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In April 2014, there was silence in the wards of the 161st Hospital of the People's Liberation Army in Wuhan. Chen Xiaotian, a 7-year-old and lively teenager, suddenly deteriorated dramatically, and despite the best efforts of the medical staff, they could not save his young life.
At the last moment of his life, Xiaotian held his grandmother Lu Yuanxiu's hands tightly, and he spit out to her the last entrustment he left in this world in a weak but firm voice and in an extremely affectionate tone: "Grandma, I hope my mother can be stronger and braver, and continue to live......" Lu Yuanxiu burst into tears, she tried hard to grab the hand of her grandson who was leaving her, but she couldn't do anything.
Not long ago, Xiaotian once proudly said to his grandmother: "I am a real manly husband, I will do my best to protect my mother, if my mother is sick, I will not hesitate to save her!" However, now this short sentence has become his last words in the world.
When the morning sun poured into the ward, the attending physician of Tongji Hospital slowly walked into the ward, and he conveyed the heartbreaking news to Xiaotian's mother, Zhou Lu, with a solemn face. After hearing the news, Zhou Lu's heart felt like it was torn, and tears slipped down like beads with broken threads.
However, she knew that she couldn't just fall like this, and she couldn't miss this precious opportunity that her son had bought with his life. After only a few minutes, she slumped limply in her chair, tears falling like pearls of broken threads, turning from silent sobs to heart-rending wails.
The medical staff and relatives present stepped forward one after another to comfort her softly. Everyone hung their hearts for Zhou Lu, for fear that her mood swings would affect the upcoming surgery.
However, Zhou Lu knew that she had to be strong. She took a deep breath, quickly adjusted her mood, and resolutely signed her name on the consent form.
She silently said to her son in her heart: "Xiaotian, don't worry, your mother will face everything strongly, and she will not live up to this opportunity you bought with your life." ”
Back in 2012, the Chen family of three lived a happy life. That year, Xiaotian was 7 years old and was a lively and innocent child. Her mother, Zhou Lu, is an ordinary clerk, and her father's job is not much, but it is enough to support the family's daily expenses.
However, the smile of the god of fate lingered for a short time, and the haze of illness quickly swept over this unpretentious little family temple. That year, the bad news came that Zhou Lu was diagnosed with uremia, which was undoubtedly a bombshell that caught the whole family off guard.
Faced with this dilemma, Zhou Lu resolutely chose to temporarily abandon her dream of kidney transplantation and turned to the more practical and economical dialysis treatment. She knows that as long as she can hold on until her son Xiaotian grows into a 15-year-old boy, when he becomes an adult, he can pass away with peace of mind.
Since then, Zhou Lu has had to undergo dialysis treatment for up to four hours three times a week. Because her blood vessels were so slender, doctors had to insert a catheter in her neck that went straight to her heart.
The operation was extremely difficult, and her wound was bleeding profusely after the operation, and it took 24 hours of all-out treatment to turn the corner for safety.
However, just six months later, tragedy struck the suffering family again. Lu Yuanxiu's grandmother, who lives in Jingzhou, noticed that her grandson Xiaotian's behavior was abnormal, he staggered when he walked, and even vomited from time to time.
This means that if the surgery is not performed in time, Hyotian may have only a few months or years left in his life. The family fell into extreme despair, but they did not hesitate to raise medical funds and quickly sent Xiaotian from his hometown of Jingzhou to Wuhan to perform surgery on him.
Despite this, just a year later, the cancer began to spread and metastasize, and Hyotian had to be hospitalized again for treatment.
At the beginning of the new year in 2014, misfortune struck again, and Hyotian was completely blind due to tumor compression. Since then, he has become extremely fragile and sensitive, and every time he sleeps, he clutches his mother Zhou Lu's hands for fear of losing her.
Seeing that his once lively and lovely son is now withering like a withered flower, Zhou Lu's heart is like a knife, and she suffers unspeakable pain in her heart. She hated why God was so cruel and wanted to deprive an ordinary family of health and happiness again and again.
What is even more unbearable is that Xiaotian, who is only seven years old, is facing the risk of dying before himself. As a mother, Zhou Lu is so eager to be by her young son's side all the time and witness his growth and progress bit by bit. However, the unforgiving reality drove her into a desperate situation, and she still had to take three days a week to leave Hyocheon and go to the hospital for life-saving dialysis treatment. Under the double destruction of body and mind, Zhou Lu's own health is deteriorating day by day, and even signs of heart failure have appeared. The doctor told her in all seriousness that she had to put her dead and come back to life and start a kidney transplant immediately, otherwise her life would be in danger.
In order to continue to protect his beloved son, and to avoid Xiaotian losing his mother's love at a young age, Zhou Lu made a brave and firm decision - to undergo a kidney transplant. However, the high cost of surgery and the search for a matching kidney source is undoubtedly a huge test for an ordinary family. Zhou Lu began to run around with her family with all her might, looking for that life-saving kidney source. At the same time, she is also struggling with a difficult and helpless choice in her heart - whether she should file for divorce from her husband, and she knows how hard she will suffer if she loses her fertility.
However, out of endless love for Xiaotian, she finally made up her mind to alleviate her husband's pain through divorce. "My children and I have come this far and I can no longer afford to watch my husband suffer the same misfortune. At Zhou Lu's insistence, the couple finally went through the divorce procedures.
In this way, the originally happy family of three has now fallen apart. Mother-in-law Lu Yuanxiu saw all this, her heart was like a knife, but she was helpless, so she could only wait in the ward day and night, fighting side by side with her daughter-in-law, and taking care of her grandson who was about to die. For countless silent nights, Lu Yuanxiu would silently watch his grandson's peaceful sleep in the ward, imagining that one day he would say goodbye to this dear child, and his heart felt like he had been hit hard, and the pain was unbearable. However, she said to herself, no matter what the cost, we must save the life of at least one loved one in the family.
So, Lu Yuanxiu found his daughter-in-law Zhou Lu with great expectations, and asked in an extremely cautious and respectful tone if even Xiaotian's life could not be saved in the end, whether he could consider letting him voluntarily donate his kidney.
When Zhou Lu heard these touching words, tears immediately rained down. She clasped her mother-in-law's warm hand and looked at the indescribable sadness around her, as if a thousand words were stuck in her throat and she couldn't speak. How could she be so ruthless as to get her beloved son to donate two vital organs in his life to save another person's life? She only hopes that he can walk to the end of his life in a flawless manner, quietly and contentedly.
On an ordinary and busy Sunday, a noisy sound of footsteps suddenly sounded in the hospital room, attracting people's attention. I saw a few heroes in military uniforms, their steps steady and domineering, walking through the corridor into the ward. That's right, this is a team of soldiers from the Jingzhou Armed Police Force, and their appearance has brought a strong vitality to this originally silent place.
It turned out that these fighters had already heard that Xiaotian had dreamed of becoming a soldier since he was a child. Although Xiaotian is now blind and his physical condition is deteriorating, they still hope to bring a trace of strength and courage to this child and his family.
With the sacred oath of enlistment, the soldiers solemnly and solemnly stepped into the ward. Seeing their arrival, Xiaotian, who was originally mentally decadent, seemed to have gained unprecedented strength, and his little face was filled with a bright smile.
Every word shows the unwavering perseverance and fearless courage hidden in the heart of this young child. In the ward, bursts of cheerful laughter came again, and this was undoubtedly Hyotian's happiest day since he got sick.
Outside the ward, Zhou Lu quietly listened to her son's laughter, and could no longer control the pain in her heart, she covered her mouth tightly and shed tears silently. Because she knows that after radiotherapy again and again, the cancer cells in Xiaotian's body are still spreading relentlessly, and it seems that it has reached the point of no return.
However, no matter how cruel fate may be, Hyoten always bravely fights to the death in his own way, with the courage and perseverance of a seven-year-old child. His smile, his oath, and his tenacity all deeply touched Zhou Lu.
And all this will surely become her most precious spiritual wealth and endless source of strength on the long road of life in the future.
After more than a month of difficult choices, in March 2014, Zhou Lu finally made up her mind and had a kidney matching test with her son. When the matching results showed a successful match, a glimmer of hope was injected into the family's hearts.
However, fate never seemed to have the slightest mercy on the mother and son. At the same time that the problem of kidney source was solved, Xiaotian and Zhou Lu's conditions were deteriorating at a rate visible to the naked eye.
In order to allow the operation to be carried out quickly and smoothly, Zhou Lu resolutely decided to make self-sacrifice and was sent to the transplant ward of Wuhan Tongji Hospital in advance. There, she began to actively prepare for the major surgery she was about to perform, preparing for the toughest challenges of her life.
The clock hands pointed to the early morning of April 2, 2014, at 4:15 a.m., as if fate was playing a joke on their mother and son, more like testing their courage. Hyotian's physical condition deteriorated rapidly, and the medical team did their best to save the life, however, the disease was relentless, and it was impossible to save the young man's life.
Just four hours after Xiaotian's death, Zhou Lu was slowly pushed in the operating room of Tongji Hospital. At this moment, the other two surgeries are also being carried out in an intense and orderly manner. After a long wait, Xiaotian's left kidney was finally successfully transplanted into his mother Zhou Lu's body, while his right kidney and liver were donated to two patients in urgent need of help, Feng Jing, a 21-year-old uremia patient, and Wen Jun, a 27-year-old liver cirrhosis patient.
In this way, this seven-year-old child, with the fire of his life, selflessly illuminated the life path of the three patients, and won the respect and praise of the whole society. At noon on April 2, Lu Yuanxiu hugged his grandson's urn and embarked on a journey back to his hometown of Jingzhou.
Faced with this touching scene, Lu Yuanxiu was stunned at first, and then tears flowed down like a spring.