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She was sick, with breast cancer. He resolutely quit his job and came thousands of miles to take care of her in the hospital. Need to clarify: he is her ex-husband, and she is his ex-wife.

By Angela R BillipsPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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  She was sick, with breast cancer. He resolutely quit his job and came thousands of miles to take care of her in the hospital. Need to clarify: he is her ex-husband, and she is his ex-wife.

  

  In the fall of that year, after graduating from a teacher's college with a degree in Chinese, he applied for a job as a teacher at a private high school in Tianjin. On his first day at work, he met her from Harbin, who was teaching at the same school and fell in love with the gentlewoman at first sight. Since then, he often invited her to dinner, shopping, and morning reading together in the campus grove.

  

  A year later, he and she received a marriage license and held a simple but lively wedding. The next year, the fruit of their love was born, a son. At that time, life was not generous, but the two have been very good feelings.

  

  The sweet life was shattered because of the problem of "whose house to go to for New Year's Eve". Both of them are only children, and after three consecutive Chinese New Year visits to her house, a heated argument finally broke out between them. "Divorce if you can't!" "Just leave!" Both parties were so emotional that they grabbed their papers and went through the divorce process.

  

  After the divorce, she returned to Harbin with her son, took the postgraduate exams, and succeeded in getting into a local teacher training university. But on the eve of the start of the school year, she suddenly felt pain like pins and needles in her left armpit, and her family immediately took her to the hospital for a checkup, and the result was confirmed: metastatic breast cancer.

  

  After the first chemotherapy, she lost a lot of hair and was so weak that she needed someone to accompany her. But her father was suffering from eye disease, her mother was also ill, and her son was young ...... Finally, her mother called him for help behind her back.

  

  After he received the call, he booked a ticket without saying a word and took a day-long train ride to the hospital where she was. The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. She said "no", but her heart was moved. But she refused to remarry, one is to do the remarriage procedure is too tedious, and then is afraid of dragging him down.

  

  A few days later, he went back to Tianjin for resignation procedures and completely abandoned the teaching profession for many years. His friends are very incomprehensible, but his parents are quite supportive of his "one day couple a hundred days grace.

  

  Knowing that he had resigned to take care of her, she said with tears streaming down her face: "How stupid you are! To take care of me and give up your career, is it worth it?" He said with affection, "It's worth it! You are the mother of my son, and more importantly, I still love you!"

  

  She spent six months in the hospital for chemotherapy, but her condition did not improve at all. The attending doctor told her, "Now we must use targeted therapy, which requires a drug called Herceptin, but this drug is sold at a very high price, 2. 580,000 yuan a bottle, a course of treatment requires 14 bottles, plus with other drugs as well as radiation therapy, a total of more than 300,000 yuan."

  

  More than 300,000 yuan is not a small amount for her family. She had already borrowed more than 100,000 yuan from friends and relatives for chemotherapy and surgery, so where could she get the money now? While her parents were raising money around, he was secretly calling them to sell the house in his name as soon as possible. He also sent out a circle of friends to sell himself: if a company was willing to provide financial help, he could sign a lifetime working contract with the other party.

  

  Today, she has largely recovered from her illness, and she and he had remarried. After experiencing life and death together, she and he both cherish their marriage more.

  

  It is often said that a husband and wife are birds of the same feather, but they fly separately in times of trouble. However, he had already divorced his ex-wife, and after learning that she was suffering from cancer, to take care of her sick ex-wife, he resolutely gave up the career he loved to focus on guarding his ex-wife's hospital bed.

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