Medical road ahead

"Probably when I was ten years old, I was still in the fourth grade"

Speaking of this, Meng Hui inadvertently raised the corners of his lips, as if he had fallen into a good memory, and even his originally dull eyes shone with brilliance.

Seeing this, Yang Yang didn't interrupt him and asked him to continue, but waited quietly, with a motherly smile on his face.

After the memory was over, Meng Hui frowned slightly, and said: "That night, the night before the final exam, I was reciting ancient poems, and suddenly I felt headache and dizziness, followed by a dull pain in my back. I was a little tired, so I hurriedly recited the ancient poem, then turned off the lights and went to sleep. When I woke up the next day, I was fine again. The headache and back pain did not appear again. I also took the final exam with peace of mind and got a 100 points and 95 points, and soon completely forget about the previous night.

One day during the summer vacation, when a friend and I went down to the river to catch fish, he suddenly yelled that there were many spots on the lower part of my neck that looked like blood moles, but they were not obvious and could only be seen under the sun. Clearly.

I was surprised, but since I didn't feel anything special, I didn't pay attention.Until... I had headaches and backaches from time to time, but I didn't dare to tell my grandpa, because I was afraid that he would be worried, so I secretly found some headache powder to eat. After eating, it could relieve a little.

I endured like this for half a year. When my dad came back during the Spring Festival, he happily hugged me into his arms, but he felt a lump on my back. He thought it was because I didn’t pay attention to my sitting posture when I was writing, and my back was bent. Bought me a good back, so that I must straighten my back when I sit, read and write, so as not to become a hunchback in the future.

But I know that my hunchback is not because of bad sitting posture, but because of "

As he spoke, Meng Hui became bewildered, then raised his eyes to look at Yang Yang, choked up and asked, "Doctor Yang, why am I hunchbacked? Why can't I walk anymore?"

Yang Yang held his hand tightly and said, "Meng Hui, you are not hunchbacked, but suffer from Cobb's syndrome, which is a complex vascular malformation, also called 'segmental hemangiomatosis of the spine'. The vascular nevus that you inexplicably grew before is a sign of the disease."

"Cobb syndrome. Segmental angiomatosis of the spine."

Meng Huifu lowered his eyes again, chanting these two medical terms over and over again, as if trying to understand and digest.

After a while, he stared at Yang Yang, and asked tremblingly, "Doctor Yang, can I be cured?"

Yang Yang said truthfully: "Meng Hui, you are an older child, so Dr. Yang doesn't want to lie to you. When your lower limbs are paralyzed, it means that you have entered the advanced stage, and the treatment is very difficult."

"That"

Hearing this, the tears Meng Hui endured for a long time finally welled up in his eyes, "Then what should we do?"

"Child, advanced stage does not mean despair. You have to believe that as long as there is a 1% chance, we will make 100% efforts to cure you!"

Yang Yang took him into his arms, comforted him, and then said: "Although your condition is very serious, fortunately there are no other complications, so after performing spinal angiography for diagnosis, I will use A combination of surgical resection of the tumor and endovascular embolization will be used to treat you, so as to restore the function of the spinal cord, so that your lower body can regain consciousness.”

"Well! I will be obedient and cooperate with your treatment."

Meng Hui nodded solemnly and stopped crying.

Zhou Xiaolan, who had been watching the scene outside the door for a long time, finally lost her heart. After Yang Yang walked out of the ward, she gave a detailed account of her contact with Meng Hui's family just now: "Fortunately, my colleagues from 120 stayed here just in case. I got the mobile phone number of that kind neighbor, and I learned about the situation in Meng Hui's home through this neighbor.

His parents had long since broken up, but because his father was unwilling to divorce, the marriage existed in name only.Meng's father worked outside all the year round, and only the deaf grandfather Meng lived with him at home, while Meng's mother moved into her lover's house. It is also the reason why he is not valued by his family.

Regarding his illness, no one cared. They all thought that he had a bad sitting posture and became hunchbacked. Even his grandfather thought so, so they never took him to the hospital for examination.

But because of the 'hunchback' problem, he was often ridiculed and run away. As time passed, he stopped going to school, but stayed at home to help his grandfather manage the grocery store business. "

Yang Yang frowned, "The implication is that no one will come to see Meng Hui?"

Zhou Xiaolan said: "I simply told the kind neighbor about Meng Hui's condition, and he said that he would contact Father Meng and ask him to come back as soon as possible. As for Grandpa Meng, because of his bad ears, he couldn't help much if he came over. busy, and Mother Meng...she probably won't take care of her son."

"Since he has no family by his side, we doctors and nurses are his family." Yang Yang said.

"Correct!"

Zhou Xiaolan nodded solemnly, and then asked again: "Teacher, you said that Meng Hui still has hope of being cured, is that true? Can you really make him stand up again?"

Yang Yang patted her on the shoulder and said, "Didn't I say it? The terminal stage does not mean despair. As long as there is still a chance, we will do our best to help the patient heal."

"Although it is difficult to cure liver cancer at an advanced stage, since Sorafenib came out in 2007, the door of targeted therapy for liver cancer has been opened, so we liver disease doctors finally see new hope, and as more and more The success of targeted drugs in clinical trials has also improved the curability of targeted therapy for liver cancer.

With the rapid development of medicine, immunotherapy has emerged in recent years, further improving the treatment rate of liver cancer. For example, the remission rate of sintilimab for advanced liver cancer reached 15.7%.

From chemotherapy to targeted therapy to immunotherapy, for patients with advanced liver cancer, although they are terminally ill, they are not desperate, but see more vitality. "

On the other side, when Wu Li woke up, Liu Ming was also patiently comforting him.

"Does it cost a lot?" Wu Lu asked abruptly.

Liu Ming said euphemistically, "A lot."

Wu Li understood in seconds, and then muttered to himself, "To treat me, I'm afraid I can only sell the ancestral house at home, but the money for buying the ancestral house has not been returned to Brother Tao."

"Don't worry about the money issue, the medical treatment is the most important thing."

After Liu Ming comforted him again, he got up and went to his colleagues to choose a plan for Wu Li's condition.

"But my sister is not married yet!"

Wu Li was already immersed in his own worrying world, and did not pay attention to what Liu Ming said.

"Where is the patient in this bed? Why is it missing?"

It was night, when the nurse came to round the ward, she found that Wu Li, who had been transferred to the general ward, had disappeared