Opening her eyes, before she could speak, the pungent smell of disinfectant water wafted in, and she was trapped in the scene of the chemotherapy. In the past few hours, Zhao Rong has experienced all the bad states of chemotherapy, with weakness, nausea and vomiting, hair loss...
Each surgery is a "battle" about survival. Every time she woke up after the operation, she found that her husband could not stay by her side due to special circumstances, leaving only the cold bed and herself, which made her have countless thoughts of giving up.
It was the autumn of 2018, and Zhao Rong and Zhu Xiaofeng entered the palace of marriage with the blessings of comrades-in-arms and relatives and friends. But the happy days are always short, and in the second year after marriage, a letter of case breaks their peaceful and beautiful life. During a physical examination, Zhao Rong was found to have breast cancer. Zhao Rong clutched the medical record sheet and repeatedly confirmed the examination results in his hand, not daring to believe it.
At that moment, the fear she had never had before struck Zhao Rong, and her first reaction was to call Zhu Xiaofeng, who was studying and training in Shanghai. But when she thought of going to the army to visit Zhu Xiaofeng, his busy figure, she hesitated.
She told herself that she was Zhao Rong, a military sister-in-law, and also Zhao Rong on the education front. For her, teachers and military sisters-in-law all mean a heavy responsibility. As a teacher, she has worked diligently for five years and nurtured the future flowers of the motherland with her own love; as a military sister-in-law, she has no complaints, no regrets, unconditionally supports her husband to engage in national defense, and lets her husband have no worries in the army.
Turning over Zhao Rong's anti-cancer calendar, entering the 185 days, Zhao Rong, who woke up from the chemotherapy room again, left traces of fighting with the disease on his face, and the pain of the wound after the surgical anesthesia faded wrapped around his whole body. In a trance, Zhao Rong heard someone around him whispering, opened his eyes, a familiar and "unfamiliar" face appeared in front of him, and Zhu Xiaofeng, who had not been seen for a long time, appeared in front of the hospital bed with red eyes.
In an instant, all kinds of bitterness surged into my heart, and tears flowed out without controversy. Looking back on the past few years, the past has appeared in front of me one after another.
In more than a year, Zhao Rong underwent 3 surgeries, 6 chemotherapy and 25 radiotherapy. Even if her husband is not around, she does not have a word of complaint, always use a positive attitude to cooperate with the treatment before the operation, every video call answers "I am very good, I am a military sister-in-law, but also a soldier, you do not often say, there is no soldier in front of the difficulty, there is no difficulty in front of the soldier, you must not worry, I wait for you to come back." ”
During his hospitalization, Zhao Rong dreamed many times that he had re-stood on the podium, and the smiles of the children in the audience were still so innocent. She said: "When I think of the children's thirsty eyes, I feel full of strength and can't wait to return to the children. ”
"I'm all right, you're doing a good job in the army, and I want to go back to school to see my students." After the end of chemotherapy, Zhao Rong, who still needed to recuperate, returned to the classroom for the first time.
In December 2020, Zhao Rong's corps was rated as one of the "top ten" military sisters-in-law, and the award speech wrote that "soldiers are ordinary, but dare to do dare to be; military sisters-in-law are ordinary, but selfless and fearless." ”
Zhao Rong told Zhu Xiaofeng that once you are dressed in a military uniform, you must not forget your original intention and forge ahead; if I make one choice, I will be willing to dedicate my life and have no regrets.
(Hu Cheng, Peng Pengcheng, Zheng Xiangquan)
