"Dad, who broke his leg?"
"Your sister Rongyu sprained her leg and can't walk properly. I came to her house to help her in the next two days."
It was just my aunt who sprained her leg. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, Grandpa Sun said next: "After Rongyu sprained her leg, she went to Ruomei to recommend an orthopedic doctor."
This is the case for people in small places. Those who don't know medicine ask relatives who study medicine to recommend doctors for them to see, otherwise they don't know which doctor is good. Because the medical institutions in small places are not like those in big cities, most of the doctors are not very good, and the people know this.
"I didn't comfort Ruomei well when she answered the phone. She called me crying because she felt wronged. Her ankle was so swollen at the time and I was afraid that something serious might happen." Grandpa Sun sighed.
I can understand that the little girl was very anxious because she couldn't find a doctor. The poorer people are, the less they can afford serious illnesses, and once they get sick or injured, they will be very scared.
"How's Rongyu?" Sun Rongfang asked, also worried about her sister.
"Later, I remembered you said that the district hospital has a lot of orthopedic patients, so the doctors must be good. I took her to the district hospital for an X-ray, and the doctor said it was not a fracture. After massage and applying medicine, she got much better. But she was sulking about it, saying that if Yingying was here, it would be different and she would not ignore her as her aunt. I told her not to go to Ruomei easily again." Grandpa Sun said this to remind his eldest daughter that the old man could detect something abnormal with Zhou Ruomei.
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Sun Rongfang remembered that she had a big fight with Zhou Ruomei about Xiao Shugang and her daughter, and the two have not spoken to each other since then.
According to her, how could her cousin be such a bad doctor? She had no control over how other people were doing as doctors, but Zhou Ruomei was her cousin, and she didn't want her cousin to be so unethical as a doctor that she, her cousin, would lose face.
"Where is Yingying?" asked Grandpa Sun.
Xie Wanying reached out and took the phone from her mother to talk to her grandfather.
"Yingying, take care of yourself. Studying is important, but your health is your greatest asset."
"Yes, Grandpa."
"Don't worry about your aunt's leg. She's getting much better now."
My aunt trusted her, so Xie Wanying decided to speak out: "Grandpa, take my aunt to the hospital for an MRI. Some hidden injuries cannot be shown on X-rays. My aunt's ankle is too swollen, it is impossible for it to be completely fine. My aunt is old, and if this injury is not treated thoroughly, the sequelae will be more obvious as she gets older. She will often feel pain and have difficulty walking."
"But the doctor said that the bone X-ray showed that she was fine." Grandpa Sun wondered if his granddaughter was exaggerating the situation.
"How many photos did she take?"
"One." Grandpa Sun said.
It is true. Small hospitals in small places know that the people have no money, so doctors dare not prescribe a major examination. They will take an X-ray to roughly check whether the big bones are broken. In fact, when spraining an ankle, you should not only pay attention to the bones but also the ligaments. In addition to taking a bone X-ray, the correct X-ray should also take a force X-ray to check whether the ligaments are damaged. Generally, doctors will not prescribe this film because if the patient really wants a detailed examination, it is safest to do an MRI, which can find all the injuries that cannot be found by X-rays.
How terrible is ligament injury. Many people experience long-term pain after fractures, and can find nothing wrong by tapping the bones. In fact, it is because the ligament injury was not noticed or checked in the early stage, and the fixation or repair work was not done well, which led to poor healing in the later stage and affected the stability of the ankle joint, so it is natural to feel pain when walking.
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