"I hope you don't feel this thing (COVID-19) for the rest of your life, it's too painful."
As he spoke, Bloomberg had tears in his eyes and began to choke, as if recalling the difficult process of the 78 days of treatment, Bloomberg's hands began to tremble involuntarily, enduring great pain.
At this time, the medical staff on the side gently shook his hand, and Bloomberg slowly began to calm down.
Bloomberg was one of the first 24 patients infected with COVID-19 at Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital at the time of ECMO treatment, and only 4 successfully escaped ECMO.
The belief of "returning home alive" made him grit his teeth and pass through the barrier of life and death again and again, and a tragic victory to retrieve a life.
But the sequelae of covid-19 are far more than pain, and the devotees behind it are not just medical staff.
Bloomberg, 38, is a veteran, 1.81 meters tall, slightly fat before he fell ill, and is the pillar of the family.
Both his mother and mother-in-law were taken in by him, the daughter was only 4 years old and the wife was 6 months pregnant.
He worked hard every day, planning to save some money for a big house to welcome the birth of a second child, but he did not want a crisis to begin to approach.
At 11:30 p.m. on December 29, 2019, the ICU ward on the south seventh floor of Jinyintan Hospital admitted 6 "pneumonia patients of unknown cause" who were picked up from Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine.
Because of its clustering characteristics, it may also be contagious, and experts attach great importance to it.
Zhang Dingyu, president of Jinyintan Hospital, made a decision shortly after the experts left the ward: to open a new ward to specially admit such patients.
But what they don't know is that this pneumonia of unknown cause has quietly spread in the heroic city of Wuhan, and an unprecedented challenge has begun.
On January 19, when Bloomberg was taken to the hospital for treatment with fever, his wife packed his bags for him with a big belly, and they all thought it was just an ordinary pneumonia treatment, but they didn't want it to be a game with the god of death.
On February 6, Bloomberg was transferred to Jinyintan Hospital for treatment, and on the third day of admission, his condition began to deteriorate suddenly and he was critically ill.
His consciousness was very clear, but it was like being covered with a quilt over his nose and mouth, and every breath was very difficult.
Professor Pan Chun, who was in charge of his treatment, skipped the noninvasive oxygen support and intubated him directly.
A delirious Bloomberg learned of the risks of intubation during a preoperative conversation, but he agreed: "I came to Jinyintan to find hope, and at this time, intubation is hope." ”
However, after intubation, everything was not all right, and as the course of the illness deepened, Bloomberg soon fell into a deep coma, and the robbery war between the doctor and the god of death began.
The ventilator maintained oxygen saturation, but the carbon dioxide in the patient's lungs could not be discharged.
The lung of patients with new crown pneumonia is damaged, and the prone position is a good way to quickly improve ventilation, but some patients lie on their stomachs for 24 hours, oxygen saturation is improved, but carbon dioxide retention is aggravated, and then acidosis occurs inexplicably.
On February 13, experts decided to give Bloomberg ECMO artificial membrane lung and provide him with life support for his external heart and lungs.
But catheter-related bacterial infections became an important threat to his life, and doctors used first-line antibiotics to help him get through this.
Later, his kidneys failed due to ischemia and hypoxia, and the doctor urgently called on replacement treatment for crRT kidneys to let him live tenaciously again.
In just 24 days, bloomberg in a coma passed the god of death twice, weighing 40 pounds, dark skin, and leaving huge scars on his face because of intubation.
When he woke up, it was already March, and as if he were in another world, he said self-deprecatingly, "If I didn't have some virtual flesh on my body, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to survive." ”
Indeed, in the face of an unknown disease, it is too difficult to live strongly.
Dr. Pan Chun later recalled: "Bloomberg always told me that there were parents in the family, a 4-year-old daughter, and that his wife was pregnant and expected to give birth in May, saying that she must recover and watch the child be born." ” 。
Similar in age, the same father, Bloomberg's words deeply touched Pan Chun, he secretly determined to do his best to let Bloomberg see Erbao healthy and healthy.
But on March 9, the 5th day after Bloomberg removed the ECMO artificial membrane lung and woke up, his life was threatened again.
Gastrointestinal bleeding, hemoglobin fell from 10 grams to 5 grams in one day, this time the rescue, Bloomberg is conscious.
The specialist consulted again urgently, performed a titanium clip with a state-of-the-art visual gastroscope to stop the bleeding, and once again recovered his life.
When Bloomberg's condition finally stabilized and he was able to sit up without the instrument, his muscles atrophied all over his body, and his hands trembled and he could not even lift a glass of water.
And what pained him the most was not the torment of illness, but the sequelae of long-term lethargy.
Because of his long-term stay in the ICU, Bloomberg suffered from traumatic syndrome, he could not distinguish between reality and dreams, always saw himself floating in the sky, repeatedly doing his own rescue nightmares, leaving his spirit on the verge of collapse.
When he couldn't stand it, Bloomberg also wanted to go away, but thinking of his unborn children, thinking of the benefactors who had never met him, he gritted his teeth and persevered.
He said: "Everything in the dream was fake, and I had to come home alive." ”
Bloomberg's benefactors are not only the doctors and nurses who saved his life, but also 5 ordinary people and his wife who have never met before.
It was the 9th day of Bloomberg's transfer to Jinyintan Hospital, and he was on ECMO, in a state of deep sedation, and the first-line antibiotics could treat bacterial infections, but they could not deal with the new crown virus in his body.
In order to deal with the virus in his body, Professor Pan Chun decided to treat him with the plasma of the recovered.
After the pregnant wife at home got the news, she immediately sent out plasma on the Internet for help, and in the days of collecting plasma, Bloomberg's wife called from morning to night to contact various matters, and her body was in a state of condition.
In order to save her husband, the wife fought for two lives!
Fortunately, in the end, the plasma donor was finally found, and 5 of the 6 donors donated to Bloomberg, which finally saved his life.
On March 4, Bloomberg woke up from his coma and spoke to his family on the phone for the first time, telling his wife and parents that he had survived.
Listening to her husband's feeble voice, the wife burst into tears, and she knew that all the effort was worth it.
After learning that he had 5 donors, Bloomberg asked his family to give him the contact information of these 5 donors, added WeChat, and sent thanks.
He said: "I am only 38 years old, my second child is about to be born, the elderly and their wives are very hard, they will definitely try to recover as soon as possible and take on their responsibilities." ”
On April 19, after 14 days of isolation at the hotel after being discharged from the hospital, Bloomberg was finally able to return home, three months after he left home for isolation treatment.
Downstairs, the 67-year-old mother-in-law rushed over, "I am finally back", listening to Bloomberg's words, the mother-in-law bowed her head: "Just come back, just come back." ”
Pushing open the door, the wife who was about to give birth was playing with her daughter in the living room, and when the 4-year-old daughter saw Bloomberg, she excitedly shouted "Daddy" and pounced.
Goodbye to this scene, as if in another world!
He did not dare to think about how his family lived in the tens of days when he was hospitalized for rescue.
Father-in-law and mother-in-law have more white hair, the wife in addition to the belly is much larger, not as fat as other pregnant women in the third trimester, watching her husband return safely, she with tears in her eyes try to calmly say: "It's all over, let's look forward."
Perhaps because of his family's company, Bloomberg recovered quickly, both mentally and in weight, no longer had nightmares, and actively carried out rehabilitation training.
He said: "I am as confident in my recovery as I am about coming home alive. ”
It is worth mentioning that a few days after returning home, Bloomberg learned that something had happened to a donor's home, and he could not go out because of isolation, so he transferred the money.
On October 1, 2020, Pan Chun, a doctor who saved his life three times, revisited Wuhan, and Bloomberg specially went to the railway station to pick up people and sent flowers to thank him.
Li Chao is a taxi driver who has not stopped working until he is hospitalized with a fever, and he does not even know how he was infected.
When the reporter interviewed Li Chao in the hospital, Li Chao was inserting an oxygen tube and holding a pen to write and draw in a notebook.
Optimistic and positive Li Chao said with a smile that he was working with illness.
Although he is seriously ill like Bloomberg, Li Chao's treatment process is not so dangerous, and he has just recovered from severe illness, and he is fat and smiling to find work for himself.
Li Chao is the owner of a WeChat group in the community, because the residents can't go out, he uses the mobile phone software on the hospital bed to help the residents of the community purchase food, daily necessities and other materials, and the material classification and summary written in the book are classified and summarized.
Li Chao said: "I just have something to do in the hospital, and I don't have to be too tired. ”
He has always been such a warm-hearted person,
Previously, in order to facilitate the care of the elderly, Li Chao deliberately bought a larger house in the city center and took his grandmother and parents to live together, but he did not expect that he had transmitted the virus to his family.
Just after he developed fever symptoms, his father, mother and grandmother were also admitted to the hospital, and according to the severity of their illness, they were scattered to Jinyintan, Vulcan Mountain, and the East and West Lake Wards of Union Hospital for treatment, and their wives and children were also isolated.
What should have been a family reunion day was lost in the same city.
Later, with the help of reporters, Li Chao, who had not contacted his father for 20 days, finally connected the video with his father who was treated in Jinyintan
The father was still on the ventilator, and when he spoke, he would have chest tightness and shortness of breath, and he could not get off the ground, and he laughed at himself as a "half-wasted man".
Li Chao held up his mobile phone and actively encouraged his father, "It's okay, the lung minister will be able to get off the ground when he is good, when you come to see me, I am not the same can not move ..."
Talking about his family and parents, Li Chao, who had just smiled and squinted, was silent, and tears gathered in his eyes, he said: "I feel guilty about them, and I hope they can all come back." ”
What he didn't know was that his mother and grandmother had died one after another at Vulcan Mountain Hospital.
The last time he contacted his mother was when she was just taken to Vulcan Mountain Hospital, when the doctor issued a critical illness notice, saying that the situation was more dangerous.
He had some psychological preparation, but he had been reluctant to accept it.
More unfortunately, just a dozen days later, Li Chao's father also died.
That morning, the reporter also chatted with Li Chao, talking about his father's condition, Li Chao was very confident, saying that although the condition was glued, he believed in his father's willpower.
Unexpectedly, that night, the reporter saw the name of Li Chao's father, Li Xinchun, on the list of donated remains.
We don't know how the filial piety Li Chao sent his father away and agreed to donate his father's body for doctors to study the new crown.
That must have been a tough decision we couldn't have imagined!
Liu Liang, a professor in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Tongji Medical College, said that in this situation of such a severe infectious disease, the family members can't even see anyone, and donate the body to you (autopsy), which is even more difficult. Without them, the battles that followed us would have been blindly fought.
Ao Xingwu, Li Xinchun... There are many more names that deserve to be remembered
After losing 3 relatives in one month, Li Chao's encounter is a microcosm of the clustered infection of the entire Wuhan family.
In the face of life and death, any words of comfort seem pale and powerless.
The deceased give people hope for life, and the living must carry on their backs.
Before being admitted to Jinyintan Hospital, Wang Fengjiao was a nurse in the emergency department of Wuhan Third Hospital.
Pregnant and about to give birth, she just happened to be in the early stages of the epidemic, but she still chose to stick to her job.
Later, medical staff were infected one after another, and Wang Fengjiao was also one of them.
As a second-born mother in labor, Wang Fengjiao was diagnosed with new crown pneumonia less than 24 hours after giving birth, isolated and treated, and she did not even have a hug for her newborn child.
How serious this time the illness is, she knows better than anyone,
In the ambulance that was taken to Jinyintan Hospital, she told her husband Zuo Shuanggui, "I really want to survive." ”
However, with the rapid deterioration of her condition, after only 4 days, Wang Fengjiao fell into a coma and was sent to the ICU for rescue.
Later, Wang Fengjiao recalled that the biggest motivation to support her survival was a voice next to her ear, and there was always a voice talking to her:
"Wang Fengjiao, I'm helping you, I'm almost successful, is it okay to refuel?" In such a voice of encouragement, Wang Fengjiao struggled back from the brink of death.
"I know you can't speak, hear the doctor talk and nod, hold on a little longer."
"Your child is very good, you are not at ease, there is nothing at all, you hold me up, do you know?"
"Your husband told me that your children are very good, and you don't have to worry about whether it's good or not."
The voice came from his attending doctor, Sang Ling, who said: "A mother must be most worried about her child, so she must use a roar to encourage her and make her more confident in living." ”
After 52 days of entering Jinyintan Hospital, Wang Fengjiao was transferred to the general ward, and through the window, she saw her husband, whom she had not seen for two months.
The daily life of husband and wife may always be contradictory and disagreeable, but when the real difficulties come, they are most concerned about each other.
Wang Fengjiao, who has always looked down on her husband's cooking, asked her husband to cook a meal for herself for the first time.
Zuo Shuanggui cooked a bowl of tomato noodles and asked the medical staff to send it in.
Downstairs, Zuo Shuanggui looked up at the four-story building, met Wang Fengjiao through the window, and only looked at it a few times, and both of them were in tears.
In order to video with her eldest daughter, Wang Fengjiao specially washed her hair, cleaned up, smiled and said to her daughter: "Mom stood up, do you think I am brave." ”
The daughter said loudly: "You have always been a heroic mother in my heart." ”
Now, 2 years have passed since the first batch of COVID-19 patients recovered, and they have come out of their grief and returned to normal life.
Maybe it's still painful for them to stare into the abyss after 2 years, but this memory should not be easily shaken off.
It is suffering, but also the indomitable declaration of war of the vigorous vitality of mankind, and we will shoulder the responsibility to fight head-on, and we will eventually usher in victory.