From the appearance, 43-year-old Cai Lei looks like the spokesperson Jian Ge, and also has a pair of powerful eyes. When he speaks, he is strong and powerful!
However, Cai Lei did not expect that his life would one day be divided into two completely different parts by ALS.
In the initial stage of his life, he lived a busy life, full of enthusiasm and excitement.
At that time, in order to write the first electronic invoice in China, he could stay up for four days and four nights, even if he opened his eyes with a matchstick, he had to see the world clearly. JD。 COM colleagues talked about him, and what impressed me most was that Mr. Cai worked harder than Lei Jun!
At that time, Cai Lei's existence seemed to remind his opponent that as long as I was alive, I would pose a threat to your production!
Even at the end of September, when he attended a health forum of a big factory, he was still in high spirits at the forum and had been fighting against the frozen people for more than two years. When he talked about his struggle with frozen people in the past two years, he was not as sad as other patients. No one expected him to be a frozen man except that he needed help when unscrewing the bottle cap.
However, as a patient with mild gradual freezing, his left hand has lost strength and can't carry anything. After each injection of contrast agent, he needs to drink a bottle of mineral water of about half a liter. When drinking water, he can only raise his head, and the assistant will hand him the bottle mouth.
The good news is that at present, the fingers of his right hand can still move freely, although his right hand still can't even finish the simple dressing action. It is precisely this that makes him feel hopeful when he lies in bed and moves his fingers.
"Either die or get rid of this disease!" On one occasion, he said this.
But in fact, he also knows very well that once a person is entangled in the gradual freezing disease, it means that death puts a fuse on him in advance that will soon burn out. The patient can hardly do anything except listen to the sound of the fuse burning bit by bit!
Does everyone know Hawking? Such a great scientist, after suffering from the gradual freezing, can only sit in a wheelchair and wait for the final call of death.
The disease has been treated for a long time, and even optimistic Cai Lei is somewhat discouraged. Once he admitted, "It's difficult to treat."
The real subtext of this sentence from his mouth is: there is no hope!
No time to love.
Cai Lei, who was born in Shangqiu, Henan Province, was regarded as a "different kind" by people around him because of his excellent grades, so he had almost no friends since childhood and often lived alone.
As Mr. Lu Xun said: Lions and tigers are always lonely, and only sheep are in groups.
When she was a sophomore, Cai Lei had a whim and signed up for the college entrance examination. As a result, I entered the Central University of Finance and Economics in high school.
However, the suffering from his family soon eclipsed his genius: during college, his father, the pillar of the family, was seriously ill, and he stayed with his mother at his father's bedside for a long time.
At the age of 47, my father died after all, and my parents' illness almost spent all their savings.
Therefore, the main feature of Cai Lei at that time was not only cleverness, but also poverty.
Not long after I started working, I finally got a girlfriend, and finally my girlfriend left him because he was too poor.
For a withdrawn person like him, finally having a love affair and getting this result is tantamount to carving a broken trace in his own life.
In order to change his situation, later, he found an opportunity to jump ship to a well-paid foreign company.
During his stay in a foreign company, when other boys and their other half lived a happy life without shame, he began to work crazily day and night.
After accumulating enough work experience and qualifications, he moved to JD.COM.
During his several years in JD.COM, he achieved good results because of his own efforts: not only did he work all the way to the vice president and the chairman of his subordinate group, but he also won the "Top Ten Financial and Tax Figures of the Year" and "China Reform Hero" in 20 18.
From a secular point of view, he is very successful in his career.
Of course, the price behind success is still more crazy work, too crazy to have time to fall in love.
When he proposed to his present wife, he said bluntly, let's stop talking and get married directly. I don't have time for relationships.
So, after knowing each other for more than a month, they got married soon and had a son soon.
Realistic version of the desire to survive
Shortly after his son was born, from 2065438 to September 2009, after many diagnoses, Cai Lei could only accept the fact that he was a Hawking patient.
In 20 18, Hawking left, so when he knew what disease he had, he should know that his ending had been written.
At present, the only medicine known to relieve gradual freezing is a white "specific medicine", which is a bit expensive. If you eat a box in January, it will cost about 4,000 yuan, which is very similar to the plot of the movie "You can't survive but you can't die".
Of course, for Cai Lei, who is already the vice president of the big factory, this kind of expenses will not cause any burden.
However, as mentioned above, this drug is only a relief drug and cannot stop or reverse the gradual freezing trend. It can only find a way to get back a little time from death: if it is optimistic, it can only get back two months after taking this medicine for a year and a half. According to his 43-year-old age, he has lived to 80 years old and has nearly 40 years of normal life, but if he is maintained by this medicine, he will not live for 5 years!
After five years and 40 years of life, he is still somewhat unwilling!
So, after thinking in many ways, he decided to do it himself and find a new drug to cure the gradual freezing disease.
The first step is to establish a patient database.
He found more than 1000 patients with this disease, and spent a long time persuading them to submit detailed answers in writing as the basis for medical research and drug research and development.
In the process of collecting answers, his understanding of the disease deepened further.
For example, there are many ways to die of this disease, such as walking-many patients lose their support because of the weakness of their hand muscles, and when they fall, they land on their heads first and are in critical condition.
The second step, try to use your contacts and business logic to find investors to come in and develop effective drugs to overcome this disease.
Every time he finds an investor, he will try to convince them with his case of "at least a few years to live", but often after in-depth conversation with investors, he finally finds that his so-called business logic does not have much business prospects.
The third step, the investor does not vote, he votes himself!
For more than two years, he spent tens of millions of yuan just to find a medicine that can save himself. Of course, he does nothing most of the time. But in any case, under his impetus, hundreds of millions of funds were established, and animal experimental bases for clinical use were also established.
In this process, many patients who had participated in the construction of the database left him one after another.
But like Don Quixote who struggled with the windmill, he kept breathing for himself and rushed to the windmill in vain again and again!
Before he takes his last breath, there will be no discouraged words in his dictionary! Because he is not destined to be the kind of person who feels sorry for himself and dies!
He also hopes that if one day he is really killed by this hateful disease, his son will inherit his indisputable career when he grows up.
"Son, this disease is your revenge for killing your father. You have to report it! " He said to his two-year-old son.
Author: Feng Qing