A man in China was given only six months to live due to acute leukemia. The only way to live was bone marrow transplantation. Even after three months, no bone marrow match was found. When the whole family got anxious, they finally found the right person.
However, the man stubbornly refused the surgery because it was his eight-year-old son who was going to give bone marrow. The man changed his mind with difficulty at his wife’s persuasion that the child needs his father’s love for his lifetime, and his son got ready for bone marrow transplantation.
What was needed first was that the son should gain 10 kg or more weight until he would weigh 45 kg. He gradually ate more and worked out hard to develop his physical strength enough to endure the surgery. After two months of successful weight gain, a painful blood-gathering process followed, but he endured it, with the one and only purpose of saving his father. Thanks to his son’s efforts, the man was able to undergo surgery and gain a new life.
Though young, he said he wanted to give his father a life, just as his father had done to him. The son who showed his utmost filial love, was voted as “2016 Most Dutiful Son” by the government.