In the neurosurgery ward.
Wang Xiaomei held Wang Yunyun's hand gently with her stiff hands, "Yunyun, you listen to me. Let's be discharged from the hospital in a few days. Hospital fees are not cheap. Instead of wasting this money on someone like me who is destined to be incurable, we might as well keep this money for you to go to college."
During these days in the hospital, Wang Xiaomei has met many people, from the emergency department to the ICU to the neurosurgery inpatient department.
Among these people are patients with similar situations as hers, and their family members, who are struggling every day to pay for medical expenses under similar family conditions. They are all exhausted and very haggard.
Wang Xiaomei couldn't bear to see her daughter suffer like other people at such a young age.
"Mom, what are you talking about? It takes an average person 100 days to recover from a broken bone. You've only been in the hospital for a dozen days since the car accident. How can that be long?"
Wang Yunyun shook her head repeatedly: "Besides, a foundation came to me specially before and said that they will help us to bear most of the medical expenses this time."
"Let's treat it well, Mom...you will definitely get better!" Wang Yunyun wiped her eyes, pretending that there was just sand in her eyes.
"Alas, they have good intentions... But we can't keep relying on hospitals when we know that this disease cannot be cured. Isn't this a waste of money? The money for the charity foundation is also donated by other people."
Wang Xiaomei sighed and said openly, "Yunyun, I know you care about mom, but when you went out two days ago, I asked a few doctors about it. Mom's condition... is completely paralyzed, and there is no way she can recover."
Wang Xiaomei trembled, wiped her tears with her sleeves, her eyes were red.
Did she really not want to be treated in the hospital? No!
She is a human being, and she also wants to live a good life. As a human being, she has selfish desires.
However, she was paralyzed from the waist down in the car accident and had no sensation in her lower body. Her hands were also affected and she couldn't move or grab things like a normal person. Every time she lifted her hands, they kept shaking as if she had Parkinson's disease and she couldn't exert any force. Even holding a bowl was difficult for her.
She still needs Yunyun to feed her every time she eats. In addition, after being completely paralyzed, her lower body lost sensation and her muscles atrophied, making it impossible to control her urges. Wang Xiaomei now still has to wear a urine bag.
Wang Xiaomei couldn't accept herself in her current state and secretly asked many people about it.
From Director Tang of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Sixth Hospital, to Director Xiao of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as other directors and deputy chief physicians in the Department of Neurosurgery, none of them did not shake their heads and sigh.
These people were unable to give her an accurate answer. They only said that recovery would be difficult, but if she took good care of herself, underwent rehabilitation and recuperation, she would still have a chance of recovery.
However, as an adult, how could Wang Xiaomei not know the meaning of these words?
Especially unlike other patients who have family members around them, her family consists of only two people, mother and daughter.
Of the mother and daughter, she is still the one who makes the decisions and takes care of major matters at home, even though she is now paralyzed in bed and unable to get up.
Therefore, when these doctors talk to her about her illness, they are often more direct than other patients with the same condition. Even if they are more tactful, Wang Xiaomei knows that she is beyond help.
"Mom, don't say that... maybe there is still hope. A doctor told me before that we should try Chinese medicine again. Let's give it another try!" Wang Yunyun really didn't want to give up and tried to persuade her.
But this time Wang Yunyun couldn't hold back her tears, and they fell down with a choked voice: "Mom... I searched the Internet before, and it said that there is still hope for recovery within 60 days after high paralysis. No matter what, we have to treat it for two months first. How can we give up so quickly?"
"But our family doesn't have much money, and you still have to study. Even if you have other people to help you, you will still have to delay your studies. You still have to spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation in the hospital every day. It's not worth it for a useless person like me..."
"Nothing is not worth it! I study and work hard just to make our lives better. If mom is gone, what's the point of me living a good life?" Wang Yunyun wiped her tears and cried, "I've thought about it. Let's treat it for two months first. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work. I will take you to school then!"
"We will rent a house in the school's family area. I will go and turn you over after class every day, and then go back to the teaching building for class. After I get my diploma, I will look for a suitable job online, and I will definitely be able to take good care of you!"
"Yunyun...it's all Mom's fault. It's Mom's bad luck that got you into trouble!"
"Mom, don't say that. It's not your fault!..."
This time, Wang Xiaomei couldn't hold it in any longer. In the ward, the mother and daughter held hands and cried bitterly.
Su Tang stood at the door with Tan Xin holding Wang Xiaomei's medical record. The two looked at each other and did not go into the ward immediately.
This is what hospitals are like, with all kinds of scenes happening every day.
Some people gave up because their family members were seriously ill, and they were in a mess.
Some people become stronger because of the serious illness of their family members, just like wild roses blooming in the desert, which touches the hearts of others.
As doctors they can do a lot, but sometimes they can do very little...
Seeing that the crying of the mother and daughter in the ward had gradually calmed down, Su Tang knocked on the open door and said, "Auntie Wang, Yunyun is right. We have to give it a try anyway. I'm Su Tang from the general internal medicine department. You can just call me Xiao Su... I'm here to diagnose and treat you this time."
"Ah, Dr. Su... please come in, please come in, and Dr. Tan, please come in." Wang Xiaomei trembled as she tried to get the towel beside her to wipe her face. She felt a little psychologically burdened when two young children saw her and her daughter crying in the ward.
Wang Yunyun knew her mother's habit and hurried to help.
Before Su Tang came to the ward, she had read the medical records given to her by Tan Xin.
This is a very thick medical record that contains everything from routine blood tests to various CT and MRI test results, which records Wang Xiaomei's condition in detail.
The patient was hospitalized due to a car accident 13 days ago. The hospital diagnosed him with cervical spine injury. At that time, the patient's upper limb movement was limited and his lower limbs were completely paralyzed.
Better than Su Tang had imagined, the patient did not have any fractures, but perhaps because the patient originally worked in the kitchen and needed to bend over and lower his head for a long time, his cervical and lumbar vertebrae were more fragile than those of ordinary people.
Therefore, under the influence of external forces from this car accident, he suffered high paralysis.
If the patient has a cervical or thoracic fracture, neurosurgery can also help with surgical fixation to improve the condition.
But apart from the patient being slightly misplaced and needing to wear a fixator, there is little that neurosurgery can do.
However, this patient seemed to have only superficial injuries, stitches on his arms and legs, but no broken bones.
He was completely paralyzed by the external force of the car accident!
Not to mention Wang Xiaomei herself, even many neurosurgeons felt that fate was playing tricks on them.
"Doctor Su, you are here, please sit down quickly. And Doctor Tan, please sit down too..." Wang Yunyun wiped the tears from her face, smiled, and greeted Su Tang and Tan Xin just like her mother did.
"Auntie Wang, since you are here, let me take your pulse first." Su Tang was not polite. He took the stool handed to him by Wang Yunyun, moved to the place closest to Wang Xiaomei, and started taking her pulse carefully.
As a student, Su Tang liked to read various X-ray test reports and draw conclusions from them.
But since he got back his past life memories, Su Tang has developed a new hobby besides reading medical records, which is "observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation".
In particular, pulse diagnosis can sometimes allow Su Tang to obtain more patient information than test reports.
The patient's face was pale, and his hands and feet were cold. As soon as Su Tang touched the patient's wrists and fingertips, he could clearly tell that he was different from others.
Su Tang lowered her eyes and carefully felt the other person's pulse. Wang Xiaomei's pulse was thin and weak, which was an obvious pulse symptom after external injury.
Su Tang held the man's left hand and then his right hand. As the saying goes, the left pulse controls the heart, the right pulse controls the lungs, the blood is stored in the liver, and the essence is stored in the kidneys.
From Wang Xiaomei's pulse, it can be seen that the patient has blood stasis in his qi and blood, his pulse is not smooth, and his essence and energy are severely depleted, and both his liver and kidneys are weak.
Su Tang looked at the other person's legs, and then checked to see if he was really unable to feel any stimulation at all.
Seeing that she didn't feel anything no matter where she touched the other person's legs, even large areas such as the waist and back, Su Tang slowly withdrew her hands.
"Doctor Su, how is my mother...my mother..." Can she still be cured?
Wang Yunyun looked nervous as she followed Su Tang, wanting to ask about Wang Xiaomei's situation.
But when the words came to her lips, she couldn't ask the last sentence. It seemed that as long as she asked the last sentence, her mother Wang Xiaomei would never be able to stand up again.
The atmosphere in the room was depressing and heavy. Tan Xin looked at Wang Yunyun and sighed silently.
In fact, he didn't believe at all that the general internist named Su Tang could cure the paraplegic patient.
As expected.
The general physician in a white coat across from him thought the same thing as him, but simply said, "The situation is not very good at the moment, but you can give it a try."
Tan Xin had a wooden face.
Listen! Listen!
Isn’t this the most common panacea heard in hospitals on a daily basis?
Generally speaking, doctors face seriously injured patients or cancer patients who cannot be cured for a long time.
They will use tactful methods to try to make patients have confidence in the treatment.
But in reality, the hope of recovery for these seriously ill and terminally ill patients is almost zero.
Wang Xiaomei had lived here for half a month and was considered an old hand. When she heard this, her expression immediately darkened.
Sure enough, the doctor in front of her was just as she imagined, and he also performed a high paralysis and had no solution.
During her recent hospital stay, Wang Xiaomei has heard countless times: "The situation is not very good, but we can try." "As long as we work hard on the treatment, the condition will definitely improve." ...
"Really? Then Dr. Su, please try it on my mother as soon as possible!" Wang Yunyun was young and innocent. In addition, most doctors usually talked more to Wang Xiaomei, so Wang Yunyun didn't think about the hidden meaning of the words at all. She looked at Su Tang with sparkling eyes, and just thought that if her mother really had a little hope, she could give it a try.
At this moment, Su Tang's mind is full of various acupuncture points, medicinal diet recipes, etc.
He didn't pay any attention to what the three people around him were thinking.
"Auntie Wang... I'll give you an injection. If you feel any discomfort or tingling or numbness, please tell me."
She drew the curtains around the bed and immediately began giving Wang Xiaomei acupuncture.
Different from previous treatments for patients, this time Su Tang wanted to verify whether the feeling in the lower body of the person in front of him had really completely disappeared?
Logically speaking, the patient's condition this time is better than that of many other patients.
However, the other seriously injured soldiers did not suffer from complete paralysis...
As he thought, Su Tang used a steel needle to simply disinfect Wang Xiaomei's acupuncture points, and then immediately inserted the needle into the Huantiao acupoint!
Huantiao Point: Located in the buttocks area of the human body, it is mainly used to treat lower limb paralysis and hemiplegia.
However, the tip of Su Tang's needle is pointed upwards, and unlike usual practice, the needle does not leave directly after insertion to look for the next acupuncture point.
Instead, they stimulate this acupuncture point repeatedly in an attempt to achieve a paralyzing effect.
Like the Taiyang acupoint, the Huantiao acupoint can achieve therapeutic effects with moderate manipulation, but using too much force can cause pain, and in severe cases can even lead to disability or death.
Su Tang observed Wang Xiaomei's expression while continuing to exert force...
But for a full minute, Wang Xiaomei's expression didn't change at all. Instead, she lowered her eyes as if she was a little disappointed.
Wang Yunyun was a little anxious. She had seen the video of Su Tang saving lives on the Internet before. The video was filmed by many people from various angles. Wang Yunyun could clearly see the speed at which Su Tang gave injections to people. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was as fast as the wind and left an afterimage.
However, now the other party was facing his mother, and he pierced one acupuncture point for a full minute or two...
Does this mean that there is no hope for mother's recovery at all?
Wang Yunyun was filled with worry, but she didn't dare to ask Su Tang to speed up the process. She could only grit her teeth and stand by, craning her neck, waiting anxiously.
Tan Xin sighed inwardly. It turned out that Dr. Su was just as he had guessed. He had no way of curing Wang Xiaomei.
This acupuncture cannot even stimulate the other person's limbs to produce sensation. It is just a daydream to want to make people better.
Even their neurosurgery, neurology and acupuncture departments couldn't cure the disease. How could a young doctor who had only been in the hospital for a short time make the patient better?
Tan Xin shook his head secretly, and could only sigh that the consultation fee for bed 93 was wasted.
You should know that hospitals usually charge by the hour, so even though Dr. Su in front of you is just a junior resident, the price is still cheap.
But that is only relative. Each visit costs hundreds of dollars.
But at this moment...
Suddenly, Wang Xiaomei, who was lying on the hospital bed, cried out, “Ah——!”
Tan Xin: “……???!!!”
I saw the young doctor with slightly chubby cheeks next to the bed, stimulating an acupuncture point on the waist repeatedly with a steel needle!
As the steel needle was lifted and twisted repeatedly, Wang Xiaomei's voice became more and more excited.
"Su, Doctor Su, I can feel it, I can feel it! I can feel it in my waist, left buttock and thigh, a little bit!" Wang Xiaomei's tone was extremely excited, and her eyes turned red!
He used to be a normal person, so Wang Xiaomei didn’t feel anything.
But after suffering high paralysis, Wang Xiaomei lost the feeling in her waist, back and lower limbs. She now knows what it means to live every day like a year. Even the mosquito bites and itching that she hated the most in summer have become a luxury.
Wang Xiaomei finally felt it and cried for joy.
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