“Metamorphosized Sister”, Love Helps Her Go Through Life Forbidden Zone
Source:Shaoyang International CultureWriter: Ai ZheTime:2014-04-07Clicks：次
With no hair all over, no complete skin but a stabbing pain when any part of her body is touched, undressed and lying under a cotton quilt and a steel frame — this was the painful life of Mo Nina, a girl of Zhuang Nationality, who was suffering from leukemia and was being transformed into a butterfly from a chrysalis.
On February 8, when the atmosphere of the Spring Festival was still strong, Mo Xiegang, a former soldier, couldn’t help choking with sobs when he recalled the pains his daughter had suffered, but Mo Nina, who had just experienced unbearable “metamorphosis”, said with a smile: “Though I am one of the rare transformed persons in China and have just experienced the greatest pain in human life, I am the happiest girl in the world”.
Before illness, Mo Nina, the girl of Zhuang Nationality, was lovely and full of sunshine.
Tang Yanfong, the mother, is taking good care of her daughter Mo Nina.
The deepest feeling – elderly sister’s donation of stem cells and younger sister’s rejection and “metamorphosis”
Born in April 1977, Mo Nina was once a complete career driven girl and had such impressive records as: deputy director of Dongfeng Road Sub-district Office of Shuangqing District, Shaoyang City, Deputy Head of Shiqiao Township, holder of college diploma issued by Xiangtang Electromechanical College via self-access examination, holder of undergraduate diploma of law issued by Party School of CPC Central Committee via postal tuition and holder of undergraduate diploma of economic management issued by Party School of Hunan Province after two-year off-job study.
Due to her hard work and outstanding achievements, Mo Nina was honored to receive third-class merit once, given the title of advanced worker every year, and in 2008, awarded a gold medal in the swing competition at Shaoyang’s Second Traditional Sports Meeting.
Unfortunately, her happy life stopped abruptly on October 4, 2009, when she was diagnosed with chronic granulocytic leukemia. Mo Nina was sent immediately by her family to Xiangya Hospital of Central South University for treatment, where her weight was reduced by 5 kg in the first three days due to serious response to chemotherapy which made her vomit and unable to eat.
Fortunately, she has a sister whose bone marrow is matched with hers. On March 8, 2010, Mo Nina was sent to a sterile laminar bin for chemotherapy, preparing for bone marrow transplantation. Two days later, she was transfused with bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells donated by her sister.
For a normal patient, the most important stage of medical treatment is over; unexpectedly, Mo Nina developed a rare rejection, which produced shortness of breath, fast heartbeat and transient shock so that she remained unconscious until she received electric shocks twice. On March 30, Mo Nina came from the transplantation bin with increasingly rejections: dry eyes, oral ulcer, red rashes, blood bubbles and then bright red flesh which was adhered to the clothes or the quilt. The doctors had nothing to do but put her under a steal frame covered with a quilt and used every means to remove oozing blood. Even treated in this way, Mo Nina showed no sign of improvement and in the end the doctors all lost heart and said despairingly to her relations: “You’d better give her up, as there is no hope of her recovery”.
Hearing this, Mo Nina’s mother knelt down in the treatment office, begging the doctors to do everything possible to save her daughter. On April 19, Professor Xu, her doctor, went to Beijing Blood Research Institute to make a treatment plan. Coming back from Beijing On April 21, Professor Xu told Mo Nina’s family that this was the second serious rejection case in China and there was no effective treatment for her except for the use of an imported injection- bevacizumab which costs more than ten thousand yuan for one shot.
In the following 4 months, sustentation of Mo Nina’s life depended totally on blood transfusion. Even though up to 9,200 milliliters of blood was transfused, the root of the problem remained unsolved. Professor Xu suggested that Mo Xiaoli donate stem cells a second time, but he worried that one could not donate stem cells twice within half a year because of the serious damage to the health and even the life of the donator.
Mo Xiaoli flatly refused all the dissuasion, saying unhesitatingly:” I will donate; I will help my sister, no matter what a great risk I will take.” Everyone was moved to tears by what she said.
On August 10, 2010, the operation for lymphoid stem cell transplantation started at 9 o’clock a.m. and lasted until 15 o’clock p.m. After the operation, Mo Nina developed new skin and in the second half of 2010 even hair grew gradually—just like a butterfly getting out from a cocoon. Now she was able to break away from the terrible steel frame.
But Mo Nina’s sister, Mo Xiaoli suffered a lot after stem cell transfusions: after the first transfusion, her body was so painful for more than 10 hours that it seemed like being exploding; during the second stem cell transfusion she felt very nauseous and retched sometime, so that once a young and beautiful girl lost her beauty abruptly, more than half of her hair turned into white and her health became weak with each passing day.
When talking about her sister, Mo Nina’s heart is heavy: “The condition of my sister’s family is not good. Her husband is a bus driver in Changsha and she herself is waiting at home for employment. In addition she has to take care of her father-in-law, who is over 80 years old and suffers from dementia. I feel very guilty as her health is as bad as mine.”
The biggest kindness—the husband remains devoted to her with thrilling love
Mo Nina feels grateful to her sister but she is more moved by her husband and his relations.
In order to raise money to treat her illness, her husband Liao Wujun had to sell the new house they had lived in for only 8 months. At that time many people persuaded him not to sell the house in case in the end he would lose both his wife and money. But the kind-hearted Liao family decided to sell the house, as Liao Wujun said that his responsibility as a husband required him to do so. The new house, sizing 60 square meters, had been purchased and decorated by Liao Family, Mo Family and the husband and wife. Its real price is over 500,000 yuan, but now they had to sell it at the price of 330,000 yuan.
To make more money, Liao Wujun quitted a light work as a bus driver and did the business of selling home water dispensers. He also found time to do other jobs, including water-proofing work. Though busy as a heaver, he himself drives his wife to Changsha whenever a treatment or a check is required. He has to be very frugal and spend every yuan after careful consideration. His “parsimony” is understood and respected by all his friends and relations because they know he is saving money to save the life of his poor wife.
Mo Nina was moved deeply by his love. When seeing that the rooms are untidy because her husband has no time to clean up, Mo Nina felt guilty and wanted to help with the housework, but Liao Wujun refused resolutely, saying “What you need to do is take rest and regain your health. Please do not think too much; I will be responsible for the money.” With little money at home, on New Years Day of 2013, Liao Wujun went out to buy Mo Nina a red bracelet and red underware, hoping that red color would bring his wife happiness and health in her animal year.
Mo Nina’s father-in-law Liao Xinguo and mother-in-law Lu Chenge are over 60 years old. They were living a happy life when suddenly their daughter-in-law fell into a serious disease. In addition，their grand daughter Liao Yuehan is suffering a periosteum disease and therefore unable to do strenuous exercise. Not long after Mo Nina was sent to Xianya Hospital, a simple fall made her daughter Liao Yuehan’s right arm break into 3 sections and Lu Chenge, still in hospital herself, had to send Liao Yuehan to hospital.
“My daughter had 6 operations successively, lasting for 4 years. It is my mother-in-law who helped me to fulfill the duty as a mother,” said Mo Nina, full of shame and remorse. When she was in hospital in Changsha, her mother-in-law came to see her from a far distance every half a month, bringing delicious food each time.
“Nina is good and kind. Not only does she work hard but also does good for others. Since her marriage 13 years ago, she has never quarreled with my son and us.’’ When talking about their daughter-in-law, Liao Xinguo and Lu Chenge always praised her from the bottom of their hearts, “We are lucky to have such a good daughter-in-law and a daughter as well.”
To treat her disease, Liao family is now heavily in debt. The old couple Liao Xinguo and Lu Chenge have to build two vegetable greenhouses and work everyday from dawn to night, even though their annual income is only 8,000 yuan.
The longest account- joint force from relatives and friends, to save the “metamorphosized girl” with love
In the hand of Mo Nina’s mother, there is a thick specific account for treatment, recording the daily use of medicine, with detailed expenditures and donations. Tang Yanrong started to keep accounts On March 28, 2010, when Mo Nina’s skin began peeling and the hospital issued a critically ill notice.
The total expenditure is 1.6 million yuan counting from stem cell transplantation to rejection, from the two big injections to the treatments lasting until she was discharged from hospital recently. The 1.6 million yuan includes 420,000 yuan refunded from Aid for Big Serious Illness, 180,000 yuan from two donations organized by Shaoyang Shuangqing District Party Committee and Government in April and May 2010, 200,000 yuan from donations collected from her classmates in Party schools, her relatives and friends, 300,000 yuan from the sale of the house and about 300,000 from several loans.
Mo Nina made a special mention of a donation from her Zhuang relatives and friends in Guangxi, whom she had never seen. The story is that her father came from Fusui County, Guangxi Autonomous Region before he served in the army in Shaoyang where he got married to a Shaoyang girl Tang Yanrong and settled down after military service. When the news that their relative Mo Nina suffered from leukemia came to Guangxi, people in the Zhuang villages reacted quickly and donated 46,400 yuan to show their love to their relative.
Now Mo Nina, the thoroughly remolded and transformed sister, is on the road to recovery. Though suffering from dry eyes, diabetes, liver & kidney syndrome, pulmonary infection caused by rejection after stem cell transplantations, Mo Nina, with her strong willpower, is still creating a miracle— drawn from unsuccessful rate of 30% to successful rate of 70% and becoming China’s second case for serious rejection.
Not long ago, Mo Nina entered the new year with Liao family and Mo family and people of the two families were very excited because after 4 years of treatment Mo Nina was still alive and became more and more healthy with her character returning to what she used to be, lively and cheerful. They all believe that Mo Nina will recover soon and be happy again immediately.
(Translated by Xie Yiping)
On February 8, when the atmosphere of the Spring Festival was still strong, Mo Xiegang, a former soldier, couldn’t help choking with sobs when he recalled the pains his daughter had suffered, but Mo Nina, who had just experienced unbearable “metamorphosis”, said with a smile: “Though I am one of the rare transformed persons in China and have just experienced the greatest pain in human life, I am the happiest girl in the world”.
Before illness, Mo Nina, the girl of Zhuang Nationality, was lovely and full of sunshine.
Tang Yanfong, the mother, is taking good care of her daughter Mo Nina.
The deepest feeling – elderly sister’s donation of stem cells and younger sister’s rejection and “metamorphosis”
Born in April 1977, Mo Nina was once a complete career driven girl and had such impressive records as: deputy director of Dongfeng Road Sub-district Office of Shuangqing District, Shaoyang City, Deputy Head of Shiqiao Township, holder of college diploma issued by Xiangtang Electromechanical College via self-access examination, holder of undergraduate diploma of law issued by Party School of CPC Central Committee via postal tuition and holder of undergraduate diploma of economic management issued by Party School of Hunan Province after two-year off-job study.
Due to her hard work and outstanding achievements, Mo Nina was honored to receive third-class merit once, given the title of advanced worker every year, and in 2008, awarded a gold medal in the swing competition at Shaoyang’s Second Traditional Sports Meeting.
Unfortunately, her happy life stopped abruptly on October 4, 2009, when she was diagnosed with chronic granulocytic leukemia. Mo Nina was sent immediately by her family to Xiangya Hospital of Central South University for treatment, where her weight was reduced by 5 kg in the first three days due to serious response to chemotherapy which made her vomit and unable to eat.
Fortunately, she has a sister whose bone marrow is matched with hers. On March 8, 2010, Mo Nina was sent to a sterile laminar bin for chemotherapy, preparing for bone marrow transplantation. Two days later, she was transfused with bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells donated by her sister.
For a normal patient, the most important stage of medical treatment is over; unexpectedly, Mo Nina developed a rare rejection, which produced shortness of breath, fast heartbeat and transient shock so that she remained unconscious until she received electric shocks twice. On March 30, Mo Nina came from the transplantation bin with increasingly rejections: dry eyes, oral ulcer, red rashes, blood bubbles and then bright red flesh which was adhered to the clothes or the quilt. The doctors had nothing to do but put her under a steal frame covered with a quilt and used every means to remove oozing blood. Even treated in this way, Mo Nina showed no sign of improvement and in the end the doctors all lost heart and said despairingly to her relations: “You’d better give her up, as there is no hope of her recovery”.
Hearing this, Mo Nina’s mother knelt down in the treatment office, begging the doctors to do everything possible to save her daughter. On April 19, Professor Xu, her doctor, went to Beijing Blood Research Institute to make a treatment plan. Coming back from Beijing On April 21, Professor Xu told Mo Nina’s family that this was the second serious rejection case in China and there was no effective treatment for her except for the use of an imported injection- bevacizumab which costs more than ten thousand yuan for one shot.
In the following 4 months, sustentation of Mo Nina’s life depended totally on blood transfusion. Even though up to 9,200 milliliters of blood was transfused, the root of the problem remained unsolved. Professor Xu suggested that Mo Xiaoli donate stem cells a second time, but he worried that one could not donate stem cells twice within half a year because of the serious damage to the health and even the life of the donator.
Mo Xiaoli flatly refused all the dissuasion, saying unhesitatingly:” I will donate; I will help my sister, no matter what a great risk I will take.” Everyone was moved to tears by what she said.
On August 10, 2010, the operation for lymphoid stem cell transplantation started at 9 o’clock a.m. and lasted until 15 o’clock p.m. After the operation, Mo Nina developed new skin and in the second half of 2010 even hair grew gradually—just like a butterfly getting out from a cocoon. Now she was able to break away from the terrible steel frame.
But Mo Nina’s sister, Mo Xiaoli suffered a lot after stem cell transfusions: after the first transfusion, her body was so painful for more than 10 hours that it seemed like being exploding; during the second stem cell transfusion she felt very nauseous and retched sometime, so that once a young and beautiful girl lost her beauty abruptly, more than half of her hair turned into white and her health became weak with each passing day.
When talking about her sister, Mo Nina’s heart is heavy: “The condition of my sister’s family is not good. Her husband is a bus driver in Changsha and she herself is waiting at home for employment. In addition she has to take care of her father-in-law, who is over 80 years old and suffers from dementia. I feel very guilty as her health is as bad as mine.”
The biggest kindness—the husband remains devoted to her with thrilling love
Mo Nina feels grateful to her sister but she is more moved by her husband and his relations.
In order to raise money to treat her illness, her husband Liao Wujun had to sell the new house they had lived in for only 8 months. At that time many people persuaded him not to sell the house in case in the end he would lose both his wife and money. But the kind-hearted Liao family decided to sell the house, as Liao Wujun said that his responsibility as a husband required him to do so. The new house, sizing 60 square meters, had been purchased and decorated by Liao Family, Mo Family and the husband and wife. Its real price is over 500,000 yuan, but now they had to sell it at the price of 330,000 yuan.
To make more money, Liao Wujun quitted a light work as a bus driver and did the business of selling home water dispensers. He also found time to do other jobs, including water-proofing work. Though busy as a heaver, he himself drives his wife to Changsha whenever a treatment or a check is required. He has to be very frugal and spend every yuan after careful consideration. His “parsimony” is understood and respected by all his friends and relations because they know he is saving money to save the life of his poor wife.
Mo Nina was moved deeply by his love. When seeing that the rooms are untidy because her husband has no time to clean up, Mo Nina felt guilty and wanted to help with the housework, but Liao Wujun refused resolutely, saying “What you need to do is take rest and regain your health. Please do not think too much; I will be responsible for the money.” With little money at home, on New Years Day of 2013, Liao Wujun went out to buy Mo Nina a red bracelet and red underware, hoping that red color would bring his wife happiness and health in her animal year.
Mo Nina’s father-in-law Liao Xinguo and mother-in-law Lu Chenge are over 60 years old. They were living a happy life when suddenly their daughter-in-law fell into a serious disease. In addition，their grand daughter Liao Yuehan is suffering a periosteum disease and therefore unable to do strenuous exercise. Not long after Mo Nina was sent to Xianya Hospital, a simple fall made her daughter Liao Yuehan’s right arm break into 3 sections and Lu Chenge, still in hospital herself, had to send Liao Yuehan to hospital.
“My daughter had 6 operations successively, lasting for 4 years. It is my mother-in-law who helped me to fulfill the duty as a mother,” said Mo Nina, full of shame and remorse. When she was in hospital in Changsha, her mother-in-law came to see her from a far distance every half a month, bringing delicious food each time.
“Nina is good and kind. Not only does she work hard but also does good for others. Since her marriage 13 years ago, she has never quarreled with my son and us.’’ When talking about their daughter-in-law, Liao Xinguo and Lu Chenge always praised her from the bottom of their hearts, “We are lucky to have such a good daughter-in-law and a daughter as well.”
To treat her disease, Liao family is now heavily in debt. The old couple Liao Xinguo and Lu Chenge have to build two vegetable greenhouses and work everyday from dawn to night, even though their annual income is only 8,000 yuan.
The longest account- joint force from relatives and friends, to save the “metamorphosized girl” with love
In the hand of Mo Nina’s mother, there is a thick specific account for treatment, recording the daily use of medicine, with detailed expenditures and donations. Tang Yanrong started to keep accounts On March 28, 2010, when Mo Nina’s skin began peeling and the hospital issued a critically ill notice.
The total expenditure is 1.6 million yuan counting from stem cell transplantation to rejection, from the two big injections to the treatments lasting until she was discharged from hospital recently. The 1.6 million yuan includes 420,000 yuan refunded from Aid for Big Serious Illness, 180,000 yuan from two donations organized by Shaoyang Shuangqing District Party Committee and Government in April and May 2010, 200,000 yuan from donations collected from her classmates in Party schools, her relatives and friends, 300,000 yuan from the sale of the house and about 300,000 from several loans.
Mo Nina made a special mention of a donation from her Zhuang relatives and friends in Guangxi, whom she had never seen. The story is that her father came from Fusui County, Guangxi Autonomous Region before he served in the army in Shaoyang where he got married to a Shaoyang girl Tang Yanrong and settled down after military service. When the news that their relative Mo Nina suffered from leukemia came to Guangxi, people in the Zhuang villages reacted quickly and donated 46,400 yuan to show their love to their relative.
Now Mo Nina, the thoroughly remolded and transformed sister, is on the road to recovery. Though suffering from dry eyes, diabetes, liver & kidney syndrome, pulmonary infection caused by rejection after stem cell transplantations, Mo Nina, with her strong willpower, is still creating a miracle— drawn from unsuccessful rate of 30% to successful rate of 70% and becoming China’s second case for serious rejection.
Not long ago, Mo Nina entered the new year with Liao family and Mo family and people of the two families were very excited because after 4 years of treatment Mo Nina was still alive and became more and more healthy with her character returning to what she used to be, lively and cheerful. They all believe that Mo Nina will recover soon and be happy again immediately.
(Translated by Xie Yiping)