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Magnolia Flower Blooms
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1. I know my son's condition is very serious, but I cannot bear to watch my child, who is not even two years old yet, lose all his hair, have visible veins on his thin arms, and have ribs that can be counted on his small chest, leave me like this. He often sweats from pain but endures without crying or making a fuss, instead kissing my face to comfort me: "Mommy, don't be sad. Baby isn't in pain!"
The first bone marrow transplant felt as long as a century; throughout the entire surgery, I didn't eat or drink, sitting outside the operating room like a statue.
But the surgery failed!
It cost nearly five hundred thousand in total, yet he developed graft-versus-host disease and an infection. His condition continued to deteriorate, threatening his life at any moment.
From An County to Jinan City, then to the provincial capital River City, every step was soaked in my blood and tears. At just twenty-six years old, I looked as haggard as a woman in her forties or fifties. Besides the torment of my child's illness, there was the difficulty of borrowing money from friends and relatives.
I gritted my teeth and persisted!
An expert said there was an imported targeted drug that had a 35% chance of helping my child's illness, but one bottle costs tens of thousands. I wanted to buy it for my son to try, but my husband Jia Huairen strongly opposed:
"Stop it! No more treatment; we have no money left! I can't live in debt for her!"
"We already owe three hundred thousand."
"Don't save him; we can have another..."
I insisted on calling to borrow money for the medicine. In a fit of rage, he grabbed my hair and pushed me down onto our son's hospital bed, slapping me hard across the face again and again. The doctors and nurses finally managed to pull him away.
Our sick son lay there staring at us; he was terrified, so scared that he forgot to cry out.
My husband left, taking away our remaining cash and abandoning us at the provincial hospital.
Jia Huairen and I were college classmates; I ranked seventh among the top ten beauties and was known as "Jiang University's Seven Fairies." We met at a freshman social event, and he pursued me relentlessly. His emotional intelligence overwhelmed me, a girl from a rural area in Sichuan Province, and I quickly fell for his sweet words.
At that time, life was carefree and beautiful, without the trials and anxieties of daily life.
2. After graduating from college, I could have stayed in River City for work, but Jia Huairen insisted that I return with him to An County because his father was the director of the county's cultural bureau and "very capable."
That year, we got married in his hometown because I was pregnant. After marriage, he worked at the county finance bureau while I stayed home to take care of myself during pregnancy.
With the birth of our daughter, our peaceful life was shattered by harsh reality. When our daughter was born, she wouldn't eat or drink and cried all night long. She was taken to the county hospital where she was diagnosed with hypoglycemic encephalopathy.
Because she couldn't swallow, the young child could only rely on a syringe to push liquid food to stay alive. My husband and in-laws saw that the child was unhealthy and considered her a huge burden. They were unwilling to seek medical help for her. Before the child even reached a month old, my mother-in-law shouted that she wanted to abandon her granddaughter: "The master has already said that this child came into this world as a short-lived 'debt collector.' No matter how much money we spend, she won't get better!"
Due to their disdain for my daughter, they also looked down on me as the mother. While other women had nourishing soups like chicken soup, fish soup, and pork rib soup after giving birth, all I had were rice soup and noodle soup. They wouldn't even let me eat an extra egg, as if my child's illness was entirely my fault as her mother.
My in-laws kept pressuring me to agree to abandon my daughter on a mountain or in a river. I insisted on seeking treatment for her, and they kicked me out of the house. Behind my father-in-law's hypocritical expression was all pretentious morality: "With the child like this, she'll be a burden to the country when she grows up... right? We can't be too selfish; we have to consider the bigger picture... right? You are still young; wouldn't it be better to have another healthy, normal child? Right?"
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