This August, Ruiming Cui's condition continued to deteriorate, and the Maanshan People's Hospital once issued a critical notice. Fortunately, the gastrointestinal bleeding was eventually controlled. However, the doctor said that a liver transplant surgery had become absolutely necessary; otherwise, Ruiming Cui's life would be in danger.
The strong girl did not hesitate. Having such a well-behaved and understanding daughter, even though she was seriously ill, Ruiming Cui could still smile brightly.
Like other girls of her age, Yang Rong, who is in her youth, is an active and lovely girl. But since her mother's old illness recurred in 2007, her classmates and friends have rarely seen Yang Rong smile. The sensible Yang Rong deeply understands the severity of her mother's condition and worries every day about how to treat her mother.
Yang Rong's filial piety, reported by the media, moved the citizens of Tianjin City. "Everyone understands the principle that among all virtues, filial piety comes first, but this 19-year-old girl being so understanding truly deserves admiration and moves people."
It was only at this point that Yang Rong learned that 20 years ago, her mother had suffered from schistosomiasis-induced liver cirrhosis before marriage and had undergone a splenectomy at that time. After the surgery, Rui Ming翠’s body gradually returned to normal, but unexpectedly, many years later, the condition quietly recurred and had already developed to a serious extent.
In Maanshan, Yang Rong had consulted with the hospital doctors. For families facing financial difficulties, having a relative provide a liver for transplantation is the most ideal solution. It can save a huge amount of money, and the treatment effect is also the best.
Recently, local media in Tianjin reported on Yang Rong's situation, and she received some social donations. However, there is still a significant shortfall in the surgical fees. Fortunately, considering Yang Rong's family's difficult circumstances and the urgency of saving lives, the hospital has agreed to perform a liver transplant surgery on Ruiming Cui within this week, allowing the fees to be paid later.
The news of successful tissue matching strengthened Yang Rong's confidence in curing her mother, but facing a surgical fee gap of more than 100,000 yuan, the 19-year-old Yang Rong frowned every day.
Later, through acquaintances' introductions, Yang Rong brought her mother to the First Central Hospital of Tianjin. In the liver transplant center of this hospital, Yang Rong received good news: it turned out that her blood type matched her mother's. After testing, she could serve as the donor for the liver transplant surgery. As long as 60% of her liver was transplanted into her mother, her mother's life could be prolonged.
Due to reasons such as her parents' divorce and her mother's long-term illness, this originally not wealthy family was already under unbearable pressure. Since Ruiming Cui became ill, her ex-husband, despite being divorced, still handed over more than 2,000 yuan of his monthly salary to Yang Rong and her mother. Additionally, because their family was considered impoverished, the village committee gave them a few hundred yuan in subsidies each month. However, these funds, compared to the hundreds of thousands of yuan in surgical fees, were like trying to put out a fire with a cup of water.
Taking her mother to Beijing for treatment
If your mother is critically ill, and your liver can prolong her life, what would you do? The 19-year-old rural girl Yang Rong from Maanshan provided her answer: to treat her mother, she resolutely abandoned taking the college entrance exam and now decided to donate 60% of her liver to her mother.
In October this year, when her classmates began new lives in university campuses, Yang Rong, carrying a heavy backpack, took her frail mother and 200,000 yuan borrowed from various sources, and went to the capital for the first time in her life to allow her mother to receive better treatment.
Yang Rong is from Huoli Town, Hua Mountain District, Maanshan City. In her memory, her mother Ruiming Cui had always been very healthy. However, starting from 2007, Ruiming Cui suddenly felt bloated and subsequently experienced high fever, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding. The hospital's examination results soon came out - Ruiming Cui was suffering from advanced liver cirrhosis.
Yang Rong is 19 years old. If it weren't for her mother falling victim to illness, she should have happily lived in a university campus. This year, due to her mother's worsening condition, Yang Rong often took leave to take care of her mother at home. Her previously excellent academic performance gradually fell behind. On the eve of the college entrance exam, in order to fully care for her severely ill mother, after much hesitation, Yang Rong ultimately decided not to participate in the college entrance exam.
Liver transplant is the only way to save her life
For patients with advanced liver cirrhosis, liver transplant surgery is the best treatment method. Since her mother became ill, Yang Rong has become a medical expert. She clearly understands the necessity of liver transplant treatment and eagerly looks forward to her mother undergoing this surgery as soon as possible.
Mother in critical condition
Since her parents have divorced, the responsibility of taking care of her mother has fallen on the young shoulders of Yang Rong, who is still in high school. Every day, in addition to dealing with complex learning tasks, she also does housework and takes care of her mother. Giving medicine, preparing meals, chatting with her mother to relieve pain... These are things Yang Rong must do every day.
Giving up the college entrance exam
After a month of treatment in the Beijing hospital, Yang Rong repeatedly proposed transplanting part of her liver to her mother, but was continuously informed that the surgery risk was extremely high and the hospital was unable to help. In just one month, half of the 200,000 yuan she brought with her had already been spent.
At this point, Ruiming Cui had already divorced her husband and was living alone with her daughter Yang Rong. Although local doctors in Maanshan suggested performing a liver transplant surgery as soon as possible, due to living in a rural area and financial difficulties, Ruiming Cui has been receiving conservative treatment in the hospital through albumin transfusions and visiting the hospital for check-ups several times a year.
For Yang Rong, this was undoubtedly a tremendous piece of good news.