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On May 9, 2022, 100-year-old Qin Yi passed away peacefully in Shanghai. A long life is the wish of many people from childhood to adulthood, but in reality, it is rare for people to really live to be 100 years old, and Qin Yi is even 93 years old, and he can climb the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau without a stand-in and shoot in real time for a month. Who would have thought that such a long-lived and tenacious old man would suffer from cancer?
Qin Yi, who was born in 1922, has experienced two marriages. At the age of 16, she started her first married life under the death of the actor Chen Tianguo in the same group. But after marriage, Chen Tianguo's true face was exposed, not only was he addicted to alcohol, but he also punched and kicked Qin Yi, and even treated her very harshly when Qin Yi was pregnant. Qin Yi couldn't afford to be sick after giving birth to a daughter, but Chen Tianguo wanted to give her daughter away because she didn't go out to earn money and couldn't support her daughter, Qin Yi finally couldn't bear it anymore and left this scumbag.
In 1947, Qin Yi met her second husband Jin Yan, unlike Chen Tianguo, she and Jin Yan Qinse and Ming, even if the two were thousands of miles apart because of filming, they could still have a heart-to-heart. But when Jin Yan was filming a movie in Qinghai, he could only sleep in a tent in the cold, so he relied on liquor to keep out the cold, but his stomach was drunk. In 1962, Jin Yan had to stay in bed due to stomach hemorrhage, and Qin Yi stayed by Jin Yan's bedside day and night. But it didn't take long for fate to play a joke on Qin Yi again.
On this day, Qin Yi fed Jin Yan porridge as usual, and suddenly his stomach cramped, and the spoon in his hand also shook a little, but Qin Yi still endured the pain and went to the toilet after taking care of Jin Yan. But when she went to the toilet recently, she always had a feeling that she couldn't pull it clean, and her stool was also fine, and she could still see a little blood when she washed it away with water.
Since Jin Yan needed someone to take care of him, Qin Yi put up with his discomfort for the time being, but the more time passed, the more serious the stomach pain became. While stir-frying, Qin Yi's face suddenly turned pale, and the whole kitchen turned in front of her, she hurriedly propped her hands on the stove, rested for a while before relieving, and rushed to the hospital while Jin Yan was still sleeping.
When she thought she was dizzy from overexertion, the doctor told her she had rectal cancer. The doctor took a blood test for Qin Yi, and the hemoglobin content showed moderate anemia, but Qin Yi's anemia was not caused by long-term malnutrition, but due to long-term blood loss in the stool of rectal cancer.
Anemia is generally judged by the hemoglobin content, the hemoglobin of healthy adult women should be between 110-150g/L, when the hemoglobin content is insufficient, the oxygen content in the blood will drop, making people dizzy, fatigue, pale skin and mucous membranes. Anemia is often not a stand-alone condition and can be caused by a variety of different conditions. The common causes of anemia in men are hemorrhoidal bleeding and stomach bleeding, and the common causes of anemia in women are excessive menstrual bleeding and insufficient nutrient intake. Various malignant tumors can also cause anemia.
Patients with rectal cancer have intestinal lesions, resulting in intestinal mucosal congestion and edema, and when the tumor ruptures, most patients will have varying degrees of blood in the stool. When a ruptured tumour causes an infection in the intestines, pus and bloody stools appear. If rectal cancer patients are not treated in time, long-term chronic blood loss can lead to anemia symptoms such as dizziness. As the tumor continues to grow, it will occupy part of the intestinal lumen, and the shape of the stool will become thinner if the stool is not smooth, and the tumor in the rectum will always stimulate the intestinal mucosa to make people feel the urge to defecate, and the number of bowel movements will increase significantly every day, and there will be the characteristics of "tenesmus".
After hearing this, Qin Yi only felt that another straw fell on the weight of thousands of catties on her body, but she couldn't fall. Thinking of her bedridden husband and mentally unstable son at home, Qin Yi chose to follow the doctor's advice for rectal cancer resection. However, due to the fact that there are no obvious symptoms in the early stage of rectal cancer, once it is found, it is in the middle and advanced stages, and surgical resection is not a one-time solution, and there is a great possibility of recurrence in the future.
Due to the lack of medical technology at that time, Qin Yi had habitual diarrhea after the operation. This is a common complication of rectal cancer resection surgery and can be caused by infection of the anastomosis at the excision site, scarring of the incision, or recurrence of the tumor. After the operation, Qin Yi not only had to endure the physical pain caused by chemotherapy, but also had to accept the sadness of the death of her loved ones. In 1983, her husband Jin Yan passed away, her son passed away in 2007, and in 2008, Qin Yi underwent surgery again for intestinal diseases.
But when the 99-year-old Qin Yi appeared in front of people, he did not show a trace of being crushed by fate, but defeated time and walked through nearly a century with amazing perseverance. Someone always asked Qin Yi how she persevered, Qin Yi recalled: "I have had rectal cancer, thyroid tumor, gallbladder removal in my life, and the people around me have also left one by one, although I used to resent it, but I didn't accept fate, I tied the knots in my heart one by one, I thanked my doctor, but my doctor said that it was the three little things I insisted on doing in my daily life to bring a miracle to life......"
1. Diet three controls
After Qin Yi reached the age of 60, she strictly implemented the "three controls" in terms of diet, that is, salt control, oil control, and quantity control. Many people understand that MSG is harmful to the body, but salt is also an indispensable condiment in Chinese food, and too much salt can also be harmful to the body. Clinically, a low-salt diet is often advocated for patients with hypertension, because the main component of table salt is sodium chloride, which can increase the sensitivity of blood vessels to vasopressin, causing arteriolar spasm and thus increasing blood pressure. Reducing salt intake can effectively control blood pressure and prevent hardening of blood vessels.
Excessive intake of oil is easy to increase body calories and weight gain, which will lead to the occurrence of hyperlipidemia in the long run, and the increase in fat content in the blood will easily make the blood viscous, slow down the flow rate, increase the risk of thrombosis, and once the blood clot falls off and blocks the blood vessels throughout the body, it will lead to the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction. However, oil control is not about not ingesting oil, you can often change the type of oil in your home, and choose some healthy sources of oil such as olive oil, flaxseed oil, etc.
To put it simply, it is the cliché "eat seven points full". Don't often increase or decrease the amount of food because of picky eating, a full meal can easily lead to some digestive diseases in the human body, such as chronic gastritis, gastric ulcers, gallstones, etc.
2. Maintain a positive and optimistic attitude
In the current tense pace of life, many people will run around for a living, and when the disease comes, many people's first reaction is panic. However, after being at a loss, you should immediately correct your mentality, not be defeated by changes, emotional stability and healthy mentality are conducive to the recovery of the disease.
Don't be afraid of aging, every inch of wrinkles is a proof of experience, when the body is no longer young, don't feel sorry for yourself, communicate with people more in your spare time, relieve your mood, and healthy and good interpersonal relationships can bring positive effects to the body. Stay positive,
An optimistic mindset also helps cancer patients build confidence in fighting cancer.
3. Keep exercising
It's easier to maintain a good posture when you're young, but as you get older, your body shape changes tend to get out of control, and your cardiopulmonary function weakens, making it difficult to do some high-intensity fitness exercises. But the more this is the case, the more you can't give up the movement. Choose some soothing exercises that are moderately intense and don't damage your joints as a daily exercise.
For example, Tai Chi, when practicing Tai Chi, you need to keep breathing long, this deep, long and slow breathing characteristics can improve the ventilation and ventilation of the lungs, improve the body's lung function and lung capacity; long-term practice of Tai Chi can also promote digestion, improve the body's metabolic level; Tai Chi movements are soothing and gentle, not easy to cause damage to human skeletal muscles, and do not require any equipment and special venue requirements, simple and easy.