Yu Zhiming hurried to the medical center of the main building in the rain, quickly prepared for first aid, and waited for another seven or eight minutes before the unlucky guy who fell down the mountain trail in the rain came.
This is a man with a flat head who looks to be in his fifties or sixties.
He was a little overweight, with two bruises on his forehead and face caused by the collision. His clothes were not only dirty but also half wet.
Even though the man clenched his teeth, Yu Zhiming could still hear him cry out in pain from time to time, and it was obvious that he was in great pain.
Yu Zhiming took the lead and gave the flat-headed man a quick physical examination. He was somewhat surprised to find that the man had quite a few fractures.
There were five fractures in total, including ribs, clavicle, arm, hip, and leg, and two bone cracks.
Although the bone injury was serious, fortunately, the man did not suffer from internal bleeding.
"How many steps did you fall down?" Yu Zhiming asked.
A woman in her twenties who accompanied the injured man said in tears, "It was a slippery day because of the rain. My dad slipped and fell down the mountain trail."
"I probably fell down 20 or 30 steps, and rolled down at least 10 or 20 meters. I was scared to death!"
Just rolling down twenty or thirty steps resulted in such a serious fracture?
Yu Zhiming felt a little strange, mainly because the injuries to the man's internal organs, flesh and bones were disproportionate.
The young woman asked worriedly, "Doctor Yu, my father is not in danger of death, right?"
Yu Zhiming comforted him, saying, "Although there are multiple fractures, there is no danger to his life. Don't worry too much."
After a pause, he analyzed further, "There are seven bone injuries in total. There is no obvious damage to the internal organs, and the flesh injuries are not serious. Judging from the fractures, they are quite neat."
"Preliminary analysis suggests the bones are too brittle, which is why the internal organs and flesh haven't been seriously injured, but the bones are like porcelain, with multiple problems."
The young woman asked again: "Is it osteoporosis?"
“It’s not osteoporosis!”
Yu Zhiming shook his head and said, "Although your father's bone mass has been lost due to age and other factors, it hasn't reached the level of osteoporosis. Judging from the current situation, it's mainly just that his bones have become brittle."
Bone brittleness is a common phenomenon in orthopedics.
In addition to the phenomenon that the body is prone to fractures due to physiological bone loss due to aging, the main consideration is that conditions such as brittle bone disease, osteoporosis, rickets, achondroplasia, fibrous dysplasia, bone tumors, etc. lead to a decrease in bone mass and make fractures more likely to occur.
As he spoke, the flat-headed man had already taken off his wet and dirty clothes, and the next step was to treat his bone injuries.
Yu Zhiming decided to be a good person to the end. He met the crew-haired man's gaze and said, "There are two treatment options. One is to fix the fracture through surgery."
"Secondly, I won't perform surgery. I'll use bone setting and manipulation to reconstruct your broken bones, and then use plaster, a splint, and other methods to stabilize the bone injuries."
The man with the flat head quickly replied, "No surgery, no surgery. Please, Doctor Yu, take the trouble to set my bones."
Yu Zhiming reminded him, "There will be some pain during the bone setting process. You need to endure it..."
With the assistance of the medical staff of the medical center, and amid the occasional uncontrollable groans of pain from the flat-headed man, Yu Zhiming spent nearly an hour to stitch the fractures on the man's body and fix them with plaster.
During this process, Yu Zhiming also confirmed the cause of the multiple fractures of the flat-headed man through further detailed examination.
It's not brittle bones, it's chronic strain.
Yu Zhiming looked at the man with the flat head, who was sweating profusely from the pain he had just experienced during the treatment, and asked, "Have you been exercising a lot in the past year to keep fit or lose weight?"
The crew-haired man was about to respond when his daughter spoke first, "Doctor Yu, you're right."
"In the past year, my dad has suddenly become crazy about exercise, saying he wants to lose weight."
"The weight loss effect is also quite obvious. In less than a year, my weight has dropped from 190 kilograms to over 150 kilograms now."
The man's daughter asked again with doubt in her voice, "Doctor Yu, could my father's multiple fractures this time be due to excessive weight loss?"
Yu Zhiming explained: "It is definitely caused by unreasonable excessive physical exercise, especially unscientific strength training that causes bone strain."
He further explained: "Long-term unreasonable physical exercise causes damage to accumulate in certain parts of the bones, resulting in relatively poor toughness of these bones."
"When subjected to strong external shock, these already injured bones will break immediately."
The man's daughter nodded vigorously and said, "Doctor Yu, you're absolutely right. My dad exercises, including skipping rope, weightlifting, dumbbells, fitness equipment, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, etc. He doesn't miss any of the fitness exercises."
"We tried to persuade him to take it easy and proceed step by step since he was so old, but he simply didn't listen."
"No, because you didn't listen to the advice, something went wrong, didn't you?"
Facing his daughter's criticism, the man with the flat head said to Yu Zhiming with embarrassment: "When I was young, I loved fitness, and my physical fitness is no worse than that of a special forces soldier."
"Later, I started working in technical research. I spent all day doing experiments or looking up information. I had no time to exercise, and my weight gradually increased."
"Just last year, a friend of mine had a stroke due to obesity and became paralyzed on one side of his body. I was scared and didn't want to follow in his footsteps, so I picked up fitness again."
He quickly admitted his mistake and said, "I was a little too eager to achieve success when it comes to fitness and weight loss."
Yu Zhiming warned: "At your age, your physical fitness has declined significantly compared to when you were young."
"When you reach a certain age, you must accept your old age..."
After walking out of the main building, Yu Zhiming took the umbrella from Qingning and walked into the rain together.
"It's just a small test, not very exciting, right?"
Yu Zhiming put his arm around Qing Ning, trying his best to cover both of their bodies with the umbrella, and said with a chuckle, "I'm here on vacation, not to work. Just a little indulgence is enough."
After a pause, he sighed softly, "I think I've been self-indulgent. This is a rare vacation I was really looking forward to, but I end up feeling uneasy and guilty."
"People like me are likely destined to be toilers?"
Qing Ning tilted her little face up and chuckled, "It's mainly because you haven't had a good rest before, which is why you're not used to taking a vacation."
“Just a few more vacations would be nice.”
At this time, Yu Zhiming turned a corner and walked towards the lake instead of the two-story building where they lived.
"Aren't you going back?"
Yu Zhiming said softly, "We're leaving here tomorrow. I suddenly realized that walking in the rain is pretty nice."
"Would you please walk with me and enjoy the scenery in the slanting wind and drizzle?"
Qingning smiled, knowing in her heart that it was actually Yu Zhiming accompanying her to enjoy the rain.
She hugged Yu Zhiming tighter and replied sweetly, "Okay!"
After that, neither of them spoke. They snuggled under the umbrella and walked slowly along the fitness path by the lake, admiring the exquisite surroundings...
Twenty minutes later, when passing by a grove of flowers, Qing Ning suddenly broke free from Yu Zhiming's embrace and ran into the grove.
"Be careful of the rain..."
Yu Zhiming shouted and was about to catch up when he saw Qingning picking a flower and running towards him.
Hugging Qingning again, Yu Zhiming looked at the pink flower in her hand that was soaked with raindrops.
"Like it? I'll pick some more for you!"
"One is enough!"
Qing Ning pulled Yu Zhiming, stopped, turned around and looked at Yu Zhiming face to face with her little face raised.
Qing Ning raised the flowers in both hands, looked at Yu Zhiming with eyes full of love, and said softly: "Zhiming, I don't know when I fell in love with you. Maybe it was because of that time when you risked your life to save someone, or maybe it was because of your inadvertent consideration."
"In short, my love for you is the kind that I don't know why it comes from, but it's deep and lasting."
She bit her lip and said with a blushing face, "Although we have already set the wedding date, I still want to ask you something solemnly."
"Zhiming, will you marry me?"
The two have been together for quite some time, and this is the first time they have expressed their feelings so openly.
Yu Zhiming could notice that Qingning's breathing had become much more rapid.
He reached out and took the pink flower from Qing Ning's hand, and felt his face getting a little hot.
"I should be the one being proposed to, right? Logically, I should be the one proposing to you."
Qing Ning chuckled and said, "As a straight man like you, I guess I can't wait any longer. I can only turn the passive position into the active one."
Yu Zhiming said sheepishly, "During the Spring Festival, Fourth Brother-in-law proposed to Fourth Sister by setting off fireworks. I also thought about holding a romantic ceremony to express my feelings to you."
"But later... hehe... hehe..."
Yu Zhiming tried to hide his idiotic smile a few times, then stopped smiling and said seriously, "Qing Ning, I don't understand romance, nor do I know how to speak sweet words, but I love you just as much as I do."
"Qing Ning, I am willing to marry you. In the days to come, I will love you well."
Qing Ning put her arms around Yu Zhiming's neck and said in a sweet voice, "Love should not only be expressed in words, but also in actions."
"Well, I prefer your actual actions."
Yu Zhiming instantly understood what this guy meant.
"Are we going back now?"
Qing Ning hummed shyly...
(End of this chapter)
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