I am a small factory doctor re-walking my life.

After hanging up the phone, Li Tang let out a long breath.

It's not that things are not directed at him, he is careless and relaxed, and doesn't care if any accidents happen to the little ones.

But just like Qiao Mu's tone on the phone just now was equally relaxed. They all knew that as long as it was not against him, it was a trivial matter. As for the rest, they could easily solve it.

In just one day, two incidents happened one after another that made him a little nervous. Li Tang was also a little exhausted.

Seeing that Briquettes had come running back with a long tongue hanging out, I was going to take it back and go to bed early tonight.

Unfortunately, his wish to rest early was in vain.

As soon as I reached the door of my house, before I could open the door, the phone in my pocket rang again.

He took it out and saw that the call was from the duty room of the Second Affiliated Hospital. Li Tang couldn't help but lamented in his heart: Are you trying to kill someone or something? It's endless! !
Lamenting, lamenting, he still had to answer the phone. Unless he encountered something that really couldn't be handled, the hospital wouldn't be able to call him.

"I am Li Tang"

"Chairman, the hospital has just admitted an infant patient who came from Yangcheng. The initial diagnosis is infantile convulsion. The condition is critical. He is now in the emergency room on the first floor of the inpatient department."

The staff in the duty room didn't say anything nonsense. After hearing that the person they were looking for answered the phone, they directly told the reason for the call.

When Li Tang on the phone heard this, his heart sank involuntarily.

baby, convulsion, critical
The combination of these three words made him no longer have any thoughts of going home to rest.

"We'll be there in twenty minutes."

"Yes"

After hanging up the phone, he called the driver again.

"Xiao Pan, prepare the car, I'm going to the gate."

"Okay Chairman."

After hanging up the phone again, just when he was about to turn around and leave, he realized that Qianqiu was still sitting by his legs, and he quickly took out the key and opened the door.

"Go in and wipe your own feet."

"Wang..."

When Qi Qiu obediently entered the house, Li Tang closed the door and turned around and left the door of the house.

The briquettes in the room stood behind the door and did not move until they could no longer hear the footsteps. Then they let out a sigh of relief and carefully wiped their feet back and forth on the floor mat for a long time.

Then he ran to a corner of the living room in the dark, where his water basin was placed. He drank water for a while, then turned his head and looked at the empty food bowl beside him, and sighed like a human being. Then he slowly walked to the carpet in front of the sofa and lay down.

On the other side, when Li Tang trotted all the way to the gate, the driver Xiao Pan had already prepared the car. Guo Dacheng was standing next to the car waiting. When he saw the leader coming, he hurriedly opened the car door, and at the gate The attendant has also opened the gate at the door.

"Go to the Second Affiliated Hospital."

Thanks to this era when there are no traffic jams, the car rushed all the way to the Second Affiliated Hospital in just ten minutes.

Downstairs in the inpatient department, a doctor on the first floor was standing there holding a white coat. When he saw the car approaching, he walked quickly to the car and handed the white coat over to Li Tang after he came down.

"Who's here?"

"Dean Guan, Director Xiao and Director Zhou from the third floor are here."

"When did the patient arrive?"

"An hour ago, the couple came from Shanghai by train with their baby in their arms. They came to the hospital directly after getting off the train."

"Don't you mean Yangcheng?"

"They work in Yangcheng and have traveled to several cities to treat their children."

At the door of the emergency room on the first floor of the inpatient department, Guan Xiaoze, Xiao Shengbo, the director on the first floor, and Zhou Xiaying, the director on the third floor, were discussing something. A young couple with haggard faces stood in front of the large window of the emergency room and looked inside.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, several people turned their heads and looked over. When they saw Li Tang coming, Guan Xiaoze and the other three called him "teacher" respectfully.

"Well, Shengbo, please introduce the situation."

When he walked to the window of the emergency room, Li Tang looked inside and saw that the child was sleeping on the bed with a monitoring device attached to him. He didn't go in, but turned around and said.

"Teacher, these two are the children's parents. They came here by train from Shanghai. They arrived at our place at seven o'clock sharp. I received the call and came over at seven ten, which happened to be the time when the children arrived here. First spasm.

At that time, the child's entire body was arched backwards, his limbs were stiff, his mouth was crooked, and his eyes were esotropia. It took nearly a minute, or forty-nine seconds to be precise, to return to normal, but the child's esotropia symptoms did not recover.

The child's parents said that since last month, the child's eyes have become cross-eyed.

After the first spasm, only half an hour later, the second spasm started again. The time was about the same as the first time. After he recovered, I gave the child two injections and asked him to sleep first. I also planned to wait and see. Will it happen again in my sleep later?

This is a boy. According to the lunar calendar, he will be one year old in ten days. The problem was discovered when he was three months old. "

One year old? Li Tang turned to look at the child on the hospital bed.

Normally, a one-year-old child with normal development should have an average height of about 75 centimeters, a weight of about 10 kilograms, and a head circumference of 45.6 centimeters.

The child lying on the hospital bed now does not need to be measured. The visual inspection shows that the condition of a normal baby is only half a year old. This shows how much the disease he has has affected the development of the body.

Over there, Xiao Shengbo continued: "At the beginning, when the child was two months old, the mother found that the child often cried for no reason, but they didn't pay much attention to it. By the third month, they found that the child always liked to blink his eyes, and the range of movements It's so big, it feels like half of my face is working together.

At this time, they realized something was wrong. They took the child to the local hospital in Yangcheng for a check-up, but nothing was found. Moreover, the symptoms of blinking were also relieved. They relaxed again and just paid more attention to their daily life.

But in the fourth month, the child suddenly had convulsions. At first, it was only two or three times a day, but now it has reached once every half an hour.

During this period, they traveled back and forth to Yangcheng, Sijiucheng, Shanghai City, Wu City and other places to check their children, and the conclusion they came to was...the genetic mutation, all kinds of examinations and treatments were done, and the money was not spent less, but It’s effective…”

Xiao Shengbo shrugged his shoulders and said no more. As long as it had some effect, this young couple would not show up here holding their child.

After listening to what he said, Li Tang turned to look at the young couple: "Did they do genetic screening for you when checking the child?"

"I did it, and it showed that everything was normal. When my wife was pregnant, there was an obstetrician who lived across from our house. According to her, my wife had three prenatal checkups during the pregnancy, and they all showed normal, but... "

The face of the child's father showed confusion and a hint of confusion.

He couldn't figure out why bad luck would happen to them.

The traveling around in the past few months has made this already poor family even worse. It is the support of the elderly in the family and the love for their children that allows the young couple to persevere.

During this period, many doctors actually advised them to have another child. The meaning was self-evident, but looking at the cute baby, they really couldn't make the decision to give up.

This may be their last hope.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the couple, Li Tang sighed silently.

At this moment, the monitor in the ward started beeping, and the child who was sleeping on the hospital bed suddenly began to twitch. Just like what Xiao Shengbo had just described, the child's whole body arched backwards.

Seeing this, Li Tang pushed open the door to the ward and walked in. Guan Xiaoze and the other three followed him quickly and walked in quickly. The child's parents were blocked outside the door and could only look inside through the glass, looking at the hospital bed. The children were convulsing, and the two of them couldn't stop their tears from flowing down.

"A whole half hour."

After entering the ward, Xiao Shengbo looked at the timer on the table and said.

Li Tang had already walked to the bedside and put his hand on the child's stiff wrist. He did not withdraw his hand until the child recovered and started crying.

He didn’t say anything. He just asked Guan Xiaoze for acupuncture needles. Now the child had two needles and let him continue to sleep. Then he put the child into a side-lying position, fixed both sides of the body with pillows, and placed pillows on the head and cervical vertebrae. Several needles were inserted in the back. After five minutes, the needles were removed and he waved his hand to indicate that everyone should go out first.

When they arrived outside the ward, several people stood quietly in front of the glass and waited.

Half an hour passed by in a flash, and there was no response. Everything on the monitor was normal. Soon, an hour later...

When it was almost ten o'clock, an hour and a half had passed since the child's last convulsion, Guo Dacheng came over with his mobile phone.

"Chairman, Professor Song's phone number."

Li Tang suddenly realized that he had forgotten to call his wife tonight.

So, he immediately took the call and walked into the office opposite.

"wife"

"Hurry up, your son is angry, please calm him down."

What Song Xiaohui said made Li Tang smile bitterly.

When they left the provincial capital for Qinshan this afternoon, Xiao Sanyue told him on the phone to call at nine o'clock in the evening, but it was almost ten o'clock and there was no movement.

It's strange that the child is not angry, nor does he sleep, and keeps mumbling that his father lied to him.

Of course Song Xiaohui knew that if her husband didn't call, he must be busy with something else, otherwise he would never forget it.

She also explained to her child, but Xiao Sanyue didn't listen and said that her father had lied to him. There was nothing she could do, so she could only call him.

When she heard that it was Guo Dacheng who answered the phone, she knew she was not wrong. When she heard Dacheng explain that he was in the hospital, she almost wanted to hang up. But seeing the expectant look in Xiao Sanyue's eyes, she decided to let her husband call in person. My son, please explain, otherwise this little guy will hold a grudge.

"dad"

Li Tang's heart almost broke when he heard his son's crying voice on the phone.

"March, I'm sorry. Dad was so busy that he forgot to check the time. A little patient just came to the hospital. He is only a few months older than Chengcheng. He is very ill." "Ah! Dad, is it more serious than my classmates?"

"Well, it's more serious than your classmate's. His parents brought him here from far away, and they took a train for a whole day and a night."

"It's so far. Dad, hurry up and get ready. I'm getting ready to go to bed."

"Dad will definitely call you tomorrow, okay?"

"Okay, Dad, get busy!"

"Well, March is so good, good night!"

"Good night dad, mom will call you."

Seeing her son becoming obedient and obedient, Song Xiaohui almost rolled her eyes out of the solar system.

"Hey, Li Tang, is this brat my son? Could it be that the hospital made a mistake at that time?"

"What do you think?"

"Is this what they said when they were playing online games, this account is useless for me and I need to practice another account?"

"Uh..." Li Tang didn't know how to answer his wife's questions.

Fortunately, Song Xiaohui didn't intend to listen to what he said, but continued on her own: "In this case, husband, you have to cooperate with me to practice a trumpet again."

sweat! ! !
Li Tang felt that he must have the word "Embarrassed" in capital letters on his face now.

Is this a question of whether I can cooperate? I've never been idle, okay.

"This...I think I'm quite cooperative."

"No, no, no, I mean you will have to work overtime in the future."

"I..." Fortunately, he didn't say a dirty word.

Sister, I’m already forty-five, not twenty-five. No matter how well-conditioned my body is, I still can’t work overtime every day.

Unfortunately, he didn't dare to say this on the phone, so he could only respond first by patting his chest and gritting his teeth.

"Don't worry, I will make sure to work overtime in the future."

"Hehe! Okay, go ahead and get some rest. When you're done, go to bed early in the evening."

"okay."

Listening to the beeping sound on the phone, Li Tang shook his head helplessly.

A common saying flashed through my mind unconsciously: Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger, and fifty can absorb dirt while sitting on the ground.

The ancients never lied to me.

Huh? Why do you suddenly feel a little sore in your waist?
well! After sighing deeply, Li Tang stood up with one hand on his waist and the other on the armrest of the chair. He threw away the messy pictures in his mind and prepared to go out and continue to observe the child.

Infantile spasms are also caused by abnormal discharges of brain waves. As for genetic mutations and genetic defects, we really can't find the cause, so we have to throw them here. Anyway, genes are used to take the blame at this time.

More than three hours later, the child in the hospital bed woke up on his own, woken up by hunger.

The child's parents' faces were flushed with excitement at this time, and they had forgotten how long it had been since their children had slept like this.

While the mother was feeding the child with a bottle, Li Tang carefully checked the pulse of the child who was in a normal state.

After the child finished drinking milk, he took the child from the mother's hands, held it upright for a while, patted it, and then put it back on the bed.

Under normal conditions, the child's eyes are indeed a bit esotropia, and he is not sensitive to external sounds and will not turn his head to look at any movement, but it is obvious that he can hear sounds.

He asked Guan Xiaoze for a sterilized acupuncture needle, and then started pricking the child's head with acupuncture needles.

This time, because he didn't sleep, the child didn't cooperate. His head moved around and he started crying. There was no other way. Li Tang could only hold his head in place with one hand and quickly give him an injection with the other.

Seeing her son crying and screaming, the child's mother beside her also began to shed tears.

Fortunately, the injection time was very short this time and was removed in just two or three minutes. As the needle was removed, the child stopped crying.

A magical scene happened. If you make any noise in his ear now, he will turn his head to look for the sound.

Although the reaction is still a bit slow, and he will turn his head two or three seconds after the sound is made, this is already a huge improvement for the parents of the child.

From the fact that the child has not had another seizure in the past four hours and is now actively looking for the source of the sound, all of this seems to tell them that their child seems to be saved.

After playing with the little guy for a while, Li Tang reached out to pick him up and let him pee, then patted him to make him fall asleep, and then put him back on the hospital bed again. Sleep on your side with pillows on both sides of your body.

"Come on, let's talk outside." Li Tang waved his hand and walked out first.

At this time, the time has reached one o'clock in the morning on January 18th, and there are still five days left before the Spring Festival.

Although they had not slept for more than 20 hours, the young couple still seemed very energetic and even a little excited.

More than half a year has passed since the day they found out that their child had a strange illness. Although they still don't know what kind of illness the child has, they have vaguely seen some light here.

After coming out of the emergency room, Li Tang went straight to the small conference room opposite. After asking the young couple to sit down, he didn't rush to say anything. Instead, he waited for someone to pour hot water, took a sip, and took the hand from Guan Xiaoze. After lighting the cigarette that came over, he spoke.

"You have been to so many hospitals, and you should have a good understanding of the child's current condition. From a Western medicine perspective, the cause of the disease is very complicated. As they said, it is genetic mutation and abnormal excessive discharge of brain neurons. What is the specific cause? I guess no one can explain the reason why this mutation method changes.

I believe you should have seen Chinese medicine with your children before coming here. This kind of situation is collectively called infantile convulsions by our Chinese medicine practitioners. According to the dialectics of Chinese medicine, there are many types, such as wind, convulsions, epileptic convulsions, etc. Suffocation due to excessive phlegm, excessive phlegm due to spleen deficiency, internal movement of liver wind, etc.

Specific to your child, the symptoms are a bit complicated. By the way, if I guessed correctly, the child should have had a fever before you felt something was wrong, right? "

The two couples looked a little confused when asked by Li Tang. They looked at each other and saw confusion on each other's faces.

Suddenly, the child's mother seemed to remember something, her eyes lit up, and she nodded hurriedly.

"Doctor, my son did have a fever once, but...it didn't take much time, and he got better on his own."

The child's father asked in surprise: "When did my son have a fever? Why didn't I know?"

"The child was just one month old, and you went to work that day. My mother and I took the child to the hospital to give him a bath. When I returned home and fed the child, I found that he was a little hot. At that time, I wanted to observe more. But when you come back from get off work, the child has returned to normal, so I don’t care anymore. "

At this point, the child's mother turned to look at Li Tang: "Doctor, do you mean that my son's illness is related to that fever?"

Li Tang regretted it a little. He was worried that if the question he asked caused further conflicts between the young couple, it would be troublesome.

For this young couple, after more than half a year of struggle, their emotions must have reached a critical point. Any little thing may become the last straw that overwhelms them.

He doesn't care whether it is crushed or not, but he cannot let go of the straw.

He waved his hand and said: "Don't think blindly. Whether it does matter or not is something I should consider. What, if I say it does matter, can you still turn back time and prevent the child from having a fever? If you can really do this You won’t be here now, right?”

"Uh..." The child's mother was slightly startled and nodded blankly.

"Now, don't think about so many messy things. Think in one place, work hard in one place, actively cooperate with us, and let the child recover as soon as possible. I think such an old child has to suffer such a big crime. It hurts all the time.

Let's not talk nonsense. You have just seen the child's current condition. We will accept it. You can go through the hospitalization procedures later. "

"Doctor..." The child's father suddenly stood up.

"Huh? What's wrong? Any other questions?"

"Can...can I ask how much it will cost here? I only have about five hundred dollars left in my pocket."

Seeing the embarrassed look on the child's father's face when he said this, Li Tang sighed inwardly.

The child has been ill for more than half a year, traveled to so many cities, and had some very expensive check-ups. It can be seen just from the clothes of the couple that their family's finances must be heavily in debt. .

"Your son's disease can definitely not be cured in a day or two. It is initially estimated that it will take several months. Five hundred yuan is not enough to feed you two."

"Doctor, I can go out and do odd jobs while my wife takes care of the children in the hospital. I will give the money to your hospital if I make any money."

Seeing the young man's eager expression, Li Tang didn't rush to say anything. After taking another puff of cigarette, he stubbed out the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray on the table before speaking.

"Shengbo, please arrange for someone to explain the policy to the family members, and then take them to go through the hospitalization procedures."

"Good teacher."

After hearing Li Tang's instructions, Xiao Shengbo stood up and invited the child's parents out of the small conference room. As he walked out, he comforted the eager young couple and told them that there would be a solution.

After he returned, Li Tang explained to the three of them the acupuncture technique and the matters that needed strict attention. After seeing that they had all remembered it, he finally concluded.

"Acupuncture is just a treatment method. You still need to drink medicine. As for the medicine, I still have to consider it."

Guan Xiaoze and the other three were shocked when they heard this.

It has been more than ten years since they met the teacher for the first time and they still need to think about prescribing medicine.

Feeling their surprised looks, Li Tang smiled slightly: "Don't be so weird, this child's condition is indeed very serious, and he is still so young, so Fang Zi must be more cautious.

That fever actually had a huge impact on the child's brain. The reason I didn't mention it just now was because I was worried that the couple would quarrel because of it. At this juncture, if the couple couldn't work together, the child might be in real danger. . "

(End of this chapter)