standard, it meant that she might lose her son. As a result, for her, the sky had fallen.
Fortunately, Gao Hongmei's physical examination results were all normal, and all the items examined met the criteria for transplanting his son's liver.
After getting this result, Gao Hongmei's face, which had been anxious, finally revealed a smile. Such a result means that her son has been saved, and she has no consideration of what kind of harm such a transplant surgery will bring to herself.
For a normal person, cutting off part of the liver is not as simple as imagined. There were significant risks behind the operation, with 19 donors dying worldwide as of February 2017. In addition, there are many postoperative complications of organ donation surgery, which can be life-threatening.
Gao Hongmei donated liver to her son, and it is possible that her son survived, but she died because of infection and some complications.
After learning of these possibilities, Gao Hongmei shed tears, after all, she is also an ordinary person, and she will be afraid in the face of possible death.
She knew that this operation, whether it was for herself or her children, was a struggle with death, and it was possible that neither mother nor son could get off this operating table.
However, if she did not donate dirt, only death awaited her son, so in contrast, Gao Hongmei felt that she was not so afraid, and resolutely signed her name on the operation book.
Although the son is not very old, he is very sensible, he does not want his mother to do this for him, Gao Hongmei cried and said to his son: "Mother must save you!" Make you better, don't suffer again, you have to be strong. ”
The son lying on the hospital bed also cried bitterly.
Gao Hongmei, who had just made psychological preparations, thought that the next step was to carry out surgery, but she did not expect that the doctor's words made her face a serious problem.
Although all aspects of the physical examination are within the range of indicators, Gao Hongmei has a fatty liver, and she must lose the fatty liver in order to transplant the liver to her son. Otherwise, even if the son accepts her donated liver, his recovery will be very slow.
And the son's condition is getting worse day by day, dragging on one more day is more dangerous, only by losing the fatty liver as soon as possible can we start surgery and save my son's life.
To this end, the doctor pushed the operation back 3 weeks, giving Gao Hongmei time to lose her fatty liver, which meant that she had to lose her fatty liver in less than a month.
For the sake of her son, Gao Hongmei fought.
Surgery must maintain a good physical condition, so Gao Hongmei can neither over-diet nor eat weight loss drugs during the fat loss period, and can only rely on a lot of exercise to achieve the goal.
The liver transplant ward where my son is located is on the 12th floor, and every morning at 5 o'clock, Gao Hongmei runs down from the upper floor to start a day's exercise.
Since the first day of exercise, Gao Hongmei has never taken the hospital elevator again, and no matter where she goes, she climbs the stairs by herself. The road outside the hospital and beside the river has also become the main place for her to run and exercise.
For Gao Hongmei, who has never been accustomed to exercise, such a high-intensity, high-intensity exercise is a very painful thing, but she only has one thought in her mind: "I want to reduce my fatty liver early, so that I can save my son as soon as possible." ”
It is this belief that supports Gao Hongmei to run forward step by step.
Later, after a well-wisher learned about the situation of Gao Hongmei's family, he took the initiative to contact a gym for her so that she could go inside to exercise. The fitness instructors in the stadium also tailored a fitness package for her according to her physical condition, allowing her to exercise in the venue for free.
There are more caring people who know the situation of Gao Hongmei's family, rush to the hospital anonymously to leave money and leave, there are hundreds, there are thousands, gao Hongmei works in the property company also launched a donation for her. All this made Gao Hongmei feel moved and more determined to save the child's confidence.
Every morning at 5:00 a.m., Gao Hongmei gets up, runs a few laps downstairs in the hospital, and then returns to the ward to take care of his son and eat breakfast. At 9:30 she went to the gym, worked out until 12 o'clock, and returned to the hospital to buy lunch for her child.
After resting for an hour, Gao Hongmei went to the gym to continue running on the treadmill for two hours. At the end of the day, Gao Hongmei has to maintain more than 10 kilometers of running volume.
Every day, when he saw his sweaty mother return to the ward, his sensible son would say to his mother, "Mom, you have worked hard." Hearing her son's words, Gao Hongmei felt that it was worth it to suffer no matter how much pain she suffered.
Persistence in everything is rewarded.
In 20 days, gao hongmei, who was more than one meter and six meters, lost 13 pounds from the previous 140 pounds, and finally only more than 120 pounds, and the fatty liver completely disappeared.
She herself had never thought of such a large amount of exercise, she could persevere, this is the power of maternal love.
The absence of fatty liver also means that the best time for surgery has arrived.
April 9, 2017, the day before the transplant. Gao Hongmei called her husband to the front and solemnly said to him with tears: "If there is an accident in the operation, I and the child can only choose one, you must choose the child, he is my life." ”
The husband saw such a high red plum also red eyes, relieved her: "You can rest assured, this is the hospital, you will all be fine, we have to trust the doctor." ”
That night, Gao Hongmei had not been able to sleep all night, and her heart was always carrying.
At 7:50 a.m. on April 10, Gao Hongmei began preoperative preparations, and her heart was very worried. Just as she was preparing for the anesthesia, her weak son struggled to get out of bed to see his mother.
Seeing his mother lying on the hospital bed, the son couldn't help but cry, and said to Gao Hongmei while crying: "Mom, don't be afraid." ”
Gao Hongmei heard her son's comfort, and her tears also fell, but this sentence completely dissipated the fear in her heart, turning into courage, strength and strength.
She said to her son, "Son, don't worry, Mom's all right, you can go back." The son walked back to the ward step by step.
At 9:30, my son also entered the operating room.
Seven hours later, Gao Hongmei was sent back to the ward, and at 11:00 p.m., Gao Hongmei woke up from anesthesia and asked the nurse with the first sentence: "Is there anything wrong with the child?" The nurse comforted Gao Hongmei's child that everything was fine and it was all right.
In fact, at 11:20 p.m., almost when Gao Hongmei woke up, her son also ended the operation and was sent back to the intensive care unit, and the first sentence of the child's awakening was to ask the mother how she was.
The 11-hour operation was a great success.
10 years ago, Gao Hongmei gave her son his first life, and 10 years later, Gao Hongmei gave her son a second life.
The son recovered very well after the operation, and Gao Hongmei's liver began to fuse and play a role in the son's body.
From the onset of illness in February to the successful operation in April, in just two months, Gao Hongmei felt that many years had passed, and every day was a torment.
Now that all the suffering has passed, the haze of life has begun to drift away from Gao Hongmei's family.
The most selfless love in the world is the love that parents give to their children, without asking for anything in return, even at the cost of exchanging their own lives for their children's lives. Under the power of maternal love, what kind of miracles occur will not be surprising.
Soon it will be the New Year, it is the day of our Chinese family reunion, and the children who have been working outside all year round will return to their parents. When you get home, spend more time with them, and listen to your parents' nagging and advice patiently, because they are the people in this world who really want you to live well.