Chapter 88 Chapter 88 Don't Be Afraid of Ryan
When Leandri hurried back home, Maria's face looked fine, but the expressions of the whole family were no longer as happy as before.
Florentino frowned and whispered to the doctor while holding a pile of information. Leandri's brothers and sisters also did not look very good.
"Ryan, you're back." Maria smiled and pulled her youngest son over, handing him a glass of ice water.
"Mom..." Leandri hugged Maria tightly, still a little bit unbelieving. After all, Maria's face was still rosy, and she stood in front of him full of energy.
Half a month ago, the family doctor arranged for the Perez family to undergo a routine physical examination. Basically, there were no major health problems for everyone, except Maria. After a series of tests including CT and PET, the doctor announced the final result: lung adenocarcinoma, genetic testing showed ALK mutation.
“Go to MD Anderson Cancer Center or Japan as soon as possible. Since it’s an ALK mutation, there’s still a chance. Japan and the United States are already conducting targeted drug research on this genotype.” The doctor team gave advice, and Florentino immediately decided to fly to the United States tomorrow.
It was already late, and Maria went back to her room to sleep first, while the other members of the Perez family sat in the living room with sad faces.
When Maria's CT scan results were abnormal, Florentino knew about it immediately, and the whole family accompanied her for follow-up consultations. Until this afternoon, the medical team made the final diagnosis of Maria. Florentino asked his eldest son to inform Leandri. They knew very well that there are always some things in this world that are more important than career.
"Will your flying back tonight affect your performance in the team?" Florentino saw his youngest son coming back, and despite his complicated feelings, he still chose to care about his situation first.
Leandri shook his head, "Nothing is more important than my mother. My family is the most important thing in my heart."
When the old man's private plane was about to take off, Leandri called Heynckes again. He wanted to take a week's vacation and would miss an away league game. Grandpa Hai and Waller agreed readily and told him to fly to the United States without worry. He said his performance was not what he should worry about right now. The team even allowed him to spend more time with his family.
Thanks to Florentino's connections and super powers, Maria started receiving treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center without any waiting. The entire team of experts analyzed Maria's condition and tried to provide the latest and safest treatment plan.
Crizotinib has now been officially used in clinical practice, and Japan is further developing second-generation targeted drugs, among which aletinib is still in clinical trials.
Although Perez and others did not understand the professional terms, they were all trying hard to understand them and tried to use all their strength to help Maria a little bit.
Among the two generations of targeted drugs, aletinib has relatively fewer side effects, but Maria has to fly to Japan to join the group again, and the new drug is still in the clinical trial stage, which makes everyone unwilling to take risks. There is always tolerance to drugs, and perhaps after taking the first generation of targeted drugs, they can update it based on actual conditions and the doctor's advice.
Leandri saw that after his father walked out of the ward, the phone kept ringing, and his assistant Manuel basically sat outside with a laptop. The two brothers could hardly open their eyes, the sister looked very haggard, and Florentino looked several years older in just a few days. He no longer looked like the spirited president of Real Madrid.
During his time in the United States, Leandri felt that he was almost becoming an expert in lung adenocarcinoma. He looked for papers and doctors day and night, and memorized everything about lung adenocarcinoma and targets. The Perez family also almost visited all the relevant doctors and departments in the cancer center.
They are not the ones who are sick, and they can't do anything to help, so they can only do this.
Kroos would also video chat with Leandri at night. Seeing his boyfriend's tired look, Kroos didn't know what to say to comfort him. He could only try to cheer him up by telling him about the funny things that happened in the team. But the final result is often that the sound of Leandri's even breathing can be heard on the screen. Kroos frowned as he saw that his originally handsome face was sleeping. He couldn't help but wanted to reach out his hand but accidentally made a sound.
"What's wrong, Tony?" A sleepy voice came from the microphone, and Leandri didn't want to open his eyes.
"It's okay, sleep well." Cross plugged in the charging cable of his mobile phone and looked at his partner quietly, as if the two of them were sleeping in each other's arms.
Crizotinib was effective for Maria. After a few days of observation at the Anderson Cancer Center, the whole family returned to Madrid, and Florentino hired two nurses to take care of Maria's daily life at home.
Seeing that Maria looked pretty good, the old man hurried back to deal with the affairs of the club and the company, and Leandri also had to rush back to Germany.
During the week of leave, Leverkusen won Wolfsburg 3-2 with difficulty and drew 1-1 with Glasgow Rangers in the Champions League group stage. Facing the challenge of Werder Bremen, Heynckes was worried that Leandri had recently taken a long flight and was not in good competitive form, so he continued to let the substitute goalkeeper play.
At the end of May this year, Leverkusen snatched the German Cup from Werder Bremen. They are holding back their anger and wanting revenge, but the overall atmosphere at Leverkusen is even more tense.
The players of Bayer Leverkusen were originally counting on their fingers to see when it would be Leandri's turn to draw the lots for them. He even had a book on how to interpret the lots in his hand! Everyone was thinking about asking the magical Banya man to use his magical oriental magic to calculate their fortunes, or to see how he calculated for Heynckes first. As a result, they heard the next day that the little guy had asked for leave, and it was a week-long vacation.
No one will be in a good mood when their family is sick. His teammates found that after coming back this time, the originally happy little goalkeeper suddenly became much quieter. Whether it was eating, extra training or tactical classes, his cheerful voice was rarely heard.
At least we can't make Ryan's mood worse.
Bremen's offensive wave after wave hit Leverkusen's defense, but everyone kept trying hard with this idea in mind and failed to allow the other team to score a goal. The two sides shook hands and made peace with a 0-0 draw.
After the home game, Leandri returned to the training base for further training.
A man was sweating on the rowing machine, and Cross was right beside him. Ryan didn't want to do double training today, and didn't want to talk to anyone. Cross just stood quietly in the gym and watched him do strength and jumping training alone, making himself sweat all over.
Cross handed over a sports towel and pulled Leandri up from the ground. "Take a rest."
"I don't need it."
But Cross ignored his refusal and pulled someone over to wipe him from his hair to his chin. The sweat on his head was quickly absorbed by the towel.
"Are you feeling better?" Cross looked at Leandri's still pale lips, thought for a moment, and then pressed his head into his arms.
"It's okay Ryan, everything will be fine."
Cross held the back of Leandri's head with one hand and patted his back rhythmically with the other hand, but gradually he heard a little sobbing sound coming from his neck. He was about to look down but Leandri held him tightly with both hands.
The wet feeling on his neck began to appear, and Cross hugged back tightly.
"It'll be okay, Ryan." Cross heard his own voice. The sky outside had darkened, and the glass window reflected the image of the two people hugging each other, but there was no trace of romance.
Cross could even see Leandri's slightly twitching body reflected in the glass window. This was the first time that such a proud boy looked so vulnerable in front of him.
"Don't be afraid Ryan, I will always be with you."
That night, Cross learned about Ryan's childhood. Without Maria, there would be no little Perez today. Perhaps Leandri would have continued to spend a long time in the orphanage, would have treated his brothers and sisters there with care, would have been Grandma Elisa's most capable assistant, and although he would have received a lot of love, he would not have become who he is now.
Leandri and Cross slept in each other's arms. In his arms, he talked about the first day he was taken to Perez's house and how Maria had carefully prepared a crib, a desk, and a bunch of boys' favorite toys for him. He also talked about how Maria caught him and they watched Tom and Jerry over and over again in the living room. He talked about how he ate lucky grapes for the first time in his life on New Year's Eve, and how he got his wish every year thereafter.
He gently kissed away the tears that Ryandley had unconsciously fallen. He felt pain for Ryan, and at the same time he thought about himself. What if it was his mother... Cross didn't even dare to think about it, and once again hugged the fragile boy who was venting his emotions.
After crying for real, Leandri finally began to recover his condition and mood. The coaching staff was originally worried about the performance of the goalkeeper of the Russian Federation, but when they saw him making Kiessling beg for mercy in obstacle saves and one-on-one shooting training, Heynckes firmly wrote Leandri's name into the starting lineup for the next away challenge to Kaiserslautern.
Leandri is still very sad, but he is trying to turn his grief into strength.
Kisling felt this power, Deldiyok felt it, and even Big Bend felt it.
A few days ago, Lars Bender, who had performed well, was finally promoted to the first team by Heynckes. He no longer played in the youth team games, but instead had to work harder and perform better to win Heynckes' trust.
It was the first time that Big Bend entered the away locker room with everyone and witnessed Leandri taking out the lottery ticket tube. It was obvious from Deldiy's movements that he had practiced alone many times. He shook the lottery ticket tube, dropped the lottery tickets, and picked up the lottery tickets in one go, and then handed them to Leandri respectfully.
"Well, good luck. You have good luck today. Basically, everything you want can come true." Leandri started talking nonsense, and then pretended to take out a detailed explanation of his fortune and brag to everyone.
Big Bend was stunned. Is this the legendary pre-match session? It’s a bit outrageous, but I really want to participate! Then he ran to Tony's secretary to add his name as well. As long as it could be counted for him, he didn't care even if it was the last one!
Big Bend suddenly felt that the great devil Leandri was not so hateful, and even saw a divine light emanating from him.
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