小石柱现在仍然不知道自己的病情,在病床上大口啃着鸡腿。
7岁养子查出艾滋仁厚养父悲情求医
这位苏北庄稼汉坚称:砸锅卖铁也要为儿子治病,直到他“离开”
无锡市某医院的病床上,躺着一个7岁小男孩,眼睛大、皮肤白,俨然一个帅哥坯子。小帅哥的左手插着各种管子在输液,守在一旁的父母精神也不太好,言谈举止间透露出浓浓的倦意——自从孩子进了医院,他们已经几天几夜没合眼了。小帅哥并不知道自己身患何病,爸爸妈妈也不愿把病情告诉他。因为就在昨天,无锡市疾控中心证实,小帅哥得的是艾滋病。
眼看着爱子饱受病痛折磨,40多岁的父亲老侯心疼不已,这是他最小的儿子,这些年为了给孩子治病,东奔西走,老侯要比同年龄的人明显苍老许多,但很少有人知道,其实他只是孩子的养父。
女子借口住店遗弃孩子
一切都开始于2004年5月16日的那个早晨。7点多,当时在无锡周山浜地区一家小旅馆做服务员的杨林同往常一样开门迎客。这时,进来一个30多岁、抱着孩子的女子声称要住店。该女子同时提出她要到旁边的小店买点东西,希望杨林能帮她暂时照看一下孩子。年轻的杨林不加思考便答应了。
一小时、两小时……半天过去了,这个女子再没有出现。杨林着急了,她的目光开始转向了襁褓中安静乖巧躺的婴儿。白白的皮肤,水灵灵的大眼睛,身上穿着一个黄色外套,里面是高领内衣,脖子上挂着一个奶瓶。在床旁边的一个塑料袋里,除了几件衣物外,什么都没有。翻看衣服一看,是个男婴。“抱孩子的女子个头不高,瘦瘦的,扎着两个辫子,听口音好像是安徽人”。
时隔六年,当时的情景依然历历在目。“现在回想起来,那个女子在跨出门的刹那,回头看了一眼孩子,眼神中多有几分不舍,我当时还以为她把孩子放在我们这里不放心,现在看来她是有备而来。”杨林这样告诉记者,“在等待了一天都没有消息后,我只好打电话告诉侯老板。”
命中注定我是他爸
杨林口中的“侯老板”就是老侯,那一年他38岁,已经是4个孩子的爸爸。
收留之初,老侯曾犹豫过。“这个孩子没有任何缺陷,为什么会被丢在我家门口?”起初,老侯闪过报警的念头,他想把孩子交给警方处理,也曾想过把孩子送人,“可是再多看一看,我就放不下了,孩子的眼神中透着灵气,然而却没爹没娘,很可怜。”老侯想,或许这个孩子和自己那4个儿女一样是命中注定安排给他的。反正家里已经有四个,多一个多一张嘴无所谓。
老侯如实告诉记者,在他生儿育女的观念中,只要一儿一女足矣。
然而,似乎老天有意安排他这一生多子多孙。20多年前,一儿一女降临后,按照生产队要求,妻子做了结扎手术。可在第二年,妻子又怀孕了,根据当时农村的风俗,他们将孩子生了下来。
没料到,几年后妻子再一次怀孕。老侯这次果断地让妻子流产,可是医院告知孩子已经很大,只能引产。看着鲜活的生命即将逝去,善良的老侯再次犹豫了,他没有办法亲手扼杀自己的骨肉,他决定再苦再难也要扛下去,这样,第四个孩子诞生了。
在此期间,老侯夫妇一直在老家宿迁沭阳养鸡养鸭,受生活所迫,1998年,他带着一家人来无锡打工。几年打拼,在周山浜地区开了家小旅馆赖以生存。现在一儿一女已经工作,剩下的两个孩子一个读中专,一个读高二。在收留弃婴后,他又多了一个儿子。
虽然文化知识不高,但老侯知道社会上很多新生儿都是因为存在这样那样的先天生理缺陷而被抛弃。于是,他将这个男婴带到无锡市映山河儿童医院做了一番检查,结果显示一切正常。
“我给他取名侯石柱,一语双关,其一他是拾来的,其二希望他可以像石头、柱子一样健壮挺拔。”
仁厚养父悲情求医
季娜娜
6年治病已花数十万
中年意外得子,小石柱的到来给老侯一家带来了无限快乐,由于小石柱在家排行老五,家人、四周邻居、亲朋好友都称他为“五毛”。和其他孩童一样,“五毛”逐渐长大,从蹒跚学步到咿咿呀呀会说话。老侯说,四个孩子小时候沉闷不太爱说话,而“五毛”嘴巴很甜,懂事乖巧,脾气性格上渐渐出现了与他们不一样的地方。每到吃饭时,他总是先问“爸爸吃饭了吗?妈妈吃饭了吗?”正是如此,父母和哥哥姐姐们都对他倍加疼爱,视他为家中的掌上明珠。
“五毛”给家人带来无限欢乐的同时,养父母们却为他的身体操碎了心。收养第二天,“五毛”就出现咳嗽症状,老侯以为受凉导致,带他到儿童医院挂完水后好了。没想到过了十天八天后,他又发烧,吃点药挂点水,又好了。就这样,发烧感冒伴随着“五毛”长到5岁。“当时我们只认为孩子抵抗力差,发烧感冒看完医生后又好了。”老侯回忆过去。谁知道,“五毛”从5岁开始,发烧感冒症状频繁发生,10天左右就感冒一次,到了6岁,每隔3-5天就发烧。老侯意识到事情没有那么简单,7岁的儿子体重只有30多斤,而且越来越懒,走不动路。夏天蚊子一碰就是一个包,并且会冒血。他开始带着儿子走上了漫漫求医路。两年期间,“五毛”看遍了无锡所有大小医院,病情也从最初的抵抗力低下到贫血症、白血病,光是医药费就花去数十万元。
拿到确诊书,老侯夫妇抱头痛哭
疾控中心确诊“五毛”为艾滋病患者的确诊书犹如晴天霹雳,老侯和妻子瘫坐在病床上。“艾滋病?”对于这个苏北庄稼汉来说,这象征着恐惧和死亡。他不知道这是什么病,但是从以往电视和报纸上了解到,这种病人都活不长。老侯抱着妻子哭了两天两夜,但他们仍然对治好“五毛”抱着最后一丝期望。
“孩子怎么会得这种病?”老侯一度认为是自己对儿子照看不周延误病情导致,他捶胸顿足。随后,在医院的指导下,老侯才知道艾滋病的三种传播途径:性传播、血液传播、母婴传播。儿子尚小,性传播被排除,成长期间也从未输过血或者出现跟血液有关的事件,所有的矛头都指向了母婴传播。或许正因为如此,“五毛”才被生母遗弃。
事情发生后,周围的不少邻居和好友都奉劝老侯不要再多管闲事,把“五毛”送给福利院。邻居陶春平告诉记者,老侯家的四个孩子都未婚,还有两个孩子在读书,周山浜拆迁的房款也一直没拿到,他现在基本没钱,昨天刚向自家借了3000元。她说,孩子养大至今是有感情,可是谁都不知道会发生这种事情,现在老侯应该为自己考虑。如果这样下去,面对他的是持续不断高昂的医药费,他们一家人的日子都不会好过。
心声
“我是他爸,要负责到底”
全家人的正常生活也因此被打乱。20岁的姐姐接受记者采访时一直在流泪,她说在兄弟姐妹中,她和“五毛”最亲,这个孩子很懂事,每次去超市买东西,他都觉得东西贵,舍不得买。她现在无法接受这个事实。
将孩子送往福利院,这样全家人都可以解脱,无须为“五毛”持续不断的医药费负责,但是一想到儿子抵抗力差,福利院不可能像他一样按时给孩子喂饭、吃药等照顾时,老侯就立刻断了这个念头。“六年了,‘五毛’是我一把屎一把尿养大,每天晚上都搂着睡觉,我放不下这个孩子。”记者采访中得知,老侯也曾多次告诉“五毛”不是自己亲生的,可是“五毛”根本不相信。或许,七岁的孩子根本分辨不出这是玩笑还是真话。
出于对自身和家人的保护,老侯进行了HIV抗体检测,结果显示为阴性。他说,他和“五毛”属于密切接触者,现在自己已经被排除,家人被感染的可能性不大,但还是会去检测。
孩子将来怎么办?老侯斩钉截铁地告诉记者:“‘五毛’已经被亲生父母遗弃了一次,我绝不能让他再被遗弃一次。我既然收养了他,就要对他负责,不抛弃、不放弃,最后砸锅卖铁也要为他看病,直到有一天他离开……”
无锡市相关卫生部门听说“五毛”的遭遇后,也在第一时间做出反应,将商量对“五毛”救治的减免政策。
本报记者 季娜娜 文/摄
Boys found the treatment of HIV adoptive father until his tragic death wish to seek medical advice
Source: The Associated Press - Yangzi Evening News (2010/01/14 14:35)
Small columns are still not aware of their condition, in bed big mouth nibbling chicken.
7-year-old adopted son of legendary adoptive father Tragic medical treatment of HIV found
The North Jiangsu peasant insisted: Zaguomaitie also for her son's medical treatment until he "leave"
Wuxi City, a hospital bed, lying on a 7-year-old boy, his eyes large and white, as if a handsome guy Pizi. Small handsome guy's left hand stuck in a variety of tubes in the transfusion, and observing the spirit of the side's parents are not very good, revealing the deep sense of weariness and conversation between the - ever since her child into the hospital, they have a few days and nights of no sleep a wink . Small handsome guy does not know what suffering from disease, illness Mom and Dad do not want to tell him. Because, yesterday, Wuxi City, CDC confirmed that Aids is a small handsome guy too.
Seeing her son in agony, 40-year-old father of Laohou distressed endless, this is his youngest son, these years in order to treat the children, ran about busily, Laohou than hoary with age, is obviously a number of , but few people know that he is only the child's adoptive father.
Women's excuse to stay a child abandoned
Everything started in May 16, 2004 in that morning. 7:00 more then Shuzan Bang district in Wuxi, a small hotel so the attendants to open the door as usual, the welcoming Yang Lin. Then came a 30-year-old woman holding the child's claim to stay. The woman at the same time to move her to go to buy something next to the shop, hoping Yang Lin temporary help her take care of your child. Young Yang Lin not think they agreed.
One hour, two hours ... ... half a day later, this woman does not appear again. Yang Lin anxious, her eyes turned to the infant lying in a quiet and well-behaved baby. White skin, water, Lingling big eyes, wearing a yellow jacket, which is a high-collar underwear, a bottle hanging around his neck. In the bed next to a plastic bag, in addition to a few pieces of clothing and things, nothing. Look at clothes, look, is a boy. "Hold the child's female heads is not high, thin, and wearing two braids, like Ting Kouyin Anhui people."
First time in six years, when the scene is still vivid. "Now in retrospect, that women in a cross-out moments, looked back a child in his eyes, more than a bit of parting, I had thought that she was the child on what we are here do not worry, it now appears she is well prepared and come to. "Yang Lin told reporters," In the waiting for a day are not news, I had called to tell Hou boss. "
Fate I was his dad
Yang Lin described as "Hou boss" is the Lao Hou, the year he was 38 years old, is already a father of four children.
Shelter beginning Laohou been hesitant. "This child has no defects, why are they being dropped at my doorstep?" At first, the idea Laohou flash alarm, he wanted the child to the police, have thought to send their children, "but wait for a See, I fit a child's eyes reveals a nimbus, yet no father and no mother, I am sorry. "Lao Hou, perhaps the boy and his four sons and daughters that are destined to arrange the same to him. Anyway, our family of four, multi-more than one mouth does not matter.
Laohou truthfully told reporters that his idea of having children, as long as a child a Women carry on.
However, it seems that God intends to arrange for him in this life many sons and grandsons. More than 20 years ago, a child and a woman falls, follow the production team asked his wife to do is sterilized. In the second year, his wife became pregnant again, according to the custom in rural areas at that time, they have the child down.
I did not realize a few years later his wife pregnant again. The decisive Laohou let his wife abortion, but the hospital told the child is already quite large, only induction of labor. Fresh look at the life of soon passing away, good Laohou hesitated again, and he can not possibly have throttled his own flesh and blood, he decided to go on no matter how tough hard to have to carry, so that the fourth child was born.
In the meantime, his wife has been home Suqian Laohou Shuyang chicken duck, by the life force in 1998, he took his family to Wuxi to work. Years of hard work, in the weeks Shan Bang district opened a small hotel survival. Now a child a woman has been working, and the remaining two children, a reading of secondary school, a reading High School. Abandoned baby in a detention, he addition of a son.
Although cultural knowledge is not high, but Laohou know that many in the community as neonates because of the existence of such a congenital physical defects were discarded. So he brought this baby Ying Shan Wuxi City, Children's Hospital do some examination showed everything is normal.
"I gave him named Hou columns, quipped, one he picked up the past, and the other hope that he can, like a stone, like the robust upright pole."
Tragic adoptive father of legendary doctor
Nana Season
Six years has spent hundreds of thousands of medical treatment
Accident was the middle-aged son, the arrival of the small pillars to bring Laohou an unlimited happiness, because of the small pillars at home Top Five, family, surrounded by neighbors, relatives and friends all call him "fifty cents." Like other children, "fifty cents" gradually grow up, from the toddler to babble speak. Lao Hou said the four children, a child is not boring talkative, and "fifty cents" mouth sweet, thoughtful and well-behaved, bad-tempered character gradually emerged, linked to their different places. Every meal, he always first ask, "Dad to eat it? Mother to eat it?" It is the case, parents and brothers and sisters were all doubly loved him, regard him as a family's favorite.
"Fifty cents" has brought great joy to their families at the same time, foster parents who are speaking for his body broken heart. Adoption the next day, "fifty cents" on the cough symptoms, Laohou that cold cause, took him to Children's Hospital, registered at the water to better. Never thought of the eight to ten days later, he developed fever, eat medicine mount point of water, and good of the. In this way, a cold accompanied by fever, "fifty cents" grow up to 5 years old. "We were only the belief that children are resistant to bad flu with fever after after reading good doctor." Laohou recall the past. Who knows, "fifty cents" from the age of five, fever, flu symptoms have occurred frequently, about 10 days on a cold once, to a six-year-old, fever every 3-5 days. Laohou realize things are not so simple, 7-year-old son weighed only 30 kilograms, but more and more lazy, walk. Summer is a mosquito slightest package, and will Maoxue. He began to seek treatment with his son embarked on a long road. Two-year period, "fifty cents" See all sizes all over the Wuxi hospital disease from the initial resistance to the lower to anemia, leukemia, medical expenses alone would have spent several hundred thousand dollars.
Get diagnosed book, Laohou wife cry
CDC diagnosed "fifty cents" for AIDS patients diagnosed with the book like a bolt from the blue, Lao Hou and his wife sat in bed paralyzed. "AIDS?" For the northern Jiangsu peasant, this is a symbol of fear and death. He did not know what this is a disease, but from past television and in newspapers realize that the patients were alive did not last long. Lao Hou holding his wife cried for two days and nights, but they are still cured of "fifty cents" To be honest last ray of hope.
"How can kids get this disease?," Lao Hou was once considered a son caring for his ill-delay treatment of the cause, he was crying in the corner. Subsequently, in the hospital under the guidance of Lao Hou know three HIV transmission: sexually transmitted, blood transmission, mother to child transmission. His son is still small, sexually transmitted be excluded, growth, and never during the blood transfusion or blood-related events occurred with all the finger pointing of mother to child transmission. Perhaps because of this, "fifty cents" was only abandoned by mother.
After the event, surrounded by many neighbors and friends are advised Laohou No more meddlesome, the phrase "fifty cents" to give welfare. Neighbor Tao-ping told reporters Laohou family of four children married and has two children in school, Zhou Shan Bang has been the demolition of paying back the principal did not get, he is now basically no money, just yesterday, borrowed 3,000 yuan to their own . She said the child was raised so far have feelings, but no one knew how such a thing will happen, and now Laohou owe it to ourselves to consider. If this continues, in the face of his is a continuing high medical expenses, they are not a person's life better.
Voice
"I'm his father, should be held responsible in the end"
The normal life of the family and therefore have been disrupted. 20-year-old sister, an interview had been in tears, she said that brothers and sisters, she and the "fifty cents" most close to him, this child is very sensible, each time go to the supermarket to buy things, he felt something expensive, could not bear to buy. She is now unable to accept this fact.
Sending their children to welfare, so that the whole family can be relieved without the "fifty cents" is responsible for the ongoing medical expenses, but the thought of a son of resistance is poor, welfare can not be like him in time to the kids fed, medicine such care, Laohou immediately cut off the whole idea. "Six years, and 'fifty cents' is my urine a feces raised a big arm around every night to sleep, I fit the child." Reporter learned, Laohou has repeatedly told the "five Mao's "It's not his real daughter, but the" fifty cents "fundamentally not believe it. Perhaps, the children simply can not tell the age of seven it is a joke, or telling the truth.
For the protection of their own and their families, Laohou had HIV antibody test results showed negative. He said that he and his "fifty cents" belongs to the close contacts, and now that they have been excluded from family members is infected is unlikely, but still will go to inspection.
Novices how to do? Laohou categorically told reporters: " 'fifty cents' has been abandoned by the birth parents once, I would not let him once again abandoned. Since I have adopted him, he must be responsible, not abandon, do not give up, finally Zaguomaitie should see a doctor for him until the day he left ... ... "
Wuxi City, the relevant health departments have heard, "fifty cents" after the encounter, but also the first time to react, will discuss the "fifty cents" where relief policy.
Reporter Nana Ji Man / photo