mother day story

With the movie Zuo You ( left or right), which has just won the Silver bear best screenplay at this year's Berlin Film Festival, more and more people come to know about a mother, to admire all her heroic deeds to save her son while sharing her great grief of the loss of him.

The story was first published in September , 2006 in a Chengdu and only two days before the story broke, Yan Ying, a 39-year-old mother of two, had given birth to her third child. The baby boy had yet to be given a name, and had been brought into the world by his divorced parents in the hope that the newborn's cord blood could be used to save the life of his blood cancer stricken brother. Doctors felt that the desperate attempt had a 25 percent chance of success.

Qin Xinfa, Yan Ying's eldest son, was diagnosed with myelodysplasia in 2000 at the age of six. The rare disease, unofficially called "preleukemia," can develop into leukemia and is often life-threatening on its own. Yan Ying and her husband had divorced in 2002, but desperate to save her son she pleaded with her ex-husband to have another child. The husband agreed, but unfortunately the newborn's cord blood did not match. (Xinfa died one month later.)

She was invited to attend the movie premier in Chengdu by the director. But when the scenes came, she just couldn't control her tears still and collapsed. I understand, how could she ever forget the dark time she lived through:

All those nights she stayed up alone in great tears, on the hospital cold hall floors and even streets on a piece of grass mattress to save the money;

she was even once 'invited' to a police station because she could be whore;

then bad pieces news of failed treatments with building-up medical charges;

how at home, family fights erupted and her husband beat her when both so stressed;

her son tried three suicides;

the divorce conditions, she was to be responsible for all medical expenses, with her ex taking their second child and sparing her and her son no penny at all for life and medications,

how humiliated she was begging her husband to do it with her to made her pregnant again;

and then hope broke after long waiting;

how her boy told the ward mates to be respectful for their mothers;

how painful her son felt, and wanted a bowl of rice congiee, and when when she returned he was gone...