Chapter 1702: Chapter 1706: In This World, There’s No Such Thing as Fairness!
Chen Cang returned to Anyang and went to see Old Master Fang.
He’s much better than before, but he’s still staying in the special care ward. The room now has several pots of green plants, some small fish, and even a bit of a homey feel.
Fang Yonglin was very happy about Chen Cang’s return.
Old Master Fang said something to Chen Cang that he deeply remembered.
He said: Sometimes you don’t need to make the most correct choice, because what is right or wrong?
All these years, I’ve been swayed or guided by certain opinions.
That shaped our views today.
Until one day, I suddenly realized that perhaps what I insisted on and believed in might not necessarily be right, but it might be what should be.
That’s right!
This is the world; there’s no absolute right or wrong, only what should or shouldn’t be.
And this should or shouldn’t be has no absolute boundaries.
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Guo Xue’s life had three turning points, for which she had to make three different choices.
At this stage in her life, she’s done many things she thinks she should do.
Including today, even if many people don’t support her, she still chose to get pregnant.
This might be the most wrong choice of her life.
In everyone’s eyes, she’s wrong.
But...
She alone thinks this is how it should be.
Maybe there’s indeed no fairness between people.
Some are born into immense wealth.
Some are born with extraordinary talents.
Perhaps some remain plain and simple, but you are lucky enough because you are healthy.
While you hold your phone and look at luxury cars, villas, and beauties online, complaining about your poverty-stricken background, have you ever thought that some are looking at you with envy?
Poverty can be changed.
But some things you simply can’t change.
Hunched, deformed, ugly, deaf, mute, blind... some might be truly losing at the starting line from birth.
But they never succumb to fate.
Their effort has a simple goal: survival!
You might say, are there really that many people like this?
Why have I never seen them on the street!
Well, I’ll tell you the answer; it’s because they dare not come out.
Just like you are self-conscious of your poverty, they are also self-conscious of their illness and pain.
Even, how far can a wheelchair go?
How many disabled accessible routes in our lives have become mere formalities?
The paths for the blind lead directly into walls, into hell?
In front of the wheelchair is a daunting high step, difficult to ascend or descend.
Every year, how many people die because of such things?
Has anyone ever counted?
Because no one pays attention to their existence.
And those who do pay attention cannot make their voices heard distinctly.
You might say, these people are rare.
But!
Actually, they are not rare at all; their numbers far exceed the wealthy in this world!
Just like how many particularly wealthy people have you seen in your life.
There are!
Definitely there are!
But are they really a lot?
Guo Xue also once complained, why is she different from others, with blue lips?
She cannot engage in vigorous exercise, cannot participate in sports meets, cannot run, cannot... even make... love, and needs to proceed gently!
But she never gave up on living diligently.
However, pulmonary hypertension is dubbed the "cancer of cardiovascular diseases."
Due to insufficient pulmonary circulation causing hypoxia, lips appear bluish-purple, hence patients are also called "blue-lipped" patients.
This disease leads to heart failure, and if left untreated, the average survival time of patients is only 2.8 years.
And nationally, there are millions of pulmonary hypertension patients, with only 20,000 to 30,000 having received treatment.
The most crucial point is!
Currently, pulmonary hypertension is incurable; patients need lifelong medication!
Under the effect of medications, Guo Xue appears normal.
Schooling, graduation, romance, work, marriage!
But!
There’s finally an insurmountable hurdle.
That is pregnancy!
If not pregnant, pulmonary hypertension patients only need medicine and would not differ much from ordinary people.
However, severe congenital heart disease with pulmonary hypertension is an absolute contraindication for pregnancy.
Once pregnant, the body will definitely feel discomfort, during pregnancy when cardiac function cannot compensate, pulmonary hypertension will cause compensatory rapid heart rate, increasing cardiac output, and burden!
The already significant burden, once compounded, will definitely worsen, leading to heart failure, and even further risk during childbirth.
Moreover, it will have serious effects on the development of the fetus.
So!
Perhaps to many, pregnancy is happiness, symbolizing the birth of new life.
But to them, pregnancy is suffering, because it means a critical illness notice!
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Outside the office, Guo Xue’s family remained silent, for none knew what to say!
Guo Xue’s husband, Li Xuefeng, silently stared at the ceiling.
At this moment, Guo Xue was still in her hospital room, in stable condition, but... worsening every day.
They went to Xiehe, went to West China, then sought fame and went to the capital’s emergency center.
But by then, Chen Cang had just left.
Xu Ziming, upon seeing Guo Xue, firmly rejected the idea of surgical treatment.
Because once surgery is performed, it will undoubtedly lead to a path of no return.
This world has yet to see a stable patient post heart-lung transplantation during pregnancy.
Xu Ziming never arrogantly believed he could complete such surgery!
But the most crucial issue was not whether the surgery would succeed.
It was whether the surgery should be done!
Due to his wife’s pregnancy, Li Xuefeng became the biggest villain!
Became the collective target of feminist attacks!
Similarly, Li Xuefeng’s parents became subjects of old-fashioned conservative feudalism.
It seemed for a moment, Li Xuefeng’s family was all examples of wrongdoing.
They should not force their daughter-in-law to become pregnant!
Could they really not adopt a child?
Saying Li Xuefeng’s family was irresponsible, caring nothing about Guo Xue’s life and death for the sake of a child!
Some even went as far as reporting to the police, involving both law enforcement and the women’s federation in the investigation!
But!
They underestimated the feminists’ perseverance and endurance.
They just simply wanted to force the good into becoming bad, wished for family destruction, and even wanted to witness the world they deemed right!
They didn’t know that in this world, there’s something called love.
So much so that currently Li Xuefeng’s family is misunderstood by everyone.
But!
They did not argue back.
Li Xuefeng is carefully tending to his wife, his parents also minding their daily lives.
This time, Guo Xue’s pregnancy was kept a secret from everyone!
After Guo Xue found out she was pregnant, she made an excuse to leave home.
It was not until she was six months pregnant and could no longer hide it that she confessed everything!
There were arguments and uproars!
Guo Xue’s mother even threatened to kill herself.
But you really don’t know how stubborn a stubborn woman can be.
When Guo Xue cried out, "I just want to be a wife, a mother, even if it’s just for one day!"
"Can’t I?"
"You always make me do what you think is right."
"I am also a person, with my own choices and life."
"Am I not worthy of having a child?"
Guo Xue is very lucky!
She found a husband who cherishes, loves, and spoils her.
However, love is something that can easily make one feel indebted.
In fact, the better Li Xuefeng is to her, the more it becomes a burden to Guo Xue’s heart!
She suddenly realized that perhaps they needed their own child.
So, Guo Xue began researching all kinds of information, indeed, there were successful pregnancies.
But she overlooked one issue, which is that diseases have individual differences.
Rare events always cause great harm!
As expected, in the first month of pregnancy, Guo Xue began experiencing shortness of breath. By the third month, she was suffering from severe coughing, breathing difficulties, fatigue, and even climbing stairs was problematic!
By the fifth month, she would even faint due to insufficient blood and oxygen supply to the brain!
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For the sake of the child, Guo Xue endured everything.
She consulted more than a dozen doctors and experts, and the answer she got was very consistent: terminate the pregnancy!
Unfortunately, she refused.
This journey to today had not been easy for her.
Now, it’s been over seven months.
She had no way out!
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Li Xuefeng stared at the pale ceiling, with no color, just like his mood right now.
To be honest, in the past two months, he had made all sorts of preparations!
It seemed the answer was no longer important.
What mattered was, if the child is born without a mother, how should he explain it?
If Guo Xue were gone, should he find a new mother for the child?
He could swear that if he remarried, even for the sake of the child, he would be torn apart by those online feminists.
He had experienced this deeply in recent days.
In this era of information explosion.
Li Xuefeng didn’t even know how he inexplicably entered the sight of so many people.
Sigh...
Helplessly!
Li Xuefeng got up and looked at Guo Xue’s blue lips through the window.
Suddenly his nose felt sore.
Why does the world have to be so unfair?
All sorts of memories surfaced in his mind.
Li Xuefeng couldn’t help but weep, thoughts full of Guo Xue!
The most helpless thing for Li Xuefeng is going to the pharmacy to buy sildenafil every month.
Each time, he was looked at with strange eyes by the young girl selling the medicine.
As a result, Li Xuefeng had to go around the city to buy this medicine.
Guo Xue often teased Li Xuefeng: "Now the whole city knows you like buying this stuff, everyone knows you... haha!
Except me, no one else would want you!"
In response, Li Xuefeng always gave an awkward laugh. He never thought about divorce, but... little did he know, aside from divorce to separate people, there’s another possibility: widowhood!
At this time, Guo Xue would always act coquettishly beside his ear like a little puppy.
"Ah, I take more sildenafil than you do! Haha... Kills me with laughter, I won’t turn into a man, will I?"
Every time, Li Xuefeng was amused by this innocent girl.
Guo Xue often asked herself.
If she liked children or not.
Every time, Li Xuefeng would shake his head, "No, children are too troublesome. Having one treasure is enough!"
But Guo Xue also knew that Li Xuefeng wanted a child.
That’s how the two of them were.
That’s how life was.
You never know what will happen tomorrow.
In fact, taking sildenafil is one of the cheapest medications for treating pulmonary hypertension.
Studies show that the monthly cost of taking sildenafil for pulmonary hypertension treatment is over 700 yuan, while Viagra costs over 2000 yuan, both significantly lower than other treatment options.
Therefore, Mr. Zhong has advocated for Viagra to be covered by insurance three or four times.
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With Guo Xue’s arrival, Dongyang Province Second People’s Hospital once again became a hot topic!
This "internet-famous mom" who rose to fame due to illness, Guo Xue, attracted many media and gossip attention.
In an era where anyone can be the media, the media has almost lost its proper role, even beginning to lead public opinion in a wrong direction.
Nearly everyone was praising the greatness of Guo Xue.
A woman who can give up her life for the sake of her child seems worth promoting, caring for, and protecting!
Along with it, the "malicious" family members also became key topics of discussion.
Worth being spited upon and despised!
Overnight, it seemed that any matter involving women would be enlarged by those with hidden agendas.
So, the atmosphere in the Second Provincial Hospital became more oppressive for a moment.
Chen Cang, upon encountering this situation, also started to personally resolve it.
But!
Compared to those media promotions, Chen Cang was somewhat repulsed.
Because this was not a rescue mission, but a gamble.
Moreover!
This was moral coercion in the name of love!
He invited the Chief of Gynecology, Zhang Jinfeng, along with Meng Xi and others, to the ward.
Zhang Jinfeng took a deep breath, looked at Guo Xue, and said again:
"Miss Guo, I still advise you to terminate the pregnancy. This way, your chance of survival will be greater."
"Now, your pregnancy is very risky, maybe you should wait, our medicine is advancing, maybe in a few years, pregnancy will not be impossible!"
Guo Xue’s family stood by, Li Xuefeng sat by the bedside, touching his wife’s hand, somewhat pale, somewhat cold.
The family was all trying to persuade her!
"Yes, Xiaoxue, think about it again!"
"A child, if lost, can be had again, but if you’re gone... really gone!"
"Yeah, these days, many people choose to be child-free, why are you young ones not as open-minded as us older folks?" Li Xuefeng’s mother persuaded.
Now it’s the year 9092, where’s the issue of saving the mother or the child!
Basically, anyone knows what slow and steady means.
To even have such a save-the-child occurrence definitely happened because the party involved took the initiative.
Li Xuefeng also didn’t speak; if persuasion worked, it would have worked long ago!
By now, it’s no longer about persuasion, but what to do next!
Thinking of this, Li Xuefeng sighed heavily.
He glanced at Guo Xue, just in time for their eyes to meet, she smiled.