When Lai Di was cleaning his diaper, a handsome man pushed the door open. Seeing the people inside, he smiled a little awkwardly, walked up to Tian Cai, greeted her, and whispered to Old Lady Shi, "Aunt."
Old Mrs. Shi glared at him with disappointment, but couldn't say anything in front of Lu Xia.
Zhaodi, who had just been washing diapers outside, also came back with her father. Seeing Laibao sleeping soundly on the kang, she went over to help her second sister clean up. The two sisters whispered a few words, and Zhaodi looked at Tian Cai with admiration again.
After Tian Cai taught Shi Dazhu some simple massage methods, she carried the medicine box and went to her eldest brother's room with Old Lady Shi.
Mr. Shi told others that he was seriously ill, but in fact, several close relatives in the family knew that he suddenly lost sensation in the lower half of his body. Most of the family's money had been spent on his wife's medical treatment, and there was not much left for him. Besides, he had a frail and sickly son. Mr. Shi went to the county health center to see a doctor, but he couldn't find out what was wrong. The doctor even said that he had to go to the hospital in the provincial capital for surgery to find out the cause.
When Mr. Shi heard this, he gave up, went back home, and lay on the kang all day waiting to die.
A few days ago, the grandson he had been looking forward to for more than ten years was born. He was reluctant to die, so he asked his sister to ask Doctor Tian from the brigade to come and take a look. Whether the baby can be cured or not, at least he had to try it before he could give up.
Tian Cai gave Mr. Shi a thorough examination and discovered that he had lost consciousness from the waist down, with his upper body completely unaffected. The most likely cause of this was a problem with his nervous system, but it could also be due to external factors.
"Before you lost consciousness, did you fall or have your spine hit by anything?" Tian Cai asked.
"No, even though I'm old, I still have some memory. If I had fallen that hard, I could still—" At this point, Mr. Shi's eyes suddenly widened. It seemed, it seemed, that he had really fallen. He thought carefully and realized that the fall wasn't serious. After getting up, his body was numb and painful for a while, but it recovered soon. "Doctor Tian, do you think it's possible that the symptoms didn't show up until several days after the fall?"
"Of course it's possible. If the injury isn't serious at first, the pain might not be noticeable at first, but if you don't take it seriously and don't treat it, for example, if you continue to engage in activities or strenuous physical work after the injury, the injured area might slowly start to bleed, swell, or even become more serious. It might take several days for obvious swelling or pain to appear, leading to more serious symptoms."
Tian Cai had just checked Mr. Shi's legs. Although they were thin, the muscle atrophy was not serious.
According to him, in the past year, since Shi Dazhu couldn't do heavy work in the fields, he took time every day to help his father massage his legs. His son was also responsible for Mr. Shi's hygiene, cleaning up his urine and wiping his body regularly. This was a rare act of filial piety.
Tian Cai lifted up Mr. Shi's legs and continued to check his bones, occasionally tapping to check if there were any problems with his meridians.
"Doctor Tian, how is it? Can my father's leg recover?" Shi Dazhu asked anxiously.
Tian Cai pursed her lips. She couldn't confirm it yet, so she simply took out a silver needle from the medicine box and said, "I haven't found the cause of the disease yet. Let's try using the silver needle first to see if your leg can recover."
Old Master Shi nodded. No matter how painful or sore it was, as long as he didn't feel anything here, it would be fine.
Tian Cai started inserting needles into Mr. Shi's knees, where there are reflex nerves. If the injection stimulation is effective, the knee will have a knee jerk reflex, or at least there will be a slightly different feeling.
She inserted the silver needles in her hand into Mr. Shi's knees one by one. She gave him eight injections in a row, but there was no reaction.
After thinking for two more breaths, he picked up the five silver needles again and stabbed them into Mr. Shi's calves.
As the number of silver needles on the legs increased during follow-up examinations, Mr. Shi became more and more disappointed. It seemed that he could no longer think about taking his grandson out for a walk. How could he take a walk when he couldn't even stand up?
After all five silver needles were inserted, Mr. Shi still did not react. Tian Cai frowned and his expression became more serious.
What went wrong? Could it be that Mr. Shi's leg is really beyond saving? Why is there no reaction at all?
Tian Cai simply took out all the silver needles stuck in his legs, asked Mr. Shi to lie on the kang with his back and waist exposed, and she took the silver needles again and gave the first injection into the Yaoyan acupoint.
Old Master Shi pulled the corners of his mouth slightly bitterly, lowering his eyes, "Sister, why don't you just forget it!"
When Mrs. Shi heard this, her eyes immediately turned red. She angrily stepped forward and punched her eldest brother lightly, "What are you talking about? Don't underestimate Doctor Tian. He's very capable. The things passed down by our ancestors can definitely cure him. Laibao still has to go to school in the future. Don't you want to send him to college?"
"Go to college? Where can you go to college now?" Mr. Shi himself only has a junior high school education. He used to read the team's newspapers and knew that there are no colleges to go to now.
"How could there be none? Isn't there a Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University? Maybe if Laibao works hard, he can get in!"
Mr. Shi was lying on the kang, so his face couldn't be seen clearly. He could only hear a hoarse voice coming from him, "I'm paralyzed. I might as well die early and go find Tian Ya. She must be waiting downstairs. Hum——"
Mr. Shi suddenly groaned, which startled Mrs. Shi. She hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, big brother? Are you feeling unwell? What's wrong?"
Old Master Shi didn't say anything. He was carefully feeling the long-lost feeling in his leg. At that moment, Tian Cai gave him an injection near his spine.
His voice was a little dazed. "Do you think I'm hallucinating because of my age? Why did my legs feel a little numb just now? Now I look carefully, and it seems to be gone."
It was normal to feel like he was stuck like before, right? It had been his illusion.
While comforting himself in this way, Mr. Shi felt extremely sad in his heart. At this moment, Tian Cai gave him another injection.
"Wow——" Old Master Shi widened his eyes. This time he was definitely not wrong. He felt a numbness in his legs!
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