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sister's guardian

朱迪·皮考特

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sister's guardian 朱迪·皮考特 4074Words 2018-03-21
The thirteen-year-old girl Anna saw information about lawyer Campbell in the newspaper. She sold the gold necklace her father gave her, found a law firm with the help of her brother Jesse, and asked Campbell to be her lawyer. She wanted to sue her parents, suing them for taking away the use of her body.Anna's older sister Kate suffered from severe acute promyelocytic leukemia when she was two years old. In order to treat Kate's disease, Anna's parents conceived and gave birth to the youngest daughter Anna who is a perfect match for Kate's genes through advanced genetic technology.From the moment she was born, for thirteen years, Anna has continuously donated cord blood, white blood cells, stem cells, and bone marrow to Kate... Now, Kate's kidney function is failing, and her parents ask Anna to donate a kidney to her sister.So, Anna found a lawyer.Campbell was attracted by Anna's determination and intelligence, and decided to take this unique case.Anna's money is not enough to pay expensive legal fees, and she helps Campbell clean the door as compensation.

One night fourteen years ago, when mother Sarah was bathing her two children, Jesse and Kate, she found a bruise on her daughter Kate's shoulder blade. The next day, Kate lay weak on the bed and refused to get up.Sarah took Kate to the hospital to see a doctor.The doctor gave Kate a variety of complicated examinations, and finally diagnosed her with acute promyelocytic leukemia.Shocked, Sarah radioed her husband Brian, a firefighter, who was on duty.Sarah and Brian were very distressed. They entrusted Jesse to their neighbors and took care of Kate wholeheartedly. They were determined to let Kate live.

While eating dinner, Brian found that something was wrong with Anna, the necklace around her neck was missing, and he left quietly and quickly.Sarah dismisses it, thinking it's just Anna's normal adolescent reaction.In the evening, Anna came to the fire station where Brian was on duty, and they climbed to the roof to look at the stars together.Brian is an amateur astronomer who has a telescope on the roof deck of the firehouse. Kate is analyzing her kidneys.Mother happily brought the hospital's brochure for kidney transplantation, and Anna doubted the safety of this operation.At this moment Sergeant Fern entered the ward with a document.Sarah was shocked to find that it was Anna's court summons against her parents.Back home, my mother slapped Anna angrily, and my father, Brian, wanted Anna to explain more rationally.After going to bed at night, Mom and Dad came to their daughter's room. Sarah hugged Anna, hoping that she would explain to the judge and withdraw the lawsuit.Anna nodded.

After Kate was diagnosed with leukemia fourteen years ago, she began a series of treatments.The doctor suggested that Kate could be given a bone marrow transplant, provided that she had a donor with the same type, preferably a blood-related sibling.Kate's only brother is a mismatch, and non-blood transplants carry a high risk.The doctor reminded them that although Jessie was not a match, if Kate had other siblings... The chemotherapy started to work, Kate's white blood cells were lowered, but she started to have a fever and was very weak.Sarah's sister Susan came to help the family.Sarah and Brian decided to have another child.

In the coffee shop Campbell sees a woman on the street who looks like a person, but the figure is fleeting.When he returned to the office, Anna was cleaning the doorknob.Sarah called to tell Campbell that Anna had agreed to withdraw the lawsuit last night.Campbell insisted they meet in court.The judge who tried Anna's case was named De Saro. His twelve-year-old daughter died in a car accident a few months ago.And Sarah, a former lawyer, decided to defend her and Brian herself.The prosecution and the defense met for the first time in the judge's office. The judge was unable to judge the facts stated by the two parties and asked to communicate with Anna in private.

Anna told Judge De Saro that she could not donate a kidney to Kate, and the judge told her no one could force her to.Anna wept bitterly.The judge decided to send a guardian ad litem to accompany Anna in order to understand the situation.The guardian will report to the judge when the hearing begins in a week's time.Anna's family is in a state of extreme tension. Jesse likes to play with fire.He drove wildly to the underpass at the exit of the highway, where a homeless man helped him store chemicals stolen from the school, and Jesse used it to set fire.When the fire started, Jesse saw Dad rush to put out the fire.He drives away.At home, Kate is in critical condition again, and Jesse helps Sarah take her to the hospital.She wakes up weakly and looks for Anna.

Years ago, while a new baby was conceived in Sarah's womb, Kate suffered a relapse.Sarah and Brian were interviewed by the TV station about the child who was perfectly matched with Kate through genetic technology.Some people questioned them, but they were full of confidence and only wanted to save their daughter.Anna was born on New Year's Eve and her cord blood was donated to Kate. Julia, guardian ad litem, who lives with her twin sister, was conflicted when she heard the name of attorney Campbell from Judge DeSaro.But she still took the case and went to visit Anna's house.Julia took Anna to the zoo and had a preliminary understanding of her, and found that she was a very cautious child, more mature than expected.Subsequently, Julia came to Campbell's law firm.

Seeing Julia come in, Campbell almost went crazy. They hadn't seen each other for fifteen years, and it seemed like a lifetime.Sensing the tension, Campbell's dog, Judge, got up and stood beside the lawyer.When she heard that Campbell was going to apply to the court for a temporary injunction to force Sarah to move out of the house, Julia angrily thought that Campbell disregarded Anna's interests, just to win the lawsuit and seek personal gain.Campbell broke off the conversation and left the office, abandoning Julia for the second time in his life. Campbell and Julia were studying in a noble school together.Julia is an alternative among the children of rich families. She comes from a humble family and is independent. Her unique and rebellious temperament attracts Campbell.The two fell in love together.

Julia's words influenced Campbell, and he visited Anna's house in person, wanting to get to know her better.Later, he went to Julia's house to try to repair the relationship between the two. Mom accompanied Kate, who was in critical condition, in the hospital, and Dad went to the fire station for a mission. Anna slipped into Kate's ward with Jessie's help, climbed into bed, and the two sisters lay together. Julia goes to the fire station to find Brian, trying to get his thoughts.Together with Anna they visit Kate in the hospital.Sarah begs Julia not to tell Kate about the lawsuit.Julia and Kate talked alone and learned some unique feelings about this girl's life and the natural and real sisterhood between her and Anna.

After five years of illness, Kate was in remission, but a routine check-up revealed that she was in a molecular relapse.Doctors treated Kate with all-trans retinoic acid and subsequently recommended a donor lymphocyte infusion.So Anna donated 10,000 lymphocytes to Kate and had to give up attending the children's birthday party. Sarah persuades Anna to withdraw the lawsuit, and Campbell applies for a temporary restraining order requiring Sarah to move out of the house and separate from Anna.The prosecution and the defense confront each other in front of a judge, who holds off on issuing an injunction but warns Sarah not to talk about the case in front of Anna.Julia wants to talk to Campbell. She thinks that Campbell can't fully consider the issue from a legal point of view. Sarah is both the opposing defense lawyer and Anna's mother.

Julia talks to Jesse, who, in his teenage years, is attracted to Julia and wants to date her.In Jesse's chaotic room, Julia listens to the experiences and feelings of this troubled teenager growing up in this special home. In order to give Anna a space to breathe and think freely, Brian decided to let her move to the fire station to live with him.The firefighters received a call to the police at midnight, and Anna went on a mission with everyone to escort an old man to the hospital. Anna took the opportunity to run to Kate's ward.They go back to the fire station and look at the stars together. When Campbell went to the hospital to see Kate's doctor, he met Julia and they went to a restaurant for dinner.Anna called and said that Jesse was arrested by the police because he stole the judge's car and asked Campbell to help him out on bail.With Campbell's help, Jesse is set free. Campbell takes Anna back to the fire station, where he meets Brian.Brian told Campbell that he supported Anna's decision, and Campbell asked Brian to share his thoughts in court, which Brian agreed to. When Kate was nine years old, the disease relapsed again, and the doctor decided to give her a bone marrow transplant.The insurance company refused to pay for Kate's transplant. Brian used the education fund prepared for Kate, thinking that she could not use the money. Sarah was very sad when she found out.Anna endured the pain of being pricked when donating bone marrow, and she had to keep injecting growth hormone.Brian rewarded Anna with a children's necklace.The bone marrow transplant was successful, and Kate was finally discharged from the hospital, but she was afraid of being laughed at because of her strange appearance, so she refused to go out on the street.Sarah shaved Anna and her hair, and the three bald mother and daughter took to the street together. After Jesse's car was impounded by the police, he drove the garbage truck.He set fire in the underground passage again, almost burning people to death. In the four years since the bone marrow transplant, Kate has been suffering from "graft versus host disease".One day, she suffered severe bleeding in multiple places and was rushed to the hospital by her family.The doctor proposed a new treatment method - arsenic therapy.Kate is in critical condition, and Brian wants to forego treatment so that Kate can end her pain, but Sarah is determined to let Kate live.After treatment, Kate finally passed the dangerous period and came back alive.Meanwhile, hockey-loving Anna wants to attend hockey keeper camp, but Sarah asks Ana to stay home and be ready to provide for Kate. Sarah proposed a settlement agreement, as long as Anna donated a kidney this time, even if Kate's condition did not improve in the future, she would never be asked to provide any medical assistance for her sister.Anna refuses. The night before the trial, Campbell took Julia to sail on a small yacht on the grounds of talking about the case. The two rekindled their old relationship and had a wonderful night.On the second day of the court session, everyone found that Anna was missing.Campbell found Anna in Kate's ward at the hospital and brought her back to court, where the trial began.Kate's doctor, a doctor from the hospital ethics committee, a psychologist, and Julia, the legal guardian, took turns on the witness stand. During the long process of treatment with arsenic, Kate met Taylor, a boy who also suffered from severe leukemia, in the hospital. The two loved each other and loved each other.Kate is in a beautiful and crazy relationship, and she refuses to be hospitalized for chemotherapy, preferring to go out with Taylor.While worrying, Sarah felt more joy and excitement. She never imagined that Kate would have a day in love.The hospital throws a dance for patients, and Taylor invites Kate to it.The mother-daughter trio worked together on Kate's ball gown.At the ball, Taylor and Kate sneaked away, Sarah followed quietly and saw them embracing and kissing in the moonlight.That night, Taylor was infected with a high fever, and the first aid was ineffective, so he passed away.Worried that Kate, who was undergoing a stem cell transplant, would not be able to withstand the blow, Sarah blocked the news until Kate was discharged from the hospital. In the second trial, Brian appeared in court to testify, but he was emotionally conflicted and confused. He suddenly changed his original decision to support Anna and expressed his hope that Anna would donate a kidney.Campbell asked Anna to testify in court herself, but Anna first refused and finally agreed.Anna began to answer Campbell's questions.Campbell was nervous and his dog was barking like crazy.Anna reveals a startling secret: she was persuaded by Kate to bring the lawsuit.Campbell fainted on the spot and had a seizure.It turned out that he had a car accident when he was graduating at the age of eighteen, and later he suffered from epilepsy, which may occur at any time.Also because he didn't want to drag Julia down, he concealed the truth and left Julia.For years, Campbell kept the secret, living with his care dog.With first aid, Campbell recovered and continued the trial.Anna tells about Kate's repeated attempts to commit suicide.The judge decides to speak to Kate in person, and the crowd arrives at the hospital.Finally, the judge declared the case closed the next morning. It rained heavily the next morning, and everyone came to the court.Sarah and Campbell each gave excellent closing arguments.The judge commended everyone in the courtroom for entering into the quality of life versus dignity debate.He ultimately declared in Anna's favor that she would make her own medical decisions, with Campbell serving as her medical guardianship attorney.Ana faces her parents and they embrace.Anna and Campbell stayed behind because they had to sign relevant documents, while Sarah and Brian left the courtroom first.Subsequently, Campbell drove Anna to the hospital. In the hospital, Brian's pager rang, and an unexpected car accident was waiting for him to rescue.At the scene of the car accident, Brian was shocked to find that Anna was in critical condition in the hit car.Some first aid was ineffective, and Anna was finally brain-dead.Sarah and Brian endured immense grief and had doctors remove Anna's organs and donate them to Kate and others who needed them. Anna is gone forever.After receiving a kidney transplant, Kate passed the dangerous period, survived, and grew up healthily. She realized her dream and became a dance teacher.Jesse graduated from the police academy and became a drug hero.Campbell and Julia are married.Sarah and Brian continue to miss and live in their grief.
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