The 3-year-old girl's high fever of 40 degrees lasted for 5 days without retreating, and her father lost 900,000 yuan to save her daughter, what is going on now?
History has magic
Release on 2022-03-2022:25
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On 25 July 2020, a young man in his twenties carried a three-year-old girl on the high-speed train from Huizhou, Guangdong province to Changsha, Hunan.
The little girl's eyes were slightly squinted, her face was red, and there was a cooling sticker on her forehead, and her small body would tremble from time to time.
"The baby is not afraid, Dad will definitely take you home, you stick to it, we will be home soon."
The young man stroked the little girl's forehead, constantly cheering her up, and constantly comforting himself, but the woman standing next to him had already cried into tears.
"I said it all, don't transfer her hospital, don't bring her back to her hometown, she's already forty degrees, and you're still tossing her like this."
The twenty-something woman was very sad and cried while constantly hammering the man's arm with her hand.
What's going on here?
The 3-year-old daughter had a high fever and was diagnosed with leukemia
Zhang Qiang and Yu Lijun, a couple from Yuanjiang City, Hubei Province, have been working in a garment factory in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, since 2015.
On August 17, 2017, Yu Lijun gave birth to her daughter Zhang Anqi in a hospital in Huizhou City.
Little Angel is the couple's only child, and they love her in every way and are eager to give her all the good things.
Of course, Little Angel is also very obedient and sensible, and will never be as naughty and mischievous as other children.
Both husband and wife were reluctant to be separated from this lovely daughter, so they kept her by their side and took care of herself.
Angel's grandparents also liked this granddaughter very much, and repeatedly called their son and daughter-in-law to ask them to send Angie back, but they failed to do so.
In September 2020, 3-year-old Anqi was already attending a small class in a kindergarten in Huizhou City.
She is well-behaved, very polite, and does not cry in school, so the kindergarten teachers like her.
On October 20, Yu Lijun was ready to walk as usual to pick up her daughter from school.
On the way to kindergarten, she suddenly received a call from the kindergarten teacher.
The teacher told her that Angel had a low-grade fever and hoped that parents would take the child to the hospital as soon as possible.
Upon hearing that her daughter was ill, Yu Lijun immediately got anxious and trotted all the way to the kindergarten.
When Yu Lijun received Anqi,
Her face was a little pale, and her expression was also intimidating.
Yu Lijun did not dare to delay, and endured a taxi to take her daughter home.
After returning home,
She found the antipyretic medicine and cold infusion that she often had at home, and fed some to Angie according to the instructions.
Soon, under the action of antipyretic drugs, Anqi's body temperature gradually returned to normal, and Yu Lijun was also relieved.
When Zhang Qiang returned home from work in the evening, Zhang Anqi's fever had completely receded, but her spirit was still a little bad.
After Anqi was born, Yu Lijun did not work all day, and she took time to work as a temporary worker outside, earning only three thousand yuan a month.
Zhang Qiang works quickly, so he has a salary of about seven thousand yuan every month.
Although they have an income of about 10,000 yuan per month, Zhang Qiang's family has not spent a lot of money.
Children often get sick during the change of seasons, so Yu Lijun has already prepared various medicines at home.
This time, Angel had a low-grade fever, and they only thought it was caused by a cold, so they did not take it to the hospital for examination.
But what they didn't expect was that Angie was not an ordinary cold this time.
At two o'clock in the morning of October 21, Yu Lijun, who was sleeping next to her daughter, was burned awake by Anqi's body temperature.
She took out her thermometer and took a look and found that the poor child had burned to 39 degrees.
Worried that the child was burned out, the couple quickly got dressed and sent Angie to a nearby hospital.
The doctor in the emergency department prescribed anti-fever medicine to Anqi, but the body temperature could not go down.
afterward
The doctor urgently drew blood for Anqi and checked the blood routine, which made Zhang Qiang and his wife particularly nervous.
But
Due to the relatively backward equipment in the hospital, doctors can only get the results of "suspected blood disease", but they cannot find a specific cause.
Watching his daughter's breathing become more and more urgent, Zhang Qiang immediately left the hospital with his daughter and took a taxi to the First People's Hospital of Huizhou City.
It was already four o'clock in the morning, there were no pedestrians on the road, not even very few vehicles.
Zhang Qiang did not have the heart to appreciate this night scene, but just held his daughter and constantly comforted her.
On the way to the People's Hospital, Zhang Qiang found that Anqi had burned to 40 degrees, and the situation was very critical.
An hour later, they went to the fever clinic of the First People's Hospital of Huizhou City for examination.
But
There were too many patients in the hospital, there were no spare beds, and Angie was already delirious.
The couple was so anxious that they didn't know what to do, so they begged the nurse over and over again to vacate a bed as soon as possible.
Fortunately, after waiting for more than half an hour, a patient was discharged from the hospital, and the nurse gave Angie the spare bed.
The doctor drew Blood for Angel again, checked the blood routine, and soon the results came out.
Angie was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
The couple couldn't believe that their child just had a cold and a high fever, how could it develop into leukemia.
"She's only four years old, how can she get such a serious disease, when diagnosed, I think the sky is falling."
Zhang Qiang recalled.
Transferred back to Changsha Hospital, bumpy chemotherapy road
Before the couple could relax, the doctor told them the unfortunate news.
They used all means, but Angie's high fever could not go away, and the situation had become very serious.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Qiang anxiously accompanied Anqi to five days of treatment in the hospital, but her condition did not improve in the slightest, and her body temperature was still around 40 degrees.
From October 21 to October 25, Angel had a high fever and there was no way to lower her body temperature.
Whether it is physical cooling, or injections, or taking medicines, there is no effect.
Watching the young daughter's face become more and more pale, and her breathing become weaker and weaker,
Zhang Qiang made a shocking decision - he wanted to take his daughter back to his hometown for treatment.
"I thought at the time, after being treated in the hospital for so long, the child is still in a state of dying life, so it is better to risk taking her back to her hometown and use the dead horse as a live horse doctor."
"Even if you really can't save it, you still have to let Angie meet her grandparents for the last time." Zhang Qiang recalled the original scene with tears falling like rain.
In the early morning of October 26, 2020, Zhang Qiang and his wife arrived in Changsha with Xiao Anqi and were immediately admitted to changsha first hospital.
"We were in the observation room that day, and the next day the hospital vacated the ward, and we took our daughter to the ward."
Not long after being admitted to the ward, Angie's body temperature began to drop, and finally miraculously returned to normal.
Not long after, the doctor took Angie to complete the lumbar piercing bone and further check her physical condition.
According to Anqi's condition, her attending doctor determined the treatment plan of "chemotherapy first, and then transplant bone marrow for radical treatment" after the condition is stabilized.
On November 1, 2020, Angel will start her first course of chemotherapy.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Qiang rented a house near the hospital and accompanied their daughter throughout the whole process.
Angel's chemotherapy process was not smooth, and during the first chemotherapy, her body temperature began to rise again, and there was vomiting and diarrhea.
Although the process of chemotherapy was very difficult, 3-year-old Angel still passed the first hurdle with tenacious will.
Just when Zhang Qiang thought that the child had passed the most difficult level and the subsequent treatment would be smooth, the test came again.
More than a month later, Angie underwent a second course of treatment, but had more serious side effects.
Angie not only had a high fever and vomiting, but also was in a coma for a long time, and there was no way to eat.
Anqi's life was in danger, and the doctors and nurses guarded her all the way, and stayed in the hospital for 57 days before getting better.
By the time of the third chemotherapy, Angie was allergic to chemotherapy drugs again, and she had a high fever as soon as she was treated.
Because of the high fever too many times, Anqi's eyes were dim and dull, and her expression became sluggish, and she couldn't even say anything later.
Seeing that the side effects of the treatment are getting bigger and bigger, the doctor can only stop the chemotherapy and let the child return to normal before continuing.
With each chemotherapy, Angel had strong side effects, making her health worse and worse.
The pain made her body very weak, her face had always been very pale, and her body was a lot smaller than other children of the same age.
But even after so much suffering, the effect of chemotherapy is still not great, and Angel's condition has not improved much.
Cobbled together money to give his daughter a transplant
In March 2021, doctors told Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Qiang that chemotherapy had completely failed.
Only bone marrow transplants can be performed.
However, the previous chemotherapy had already spent all of Zhang Qiang's family's savings, and their family could no longer come up with excess money.
Not only that, but they also borrowed a lot of money from relatives and friends, and now they are in a state of high debt.
In order to let his granddaughter operate, Zhang Qiang's father sold a two-bedroom house he bought on the outskirts of Yuanjiang city many years ago for 500,000 yuan, and gave all the money to his son Zhang Qiang.
But this money is still far from enough, Zhang Qiang can only helplessly continue to find relatives and friends to borrow money.
In the process of borrowing money, the family has been snubbed many times, and has been hung up on the phone several times.
Once, Zhang Qiang borrowed money from a friend who had a particularly good relationship before, but the other party directly broke off relations with him, claiming that he would not have contact with him in the future.
"When you encounter difficulties, you can see through people's hearts, and the relationship was so good before, but now you still turn your face and don't recognize people."
Of course, Zhang Qiang also met the help of many well-meaning people in this process.
After hearing about Anqi's situation, Fa Xiao, who had not been seen for many years, immediately transferred a sum of money to him, and said that the child would be well and then slowly returned.
Zhang Qiang knows that these small families are not rich, there are old people and children to raise, but they are still willing to help him, which makes him very moved.
"Everyone who borrowed me money, I wrote them an IOU, and signed my name inside, and I will never pay the bill."
Not only that, Zhang Qiang also used a small notebook to write down each arrears and prepared to repay them one by one in the future.
On February 28, 2021, Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Qiang carried the borrowed treatment fee to the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, for transplant surgery.
The operation went very smoothly, and Anqi was successfully sent to the transplant warehouse, while the mother Yu Lijun accompanied her daughter in the warehouse.
For economic reasons, Zhang Qiang found a job in the Hunan Hometown Association in Shijiazhuang to earn living expenses for a family of three.
Every day after work, he would walk to the hospital to visit his daughter, and then walk for more than an hour to rest in the rental house.
The house that Zhang Qiang rented was rented to them by a Fellow villager in Changsha for 200 yuan in friendship.
Although the house is far from the hospital, Zhang Qiang is reluctant to take the bus, let alone take a taxi.
Angie had a serious rejection reaction in the transplant warehouse, low-grade fever, diarrhea took turns to "serve" this poor child, and the doctor could only give her medicine to resist the discharge.
Fortunately, although there were many difficulties encountered, Xiao Anqi stubbornly persevered.
"I also have to see my grandparents in my hometown, and I have to play with the kindergarten children, who all care about me."
On April 8, Zhang Anqi came out of the transplant warehouse and was transferred to the general ward for observation.
Doctors come every day to check on her health and find that her condition is slowly improving.
On April 26, with the permission of the doctor, Zhang Qiang and Yu Lijun were discharged from the hospital with Anqi.
They did not immediately take Anqi back to Hunan, but continued to live in Shijiazhuang and waited for Anqi's condition to be completely stable.
Yu Lijun wholeheartedly takes care of her daughter who is recuperating at home, while Zhang Qiang works as a construction worker on a construction site.
All these years, in order to treat Angie's illness,
They spent a total of more than 900,000 yuan, of which 700,000 yuan was borrowed from relatives and friends.
On January 26, 2022, Zhang Qiang and Yu Lijun returned to Yuanjiang, Hunan Province, with five-year-old Xiao Anqi.
Her grandparents warmly came to the train station to greet her, and specially prepared wormwood water for her to bad luck.
Under the careful care of her parents, Angie's body recovered well and her condition stabilized.
They don't need to go to Hebei again next year, they just need to go to the hospital in Changsha every few months to check it out.
Without the torment of illness, Angie's little face became round again, and her little hands became fleshy.
As soon as he arrived home, Zhang Qiang took out 50,000 yuan and returned it to the family who first lent it to them.
In order to make money, he works day and night on the construction site, and Yu Lijun will also go to the nearby mall to help while her daughter sleeps.
The couple is very frugal, eating only green rice every day, and rarely seeing meat on the dinner table.
Of course, Little Angel's meals are separate from her parents.
They gave Little Angel a nutritional match every day and tried to give him supplementary nutrition.
The night little Angel returned home, she specially sent a painting to her grandparents.
The little Angel in the painting wears a high ponytail, carries a school bag, holds the hands of her parents and happily goes to kindergarten.
Her grandparents sat in the doorway and looked at the back of a family of three and smiled.
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