My mother, Li Shuxian (1923-1982), originally from Yanling County, Xuchang City, Henan Province, joined the People's Liberation Army in April 1949 and worked in the General Hospital of the Artillery Logistics Department (later renamed the 36 Army Hospital, renamed the 211 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea) as a nurse, nurse, and head nurse. In 1965, he transferred to the Taiping District People's Hospital of Harbin City and served as the chief nurse. He retired in 1979. He died in 1982.
During her mother's illness, she continued to write a diary and autobiography every day, writing for three years until her death. The following article is based on the memoirs written by my mother before her death, the first person "I" in the text is the mother herself, and the subtitle of the article is added by me. This series of articles commemorates my beloved mother.
21. Old comrades-in-arms enthusiastically helped Beijing to treat its illness
Saturday, August 2, 1980
On August 2, 1980, at 7:05 p.m., I and Lao Yang took the Martyrs' Hall bus to the railway station, and the people who sent the station were Li Wei, Li Shu, Xiao Hai, and after arriving at the station, I found Dr. Tong Wenlan, she had her lover Zhao Yufei and her son also went to the station at the same time to send them off, and the sleeper of the train we took was 4--5 cars, and the middle and lower bunks of No. 7 were lower and lower. All the way to Beijing
The time is 12:35 on August 3rd. The weather was cloudy and rainless, after getting off the bus, Comrade Song Guoquan of the Martyrs' Museum went to the Beijing State Administration of Cultural Heritage to change the letter of introduction, spent four yuan to take care of a car to live in Room 104 on the first floor of the Ministry of Culture Guest House, which has seven beds and two guests in it. I stayed in 3 beds, Tong stayed in 4 beds, the conditions are still very convenient, the environment is very quiet, there are not many guests.
Surrounded by a small market, all buy snacks and fruits, vegetables, big watermelon a dime a pound, cucumber a dime has more than ten strips, eggplant and tomatoes are a lot. Morning dawn time is about an hour later than Harbin, I and Dr. Tong got up at five o'clock, the sky is still a little dark, washed up, quietly walked out of the guest house, the street to buy breakfast just ready to go out of the market, this area traffic is very developed, cars, trolleybuses, many lines, are the starting point. We walked for a while back to the residence and waited for the meal to start.
Prepare to go to Ritan Hospital today.
The mother took a group photo with her father while she was treated in Beijing
Monday, August 4, 1980
The second day after arriving in Beijing was Monday, I had breakfast with Dr. Tong and took the No. 104 bus to Ritan Hospital for treatment, and after arriving at the station, I turned to no. 29 bus, No. 13 car, and then arrived, there were many patients on that road, the hospital was not large, it is said that there were only 200 beds, we first went to the radiology department to find Comrade Feng Xingxiu, an old comrade-in-arms who had been separated for 22 years, and she was also very enthusiastic to help call and find the chief of surgery, Yu Hongchen, who was operating, saying that there was no time. We had to wait until thursday when we went out of the clinic at two o'clock to see a doctor, because we had no formalities for entering Beijing, Comrade Feng helped to hang up the number first, said that it was out of the hospital, and we went to the Wangfujing Street Department Store to take a quick picture. Be prepared to buy a ticket to travel to Dongdan.
In the afternoon, with Lao Yang and Lao Song, we went on a tour of Xidan Market.
Tuesday, August 5, 1980
Didn't go out this morning, on the one hand I was a little tired after a day of walking yesterday, on the other hand I wanted to write a letter to my family. So Dr. Tong went to get a photo to visit the street, I wrote a letter to Liwei in the morning, books, Jinjin, sent by Lao Yang, rested for a while, dr. Tong came back at noon, after lunch at two o'clock, Old Song helped us buy a ticket is electricity, a general ticket for the car, spent 5 yuan, you can take a ride in the city, the four of us all have tickets, played together in Beihai Park for a while, took a few pictures, returned to the guest house it was almost six o'clock, just open for dinner.
Mother and Dr. Tong, who accompanied him to Beijing to see a doctor, took a group photo in Beihai
Wednesday, August 6, 1980
Today I got up at less than five o'clock, went to the door snack department to buy a bun to carry on my body, and the four of us set off to Xiangshan to play, and got off the bus first to the Thousand Buddhas Temple. It is said that this is the place where Shakyamuni left a will on his 12 disciples on his deathbed, so the Buddhist temple side statue, 12 disciples stood in a circle. The surrounding environment was planted with various flowers and trees, and the pavilion temple was built halfway up the mountainside, so we walked about two kilometers, tired enough, and then returned to the road, took the car and headed for Xiangshan.
Take the second station road to Xiangshan, where the mountain is dangerous, the environment is beautiful, the buildings are on the mountain, step by step, very spectacular, unfortunately we are exhausted one by one, at 12:40 we climbed over the Biyun Temple, and then passed the Yuhua Mountainside, to the Fragrant Mountain Restaurant for lunch, and then drove back to the guest house, after arriving home tired exhausted, dinner did not eat on the sleep.
Thursday, August 7, 1980
This morning I am not ready to go away, wash and rest, and go to the temple of the sun in the afternoon to see a doctor.
Comrade Hongbin! (Han Hongbin)
Hello! I'm sorry to bother you again. Comrade Li Shuxian, the lover of an old comrade-in-arms, suffers from breast cancer, and after the operation, he will review it to see if he can help find an experienced doctor to check it out?
Thanks again! Ask your dad, mom hello!
salute
Mohe
August 5, 1980
This is a letter from Lao Yang's comrade-in-arms to the people who entrusted him, and in the afternoon he went to find the head nurse Han Hongbin, not knowing whether he would do so.
Today is Thursday, is the date of the Ritan Hospital to ask me to see a doctor, after lunch at noon I went with Dr. Tong Lao Song, to the Ritan is 2 o'clock in the afternoon work time, to the radiology department to find Comrade Feng Xingxiu to hang up, Feng handed over the medical records to the director of the nursing department, waited for half an hour, Director Yu Hongchen came out. He was wearing a surgical underwear, and the nurse was the first to send the medical records in, but the third one saw me.
There are many personnel relations here, he read the letter I brought to the director of his department, asked about the condition, quickly settled, let me go back to Ha to find the director of the department for surgery, and said that there are few beds here. He went to Harbin in late August to hold a lung cancer conference, and after arriving in Harbin, he could also help with surgery. Extensive excision, skin grafting, or transfer of the right side with the left breast is also recommended. Later, we went upstairs to find Chief Nurse Han Hongbin, but unfortunately she had already left work after half a break, and when she went to Comrade Feng's place, she went to find Director Yu again, he still refused to accept treatment, and wrote a consultation list, and waited until next Thursday to consult again, and came back like this.
In the evening, Xie Longyuan and his lover came to the guest house to see us, sat down until eight o'clock in the evening, and returned, saying that he also helped to inquire about who knew the famous doctor in the Temple of the Sun, and asked us to come to his house next Tuesday.
August 8, 1980
Dr. Tong and I took the 104 bus terminal to change the 9 road and then changed to the 339 to the Lugou Bridge (309 came back to see that there were various little lions on the railings on both sides of the bridge) to changxing shop to Zhao Kunyi's house, because the road was far away, it took two and a half hours to arrive. It is ten o'clock to her house, she has gone out, Soli goes to work, Xiao Er buys vegetables, only Xiao Gang is at home, waiting until 11:30 at her house, Sorie came back, helped me buy dumplings, just laid out, Kun Yi came back, at noon we explained our intentions, they are very concerned, willing to actively help find a relationship to assist in early hospitalization. After the meal, Kun Yi braved the rain to go with us to the Ministry of Health of the city to find classmates, Tong Wenlan and they were busy for an afternoon to find two relationships, one is the Oncology Institute of Beijing Medical College, said that tomorrow telephone contact; one is the department of surgery of the Capital Hospital, Dr. Tong came back at six o'clock in the evening, Xiao Gang is still feverish.
August 9, 1980
This morning Tong Wenlan and Kun Yi went to the Ministry of Health to find someone, I was waiting at home, Old Yang was afraid that I was depressed, Song and Old Yang went to the Military Museum together. In one morning, I watched the deeds of the five marshals, including the revolutionary deeds and relics of marshal Zhu De, Nie Rongzhen, He Long, Chen Yi, and Peng Dehuai, and saw the heroic images of the heroes of the early revolutionary war and the tragic scenes of the unjust cases they suffered in their later years. Later, I was so tired that I sat down and rested, and when I returned to the guest house at noon, I did not want to move anymore, and I did not go together when they arrived in The Afternoon.
Tong Wenlan came back in the afternoon, she said that it is a pity that you did not go to the Ministry of Health in the morning, otherwise you may have gone to the Cancer Institute to see a doctor, made an appointment to call in the afternoon, and then the phone did not find anyone, so I had to wait for Monday. Kun Yi and Sori had just arrived in the city, and they also did their work, calling the priest at night.
In the evening, Old Yang said that Xue Kuizhen came to call and said that he would come to see us tomorrow. Let me wait at home, Li Wei wrote.
Thursday, August 10, 1980
This morning got up and Lao Yang went to a nearby small restaurant to buy a bowl of porridge three or two buns to eat, Sunday morning to Li Wei returned a letter to send upstairs, just Xue Kuizhen and Xue Kuiyuan were present, talked for a while, at twelve thirty we went to jiaodaokou restaurant to eat, four dishes are Kuizhen invited guests.
(To be continued)
Mother and Dr. Tong are in Beijing