How difficult is it for poor people to have children? The wife is pregnant with twins facing the danger of heavy bleeding, yet the husband cannot come up with the 50,000 yuan needed for childbirth expenses. Due to the wife’s diabetes and central type placenta previa, there is always a risk of heavy bleeding, so premature birth is inevitable, and the cost of premature birth and placenta previa surgery requires at least 50,000 yuan.
Although the doctor also feels distressed for this poor family, they cannot get medicine at the hospital without money, they have no choice, so the doctor can only ask the husband Zheng Qingming to consider whether to save the mother or the children. The collapse of an adult only takes a moment, in the face of reality, this 42-year-old man feels helpless and desperate. Looking at his wife on the bed, Zheng Qingming still wipes away the tears and continues to clean her body.
Because the wife does not have cooperative medical care and cannot reimburse the expenses, to raise 50,000 yuan, someone suggested Zheng Qingming use the rural house as collateral for a loan. The older sister next to them also said she could help take care of the wife, everyone advised him to hurry back to raise money, not to wait any longer, the longer the wait, the greater the danger. At this time, Zheng Qingming’s brother also came, he scraped together 10,000 yuan and gave it to his brother, although it was far from 50,000 yuan, at least the urgent need for medication was resolved.
At this moment, the wife is like a time bomb, she could bleed heavily at any moment, the doctor decided to perform the operation to deliver the babies as soon as possible, and they also had to raise money quickly. After discussing with his brother, Zheng Qingming decided to stay at the hospital to take care of his wife, and let his brother use the house as collateral back in their hometown. When the brother went to the credit union to mortgage the house, the staff told him that a credit rating was needed for the loan, and collateral required having two houses, with only one house, the mortgage couldn’t be processed.
With the house unable to secure a loan, the brother had to go back to borrow money from villagers, this was the last resort. But relatives and friends in the village didn’t have much savings, the brother had to go around the whole village, knocking on each door to borrow money. Luckily, he was well-liked, and some even offered to lend him their own savings. The neighbor diverted 20,000 yuan saved for her son’s wedding to him, but there was still a shortfall of 30,000 for the operation, the brother managed to borrow from dozens of households, even as little as a few hundred yuan.
The 50,000 yuan left the man in front with no solution, and he even considered selling a kidney, because the childbirth cost 50,000 yuan. Despite the brother trying hard to help borrow money, he knew deep down that this money was not easy to come by. In order to help his sister-in-law, the brother went around the whole village, finally collecting 50,000 yuan, carefully packing the money, ready to give it to his brother.
To save money, Zheng Qingming fed his wife an 8 yuan bowl of pig liver noodles, while he himself ate 3 yuan bowls of hot dry noodles three times a day. The poverty of Zheng Qingming’s family was evident to everyone, even the relatives in the ward would deliberately send them some food and drinks, their care deeply touched Zheng Qingming.
Approaching the 31st week, the doctor hoped to reach the 32nd week before delivery because every extra day increased the survival rate of the fetuses by 3%. However, an accident occurred, that night Zheng Qingming’s wife suddenly started bleeding heavily, blood covered two 60 square centimeter tiles. She was rushed into the operating room, and the twins who had been in her womb for 31 weeks were brought into this world prematurely.
Waiting outside the delivery room, Zheng Qingming watched as the doctor brought out the two children, but he couldn’t find joy. Due to the premature birth, the children needed treatment in incubators. The doctor told Zheng Qingming that saving one child would cost 100,000, and for both children, it would be 200,000. The economic pressure completely overwhelmed Zheng Qingming, and his brother decided to take charge and give the children up for adoption.
Shortly after giving birth, the wife lay in bed and to save money did not opt for a pain reliever costing thousands, but used a cheap suppository for pain relief. At that moment, her emotional pain surpassed the physical, being forced to give up her own children, Zheng Qingming couldn’t help but break down in tears. However, the monthly nurse called back to inform them that the other party was unwilling to pay 200,000 to adopt the two premature babies.
To help Zheng Qingming’s family get through this crisis, fellow patients helped contact major media outlets and the Red Cross, but even after a week, no one contacted them. In order to save on expenses, the wife had to be discharged early. Zheng Qingming carefully supported his weak wife, and the neighbor Aunt Yan from the next bed also came to help, even though she didn’t have much savings herself, Aunt Yan still gave them a red envelope.
Inside the envelope were 1,000 yuan, all used to pay for hospital expenses. Fortunately, fate gave this family a chance. With the help from all sides, the two daughters successfully passed the critical period. On the day to bring the children home, Zheng Qingming’s smile couldn’t hide his happiness, he named the children Zheng Qiu and Zheng Xin, the combination of Autumn and Heart formed a hope for Zheng Qingming’s turbulent life.
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