Xiaoya (pseudonym), a 10-year-old girl from mainland China, was diagnosed with leukemia last year. Under the advice of doctors, she must take oral contraceptives every day to delay her menstrual period. It has been 8 months since then. Xiaoya’s mother, Zhu Jiao, revealed that her daughter has undergone 6 chemotherapy treatments, and now she needs to lose platelets every 2 or 3 days. “My child is my heart. As long as there is a little hope, a mother will do her best.”
“Ziniu News” reported that Xiaoya, a native of Cangzhou, Hebei, suddenly developed a high fever in mid-August last year, and it took 5 days of treatment to improve. At the doctor’s advice, Zhu Jiao took her daughter to a large hospital in Tianjin for a check-up. Unexpectedly, she was found to be suspected of leukemia, which made her collapse and shout, “Impossible, no relatives or friends in the family have suffered from this disease, how might Xiaoya be? Do you have this disease?”
After calming down, Zhu Jiao looked at the examination report and had to accept the reality, and went through the hospitalization procedures. After bone marrow puncture, Xiaoya was finally diagnosed with “acute lymphoblastic leukemia”. To make matters worse, Xiaoya’s treatment process did not go well. During the first chemotherapy, she caused a nose infection. The black blood pimples in the nasal cavity grew day by day. In the end, her entire face was swollen, her eyes might not be opened, and her lips turned out. Let Zhu Jiao’s heart be cut like a knife.
After the doctor’s careful treatment, Xiaoya’s health improved, but another more pressing problem followed. Four months before she was diagnosed with leukemia, Xiaoya had her first period. The doctor said, “Because the platelet count in the blood is only a few dozen (the lower limit of the reference range of platelet counts in some hospitals is regarding 150), when Xiaoya came on her period, It is very likely to cause heavy bleeding, and if it is serious, it will be life-threatening at any time.”
The doctor suggested that the little girl needs to take oral contraceptives every day to control her period. Zhu Jiao was worried regarding the adverse effects on the child’s body. “I can’t accept it. She is a girl following all. Long-term use of contraceptives will definitely be harmful to her body.” Helpless. The doctor said bluntly, “This is the only solution at present. You have to think regarding the child’s current situation. If there is no life, do you still need to consider the future?”
There was nothing she might do, so Zhu Jiao had to follow the doctor’s advice, but when she first started taking contraceptives, Xiaoya was reluctant, and she often retched. What was even more distressing was that the girl didn’t know that she was taking contraceptives. Zhu Jiao choked up and said that she did not dare to tell the truth to her child. In order to accompany Xiaoya, she quit her job and spent more than 200,000 yuan, “Children are my heart, as long as there is a little hope, a mother will definitely Do your best.”
