For Cai Lei, the 43-year-old Vice President of JD.com, 2019 was the worst year of his life.

Because he learned that he was suffering from the rare ALS, and countless patients suffered from ALS until they died.

After Cai Lei went to countless hospitals but couldn't get effective treatment, he decided to spend the rest of his life fighting the disease instead of waiting for death... In August 2018, Cai Lei, who had just finished work for the day, was about to return from get off work. When I picked up my bag at home, I found that my left forearm was throbbing unconsciously.

At first, Cai Lei thought it was just caused by being too tired from work recently, so he planned to treat it just like the previous migraine, and maybe it would pass after a few days of rest.

But what Cai Lei didn't expect was that this kind of throbbing lasted for half a year. His family was really worried and persuaded him to go to the hospital for a check-up.

Cai Lei finally found a day off and went for an examination. After the examination results came out, the doctor gave him a preliminary judgment that it might be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as "ALS."

Cai Lei, who was holding the report sheet, couldn't believe it. The doctor's words were like a bomb falling. The medical expert told him to go to Beijing Third Hospital for a reexamination.

If motor neurone disease can be ruled out, everything will be fine. Although Cai Lei's left arm muscles have begun to atrophy at this time, Cai Lei still goes there with a glimmer of hope.

Cai Lei stayed at the Beijing Third Hospital for four weeks, undergoing examinations and investigations every day, and was finally diagnosed with ALS.

"Then am I going to die?" When he asked this question, Cai Lei's voice was trembling.

Doctors tell us that patients with ALS generally have a shrinking period of two to five years.

ALS ranks first among the five major terminal diseases in the world, followed by cancer and AIDS.

Although its clinical manifestation is only gradual muscle atrophy, it is more difficult. After all, other terminal diseases have gradually been alleviated and even nearly cured.

Not only is there no effective treatment for ALS, but there are also no major breakthroughs in drugs to treat this disease in decades. For those who suffer from it, the only thing they can do seems to be to welcome the last day.

After listening to the doctor's introduction to ALS, Cai Lei seemed to have lost all his energy and energy. His brain was buzzing and it was almost difficult to even stand. Looking back on the past ten years when he worked hard and joined JD.com,

Cai Lei barely took a day of annual leave.

Cai Lei, who was born in Shangqiu, Henan, has been very smart since he was a child. His father is a soldier and has been very strict with him since he was a child.

Therefore, he often ranked among the best in school, but rarely made friends with others. It was not until he was admitted to the Central University of Finance and Economics that he gradually developed his own social circle.

After being admitted to university, his father fell ill. Cai Lei put aside his studies and went to the hospital to take care of his father, who had cirrhosis of the liver.

That was the first time Cai Lei was so close to the disease. Cai Lei would often be awakened by his father's coughs several times at night, and would help his father turn over every twenty minutes during the day.

Although Cai Lei spent all his efforts with his family, his father failed to survive in the end and died at the age of forty-seven. His father's early death also made the already poor family even worse.

When he first entered society, Cai Lei's salary was not high and he worked in a government agency. His girlfriend at the time abandoned him because she disliked his low salary.

Devastated, Cai Lei changed his job to work at Vanke, and from then on he began to work hard day and night in the workplace.

In order to have a brighter path for himself, Cai Lei did not have any resources and could only rely on his own efforts. Therefore, the "workaholic" in the eyes of others just did not want to become a mediocre fighting spirit, and took one step at a time.