source: Qilu Evening News
11 years old Li Dongxu was refueling his father, Li Shuguo, who lived in the aseptic ward. Li Gang, 11, was a naive and lively age, but Li Dongxu in the North Fan Village of Dong Ji Zhen, Kenli County, had to bear the responsibility of saving his father's life. More than two years ago, his father, Li Shuguo, suffered from leukemia and had been treated for more than two years. The only way to save lives now is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Fortunately, 11 year old Li Dongxu and his father match successfully, decided to donate hematopoietic stem cells to save his father, but the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars is difficult to destroy a family. The three man, who was once happy, suddenly suffered from leukemia, "Dad, a new year to go, get better quickly, play chess with me, I'll teach you English!" the first day of 2013, Li Dongxu, 11, shouted to Li Shuguo in the aseptic ward through the window. Standing on the side of Xu Yong Mei can no longer control the tears in her eyes. Her husband's illness since Li Shuguo's illness has again emerged from her mind. March 2010, Xu Yong Mei suddenly received a phone call from his husband Li Shuguo: "I was hospitalized in Dongying, the situation is not very good, you come to see it." Xu Yongmei put down the phone and hurried to the hospital. The doctor quietly told her that after examination, Li Shuguo was diagnosed as chronic myelogenous leukemia. "When I heard the words of leukemia, it felt like a bolt from the blue. It scared me out of my mind." Xu Yongmei recalls the tears in the eyes of the time, saying that after her husband knew something, he often consoled himself, "he often made me strong and wanted me to hold the house." Xu Yongmei told reporters that although their family lives in rural areas, they are not well-off, but their families are also very happy. Sudden illness has dragged the originally happy family into a quagmire. After taking medicine for hundreds of thousands of patients a year, there were many recurring cases. "When the diagnosis was made, the doctor suggested taking an imported medicine, but the medicine was too expensive." Xu Yongmei said that the medicine would take more than 20 thousand boxes a month and a box a month, which would require hundreds of thousands of yuan a year. In order to maintain her husband's treatment, Xu Yong Mei borrowed all his friends and relatives. After insisting on taking medicine for more than a year, Li Shuguo's condition has recurred repeatedly. Last October, Xu went to the provincial hospital with her husband. "After examination, the doctor found that the disease is developing again and must be transplanted." In fact, at the beginning of their illness, they considered transplantation. "At that time, the relatives did the matching, except for the success of his sister matching, others failed, but her sister was in poor health, and the doctor said it was not suitable for transplant." Xu Yongmei said.
the success of the successful operation of the son and father is hundreds of thousands of
with the development of Li Shuguo's condition, no transplantation has been carried out, and no better treatment has been done. In January 1st, in the aseptic ward of the Department of Hematology in the provincial hospital, Xu Fu Mei touched his son Li Dongxu's head, with tears in her eyes and said that she decided to let the children match the type.
to their great satisfaction, the matching of the father and the son is very successful, and two people are of the same weight. "Usually the two children have a good relationship and play chess together." Xu Yongmei said that in order to let his son learn English well, Li Shuguo also asked his son to teach him English.
though he didn't understand his father's illness, Li Dongxu looked at his father's thin and weak voice and cried. When asked about donating stem cells for fear of pain, Li Dongxu said like a little grown-up, "I read the informed consent, and mobilized most is like a cold."
"although there are stem cells, the cost of operation is several hundred thousand." Xu Yongmei said, "the disease has spent four or five hundred thousand years in the past few years. It is basically borrowed from relatives and friends, and now it can not be borrowed."
after hearing about their family, many good people have extended their help, and the villagers in their village have also organized donations. "The villagers have donated nearly ten thousand dollars, thank them very much." But this is still a drop in the bucket for the high cost of surgery.