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In Zangcun Town, Qingyuan County, Hebei Province, in a seemingly ordinary farmhouse courtyard, a middle-aged farmer named Zheng Yanliang with a hideous expression and clenched teeth clenched his teeth clenched clenched in his hands clutched a hacksaw and fruit knife in his hands, and his eyes were firmly fixed on his right leg, which was already rotting and blackened.
After a brief inner struggle, he firmly bit the towel, mustered up the courage to put the hacksaw on his lap, and began the cutting with a slow but determined motion.
The severe pain distorted Zheng Yanliang's face, and beads of sweat slid down his forehead like rain, but he clenched his teeth and never let out any painful moans, so as not to disturb his wife, Shen Zhonghong, who was busy in the kitchen.
Soon after, the mangled right leg was mercilessly thrown to the ground by him, and after a few laps, he lay there quietly.
This shocking decisive move is the struggle and struggle of this tenacious Zheng Yanliang at all costs in order to survive. In the face of the threat of death, he showed a resilient spirit in his own unique way.
Back in 2011, Zheng Yanliang was a hard-working and simple farmer in Hebei Province, living a simple and poor life. He relied on farming farmland and doing odd jobs to support his family's daily expenses, while his wife, Shen Zhonghong, was frail and sickly, and the family had only Zheng Yanliang's meager income to support the whole family.
One day in October 2011, Zheng Yanliang was working hard in the fields when he suddenly felt severe pain in his abdomen and was rushed to the hospital for treatment. The doctor diagnosed him with appendicitis and quickly operated on him.
This operation became an important turning point in Zheng Yanliang's life.
However, after the Spring Festival in 2012, he suddenly experienced severe pain in his legs, so that he could not walk normally. Seeing this, his family immediately sent him to the local health center, but the doctors could not do anything about it.
After detailed examinations by a number of large hospitals, it was finally confirmed that Zheng Yanliang's arteries in both legs had serious thrombosis blockage.
Faced with the high cost of treatment, Zheng Yanliang's family really couldn't afford it. The doctor told him frankly that without treatment, his life would last only two or three months at most. His wife Shen Zhonghong was anxious and reluctantly considered borrowing money from relatives and friends, while Zheng Yanliang resolutely decided to give up treatment and chose to return home to wait for the end of his life.
His wife, Shen Zhonghong, could only tearfully prepare a shroud for her husband and wait for the last moments of his life. As the pain in the leg intensified, the wound gradually festered and suppurate, and the room was filled with an unbearable stench.
No one wanted to approach this room except for his wife, who had to drug it, because there was a suffocating smell there. What is even more terrifying is that Zheng Yanliang actually found maggots wriggling in his bed, which made people shudder! An ordinary farmer fell into a life-and-death dilemma.
Lying in the dim and dilapidated bedroom, Zheng Yanliang endured endless pain, but when he stared out the window at the sunny world, his desire for life grew stronger. However, his right leg was completely rotten, and he knew that he had reached a desperate situation and that there was no way back.
When he lifted the quilt and saw the terrifying scene of several maggots crawling out, Zheng Yanliang couldn't bear it anymore, and he made up his mind to cut off this leg in order to survive. However, his wife, Shen Zhonghong, was adamantly opposed, and the couple had a fierce dispute over it.
It wasn't until the early morning of April 14, in the helplessness of his wife's "whatever you want", that Zheng Yanliang began to implement this shocking decision. He picked up the hacksaw and fruit knife at hand, aimed at his rotten and blackened right leg, and relented.
The sharp pain of the cut distorted Zheng Yanliang's face, and beads of sweat the size of beans slid down like raindrops. In order not to disturb his wife with the sound of painful moans, he bit the towel in his mouth tightly.
Surprisingly, as his right leg was completely necrotic, he didn't feel any pain when cutting the muscle, only the heart-rending pain came when the bone was sawn.
With the support of great pain and tenacious perseverance, Zheng Yanliang finally cut off his rotten right leg. At this moment, his wife Shen Zhonghong hurriedly walked into the room when she heard the movement, and when she saw the shocking scene in front of her, she almost fainted.
Her trembling hands wrapped the mutilated leg in a plastic bag and placed it in an old urn in the yard.
Since Zheng Yanliang personally carried out the shocking self-"amputation operation", this shocking incident quickly caused a sensation under the vigorous publicity of the media.
Major news outlets have reported on the bizarre plight of the "tough guy" farmer, and voices of doubt and sympathy have surged like a tide. For a time, Zheng Yanliang's deeds became the focus of attention of the whole society.
Zhang Qiang, a famous doctor in Shanghai, made a public statement on the Weibo platform, saying that he and a group of his fellow friends are willing to selflessly dedicate themselves to providing necessary medical assistance to the patient Zheng Yanliang.
Time flies, stepping into October 2013, it has been more than 500 long and torturous days and nights since Zheng Yanliang resolutely cut his flesh with a knife and cut off his legs. The once quiet rural farmhouse has now become bustling and noisy due to the visits of a large number of media and experts.
Media professionals from all over the country flocked to the city with their own delicate photographic equipment, and a team of experts from the Health Department of Baoding City, Hebei Province also participated in the in-depth investigation of the scene.
In front of the small courtyard, vehicles gathered, stretching for 100 meters, just like the grand occasion of the auto show.
In the face of questions from the camera and reporters, Zheng Yanliang nervously confided in his heart and put forward two major wishes in his heart: one is to be able to undergo formal amputation, and the other is to be fitted with a prosthesis in order to restore basic self-care ability.
The Hebei Provincial Department of Health immediately dispatched a team of three senior experts to conduct a preliminary diagnosis of Zheng Yanliang. Fortunately, the results of the examination showed that Zheng Yanliang was in good condition, and he was immediately sent to the Second Hospital of Baoding City for comprehensive examination and treatment.
At the same time, the love of all walks of life is like a warm sun, illuminating the life of Zheng Yanliang's family. The Red Cross Society of Hebei Province quickly allocated 20,000 yuan as a relief fund, followed by the Red Cross Society of Baoding City, donating 5,000 yuan, and countless enthusiastic people and enterprises generously donated money to lend a helping hand.
What's more valuable is that the hospital promises to fully cover all of Zheng Yanliang's medical expenses and wholeheartedly provide him with the best quality treatment services.
Overnight, Zheng Yanliang seemed to be pulled back from the edge of life and death, rekindling the hope of life. He was deeply moved by this powerful social force, cried tears of joy, and expressed his endless gratitude to all those who helped him many times.
He told himself that after he recovered, he would do his best to give back to society.
The strong support from all walks of life has brought the dawn of rebirth to Zheng Yanliang, but his long road to treatment is not over, and there are still many challenges to be overcome.
On that unusual night on October 24, 2013, Zheng Yanliang underwent a life-and-death major operation at the Second Hospital of Baoding City, Hebei Province. A five-member medical elite team led by top experts from Peking Union Medical College Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University carried out a comprehensive and in-depth treatment of the severe sores on his lower limbs, and at the same time amazingly successfully unblocked the long-blocked arteries! The operation was undoubtedly difficult and took nearly three hours to complete.
Although Zheng Yanliang's legs are only 10 to 20 centimeters long at this moment, his mental outlook shows incomparable tenacity and optimism.
However, fate does not seem to be intent on letting this strong man go easily. The day after the operation, the doctor found that Zheng Yanliang's left leg had blood clots again, and the situation was terrifying.
The doctors' expressions instantly became solemn, and they did not hesitate to decide to quickly transfer Zheng Yanliang to a large general hospital in Beijing for further treatment, so Zheng Yanliang was rushed to the Friendship Hospital in the capital Beijing that night.
During the treatment at Beijing Friendship Hospital, a journalist friend whom he had not met for a long time came to visit Zheng Yanliang. When the reporter was about to leave, Zheng Yanliang grabbed his hand tightly, and his eyes were full of deep worry and despair.
He begged the reporter to ask the doctor for detailed information about his condition, and if the remaining nearly 200,000 yuan donation could not afford the high cost of follow-up treatment, then he would rather choose to give up the treatment and leave this precious fund to his wife and children.
"I really felt very desperate, and I always felt that the money was really a drop in the bucket for medical treatment in Beijing. Zheng Yanliang said helplessly, "How should we face this dilemma?" In the past, Baoding Hospital once provided them with free treatment, which was a great gift to them.
Now that they are in a hospital willing to provide free treatment, the couple can't have any expectations.
Thankfully, after a meticulous examination and in-depth diagnosis at Beijing Friendship Hospital, the doctors finally found the true source of Zheng Yanliang's illness. It turned out that he had suffered from nephrotic syndrome since childhood, which made him more susceptible to blood clots and blockage of blood vessels.
As long as you insist on taking some specific drugs for a long time, the disease can be effectively controlled.
Knowing that he was not a patient with an incurable disease, Zheng Yanliang and his family finally breathed a sigh of relief. After more than 20 days of meticulous treatment in the hospital, his condition gradually showed signs of improvement and tended to stabilize.
In February 2014, Zheng Yanliang was finally discharged from Beijing Friendship Hospital and returned to his familiar and long-lost hometown.
Although the road to recovery is full of ups and downs, the dawn of life finally illuminates his way forward again!