This is just a memory of loved ones written in the film review section.
On the morning of July 1, 2018, my grandmother died of advanced brain metastases from lung adenocarcinoma. As an unconventional left-behind child, this is my dearest person in the world, better than my parents.
The first time I heard the word lung cancer had something to do with my grandmother was in July 2016. At that time, I was waiting for the bus outside Germany. First, I cried on the road in the dark. Thank you for waiting for the bus next to me. The tissue paper my aunt handed me, and the uncle who passed by even came to ask me if I needed to call the police.
After crying, I calmed down and made my first decision: go back to China.
After returning to China, I chatted with the doctor. The stage 4 lung adenocarcinoma has no chance of surgery. The 77-year-old cannot bear the side effects of chemotherapy. We have two options, one is to wait for death, probably less than a year. The second is targeted drugs, which can live for a few years. That was the first time I heard about targeted drugs. First eat the first generation of Tarceva, the original version is 7,000 yuan a month (now included in the medical insurance). Although it is an ordinary family, the whole family does not have much thinking. As long as they live with high quality, the money is still affordable. After 8 months, the first generation of Tarceva was resistant to resistance, and it was necessary to replace the third generation 9291. At that time, the genuine version was 5w for one month, which was indeed beyond the family's affordability. I still remember my father's desperate eyes when he heard this. When I got home, I just wanted to check online to see how long it would last if I sold my grandma's house. During the process, I learned that there are such generic drugs in India, and the price is several thousand yuan, which seems to be a life-saving straw.
So I started running around where I can buy it. To be honest, there were a lot of daigou at that time, but I didn't trust it. I was afraid that if I bought a fake drug, it would be a life-threatening thing. So I started planning to go to India to buy medicine in person. Although she was only a little girl in her twenties, she had traveled to more than a dozen countries in Europe and was not timid about going to India to buy medicine. During the preparation process, I met an Indian colleague whom our whole family would be grateful for for a lifetime. He said that his brother is a doctor in India (this one also requires a prescription to buy it in India), and his wife will come to China for vacation immediately and is willing to bring some medicine. I can only say that good people live in peace.
In this way, relying on targeted drugs, my grandmother lived like a normal person for two years after she was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma. We once wanted to bring her to live with us at home, but she was unwilling, saying that she would live freely. Later, I asked the doctor, the doctor said that she could live by herself by taking this medicine, and she didn't know her condition, so she should not take care of her too deliberately. So for the past two years, she lived alone, except that her father went to cook for him at noon every day. During the Chinese New Year in 2017, I found a cleaner for him to clean up. After she found out, she hurried to clean the house and clean the windows before the cleaning, because she was afraid that we would pay him money.
Some people commented that this is a Korean film in China, a description of the real society, and I am the one living in such a society.
I never read the introduction before watching a movie, so when I sat in the movie theater, I had absolutely no idea what the movie was about, and I hardly ever cried when I watched a movie or TV show. But as the movie progressed, I couldn't help crying in the movie theater. Because I miss my grandma who just passed away, because this medicine gave me more time to spend with my grandma for two years, and because I also met such a good person.
Now more and more medicines are included in medical insurance, I hope it will get better and better in the future, as said in the movie!
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