‘Have no choice’: China woman desperately searches for birth parents of adopted daughter with leukaemia for bone marrow
- Girl had been found abandoned in front of building in 2002
- Family has endured a rough 2023 with father losing part of leg to diabetes
A Chinese couple raised an abandoned girl for 21 years and later sought out her biological parents after the young woman was diagnosed with leukaemia in an effort to find a bone marrow transplant, deeply moving many on mainland social media.
The woman, Min Guofei, found a baby left at the entrance of a building in Fujian province in southeastern China in 2002, according to The Paper.
Min, who had been married for five years at that point but did not have children, brought the newborn home, and she and her husband raised the child as devoted parents and named her Wu Cailing.
Every year, the family celebrates the day Min found Wu as her birthday.
Wu was later admitted to Suzhou University of Science and Technology to study Japanese, becoming the first university student in the family.
However, the year 2023 brought misfortune to the family.
In June, Min’s husband suffered a severe leg ulcer due to his diabetes, resulting in five surgeries and the eventual amputation of his lower left leg to save his life.
Then three months later, shortly after returning to school, Wu was diagnosed with leukaemia following the discovery of a series of symptoms, such as fever and blood spotting.
