Having such a well-behaved and understanding daughter, even the critically ill Rui Mingcui can smile brightly. If your mother was critically ill and your liver could save her life, what would you do? Yang Rong, a 19-year-old peasant girl from Ma'anshan, gave her answer: to treat her mother, she resolutely abandoned the college entrance exam, and now she has decided to transplant 60% of her liver to her mother.
Yang Rong is from Huashan District, Holi Town in Ma'anshan City. In her memory, her mother Rui Mingcui had always been healthy. But since 2007, Rui Mingcui suddenly felt bloated, followed by symptoms such as high fever, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding. The hospital's examination results soon came out - Rui Mingcui suffered from end-stage liver cirrhosis.
It was only at this point that Yang Rong learned that 20 years ago, before getting married, her mother had already suffered from schistosomiasis-induced liver cirrhosis and underwent a splenectomy at that time. After the surgery, Rui Mingcui's body gradually returned to normal, but unexpectedly, many years later, the condition quietly recurred and had developed to a very serious extent.
By this time, Rui Mingcui had divorced her husband and was living alone with her daughter Yang Rong. Although local doctors in Ma'anshan suggested a liver transplant as soon as possible, due to their rural background and financial difficulties, Rui Mingcui had been undergoing conservative treatment in the hospital through albumin transfusions, visiting the hospital for check-ups several times a year.
In August this year, Rui Mingcui's condition continued to deteriorate, and the People's Hospital of Ma'anshan City once issued a critical illness notice. Fortunately, the gastrointestinal bleeding was eventually controlled. However, the doctor said that a liver transplant had become an unavoidable necessity; otherwise, Rui Mingcui's life could not be saved.
Liver transplantation was necessary to save her life when her mother's condition became critical.
Like other girls of the same age, Yang Rong, in the prime of her youth, was a lively and lovely girl. But ever since her mother's old disease recurred in 2007, it became difficult for her classmates and friends to see Yang Rong smile again. Understanding the severity of her mother's condition, she worried every day about how to treat her mother.
Because her parents had already divorced, since her mother fell ill, the responsibility of taking care of her fell on the young shoulders of Yang Rong. While still in high school, she not only had to deal with complicated study tasks but also had to do housework and take care of her mother. Giving medicine to her mother, preparing meals, and chatting with her mother to alleviate pain... these were all things Yang Rong had to do every day.
Yang Rong is 19 years old this year. If it weren't for her mother being stricken by illness, she should have been happily living in a university campus. Since the beginning of this year, because her mother's condition became more serious, Yang Rong often took leave to take care of her mother at home. Her previously good academic performance gradually fell behind. On the eve of the college entrance exam, to wholeheartedly take care of her seriously ill mother, after much hesitation, Yang Rong ultimately gave up the opportunity to participate in the college entrance exam.
In October this year, while her former classmates started new lives on university campuses, Yang Rong, with a heavy backpack, brought her frail mother and 200,000 yuan borrowed from all directions, and went to the capital for the first time in her life, so her mother could receive better treatment.
Taking her mother to Beijing for treatment, giving up the college entrance exam.
For patients with end-stage liver cirrhosis, liver transplantation is the best treatment method. Since her mother fell ill, Yang Rong has become a medical expert. She clearly understands the necessity of liver transplantation and looks forward to her mother undergoing this surgery as soon as possible.
In Ma'anshan, Yang Rong had already consulted with the hospital's doctors. For families with financial difficulties, providing a liver for transplantation by relatives is the most ideal method, which can save a huge amount of money and also achieve the best treatment effect.
After a month of treatment in a Beijing hospital, Yang Rong repeatedly proposed that part of her liver be transplanted to her mother, but was told each time that the surgical risk was extremely high, and the hospital was unable to perform it. In just one short month, the 200,000 yuan she brought with her was already reduced by half.
Later, through acquaintances' introductions, Yang Rong brought her mother to the First Central Hospital of Tianjin. At the liver transplantation center of this hospital, Yang Rong received some good news: originally, her blood type matched her mother's. After testing, she could serve as the donor for the liver transplantation surgery, and as long as 60% of her liver was transplanted into her mother, her mother's life could be extended.
For Yang Rong, this was undoubtedly a piece of great news.
The successful matching strengthened Yang Rong's confidence in curing her mother, but facing a shortfall of over 100,000 yuan in surgical fees, the 19-year-old Yang Rong frowned every day.
Due to reasons such as her parents' divorce and her mother's long-term illness, this originally not wealthy family had already become overwhelmed. Since Rui Mingcui fell ill, her already divorced husband still handed over his monthly salary of more than 2,000 yuan earned from working to Yang Rong and her mother. Additionally, because their family was considered poor, the village committee gave them a few hundred yuan subsidy each month. But these funds, compared to the hundreds of thousands of yuan required for the surgery, were like trying to put out a fire with a cup of water.
Recently, local media in Tianjin reported on Yang Rong's situation. Yang Rong received some social donations, but there was still a large shortfall in the surgical fees. Fortunately, considering Yang Rong's family difficulties and the urgency of saving a life, the hospital has already agreed to perform the liver transplantation surgery on Rui Mingcui within this week, allowing the costs to be paid later.
Yang Rong's filial piety, reported in the media, moved the citizens of Tianjin. "Everyone understands the principle that among all virtues, filial piety comes first, but for a 19-year-old girl to be so understanding, it truly commands respect and moves people."