(Health Times reporter Wang Aibing) "If it wasn't for you telling me, I wouldn't have known that I was on the hot search." On October 17, Li Jie, a female volunteer with cancer in her 40s, touched countless netizens by sticking to the disaster area after the rainstorm in Zhengzhou for more than two months, when the Health Times reporter contacted Li Jie, she was carrying out post-disaster support work in a village and town in Shanxi, she told reporters, "Now I and the team have come to Shanxi again, almost all the villages and towns where the rainstorm in Shanxi is more serious, we are here to repay the favor, because when our hometown Henan encountered heavy rain, many rescue teams in Shanxi helped us." ”
Li Jie (first from the right) asks the affected villagers what help they need during the disaster relief process. Courtesy of respondents
In March last year, Li Jie was diagnosed with advanced cancer, and she told reporters, "At that time, I felt like a wasted person, as if I had lost the value of life in an instant." On July 20, Li Jie, who lives in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, suddenly wanted to do something when she saw the heavy rain downstairs, "I was upstairs, watching the support team from all over the country come to help us, and I thought that I should also help my hometown to do something." Li Jie recalled that in this way, she took her son into the disaster area and began to use her own strength to help her hometown to rebuild after the disaster, and they transferred from Zhengzhou to Weihui, Hebijun County and other seriously affected villages and towns in Xinxiang, and did it for 2 months.
"At the beginning, there were only two people, my son and me, we didn't know the professional disaster relief knowledge, so we started with the simplest way to move supplies, because I had surgery, I had an arm that basically couldn't move, so more often, I moved with my son a little bit." Li Jie said that in this way, they met more and more volunteers like Li Jie in the process, and their team also developed from the first 2 people to more than 60 people at the most.
Understanding and the team in the process of disaster relief, to the villagers to carry supplies, interviewees provided pictures.
Li Jie told reporters that from her hometown of Henan to Shanxi, it seems that the busy work makes her forget that she is a patient, but sometimes, she still has to remember to take medicine in the busy disaster relief work. "In fact, I am now ready to go to the time of review and treatment, and sometimes my body will be a little uncomfortable." Li Jie said frankly, but I still want to do my best in Shanxi, give back to Shanxi the experience I and our team have accumulated in the process of disaster relief in Henan, and help people in need, it seems that it is precisely because of this experience that my life has more meaning.