"I'm his sister!" I have to save him!" The short-haired girl in front of her was petite and thin, and the girl was more than four months pregnant.
After the doctor learned about the situation and knew that the girl was trying to save her brother who was suffering from leukemia, she insisted on beating the fetus, and then repeatedly advised the girl to think twice. "If you beat a fetus in five months of pregnancy, you are likely to hurt your body or even lose the ability to get pregnant."
But the girl was very stubborn, and in the face of the doctor's advice, she did not say a word, and had already made up her mind that "even if she gave her life, she would save her brother, the only man in the family." ”
The girl's name is Xiang Longyan, and from childhood to adulthood, the younger brother is all the parents...
Xiang Longyan with her daughter and niece
The sister's affection for her brother
When Xiang Longyan was two years old, her mother pointed to the baby in the swaddling and told her, "This is your brother, named Zehua." In the future, no matter what happens, you have to protect him! ”
Xiang Longyan stood next to her mother in a daze and nodded. From then on, she had to take her brother with her no matter what she did, and as the daughter of the family, she had the responsibility to protect this ignorant brother.
The father of the sisters and brothers went to work in the city when they were young, and both of them were taken care of by their mothers. Although in daily life, the mother can not be absolutely fair, but Xiang Longyan understands the mother, she does not fight with her brother for details, but wholeheartedly good to her brother.
After graduating from university, Xiang Longyan stayed in Shanghai. She would send her salary home a little every month, so that the pressure on her mother and brother Xiang Zehua's life would not be so great.
Years of care have long made his brother an indispensable part of Xiang Longyan's life. From his brother's study to work, single to marriage, the feelings of Xiang Longyan and his brother have also penetrated into every crevice of their lives.
Fortunately, at the age of 23, my brother, who did not understand things, finally found a job as a maintenance worker in an auto repair shop. After falling in love, getting married, and having a son two years later, family life was on the right track.
Xiang Longyan and her husband, who live far away in Shanghai, have saved a little money to buy a bigger house next year because she is pregnant.
Xiang Longyan, who already had a daughter, quit her job after becoming pregnant with her second child and concentrated on raising a baby at home. She was full of joy that she would buy a house in Shanghai later to take her parents and brother over, and then the family would live the happy life they dreamed of.
Unexpectedly, when life was gradually getting better, his younger brother Xiang Zehua suddenly fell seriously ill and was hospitalized...
Deadly bad news
On March 15, 2015, Xiang Longyan received a call from her family saying that her brother Xiang Zehua had been admitted to the hospital. This can make Xiang Longyan worried, although his brother has been naughty since he was a child, but he is in good health, how can he suddenly be hospitalized?
So Xiang Longyan hurriedly asked his family why. From the mouth of her family, she learned that her brother Xiang Zehua's illness had been lingering for half a month, but the family had not paid attention.
At the beginning of March, his younger brother Xiang Zehua began to have a fever, when the family thought it was a cold, and then fed him a lot of fever-reducing drugs, but it did not get better. At 6:00 a.m. on the 9th, Xiang Zehua suddenly began to have nosebleeds, and after being sent to the hospital, the nosebleeds did not stop until 11:00 a.m. that day.
This can upset Xiang Longyan, from the little brother is physically strong, she thinks it should not be a serious disease. But the next day's test results made her want to cry without tears, and the white paper and black words clearly wrote "aplastic anemia".
The name of the disease is complicated, after asking the doctor, Xiang Longyan learned that his brother suffered from a blood disease similar to leukemia! Seeing that his only brother was seriously ill, Xiang Longyan immediately took a car back to his hometown.
Looking at his younger brother in the ward, who was pale and breathing weakly, Xiang Longyan wanted to cry without tears. So he prepared to stay and take care of his brother in the ward instead of his parents. The younger brother in front of him was barely surviving on a ventilator, and even if Xiang Longyan shouted, the younger brother did not open his eyes to look at her.
Only the cold machine in the ward proved that his younger brother Xiang Zehua was still alive.
"Mom, my brother is only 25 years old, if something happens to him, what will happen to his wife and children?"
As soon as Xiang Longyan said a few words, her mother's tears poured out like a broken embankment. Xiang Longyan couldn't bear to see her mother so sad, and could only reassure her mother: "I will definitely find a way to save my brother!" I promise! ”
On March 17, Xiang Zehua woke up, looking at the concerned eyes of his relatives in front of the hospital bed, and there was no language to describe his excitement. In the end, his gaze stayed on the face of his sister Xiang Longyan, as if he was blaming his sister for not coming back, the mountain was high and the road was far away, adding to the trouble.
Although the younger brother did not open his mouth, Xiang Longyan also knew what he meant, so he distinguished: "I will come back to see you, and I will leave when you are all right!" ”
But no one expected that after this short period of warmth, there would be more pain - the condition of his younger brother Xiang Zehua had worsened!
On the morning of the 18th, Xiang Zehua, who was still open and sober yesterday, suddenly passed out, and more seriously, after Xiang Zehua was unconscious, he was incontinent. Where did the Xiang family from the countryside experience such a terrible situation, Xiang Longyan's parents could not see how to help, but instead cried urgently.
Survival journey
After thinking about it for half a moment, Xiang Longyan finally remembered that there were also people in the village who had suffered from this disease, and that the villager was cured in the "First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University". So the family rushed to take their younger brother Xiang Zehua to go through the transfer procedures.
The next day, the 120 ambulance finally pulled Xiang Zehua, who was aggravated, to the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University and completed the transfer. At this time, Xiang Longyan and his family knew that after Xiang Zehua fell ill, he had no immunity to the bacteria in his life, and a tiny bacterium would kill him.
So the hospital immediately decided to transfer Xiang Zehua to the "sterile isolation ward" to isolate all bacteria that might pose a threat to him, and then use drugs to maintain Xiang Zehua's life.
This is already the safest form of treatment at present, but the cost of treatment in the sterile ward makes this ordinary rural family difficult. In addition, the hospital also recommended that Xiang Zehua's relatives quickly conduct bone marrow matching examinations.
In the eyes of doctors, entering the sterile isolation ward for treatment and then using drugs to maintain Xiang Zehua's life is certainly the safest treatment method. But if you want to cure this disease and want Xiang Zehua to live like a normal person, you can only undergo bone marrow transplantation.
Bone marrow transplantation is extremely painful for ordinary people, from examination to donation. But as soon as Xiang Longyan heard that he could save his brother, he immediately followed the doctor to do a bone marrow matching.
In the days of waiting for the bone marrow to match, the family said that they hoped that they would meet the conditions for matching with Xiang Zehua. But the most suitable person for Xiang Zehua's bone marrow transplant was Xiang Longyan. Think about it, her parents are already old, if she goes to the operating table, but there is no chance to come down, then she will not be able to forgive herself for the rest of her life.
Even if others donate bone marrow for their brother, they can't afford to pay back this kindness, not to mention that in order to cure their brother Xiang Zehua's illness, the family has borrowed a lot of foreign debt, let alone owe others a debt of affection.
After some exclusion, Xiang Longyan found that the most suitable person in this group to do bone marrow transplantation for his brother was actually himself...
I don't know if it was lucky or unfortunate, on April 2, when Xiang Longyan got the bone marrow matching report, she only saw that her parents' rejection rate was 50%, and only her was 0. This means that only if she performs a bone marrow transplant for her brother, she will have a 100% success rate and will not fail the operation because of rejection.
So Xiang Longyan immediately went to find a doctor, but she returned with a lost soul. "Mom and Dad, the doctor said that you have to shed your child to save your brother!"
Hearing these words, Xiang Longyan's mother hesitated. She has always loved her son, looking at Xiang Longyan's belly, the little life inside has been five months...
Touching his stomach, Xiang Longyan, who had already done everything for his brother, looked at the report sheet and hesitated. The life in her womb is her and her husband's second child, and even if they already have their first child, this life in the womb is innocent.
But now, fate had actually handed over the right to choose into Xiang Longyan's hands. Sometimes, having the right to choose is also a cruel thing. For example, now, Xiang Longyan's choice is no longer her brother's surgery, but the life and death of the child in her womb, only if she gives up the child's life, her brother can get a new life!
The choice of life
Under all kinds of entanglements, Xiang Longyan asked the doctor again, "Can you perform a bone marrow transplant for your brother without miscarriage?" And the doctor told her, "No, when taking hematopoietic stem cells, a large amount of blood will be taken out, if you do not miscarry in advance, then there will be a surgical accident, which may endanger Xiang Longyan's life!" ”
It seemed that there was no room for turning, so Xiang Longyan asked her mother-in-law and husband, "What about your attitude towards the child in your womb?" What do you think when the child is gone? ”
Unexpectedly, the husband actually said that he respected his wife's opinion, and he also comforted Xiang Longyan, "We will still have children, but your brother only has one!" ”
This sentence made Xiang Longyan moved, and what she did not expect was that her mother-in-law even expressed understanding for this matter. Xiang Longyan could not hide the sadness in her heart, and kept apologizing to her husband and mother-in-law, and her tears were all over her face.
With the support of her husband and mother-in-law, Xiang Longyan decided to beat the fetus in her abdomen and make sure that her brother would come back to life healthily! But just when she was preparing to go to the gynecological hospital for abortion, her brother suddenly woke up, saw that she was going out, and repeatedly asked, "Sister, what are you going to do?" ”
Xiang Longyan only told his brother to go out and do something, and came back soon. Xiang Longyan did not dare to let her brother know that she was going to induce labor, and if her brother knew, he would certainly not agree to her sister giving herself a bone marrow transplant. A few days ago, when the family went to do bone marrow matching, my brother shouted in his hospital bed, "Don't let my sister go!" She has kids! ”
Hearing that her sister was not going to draw blood or get a fetus, but to run an errand, Xiang Zehua on the hospital bed was much more stable. Xiang Longyan, who came out of the hospital, did not dare to delay for a moment, because the doctor told her, "Your brother's condition is very critical now, so you must come back within ten days!" If you are late, your condition may worsen! ”
On the morning of the 5th, Xiang Longyan rushed to the familiar obstetrics and gynecology hospital. The local doctors were shocked to see the mother-to-be who had been doing induction of labor for almost half a year, and rushed to stop the pregnant woman from regretting it. But Xiang Longyan didn't explain much, just told the doctor, "You do it, I don't regret it!" ”
So at 10 o'clock on the same day, Xiang Longyan was injected with induction injections, and after she experienced abdominal pain for a whole day, the fetus that had been five months in her abdomen finally broke away from the mother. When the doctor got the fetus that had been formed, he told Xiang Longyan, "It's still a dragon and phoenix fetus, a son and a daughter, hey..."
The doctor's words made Xiang Longyan feel mixed in her heart, but the matter was over, and she had no way to turn back. After the abortion operation, the doctor advised her to rest at home for half a month before going out, otherwise the body would leave the root of the disease. Xiang Longyan simply didn't have time to wait for her body to recover, she was going to save her life.
Three days later, she received a call from a loved one urging her to hurry back, and her brother was in critical condition. So Xiang Longyan, who had not yet eased up, traveled a long way to Suzhou.
When her parents saw Xiang Longyan again, her lower abdomen was flat, the child in her abdomen had long been removed, and she was ready to donate bone marrow to her brother. And the mother looked at her daughter's flat abdomen, tearful eyes rippled and said, "What a sin!" We are sorry for his in-laws!! ”
Xiang Longyan, who arrived at Suzhou Hospital, was still ready to say a few words to his brother, but at this time, his brother's condition deteriorated and he had already lost consciousness. After examining Xiang Longyan's physical condition, the doctor suggested that she rest for two more days before starting the operation.
After a few days, Xiang Longyan's physical condition recovered, and the doctor also drew hematopoietic stem cells, and Xiang Longyan and his brother had a bone marrow transplant.
After the operation, both the sisters and brothers' bodies recovered very well, but Xiang Zehua would always stare at Xiang Longyan's flat abdomen and sigh.
Xiang Longyan knew the grievances and sourness in his brother's heart, so he always comforted his brother, "It doesn't matter, as long as you are well, everything is worth it." ”
But what Xiang Longyan did not tell his brother was that the family had spent all their savings in order to treat him. Even Xiang Longyan's own savings of 200,000 yuan for several years, and her husband's provident fund were withdrawn, and so much money added up to less than half of the medical expenses.
Therefore, after the operation, Xiang Longyan also went to ask relatives and friends around the world to borrow no less than 500,000. And someone asked Xiang Longyan, if your brother can't save him, won't you spend all this money in vain? You're nothing!
But Xiang Longyan didn't think so, and she replied very crisply, "If my brother is not saved, I will pay it back myself." But if you save it, it's worth it. ”
Many people say that Xiang Longyan's behavior is "helping her brother demon", but in fact, she is just trying to obey her own heart, and also for the agreement she once promised her mother, "No matter what happens, we must protect our brother!" Xiang Longyan's love for his brother was selfless, and he did not ask for anything in return.