Recently, a mother with a 14-year history of myasthenia gravis was discharged from the ICU of the Infectious Disease Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Jiangsu after a lung infection, surgical thymectomy, two episodes of myasthenia gravis, two tracheal intubation ventilator-assisted breathing and six plasma exchanges. What gave this strong mother the courage to fight against the disease was her brave daughter and the many generous and caring people who gave their blood. During the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the patient’s daughter kept running around and shouting for her mother’s condition, and by asking for help from rare disease social welfare organizations and spreading through microblogs, many caring people came from outside the city to donate blood, raising tens of thousands of milliliters of fresh blood for her mother in a very short time, helping her to successfully complete the surgery and plasma replacement. Dr. Ni Bin, the deputy chief of cardiothoracic surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, made an elaborate surgical plan for the patient and performed the surgery, and formed a medical team with Dr. Luo Erping, the deputy chief of infection department, and Dr. Kong Yan, the deputy chief of neurology department, to provide a solid guarantee for the patient to overcome the difficult situation. Most people know about myasthenia gravis through the novel “Death by Addiction” written by Wang Shuo, in which the main character, Fang Yan, has this disease and ends up in a very tragic way. The full name of this disease is “myasthenia gravis”, an acquired systemic autoimmune disease, which means that the nerves that govern muscle contraction are not able to transmit “signals” to the muscles properly due to the influence of multiple causes, causing the muscles to lose their contraction function. The disease can develop at any age from newborns to the elderly, and is often combined with thymoma or thymic hyperplasia, and a few patients have a family history. Most of the patients have an insidious onset and often fluctuate throughout the course of the disease, alternating between remission and recurrence, with the distinctive feature of daily fluctuation. Clinical symptoms may include ptosis, diplopia, strabismus, weakness in chewing, choking and coughing, difficulty in swallowing, nasal speech, dysphonia, neck weakness, difficulty in raising the head, difficulty in raising the arm and combing the head for stairs. In severe cases, severe respiratory distress due to the involvement of respiratory muscles is called “crisis”, and the mortality rate increases significantly, which can cause sudden death in some patients. Thymectomy is nowadays considered one of the most fundamental treatments for myasthenia gravis. Most patients can benefit from thymectomy, and with the continuous improvement of thoracic surgical techniques, the safety of surgery is increasing, and some patients can be treated with minimally invasive techniques, so almost all types of myasthenia gravis patients can try thymectomy, especially those with infiltrating thymoma, which should be treated as early as possible. Of course, critical symptoms may occur after thymectomy, so immunosuppression, plasma exchange or intravenous gammaglobulin treatment should be given before surgery, and the efficacy of thymectomy can be seen only a few months after surgery. Some of these patients can be completely relieved after surgery, and some of them can be maintained with less medication to improve their symptoms and avoid further aggravation of the disease. The vast majority of patients with myasthenia gravis are able to carry out normal study and life after treatment, so it is a reversible disease, not a terminal disease, and most of them do not affect their life expectancy, as long as society and loved ones give them more care, many of them will be able to stand up again and carry out normal work and life like us.