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Lying has always been despised by people, especially in the era when honesty is becoming more and more important. However, not long ago, in Changzhi, Shanxi, 34-year-old Zhao Yunliang told a big lie to his father. People who knew him not only didn’t say anything, but also helped him with the lie. What happened?
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Zhao Yunliang
On August 17, 2007, Zhao Guijin, a native of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, accompanied by his son Zhao Yunliang, went to Beijing and was admitted to the Beijing Armed Police General Hospital for surgery. Because he was told that he had bile duct obstruction, it was just a minor problem, and the upcoming operation was only a minor operation, Zhao Guijin was in a very good mental state, talking and laughing. Father is carefree, but his son Zhao Yunliang is in another state of mind, because he clearly knows that his father is not suffering from such a small problem as bile duct obstruction, and the upcoming operation is not a simple operation.
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Zhao Yunliang’s younger brother Zhao Lishuan
Shen Zhongyang, Director of Transplantation Department of Armed Police General Hospital: That is to say, he won’t have surgery this time, that is, after two or three months, he may not even have a chance to have surgery.
Zhao Yunliang learned of his father Zhao Guijin’s illness on July 6, 2007. That morning, my father felt unwell, so he went to Changzhi Heping Hospital, not far from home, for a physical examination. In the afternoon, when he went to the hospital to get the examination results, the doctor told him that the patient probably had liver cancer.
Next, what the doctor said made Zhao Yunliang even more afraid. The doctor told him that if he didn’t take the time to treat, the patient would live for another two months at most. It is not too unexpected for Zhao Yunliang that his father got liver cancer, because three of his relatives died of liver cancer.
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Although he thinks that the result of this examination is correct in all likelihood, Zhao Yunliang still won’t give up. He decided to take his father to a big hospital in Beijing for another physical examination. Zhao Yunliang agreed with the doctor that when he told his father, he said that he had a bile duct obstruction, which was not a big problem. However, he was going to Beijing for a minor operation.
Zhao Yunliang did this because he was worried that once his father knew his real illness, he would definitely not receive treatment.
With the cooperation of doctors, Zhao Yunliang coaxed his father from Changzhi to Beijing and entered the Beijing Armed Police General Hospital, which is famous for treating liver diseases.
The examination results of Beijing Armed Police General Hospital are completely consistent with those of Changzhi Peace Hospital, that is, the patient has liver cancer and can live for two months at most.
The doctor told Zhao Yunliang that at present, the only way to save the patient’s life is to have a liver transplant. The doctor’s words made Zhao Yunliang see a glimmer of hope in despair, but in just two months, where can he find a suitable liver source?
Time passed day by day, and Zhao Guijin’s condition began to deteriorate gradually. In the face of his father lying in a hospital bed without knowing it, Zhao Yunliang felt like a knife. In order to save his father’s life, he made a bold decision to donate his liver to his father.
Zhao Yunliang’s decision was strongly opposed by his younger brother Zhao Lishuan. Zhao Lishuan arrived in Beijing after learning that his father Zhao Guijin had been diagnosed with liver cancer. He felt that if he wanted to donate his father’s liver, he was more suitable than his brother Zhao Yunliang.
There are three brothers in the Zhao family, the eldest Zhao Yunfei, the second Zhao Yunliang and the third Zhao Lishuan. Boss Zhao Yunfei died in a car accident a few years ago, leaving a pair of children. After the death of eldest brother, eldest sister-in-law remarried soon, so Zhao Yunliang took the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility of raising nephews and nieces. Because of living with parents and having two children, Zhao Yunliang’s family has a total of eight, and Zhao Yunliang is undoubtedly the pillar of this big family. Because of this, Zhao Yun? I advocated donating my liver for my father. Zhao Yunliang also expressed opposition to his younger brother’s claim, and the two brothers finally decided to match their father together. Whoever can match successfully will donate liver for his father. After matching, Zhao Yunliang became the best candidate to donate liver to his father.
Brother: the doctor tested the blood type, and after testing what antibodies and so on, he could only let my brother transplant my father. I was also very uncomfortable.
The doctor told Zhao Yunliang that he donated liver for his father and would cut off 60% of his liver. Will losing 60% of the liver affect your future life? What should your family do if there is an accident in the process of donating liver? A series of practical problems are in front of Zhao Yunliang. However, he doesn’t want to think much about it, because he feels that nothing is more important than saving his father’s life. In the face of the upcoming liver transplant, Zhao Yunliang feels that the most important thing is how to continue to hide from his father, so that his father will eventually undergo surgery without knowing it. Once his father knows the truth, how should he deal with it?
As soon as he was admitted to the hospital, Zhao Guijin was arranged to live in the transplant ward, which inevitably aroused his doubts.
Zhao Yunliang: At that time, my father also asked, doctor, why do we live in the transplant department? When I came over and said it was a liver transplant, I told him. I said it was a bile duct obstruction, which means you have to remove the bile duct and move the liver. Because the bile duct grows on the liver, you moved the liver, and he believed it at that time.
Later, Beijing TV station heard that Zhao Yunliang donated liver for his father without telling his father, and sent reporters to cover it, which also made Zhao Guijin feel suspicious.
Zhao Yunliang: I said that a big hospital is quite normal, so I should leave it for treatment. He thinks so, too. Before the operation, in our hospital, there was an operation process, and there was also a camera in it. When we leave the hospital, he will give it to you, saying that in case of any illness in the future, the whole process will be in it. The hospital here is a big hospital. He also believed it.
In order to deceive his father, Zhao Yunliang greeted the doctors and nurses early.
In order to help Zhao Yunliang keep a secret, the hospital told every staff member that he must keep his mouth shut about the patient’s real condition. In addition, the hospital has given Zhao Yunliang a lot of special care in his admission and nursing.
Zhao Yunliang knows that his father is a wise man. If he wants to deceive him for a long time, he must consider everything thoroughly and make it watertight. However, in such a big hospital, there are too many people to talk about, so it’s hard to think of any mistakes.
September 1, 2007 is the day of liver transplantation. According to the hospital arrangement, Zhao Yunliang will enter the operating room at 9 am, and his father Zhao Guijin will enter the operating room about four hours later. In order not to arouse his father’s suspicion, around 8: 30 in the morning, Zhao Yunliang came to his father’s ward.
At 9 am, Zhao Yunliang entered the operating room. At this time, Zhao Guijin, who was making preoperative preparations, suddenly asked to see his son Zhao Yunliang.
In order not to let his father discover the truth at the last moment, Zhao Li and his sister Zhao Yunxia, who also came from Changzhi, repeatedly comforted his father through the telephone in the monitoring room.
At 1 pm, Zhao Guijin was pushed into the operating room, and in an operating room next door, the doctor was making final preparations for Zhao Yunliang to cut the liver.
After more than 9 hours of surgery, the doctor successfully cut off part of Zhao Yunliang’s liver. Just when Zhao Yunliang’s surgery came to the end, there was a problem with his father Zhao Guijin’s surgery.
Because Zhao Guijin’s liver blood vessels have mutated in many places, he can’t dock with the liver blood vessels of his son Zhao Yunliang, so Zhao Guijin’s surgery has come to a standstill.
According to the doctor, under normal circumstances, they will give up the existing donor and choose a new donor, that is, Zhao Yunliang will no longer provide the liver for his father Zhao Guijin, but choose a new liver source. However, besides Zhao Yunliang, where can I find a suitable liver source? The situation was urgent, and the hospital finally decided to continue the operation as a last resort.
The operation went on all night, while Zhao Lishuan and her sister Zhao Yunxia were waiting outside the operating room.
The operation didn’t end until 2 pm on September 2. From 9: 00 am on September 1st, Zhao Yunliang entered the operating room. So far, the whole liver transplant operation lasted for 29 hours. All the difficulties were finally overcome and the operation was a complete success.
In order to continue to help Zhao Yunliang keep a secret, in the intensive care unit of nearly 500 square meters, the medical staff specially arranged the father and son in the hospital bed at the farthest diagonal position from each other.
Soon, Zhao Yunliang woke up. At this time, what he wanted to know most was the situation of his father Zhao Guijin.
Zhao Yunliang wanted to see his father very much, but he was afraid that his father who had regained consciousness would see him, so he had to wait for his father to fall asleep before the nurse secretly pushed him over.
Zhao Yunliang donated his liver to his father, not only hiding it from his father Zhao Guijin, but also not telling his wife Zhao Lirong that he was afraid that his wife would worry about himself.
On the second day of the operation, Zhao Yunliang’s wife, Zhao Lirong, finally learned about her husband’s donation of liver for her father. She immediately rushed to Beijing from Changzhi, Shanxi.
Zhao Lirong said that she didn’t know all this until she heard a friend say that her husband donated liver to her father on TV. Before that, her husband called home several times without revealing any news, and every time he said that everything was fine here in Beijing, which reassured her.
Under the careful care of his family, at this time, although Zhao Yunliang’s body is still extremely weak, he has been able to walk around the fields, but the time cannot be too long. Knowing that the father who recovered well after surgery will be transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward soon, Zhao Yunliang insisted on picking up his father in order to continue to deceive him.
In order to save his physical strength, Zhao Yunliang discussed with his family and asked them to push themselves to the door of the intensive care unit in a wheelchair first, and then removed the wheelchair when his father was about to come out.
On October 1, 2007, Zhao Guijin and Zhao Yunliang were discharged from hospital and returned to their hometown in Shanxi.
Editor: Zhang Toya


