Desilam, a little girl in Litang, Sichuan Province, suffers from severe scoliosis, which has reached a lateral bend angle of 120 degrees, which has compressed her lungs and even caused her to develop symptoms of lung failure. If this situation continues, she will face the threat of death.
Fortunately, she was brought back to Beijing for treatment by Liu Haiying, a spine surgery specialist who came to the local free clinic. Unable to undergo surgery immediately due to lung problems, Desilam had to undergo six months of traction therapy.
Her body was covered with various steel frames, and she could not bend down or turn around. She laughs and says she's a "teletubbies." Every day before going to bed, Dad had to spread foam on her hospital bed to get her to sleep.
The six-month traction is finally over. Just before the operation, Liu Haiying fell ill. Because of long-term high-intensity work, he also suffered from severe cervical and lumbar spondylosis, resulting in blockage of aortic blood vessels, and had undergone three major surgeries before, and two stents were placed in the body.
He had to take 6 kinds of pills a day, and insisted on operating on the patients with a waist support and neck support. This time, after a hospital-wide consultation, he was asked to drop his job and undergo a fourth operation.
But when he remembered the operation that Desiram had been waiting for for so long, Liu Haiying did not want to disappoint her, or gritted his teeth and insisted on standing on the operating table. He was going to implant 19 little thumb-like steel nails into Desiram's severely deformed vertebrae to rebuild a straight spine for her.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the operation, he needs to wear a 20-kilogram lead coat and determine the position through the X-ray machine at all times, because a slight deviation may damage the patient's nerves and cause lifelong paralysis.
The operation was successful, Syram's body became straight, and his height grew from 1 meter 3 to 1.6 meters, and just the day after the operation, Liu Haiying was also pushed into the operating room.
But he was worried about the patient, and just 3 days after the operation, he was discharged on his own. He wanted to treat more patients with spinal disorders as soon as possible. Over the past ten years, Liu Haiying and his team have traveled to many poor areas across the country, providing free medical treatments for more than 6,000 patients in mountainous areas, saving their lives.
On the day desiram was discharged from the hospital, the unspeakable Liu Haiying prepared a pink school bag, a pencil case, a colored carbon pen, a compass, and a small card with his blessing to Desiram to "study well and grow up healthily."
Desiram hugged the bangs and cried. She said goodbye to the nurses and doctors and security guards of the hospital one by one, and she did not know that Liu Haiying silently followed behind her and kept watching them leave.
A great healer always has a sincere heart of love, with unrequited efforts, to bring patients the opportunity to be born again. salute!
