英國女子患癌症 花光積蓄全家旅遊後意外痊癒大綱

Terminally ill with lung cancer, Lisa Russell vowed to give her two daughters the best year of their lives. The 37-year-old dinner lady and her partner Anthony got married and blew their savings on luxury family holidays.

英國母親莉薩·拉塞爾3年前被診斷爲肺癌晚期，得知自己的病情後，她決定給女兒留下最美好的回憶。這位37歲的食堂女職工和男友安東尼結婚，花光所有的積蓄和家人一起進行豪華旅行。

Lisa even planned her own funeral and wrote goodbye letters for her daughters to open after she died. But three years after the diagnosis, Lisa's death sentence was lifted — as her tumor unexpectedly disappeared.

莉薩甚至已經安排好了葬禮，給兩個女兒留下了臨終遺言。但離病情診斷三年後，莉薩的“死刑判決”卻解除了：因爲她體內的腫瘤神奇地消失了。

The mother, who had already undergone a hysterectomy to beat cervical cancer, said: 'I’d been saying goodbye and preparing for the end. It was heartbreaking to tell my daughters Mummy was going to die.

莉薩先前因患宮頸癌而進行過子宮切除手術，她說：“我已經在跟我的孩子道別了，準備迎接最後的時刻。讓我自己告訴女兒媽媽就要死了，這太讓人心碎了。”

'I was very young when I lost mother. The thought of them growing up without me was devastating. Telling them I wasn't going anywhere was the best moment of my life.'

“我自己在很小的時候母親就去世了，想到她們的成長過程中沒有我，我真的非常難過。而現在可以告訴他們，媽媽哪兒也不去就在這裏，這是我生命裏最好的時刻。”

She was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) — unrelated to her earlier illness and rare in a woman her age. It's 94 per cent death rate is one of cancer's highest.

莉薩被確診爲小細胞肺癌，這種病在同年齡段的女性中非常少見，也跟她之前得過的癌症無關。小細胞肺癌死亡率高達74%，屬於癌症中死亡率非常高的一種。

Lisa was told her cancer was inoperable — but that chemotherapy could give her another 18 months with her family. Lisa's biggest fear was that her girls, Chloe and Georgia — then 13 and eight — would not remember her.

醫生告訴莉薩她的癌症沒法開刀，但是化療可以讓她多活18個月。莉薩最大的擔心就是兩個女兒會忘記她，女兒克洛伊和喬治婭當時分別只有13歲和8歲。

She vowed to spend her money on creating happy memories for her daughters with her partner Anthony, spending £2,000 on a holiday to Lanzarote, £3,000 on a break in Bulgaria and £6,000 on a luxurious trip to Turkey.

她決定要把自己的積蓄都用來爲女兒還有丈夫安東尼創造美好回憶。一家人陸續前往西班牙蘭薩羅特島、保加利亞和土耳其進行了三次旅行，一共花費了1.1萬英鎊。

'It was impossible to forget about the cancer but seeing the girls play in the sea and play on the beach was fantastic. Again, I knew they were memories they would never forget and I wanted to create more.'

“在旅行的過程中，想要忘記癌症不可能，但看到我的女兒在海里和沙灘上嬉戲，感覺真的非常棒。我知道這些旅行會給他們留下難忘的記憶，我還想製造更多。”

With Anthony working as an electrician and Lisa unable to work, money was tight. But the couple vowed to blow what little they had left making memories for the girls.

安東尼是名電工，莉薩又因爲生病的緣故無法工作，他們家的經濟狀態其實比較拮据。但他們還是決定花光所有積蓄，只爲給兩個孩子留下美好回憶。

Lisa says: 'You don’t care about money when you are dying, just your family spending time together. I didn't want their memories of me to be in hospital. I wanted them to be happy, carefree memories.'

莉薩說：“當你要死的時候，你就不會再在意錢了，你只會想跟家人在一起。我不想她們以後想起我，都是我在醫院的樣子，我想留給她們無憂無慮的歡樂回憶。”

By the time she returned home, Lisa had already lived past the 18-month prognosis. She continued to have check-ups every three months without any change in the outlook.

旅行歸來，莉薩已經活過了18個月，她繼續三個月去做一次檢查，但情況並沒有好轉。

In April last year — three years after her original diagnosis — she went for a routine biopsy — and was given the astonishing news that her tumour had shrunk so much the doctors couldn’t find it.

去年四月也就是她最初診斷的三年後，她去做例行的活組織檢查，卻從醫生那裏得到了一個驚人的消息：她體內的腫瘤萎縮到醫生都找不到了。

'My mouth fell wide open,' she recalls. 'I couldn’t believe it. The doctors couldn’t either. My death sentence had been lifted. Nobody could predict this would happen. Everyone at The Christie Hospital was amazing. I can’t thank them enough.'

她回憶起當時的情況說道：“我的嘴巴張得老大，我真的不敢相信，醫生也覺得不可思議。我的死刑判決被解除了，誰也沒料到會發生這樣的事情，克里斯蒂醫院的醫護人員覺得這非常棒，我非常感謝他們。”

A spokesperson for the Christie Hospital said: 'Lisa has done incredibly well. Everybody here at Christie's is delighted for her. There is of course always a risk that the cancer could come back so we are keeping a very close eye on her.'

該醫院的發言人表示：“莉薩的狀況非常好，我們醫院都爲她高興。不過癌症也可能有復發的危險，我們會持續觀察。”