Doctor Bethune is a selfless person. When he came to China to support him, the organization gave him a supplementary standard of 100 yuan in living expenses per month. He refused the money and only required the same treatment as the most ordinary warrior. But before he passed away, he asked Commander-in-Chief Nie Rongzhen to help the international aid organization and help her ex-wife with a living expenses, even in installments.
Why? They are already ex-wifes, and Doctor Bethune still has to do this? The story of the two of them is not long, but it needs to be told through their lives.
Although the difference is 11 years old, he is the joy of falling in love at first sight
Dr. Bethune did not study medicine from the beginning. He went to the battlefield when he fought in and worked as an ambulance to carry a stretcher in the medical team. He truly witnessed the cruelty of the battlefield and felt the pain of the injured soldier, because he was unfortunately hit by a bullet. The feeling of the wounded wound purulent made him suffer.
When the battlefield was over and he returned home, he made up his mind to be a doctor and save lives and heal the wounded in the years to come.
1923, Bethune was admitted to the University of Edinburgh, England to further study medical skills. Perhaps it was because of the fate that 33-year-old Bethune met 22-year-old Frances. She had a pair of talking eyes, and her smile was reflected in Bethune's eyes. When Bethune saw Frances for the first time, he felt that he was in love.
This time, it can be regarded as Bethune's first love, but it was a little late. When he was young, Bethune's family was in a bad situation. He had to work hard to earn money and work half a day. Later, he went to the battlefield. After he came back, he studied and prepared to take the medical school. He didn't leave his time for love at all, so he was unmarried until he was 33 years old.
22-year-old Frances is a very beautiful rich girl in college. She has a superior family background and beautiful appearance. She has to go to France from school. But the talented Bethune defeated a group of players and won her favor.
During the holidays, the two went out for a trip, and Frances was completely conquered by Bethune. She made up her mind that she would marry him regardless of the opposition of her family. At the end of August of this year, Frances married Bethune.
After marriage, Bethune wanted to continue to improve his medical skills, so Frances gave his savings to Bethune and asked him to go to Paris and Berlin to continue his studies and study.
People who love each other will feel very sweet no matter how difficult life is. By 1924, Bethune and Frances settled in Detroit , the United States, and Bethune also opened a small clinic as he wished.
At the beginning, the small clinic was not famous, and no one knew Bethune, so their clinic was difficult to open at the beginning. But Bethune is a very good person. He never minds the medical expenses. He treats the poor for free. Gradually, everyone recognized Bethune's medical skills, and their small clinic business also improved.
originally thought that their little life could start to be happy, but unexpectedly, life played a joke on Bethune.
The sweetness of love can't escape the long years. After all, he got married twice and separated twice
In the autumn of 1927, Bethune began to cough one after another. Later, he actually developed to coughing blood. He felt something was wrong, so he went to a large hospital for an X-ray. The hospital gave a diagnosis. Bethune had tuberculosis .
Tuberculosis was a very serious disease at that time. It was not only untreatable, but also contagious.
The sudden illness made Bethune despair for a moment, but soon he realized that he could not do this and that he had to divorce Frances. She was only 26 years old and her life had just begun, and he could not drag her down.
With this idea, Bethune deliberately lost his temper at home. He wanted to force Frances to leave in this way, but Frances not only did not complain, but was very nice to him. Bethune felt even more sad. In order to let Frances leave him, he said, "If he doesn't divorce, he will refuse treatment."
Francis was worried about him at first, but now facing his stubborn temper, she had to compromise. She agreed to divorce. In October 1927, they divorced. Both of them had reluctance in their eyes, but they had to leave each other.
Betune felt guilty about Frances. He promised to give her happiness, so he could not leave. He decided that no matter what solution he found, he would cure his illness. Later, he searched all kinds of medical journals and sought medical treatment everywhere. He found that there was a therapy called "artificial pneumothorax" that should cure tuberculosis. However, this method is still in the scientific research stage and has not been really used in the human body.
This may be his last glimmer of hope. Bethune signed a life-and-death agreement and asked the doctor to treat him in this way. No matter what the result is, he will not complain.
Maybe he heard Bethune's prayer innocence. This time his illness was cured, and his case became a miracle at that time, causing a huge sensation.
He received a lot of attention because of this, and he was also hired to become a university teacher. His life and career were greatly improved for a while. Bethune never forgot Frances in his heart. After he recovered from illness, he wrote to her. He said that the biggest mistake he made in the past was to let his wife leave him. Now he hoped to pursue her again.
Frances never forgot Bethune. He was forced to leave him, but now he has recovered from illness, she is not willing to wait for a moment, just want to rush to go to her. But her parents advised her to think clearly, because Bethune had hurt her once. What if she hurt her again?
This is not something Frances needs to consider. She quickly went to Bethune. When Bethune received her, they went to the church. Once again, under the blessing of everyone, they made a promise to stay together for life in front of the priest.
When the priest said, "The groom can kiss your bride," Bethune solemnly kissed Frances's lips. , a long and affectionate kiss, unwilling to let go of lips, telling the longing that I had not seen for many days.
The wedding ceremony was completed, Frances became his wife again.
This time, they were sweeter than when they first fell in love, because happiness was too rare, and they were reluctant to be able to hug each other again. They were both reluctant to let go. Bethune accompanied Frances to do many things that had not been done in time before.
ht After ml0 Honeymoon, Bethune has to work. Because after he became famous, he has offered many more work appointments, and he is an extremely responsible person, so after he started working, he basically doesn’t have much time to accompany Frances. However, Frances is understandable about this, but Bethune sometimes does it too much.Once, before Frances goes out, he asks Bethune to buy some vegetables and go back. Come, she cooked him some delicious food in the evening, but after Frances left, he completely forgot about this. In the evening, when Frances returned home, Bethune was fiddling with a human skeleton model. Frances did not bother him, so she was preparing to open the refrigerator to get the food to cook.
There was nothing else in the refrigerator except a small intestine. Frances complained to Bethune, "Why did you buy only this small intestine? "Bethune didn't say anything. Just when Frances was about to go to cook, Bethune said, "Don't move, that's human intestines! "
Francis was startled and complained, "How can you keep it in the refrigerator? ”
Bethune felt that this was not a big deal. He said: “Don’t the intestines of cattle and sheep be put in the refrigerator too? "
Francis simply couldn't understand his behavior. Those were foods, and human intestines were experimental products. How could they be put together in the refrigerator? She told Bethune not to do this again in the future, but Bethune went in and out of the right ear. He still often did this later.
Francis was really angry because Bethune was busy. Forget it, he still did such a nonsensical thing, and she really couldn't accept it.She was having a showdown with Bethune, should she choose her job or her? Bethune was addicted to work and couldn't extricate himself, so he chose to work.
As a result, Frances divorced him. Bethune thought Frances would wait for him like the last time, but it turned out that he was completely out of his control. Frances soon got married again, and Bethune regretted it. He began to write letters to Frances often, but Frances was worried that her husband would be jealous, so she told him not to write letters to her again.
Bethune really lost the person he loved the most this time. He was filled with sadness, but the work needed to be completed, so he could only watch his beloved leave him.
Later, in 1938, Bethune learned that China needed a doctor, so he applied to China. Before leaving, he wrote a farewell letter to Frances. Frances was very worried about him and told him not to come to China, but Bethune insisted on coming, and he made Frances happy.
Bethune's regret before his death was that he failed to see his wife again, and asked the organization to give her living expenses
After Bethune came to China, he went to Yan'an, he founded a hospital, trained nurses, and performed surgery on the wounded near the battlefield. Once, he did not sleep for 3 days and 3 nights and underwent 115 consecutive surgeries. When he couldn't hold on, he put his head into the cold water to wake himself up and then continued to work.
When he works, he is simply desperate. Once, he set up a temporary operating room for the injured to perform surgery on the injured 3.5 kilometers away from the Japanese army. At that time, the Japanese artillery fire was on his head, and everyone asked him to evacuate first, but the wounded's operation had not been completed, so he insisted on leaving.
Bethune came to China with US$5,000 and many medical devices and medicines. According to convention, he will support him and the organization will pay him a salary. At that time, the salary standard for the military commander of the army was 5 yuan per month, and the company commander only had 3 yuan per month. The organization gave him 100 yuan per month. Although this salary was not much, it was already a very high level.
But Bethune refused the salary. He said that although he had no money, he didn't need money. He just gave him the same treatment as ordinary soldiers.
So, Dr. Bethune came to China, which is equivalent to pure voluntary labor. He saved many lives, but when the disease happened to him, he failed to save his life.
Once, Dr. Bethune accidentally cut his finger while performing surgery on the injured, and he didn't care too much. But later, another wounded person who was infected with the virus came. Dr. Bethune was infected when he performed surgery. However, medical supplies were lacking, and his treatment delayed the best time, which later caused sepsis.
He had never thought that he would die because of cutting a finger, but it just happened so suddenly. Originally, he wanted to wait for the Japanese army to sweep it. When he returned to China to get the medicine, he pursued Frances again and took her to China, but now everything has become a silence.
Dr. Bethune struggled to write a suicide note of less than 500 words, in which he asked Commander-in-Chief Nie Rongzhen to apply for a living expenses from his ex-wife with the international aid organization. He owe her too much in his life, and she didn't live well after getting married, but he can no longer protect her, so he hopes to provide a living expense to protect his wife's life.
Bethune's request was humble. He said that even if the money was given in installments, it would not be necessary.
When Bethune died, he was still thinking about his wife. He always thought that there would be time and they would be together again, but he didn't know that time waited for anyone. He escaped his fate but did not escape the second time. He did not regret his devotion to his career, but he was very sorry that he did not hold Frances's hand at that time, so he wanted to do the last thing for her at the end of his life.
