Paraquat Rucun: More than 1,000 yuan a day for medicine, and the brother-in-law's family has not apologized.
With the help of many networks and doctors such as Chen Jingyu, the "first person in China's lung transplant", Mengmeng escaped death by luck, but the rest of her life was not good.
Wearing a mask at home, away from soil, flowers and plants, unable to bask in the sun, Mengmeng cannot return to normal life. Her phone has six alarms, and when the alarm goes off, it means she needs to take her medicine, but she doesn't just need to take it when the alarm goes off.
What's more, the annual income of this ordinary rural family may not be enough for Mengmeng to take medicine for two months.
But they didn't give up: "The child has reached this point, sees hope, I can't delay any longer." "They sell houses, loans, and steel while also seeing their children.
▲ Mengmeng rented a house in the district
Take more than ten medications a day:
When the alarm goes off, it's time to take your medicine
"There is no money on the card, not enough."
When Mengmeng saw that "insufficient available bank card balance" appeared on his mobile phone, he smiled helplessly, canceled the order for drugs worth more than 5,000 yuan, and chose another drug order with a unit price of more than 3,500 yuan in his shopping. Shopping Cart. Fortunately, the money is quite a lot. When Mengmeng was buying medicine, he coughed a few times from time to time, causing a sharp pain in the broken bones in his body.
Meng Meng was 19 years old. In December 2021, when she was in her third year of high school, she received a "cold injection" of paraquat and water injected by her brother-in-law, and her original world was turned upside down.
In March 2022, Mengmeng, who underwent a double lung transplant, was discharged from Wuxi Rehabilitation Hospital and returned to her hometown Wei County, Hebei Province to recuperate.
In May this year, Hebei was much colder than usual. When the Red Star reporter saw Mengmeng, she was wearing a thin down jacket and sitting on a sofa far from the window. Her hair was thinning and short like a baby, and the mask covered most of her face.
"Even at home, she had to wear a mask. Doctors said she couldn't speak face-to-face. Either she wears it, or I wear it. Ms. Gao, the cute mother, said: "Away from the dirt, flowers and swimming lambs, there are bacteria, so I am afraid of infection." My house in my rural hometown is not hygienic up to standard. Under the doctor's advice, Mengmeng's parents rented a building for her in the county seat, disinfectant became a regular item at home, and the eating bowl also needed to be scalded frequently.
For Moe, sunlight is no longer synonymous with warmth. "When you burn, it's dark, so you can only go out for a walk at night." Exercise intensity must also be strictly controlled. Newly discharged, she panted and climbed up to the second floor. After the recovery period, her condition is much better.
At less than 1.6 meters tall, Moe now weighs about 83 cats, five fewer than before the accident, but he has successfully recovered about 10 cats compared to when he was sick. "When I was at my thinnest, I had no flesh on my arms and my skin was sagging. Now the baby can eat whatever he wants, eat more shrimp, fish to supplement nutrition. Because Mengmeng coughed as soon as she smelled the smell of oil smoke, her parents rushed from the country house to the county seat to cook her every meal.
Moe's life is very regular. Get up before seven o'clock every day, take two medicines, and then eat breakfast. In the morning, alarms go off at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30. At that time, she picked up the small thermos that never left her body, raised her head, and swallowed the water along with a few pills. Eat around 12:00. Of course, it is also necessary to take medicine, one pill before meals, one capsule during meals, and one or two pills after meals (some medicines are taken every other day). At night, there are two kinds of meals, before and after meals, and the alarm clock goes off on time. Atomization is also carried out every morning and afternoon.
▲ Cute alarm clock
She specially bought a medicine box, with 28 boxes, corresponding to the medicine to take for a week. Four pills a day was far from enough for Mengmeng, he needed to take twelve or three pills a day, but it was already the most pill box he could buy. After taking the drug in the morning, the drug is filled into vials in the afternoon and evening.
Two or three of her medicines cost a lot of money. The most expensive of these is amphotericin B for nebulization. On the e-commerce platform, a bottle costs 88 yuan, and Mengmeng uses 8 bottles a day, spending more than 700 yuan a day. Among oral drugs, voriconazole tablets are the most expensive, a box of 10 tablets costs up to 1800 yuan, take one and a half capsules a day.
According to the price of the e-commerce platform, the Red Star News reporter calculated that Mengmeng's daily drug cost is more than 1,000 yuan, and the monthly drug cost is more than 30,000 yuan. Still under economic pressure, some expensive imported drugs have to adjust to the price of domestic drugs.
Fortunately, he does not need to take the most expensive drugs for the rest of his life. Mengmeng imagines that after the pseudomembrane disappears, the nebulizer and voriconazole can be stopped, and the remaining drugs may need to be taken for life.
Every time it was time to buy medicine, Mengmeng's father Lao Ma ran around the village several times, borrowed 500 yuan from one family, borrowed 1,000 yuan from that family, and pooled thousands of yuan to buy medicine for Mengmeng. "When you borrow money, think about whether the other party has money, if you don't open your mouth, it is difficult for the other party to refuse, you can't borrow too much, pay it back now." We have to wait until the autumn grapes come back, and if we can't borrow enough, we can make another circle. "Lock."
Even if there is enough money, Mengmeng does not necessarily take her medicine on time. There are two or three imported drugs in her medicine, and due to the impact of the epidemic, the timeliness cannot be guaranteed. When I bought the medicine this time, ganciclovir tablets only had more than a week left, but the pharmacy could not guarantee delivery within a week. "Last time my medicine stopped, I had to use other medicine, and told her if I wanted to buy it early." Moe's mother complained.
In addition to taking medicine, he also goes to the district hospital every week to draw blood and every month to Shijiazhuang Provincial Hospital for check-ups, including CT scans, bronchoscopy and blood tests. Mengmeng had to draw 9 tubes of blood every time, and before the poisoning, she was afraid to draw blood, but now she is "used to it". Two months later, Mengmeng will travel to Wuxi for a major physical examination and adjustment. Mengmeng's blood indicators have a number of abnormalities, the most worrying is fibrin, the normal range is 2-4, but she is only 0.88. This means that her clotting system is not working properly and internal bleeding may occur. During Wuxi's recovery, this indicator failed to rise. "After five or six hundred injections, it arrived in three days, and it took more than 10,000 to calculate it, I really can't afford it."
In addition to taking medicine and exercising, Mengmeng occasionally reads at home to prepare for next year's college entrance examination. If she hadn't been poisoned, she would have been preparing for the college entrance examination in June, just like her classmates. He attended school in the county seat. In the first grade, her grades were "OK". She usually likes to watch Thai dramas. Now she doesn't have much contact with her former classmates, "I didn't have a mobile phone before, and I didn't add WeChat." ”
Previously, she always wanted a mobile phone, but her parents were worried about affecting her studies, so they did not buy her a mobile phone. At the peak of her health, her sister bought her a mobile phone to make her happy. Recalling that time, Mengmeng's mother couldn't help but shed tears: "Once, the doctor moved the hospital bed and took her to the next building for a CT scan, and she was dying in front of the media." ”
At that time, his father, Lao Ma, ate only one meal a day, slept for two or three hours, and lost about ten cats in a month.
The family makes a living growing grapes:
I ran out of water with my donation and was in debt of more than $200,000
The Red Star reporter saw Lao Ma for the first time, and he was in a very embarrassing state.
It was raining lightly that day, and the reporter drove to Mengmeng's hometown. Unfortunately, guided by the navigation, the car fell into a muddy dirt road.
The old horse who came to help was not tall, thin, and his dark face was covered with wrinkles. Although he is only 49 years old, he is already deaf. When talking to someone, he will actively turn to face the speaker, and even then, he needs to speak loudly to be heard.
Soon, Lao Ma borrowed a shovel and skillfully pushed the mud aside, revealing dry soil with more friction, allowing the reporter to gradually sink back. "It's only four or five hundred meters from our village, you can see it on the map, but there is a river in front of it, and you can't cross it." The introduction of Lao Mao's relatives made the reporter feel afraid for a while.
Follow Lao Ma to his house, a typical northern Chinese village. Two agricultural tricycles and a cultivator are parked in the yard, and plastic baskets of grapes at harvest are stacked on the walls.
▲A corner of the cute family
There is no glass on the wooden door where the trinkets are placed in the South House. "The north house was built in 1992, and these side houses were built later, but there was not enough money, so there was no glass."
The north house has traces of time, and the concrete walls outside the house are only painted to waist height, and the red bricks are exposed. Inside the house, there are only two shrines, except for a sofa, a coffee table, an old-fashioned sewing machine and a refrigerator. This is Mengmeng's invitation to go home after the accident. Every fifteenth day of the first month, Lao Ma will confess.
Looking up, two thick beams and four thin beams staggered to support the roof, "the upper part is made of reeds". The living room and bedroom of the North House are separated by a row of cabinets that do not reach the top, and above the cabinets is a wall of several foam boards. "They said the air was cold, so I blocked it with foam."
Only Grandma Moe's room has a briquette stove, the other rooms have no heating. "You can't cover more in winter."
Speaking of the economic pressure of Mengmeng taking medicine, Lao Ma couldn't help but complain to reporters, "I can't stand this kind of food, and family conditions can't do it." In recent years, my grandmother and wife have made a living growing grapes. They planted eight or nine acres of land, most of which was mountainous. "Well managed, one mu of land can collect more than 3,000 cats, a net loss of six or seven thousand yuan, a year is good, at that time only 50,000 a year."
Most grapes ripen in August. At that time, the old horse couple got up at three or four o'clock in the morning to pick grapes. As soon as dawn broke, the grapes were already loaded into the car. The southern part of Wei County boasts 10,000 mu of vineyards, which not only supply the local market in Hebei, but also sell to Beijing, Shandong, Henan and other places. Lao Ma is most worried about the epidemic during the harvest season. If the grape harvester can't come, "you're going to be blind."
"There are old and young people at home, and I can't go to work." Lao Ma only went out to work once. At that time, Lao Ma, who sold grapes, followed the grape merchant to Zhengzhou, "I just worked for a week, my mother was sick, I came back, but I didn't get the money. ”
While speaking, the old horse kept pinching his calf. "When it rains when planting grapes, you have to plant the grapes in the ground, which is the main cause of the disease. When it's cold, the calves can't stand it at all, and the pain is unbearable. "Back pain, neck pain, these farmers' common diseases.
When interviewed by reporters, Lao Ma repeatedly asked reporters whether they understood the subsidy policy of the breeding industry. He wanted to raise a few sheep when the winter wasn't comfortable and sell them the following spring to make some money. "Find some work in the winter, earn some money, give medicine to the children."
He wanted to attribute some of the sheep to an acquaintance: "In any case, our situation is clear, and I give him the money when I sell the sheep." ”
A relative warned him that raising sheep was risky. "Last year, someone spent 500,000 yuan to buy 130 sheep, but they didn't sell them, they spent 100,000 yuan to buy some sheep, and now there are 200, and they can only be sold for less than 400,000 yuan." Sheep and cattle prices have fallen this year. Relatives suggested that Lao Ma raise pigs, but the threshold is quite high, and you need to invest about 400,000 yuan first, but where does Lao Ma get so much money?
Previously, Mengmeng received a donation of more than 650,000 yuan from Waterdrop Company, but her actual expenditure exceeded 1 million yuan, and Lao Ma owed more than 200,000 yuan in foreign debt. In April, in order to buy medicine, Lao Mao's family once again launched a fundraising activity in Shuidiqi. "This time I donated 60 yuan and only got 3,000 yuan. Now as long as Mengmeng buys medicine, her mother can borrow money.
▲Lao Ma donated 60 yuan to Shuida and only created 3,000 yuan
The Red Star News reporter learned from the Wei County Medical Insurance Office that due to the existence of a responsible third party, Mengmeng's treatment costs could not be included in the medical insurance coverage. The cost of subsequent anti-rejection drugs needs to be determined at the designated hospital. Reimbursement is possible if the requirements of the insurance policy are met. "Depending on the type of disease, the reimbursement limit is also different, ranging from $10,000 to $150,000."
Lan Tianbin, a partner at Jiangsu Fade Dongheng Law Firm, said that according to the Social Insurance Law, medical expenses that should be borne by third parties are not included in the payment scope of the basic medical insurance fund. In this incident, the criminal suspect Chen poisoned him and should bear the medical expenses. However, the Social Insurance Law has reservations that, according to the law, medical expenses are borne by a third party, and if the third party does not pay or the third party cannot be identified, the basic medical insurance company pays it in advance. After paying in advance to the basic medical insurance fund, it has the right to claim compensation from a third party. This means that if the criminal suspect Chen does not pay the medical fees, he can first pay the basic medical insurance fund and then recover from Chen.
After the incident, no one from Mengmeng's brother-in-law Chen's family visited her, let alone paid for her medical bills.
▲ Mengmeng takes medicine in the rented house
I still can't figure it out:
Why do "relatives harm parents and children"?
On December 29, 2021, the Wei County police reported that the criminal suspect Chen felt that his family's economic conditions were not good, and his father-in-law's family "looked down on him", so he had the idea of retaliation. On the evening of December 5, Ma diluted the remaining herbicide at home with water and took it twice, causing me to be poisoned.
"We never scolded him, we were close to him and there were no financial disputes." Grandma's family still can't figure out why Chen is "looked down upon" and "the couple are doing well." In the five years since she was married, Mengmeng's sister has only returned to her native family once because of a quarrel.
Lao Ma buys meat or makes dumplings at home, and often asks her daughter to take her to the Chen family's grandson for dinner. "At one point Chen said we were very close to him," Mengmeng's mother recalled.
The economic conditions of the two families are also similar. Chen's parents make a living as farmers, and the family owns nearly 20 acres of land growing cotton and grapes. Chen, on the other hand, supports himself by doing odd jobs. He welded car bodies in the factory and later followed others to do renovations. Lao Ma said that he was not angry with Chen because he did not make money. "He said I look down on him, you look at the conditions in my family, we are not millionaires, we are all farmers."
Lao Ma felt that the only misunderstanding between him and Chen was that he did not drink, while Chen liked to drink. Mr. Chen also bought the only half bottle of wine in the family when he came last time. It has been more than half a year now, and it has not been moved in the living room. Once, Chen came to pick up his daughter and grandson drunk, and Lao Mao's face was not good-looking, but he didn't say anything.
Chen and his wife met through the introduction of a matchmaker and married after a year of dating. At that time, Lao Ma did not ask Chen to buy a house in the county like some local families. "His family built a house, and he only has one son, so he's not shy about letting him buy a house." We all want our baby to have a good life with him. If he owes money, the child must pay it back. For ordinary people, it is not easy to get some money. ”
The building did not want it, so Lao Ma put forward a request to buy a car: "Just buy a similar car, about 100,000, don't buy tens of thousands." ”
The Chen family donated 180,000 yuan, which is the "local general level". Lao Ma bought 100,000 yuan of furniture to accompany him, and the rest of the money was given to his daughter to bring to her new home.
After the wedding, every New Year's holiday, Chen also came to Lao Mao's house, sometimes buying something, and sometimes giving Lao Mao and his wife a few hundred yuan.
Mengmeng is very fond of his sister's son. When he came home from vacation, he often went to his sister's house for a day. On the day of the incident, it was her sister who asked her for help in taking care of her children. It was cold, and Chen said he was worried that Mengmeng would catch a cold, so he handed her a cup of "cold medicine" and soon handed her another one.
Although Mengmeng felt that the taste was not right, she didn't think much about it. Then she started having diarrhea and vomiting. Neither the municipal health center nor the district hospital found any problems. Paraquat toxin in urine is only detected in provincial hospitals. Mengmeng said she did not drink paraquat, but only two strange "cold drinks" at her brother-in-law's house.
The old Ma family never expected that it was the Chen family who poisoned him. "Honesty" is their common impression of their son-in-law. When Mengmeng was sick, Chen was still worried: "He said that Mengmeng took this medicine and it was not cured, so I bought some other medicine for her to try." When he went to the district hospital for treatment, Mengmeng was too ill to sit up, and Chen helped him find a bed.
Although the mainland has banned the domestic sale and use of paraquat aqueous solutions since 1 July 2016 and paraquat soluble gels since 26 September 2020, in rural areas it is not difficult to buy paraquat.
Red Star News reporters learned that paraquat remains the herbicide of choice for grape growers in Wei County. One winegrower told reporters that he used paraquat last year: "It doesn't hurt the seedlings, only kills the grass, and the results are fast." "People who buy herbicides are acquaintances, and repeat customers and produce stores secretly sell paraquat." There are in every store, and he does not show it to the public, but secretly gives it to you. Another grower said.
According to Lao Ma, there is grass in the Chen family's yard, and paraquat should be bought to weed.
At present, Mengmeng's sister has filed for divorce, but the court will not make a ruling until Mengmeng's case is announced.
Chen's son was cared for by his parents, and Mengmeng's sister never visited his son. Shortly after the accident, Chen's parents asked their daughter-in-law on WeChat if she wanted children? Nurse Mengmeng did not answer.
"What do you think? I don't see it. Who misses a child, but who caused the consequences? Moe's mother asked. When I learned that he had poisoned me, I was stunned. I didn't expect it to be him, isn't this harming my family? ”
They don't have time to think about why Chen was poisoned now. Mengmeng still has a lot on her mind: "What about money? Will the child be able to lead a normal life later? Can I get married? ”
They have deeper concerns: "When we saw a doctor in Wuxi, five years after a lung transplant, a man was infected and was not saved. ”
While we were talking about it, Lao Ma lowered his head, was silent for a while, then picked up a cigarette from the table and lit it.
But Lao Ma seemed to have made up his mind again: "The child has reached this point, sees hope, and can no longer survive." "While selling her house, taking out loans, selling everything, she had to see her children. As long as the child is alive, even if he begs for food, he will go to the doctor for the child.
Immediately afterwards, Lao Ma sighed again.
Red Star News internal reporter Song Xinze reporter Pan Junwen
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