Coughing in the aroma of tea
My name is Lin Wenqiang, I am 52 years old and I run an ancestral tea shop in Penang. Every morning at five o'clock, I check the newly arrived Pu'er in the tea warehouse. The moist tea aroma should make people feel at ease. But last year, when the rainy season started, every time I bent over to move tea cakes, my chest felt like a red-hot iron plate was pressing on it. After drinking three bottles of cough syrup, the "4cm lung lobe shadow" on the CT report made me lie to my wife for the first time: "The doctor said...it's just ordinary pneumonia."
Chemotherapy ruined my tea taste
The chemotherapy regimen at Kuala Lumpur Hospital made me taste rotten vegetable leaves when brewing top-grade Da Hong Pao - a death sentence for tea merchants. 30 radiotherapy sessions made my voice hoarse, and four cisplatin chemotherapy sessions caused severe vomiting and a sudden weight loss of 15 kg. The most painful thing was the difficulty breathing at night. The penetration rate of microwave ablation technology for lung cancer in Malaysia is less than 8%, and traditional treatments have great side effects on central lung cancer like me.
“Cancer is not the end of life. When I curled up in the rainy night in Penang and coughed up blood, I never thought that the ‘ice and fire’ in Guangzhou would allow me to smell the fragrance of tea again. Remember, when you can’t breathe, find another place to breathe - maybe hope is waiting for you three thousand miles away.” - Lin Wenqiang
Life-saving live broadcast on Facebook
When I was coughing up blood late that night, I saw a live broadcast of lung cancer treatment at Guangzhou R&F Hospital: Chinese doctors used a cryotherapy knife to 'freeze' the tumor to death, and then used microwaves to 'burn' the remaining cancer cells! "During the video consultation, the Chinese team used 3D animation to demonstrate cryotherapy: the probe was inserted into the tumor under CT guidance, and -196℃ liquid nitrogen instantly formed an ice ball to kill cancer cells; microwave ablation was carried out by inserting a microwave antenna, locally heating to above 60℃, and accurately destroying the residual lesions. I touched the family portrait on the tea table and booked my first cross-border flight in my life.
The miracle of ice and fire
In July 2024, I came to Guangzhou with Malaysian Tongkat Ali and painkillers. The treatment experience subverted imagination, cryosurgery: percutaneous puncture under local anesthesia, ablation completed in 30 minutes, Hainanese chicken rice can be eaten the same night after surgery, microwave ablation: microwave antenna inserted under CT guidance the next day, tumor heating completed in 10 minutes, no obvious discomfort, combination of Chinese and Western medicine: Chinese medicine doctors use acupuncture to relieve cough, nutritionists customize coconut rice anti-cancer recipes, three months after treatment, PET-CT showed that the tumor was completely necrotic, and CEA dropped from 85 to 3.1.
Re-tasting the sweetness of life
Now my phone lock screen has two comparison pictures: on the left is the CT scan of Penang Hospital, where the right lung looks like rotten tea dregs; on the right is the reexamination image in Guangzhou, where the lesion has shrunk to a sesame-sized tea stem. At the tea art competition last week, when I closed my eyes and tasted the picking season of the participating tea, all the tea merchants stood up and applauded - they didn't know that this tongue had been poisoned by chemotherapy and couldn't taste sugar and salt.
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