"In my eyes, my mother is like Ultraman, a superhero in a cartoon series, who is fighting bad guys every day." Youyou, a five-year old boy said.1mother, Lu Jingjing, a dermatologist at Wuhan Children's Hospital, worked at the mobile cabin hospital at the Wuhan International Conference & Exhibition Center, taking care of COVID-19- infected2.
Lu,3the mother of Youyou and a one year- old daughter, was sent to do support work at a community center on Feb 2 and left home for the cabin hospital two4later. Since then, Youyou5asking his mother through video chat, "Mom, how many viruses did you beat today?"
While she was packing to leave for the cabin hospital from home on Feb 4, Youyou cried and tried to stop Lu from leaving, knowing it would be6for him to see his mother for a long time.
Lu patiently7to him what the virus was, and told him that she would fight the virus with the cartoon superhero, Ultraman.
"He then8and let me go because in his mind, Ultraman is 9in the battlefield and can definitely help me win," Lu said.
From then on, her son kept asking through video chat how many viruses Lu had killed every day and helped her add them up.
"Hay not know clearly about why I'm away from home,10he knows that I'm fighting against the super virus with other doctors. Every time he said 'Mom, I miss you', I couldn't stop bursting into tears," she said.
Lu didn't let her parents know 11she was working with COVID- 19-infected patients.
"I am a dermatologist so my parents think that the virus has12to do with my department and I am staying away from infected patients," she said. When they asked for a video chat, Lu13said she was working and let her husband and children chat with them, instead.
"None of us have been worried about the14of getting infected. It's our responsibility to protect our country. We strongly believe that we15beat the virus and the patients will go home soon," Lu said.
