A poor guy, new diagnosed leukemia A closed friend introduced her distant relative to me yesterday, a 25 years old young patient from a small village in Changchun, Jilin. He graduated 2 years ago, and was working in a bridge construction company. He is the only child in his family, and his parents are farmers. It is very hard for him to walk out of the small village and find a good job in a big city. His parents are very proud of him. He met his girlfriend on the campus, and they fell in love being a nice couple, he had engaged and was planning to get married this year. He was just about to start his new life. But all his life was changed today. He got a fever 20 days ago, before the New Year, and begun feeling fatigued. His fatigue was getting worse and he didn’t pay attention, thought maybe he was tired because the busy work during the end of the year. He didn’t go to see a doctor during the New Year. On the eighth day of the New Year, he went to the local hospital and did a blood test. It showed his white blood cell, red blood cell and platelet were more under normal. The local small hospital doesn’t have a hematology department, so they didn’t make a diagnosis, and told him go to a big hospital. He thought it was an anemia, not a big deal. But his mother persuaded him to come to me. I thought it would be either acute aplastic anemia or leukemia when I took a glance at his blood test result. Both of them are serious disease. I did the bone marrow test for him immediately and arranged a blood transfusion. The test came out this afternoon. It was leukemia, a type of acute myelocytic leukemia, seemed like type 6 (M6) or even worse type. A further test needed to confirm the type. The best therapy for him is marrow stem cell transplantation. He is the only child, so it is very difficult to get a match. And even if he got a match, he could not afford the transplantation, almost a million RMB, which is not covered by the insurance. When I told this to his mother, she said, oh, my goodness! the sky is falling! Poor guy! I am trying to find social support for him through the mass media. God bless!