"I lived my life well and didn't expect to be shattered by a nightmare." At the end of October 2020, Zhang Qiang's three-year-old cute daughter Zhang Anqi was attacked by a sudden high fever, followed by a nightmare, and the overwhelming despair spread for more than a year, and it is still not over. The picture shows Zhang Anqi who is eating.
Sudden high fever
Zhang Anqi's home is in Nanda Town, Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province. On October 20, 2020, on the way to pick up her daughter from school, Zhang Anqi's mother, Yu Lijun, received a call from the teacher and learned that her daughter had a low-grade fever. "I quickly took her home and fed her anti-fever medicine, fortunately, the body temperature quickly dropped, and I did not expect that in the early morning of the 21st, the child was on fire again, or high fever." Yu Lijun said fearfully.
The couple suddenly felt that something was wrong and rushed to the hospital with Angie overnight. Blood check routines and strange questions from doctors and nurses, coupled with two re-blood tests, these operations made Zhang Qiang and his wife nervous. The doctor's sudden words "suspected blood disease" made the atmosphere at the scene freeze, and the couple was uneasy inside. At 4:00 a.m., the couple took their children to a people's hospital in Huizhou. "Anqi's body temperature has risen to 40 degrees on the way to the hospital, and she has not been diagnosed accurately in the fever clinic, and if she wants to be admitted to the hospital, the hospital does not have beds." The picture shows the doctor treating Zhang Anqi.
Seeing that their daughter's body temperature was getting higher and higher, and her consciousness was unclear, Zhang Qiang and his wife were in a hurry. Fortunately, just as the couple was preparing to leave the hospital, they were suddenly told that there was a spare bed to take in Little Angel. From the small clinic to the community hospital, and then to a people's hospital in Huizhou, blood testing, CT examination, lumbar puncture bone spur step by step, and finally Zhang Qiang and his wife waited for bad news - the child was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The picture shows Zhang Anqi.
"We can't believe it, how can an ordinary fever become acute leukemia?" How can a child who is only three years old get this disease? "The sudden bad news instantly destroyed the whole family. Before Zhang Qiang and his wife fully accepted the fact of the diagnosis, the two were told that the child continued to have a high fever and the situation was critical. They could not be sad, and could only put aside the idea of "turning back to their hometown for treatment" for the time being, and first stabilized the child's condition in Huizhou. The picture shows the mother waiting for Zhang Anqi with Zhang Anqi.
But the reality is very cruel, from October 21 to 25, Anqi continued to have a high fever for 5 days, the body temperature was as high as 40 °, the whole person was unconscious, the body was constantly shivering, taking medicine, injections could not come down. Under the trade-off, on October 25, Zhang Qiang took his daughter to risk being discharged from the hospital and returned to his hometown of Changsha, Hunan for treatment.
No one knows how difficult Zhang Qiang, who made this decision, said, "If you don't transfer to a hospital, your life is in danger, you are transferred, and you are more likely to have a critical life, I can only fight." Arrived in Changsha in the early morning of the 26th, without a moment's rest, Zhang Qiang took his daughter straight to a hospital in Changsha, Hunan, stayed in the observation room on the same day, transferred to the ward on the 27th, after doing the lumbar piercing bone spurs, the doctor said bluntly: "Only chemotherapy can be done first, follow-up transplantation can be cured." The picture shows Zhang Anqi.
Dangerous chemotherapy
By the time Zhang Qiang and Yu Lijun really reacted from the panic of several days in a row, they had already taken care of Anqi in the hospital for their first chemotherapy. "When I saw the doctor give the child chemotherapy drugs, we believed that it was not a nightmare, that the child really had leukemia." Yu Lijun said.
On November 1, 2020, Angel began to embark on the road to chemotherapy. During the chemotherapy, she had repeated infections, repeated high fevers, and countless times she passed by the god of death. In December, Angel was hospitalized for 57 days during her second course of treatment, and she took anti-infective drugs all the time, plus diarrhea, high fever, and lying in bed without eating or drinking. Antibiotics of the highest level are never stopped, but infections and fevers are repeated. The picture shows Zhang Anqi on the hospital bed.
By the time of the third course of treatment, Anqi was severely sensitive to the drug, and she had a fever on the drug, and the fever could not be withdrawn to more than 40 degrees, and the whole person was sluggish, and she could not speak. "The doctor said that it was a side effect of the drug, not sure whether it affected the central nervous system, most of the night I took the child to open a bill to go to the emergency department, the back of the medicine did not dare to go, slowed down a more than a course of treatment, the child eased up." Yu Lijun said.
"I don't know how much pain awaits us in the future, and I don't know how long we can sustain our daughter." In the case that the condition has not improved, in early 2021, the doctor found Zhang Qiang and his wife to talk and suggested that Anqi be transplanted. Only bone marrow transplantation has a way to survive, and the high cost of transplantation has become the biggest obstacle. The picture shows her mother applying medicine to Zhang Anqi's face.
A tough transplant road
Zhang Qiang stood in front of the hospital bed, looked at his pale daughter on the bed, and inadvertently blushed his eyes. "Chemotherapy for several months, there is no improvement in the condition, and now we only have a transplant in front of us." Long-term radiotherapy and chemotherapy coupled with the torture of illness have long emptied Anqi's body, her face is more pale than that of patients of the same age, and her body is much weaker.
"No matter how difficult it is, I always believe that as long as I persist, I will be able to survive." Zhang Qiang never wanted to give up, he raised money outside the hospital while guarding the child to do the fourth chemotherapy to stabilize the condition. In order to raise enough money for Angie's life, the couple did not hear cold words. Call, send messages, and go door-to-door to ask. Referring to this, Zhang Qiang and his wife's tears flowed unconsciously: "Hating yourself is useless, even the child's medical expenses can't afford it." The picture shows Zhang Anqi in the ward.
Unknown healing possibility, borrowing money again and again without results, the feeling of powerlessness slowly climbed to the heart, can see Anqi's eager to survive eyes, snuggled in Zhang Qiang's arms, childish words revealed uneasiness: "Dad, I don't cry when I get injections, I want to go back to kindergarten, play with children, I want to go back to my hometown to find my grandmother." Zhang Qiang collapsed again and again, desperately in the middle of the night again and again.
On February 28, 2021, after the end of the fourth chemotherapy, Zhang Qiang went north with the treatment fees he had pieced together to a hospital in Hebei to prepare for transplant surgery. On March 10, Anqi entered the transplant warehouse, and Yu Lijun accompanied her in the warehouse. In the transplant booth, Angel's various drug reactions occurred in unison, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and low-grade fever. As the number of days in the warehouse continues to increase, the cost of 200,000 has long been put in, but Angel has not yet stepped out of the transplant warehouse, and the amount of cost is getting higher and higher every day, and it lasts until April 8. The picture shows Zhang Qiang and Zhang Anqi making dumplings.
poisoning
Seeing anqi successfully out of the warehouse, Zhang Qiang's heart hanging outside the hospital finally fell. On April 26, Angel was discharged from the hospital, but the child's struggle with the disease was not over, and the child was poisoned by drugs in the early morning of the 28th, and was immediately sent back to the hospital. After the doctor's examination, it was found that the concentration of drugs in Anqi's body was too high, and the cyclosporine poisoning was very serious, but the doctor had no better way, and could only get better and gradually recover through the metabolism that lasted for several weeks.
After being discharged from the hospital, Angel has been recuperating at home and taking oral medication to resist rejection. After the transplantation of the child, the skin row reaction was very strong, the face was full of pimples, the whole body was red with rashes, and it was particularly itchy, Andie's body was painful and itchy, and she was tormented by rejection, and the couple watched the heartbreak to the extreme. So far, Anqi is still constantly fighting against rejection, and as the cost of anti-rejection accumulates more and more, it has become an increasingly heavy burden for Zhang Qiang. The picture shows Zhang Anqi.
During Anqi's exclusion period, Zhang Qiang volunteered in the hometown association near the hospital, providing help to patients to earn some living expenses while taking care of children, but the money could only barely maintain the family's life. Zhang Qiang's family makes a living from farming, and there are elderly and frail parents in the family who need to be taken care of. In the past two years to treat Anqi, they have spent more than 900,000 yuan, owed more than 600,000 foreign debts, and now Anqi is experiencing the last hurdle of rehabilitation, but Zhang Qiang's family has no way anymore. The picture shows Zhang Qiang volunteering. (Text| Banxia Picture | provided by the family) Original works, it is strictly forbidden to reprint in any form, and infringement will be investigated!