From the holy nurse's gown that guards health, to the hospital gown that she wears helplessly; From a medical worker who comforts the sick to a patient who has experienced the pain, in 2024, Li Sa, the former angel in white, will experience a dramatic transformation in her life role, and her world will be turned upside down in an instant.
Li Sa, a native of Changtu County, Tieling City, Liaoning Province, is a nurse at the Second Hospital of Changtu County, and this year is her fifth year in the nursing profession. One more day (May 12) is International Nurses Day, and 25-year-old nurse Li Sa is still in the hospital, but this time as a patient. Because at the beginning of 2024, fate played a joke on her - on an ordinary working day, a sudden weakness and panic broke the peace of her life. With doubts, she embarked on the road of seeking medical treatment, and finally received a heavy diagnosis in the Blood Disease Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences: "severe aplastic anemia".
"At that moment, the diagnosis seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and I couldn't breathe. I always thought that blood diseases were far away from us, but now it really happened to my daughter. Li Sa's mother looked at her daughter, who had been saving others for five years and was full of vitality, and now she was tormented by illness, and the pain in her heart was indescribable, and tears became a daily companion.
Four months have been like a lifetime, and as a senior nurse, Li Sa knows better than anyone the weight behind this diagnosis. During these days, she felt as if her body had betrayed her, and the work that was once easy to complete was now difficult, and every day was a struggle of strength and will.
However, the heaviest burden did not only come from the blow of the diagnosis, for Li Sa's family, the ensuing treatment costs were like a thousand pounds of heavy burden, weighing on their hearts. Li Sa is now receiving critical treatment at the Tianjin Institute of Hematology, and in just a few months, the cost of treatment has accumulated to 180,000 yuan.
In order to support this long and difficult road of treatment, Li Sa's father stayed in his hometown to engage in various odd jobs; The mother guards the hospital every step of the way, giving her daughter the most intimate care around the clock. Since the illness, the family has sold everything they have, except for their self-built house in the countryside, and has had to borrow money from relatives and friends. In the future, depending on the development of the disease, it is expected that 15 to 400,000 yuan of follow-up treatment costs will need to be prepared, which is undoubtedly another difficulty that needs to be overcome.
Li Sa was born in an ordinary family, but unfortunately encountered extraordinary disease challenges. Here, we sincerely hope that caring people from all walks of life can lend a helping hand to help this girl in the prime of youth overcome the difficulties and embrace a healthy life again.
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(Edited by Xiang Xue in Ersanli)