Mr. Cai Lei, the former vice president of JD.com and a patient with ALS, posted on social media: My wife and I will donate another 100 million yuan to support ALS research, drug research and development, clinical medical and other scientific research projects!
The funds come from the live broadcast room of the icebreaker station, the remuneration of the book "Believe", and donations from caring people
ALS is the first of the world's five major terminal diseases, with a cure rate of 0 and a survival time of 3~5 years. People with ALS will continue to atrophy their muscles, as if they were frozen. If the respiratory muscles and swallowing muscles also atrophy, it will cause difficulty breathing, swallowing, and then unable to breathe......
There are nearly 500,000 ALS patients in the world, and the famous physicist Stephen Hawking is one of ALS.
At the age of 21, he was diagnosed with ALS, which caused his muscles to atrophy and paralyze his whole body, leaving him with only three fingers to move.
With strong perseverance, Hawking used these three fingers, inputting 15 words per minute, and spent three full years to complete the magnum opus "A Brief History of Time".
Eventually, Hawking's condition deteriorated and he couldn't move his fingers. Only the muscles of his face remain, and his eyes can move independently, and his quality of life is very low!
Cai Lei was diagnosed with ALS in 2019.
This year is just the 5th year, Cai Lei said a few days ago: Death has been eyeing him, and now his breathing has begun to fail, and he must wear a ventilator all night.
According to Elephant News, Cai Lei was almost killed by illness in December, due to atrophy of swallowing muscles, phlegm coughing up, and the feeling of suffocation nearly 4 times a night, the pain level is comparable to "waterboarding".
Can't wait for death
Cai Lei was born in a poor family, his father died of liver cancer when he was in college, his mother suffered from depression, and his wife never abandoned him, a young and lovely son.
All this told him that he must not sit still!
After discussing with his wife, he founded a pharmaceutical company in Beijing just to overcome ALS, and he often worked all night to promote the development of special drugs!
With new drugs, he always put his personal safety behind, was the first to try new drugs, and frankly admitted that he would donate his body after death for ALS research!
R&D drugs are very expensive, and Cai Lei had to bring goods with illness, creating an icebreaker live broadcast room. was also unknown at first, but later his live broadcast room was supported by many celebrities such as Yu Minhong and Dong Yuhui, and it gradually improved.
His wife, Duan Rui, a talented woman from Peking University, also gave up her career to accompany Cai Lei to live broadcast and accompany Cai Lei to fight against the disease.
Cai Lei invested all his live broadcast income, his remuneration for writing books, and other incomes into this great cause!
In an interview, Cai Lei once revealed that in the most difficult time, his bank card only had tens of thousands of yuan left, and he couldn't even afford to pay his salary!
Knowing that his time was short, Cai Lei entrusted this career to his wife Duan Rui and asked her to keep going.
If the drug can be developed successfully in the future, the couple will save at least 500,000 people, no less meritorious than Hawking!
Hopefully, a miracle will happen and the hero will get back on his feet!
Friends with feelings and determination can join them!