Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhang Hua
Correspondent Wu Xiaodan Han Yurou
"I'll talk to you, yes, you blink your eyes; no, just blink twice." Lying in the rehabilitation department of The Pearl River Hospital of Southern Medical University, Shao Hui understood his aunt's instructions, and for the first time in more than 80 days, he communicated with his aunt with blinking eyes. "He has light in his eyes and can understand and respond to my questions." Hearing Aunt Shao Hui say this, Xie Qiuyou, deputy director of the Critical Rehabilitation Sub-specialty of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department, knew that Shao Hui had woken up.
22 March 2022 is the second World Coma Day. According to statistics, there are currently 500,000-1 million comatose patients in the mainland, and it is growing with the scale of adding 100,000 people every year. Recently, Shao Hui, a 26-year-old tennis coach who has been in a coma for more than 80 days because of a car accident, finally woke up from a coma after rehabilitation treatment in the sub-specialty of critical rehabilitation of Pearl River Hospital. Aunt Shao Hui said in an interview, "I don't know how far the child can recover in the future, but as long as it improves day by day, it will definitely get better in the future." ”
After more than 80 days in a coma, Shao Hui was treated in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Zhujiang Hospital
After being hit by a car, he was deeply unconscious
Tomorrow and accidents, you never know which one will come first. At about 4 p.m. on August 21, 2021, Shao Hui never expected that his fate would be completely rewritten at that moment. He was on his way to give a friend a tennis lesson that day. Walking under the pedestrian bridge, he was suddenly slammed from behind by a courier electric car. When his head landed on the ground, he suddenly lost consciousness. Half an hour later, he was taken by a 120 ambulance to a hospital in Panyu District, where he was subsequently diagnosed with "multiple intracranial contusions and brainstem hemorrhages."
"When we saw the child, we saw that he had been in a coma with his hands twitching." In Guangzhou, the aunt Shao Jing (pseudonym) knew in her heart that the situation was not good, and the child's father heard the news and rushed to Guangzhou from his hometown, and his emotions directly collapsed: "He is the eldest in the family, only 26 years old this year, and is planning to get married." The old father said helplessly, wiping away tears.
After the emergency surgery, Shao Hui's situation is still not optimistic, on August 27, he was transferred to the ICU of a third-class hospital in Guangzhou, the cerebral edema gradually subsided, but the lung infection came, even if the most advanced antibiotics were used, the fever was still high, and the tracheal intubation, indwelling nasal tube... A severe coma is always present. The doctor told Shao Jing: "Shao Hui basically has no possibility of waking up. ”
After Shao Hui suffered a car accident, he was deeply unconscious
There was light in the eyes of the children, and we rolled over and patted our backs every half hour
"Children are the heart of my parents, I work in Guangzhou, when I was 17 years old, Shao Hui came from his hometown to study at the Sports Academy, and he had more contact with me and had deep feelings." Shao Jing said: "Although we all know that Shao Hui's condition is not good, but at that time, we didn't think about anything else, so we were thinking about giving him a fever and trying to save him." ”
After Shao Hui's condition stabilized, he was transferred to the Department of Neurology of Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University on September 14. At that time, Shao Hui's EEG was very poor, which was equivalent to a vegetative person, and what was worse was that the high fever did not recede for more than forty degrees. After a series of anti-infection and other treatment effects are not obvious, so transferred to the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of Pearl River Hospital, by the deputy director Xie Qiuyou Diagnosis and Treatment Group responsible for treatment.
"I feel that the careful observation and patient care of the family members are crucial to the child's recovery." Shao Jing said, "During that time, my sister-in-law and I took turns to take care of him in the hospital, and put an ice blanket on his back to physically cool down, although the conventional practice is to turn over and pat his back every 2 hours, but we give Shao Hui a turn over and pat his back every half hour, only by diligently patting him on the back can we prevent and treat complications such as fall pneumonia." ”
Although Shao Hui is unconscious, we will help him up and sit down every day, help him move his limbs, and avoid pressure sores and lower limb thrombosis. Slowly the high fever gradually receded, which made the family breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the continued coma left the family at a loss. "What to do, you can only hope for a miracle every day." The child's father massaged Shao Hui while shedding tears.
On September 25, a small detail gave the whole family hope. That morning, aunt Shao Jing, who was not in the ward, used a phone video with Shao Hui as usual, and after calling out his name, the corners of Shao Hui's mouth moved slightly. "It's small, but it's enough to surprise us, and I see the light in his eyes." After that, Shao Jing said, his family called him by name, and he occasionally blinked his eyes.
Before the car accident, Shao Hui was a coach
After the skull repair surgery, his condition improved significantly
From being completely unconscious to being able to communicate with his family with blinking eyes, Shao Hui's condition has improved significantly. On November 3, the Department of Neurosurgery performed skull repair surgery on Shao Hui. To the delight of experts and families, this repair has accelerated the pace of Shao Hui's recovery. "We believe that skull repair surgery is the key to Shao Hui's recovery, which coincides with the treatment guidelines for patients with impaired consciousness." Xie Qiuyou said.
On November 9, Shao Hui was able to understand them. "Yes, just blink your eyes; no, just blink your eyes twice." When aunt Shao Jing gave instructions to Shao Hui, Shao Hui on the hospital bed correctly completed the blink. "I can't move, I can't speak, but I know he understands." Knowing this good news, Xie Qiuyou knew that Shao Hui had woken up. "It's a miracle that improvements like this are not common."
After the doctor's assessment, Shao Hui, who had been in a coma for 80 days, finally regained consciousness.
Intensive rehabilitation continues. Swallowing training helped him regain his autonomy as early as possible, and choritic training helped him learn to speak again... On November 12, the two syllables of "Mom" were pronounced with difficulty and jerkiness, making the eyes of the family moist.
Although he was conscious, but due to the serious brain injury, he was in a coma for more than 80 days, and Shao Hui had to start learning again like a child at every step from eating, talking to physical activity, even more difficult than a child, because every exercise could be accompanied by unbearable pain. A simple head-up movement, it took two months of training to successfully do it. "Along the way, the family has been supported by faith."
Today's rehabilitation training is like punching in to work for Shao Hui. Every morning at 7:50 a.m., hyperbaric oxygen therapy begins, and at 9:30 a.m., physical training, orthoping training begins... I can move my limbs, I can easily communicate with my family, and sometimes I can make jokes. When the reporter met Shao Hui in the rehabilitation training room of Pearl River Hospital, he was pedaling the bicycle under the guidance of his father. "Handsome man, you are so good, you can pedal the bike, and you will recover day by day." Seeing the reporter boasting about himself, Shao Hui smiled at the corner of his mouth.
"Shao Hui this child has been optimistic and positive since childhood, although the brain gradually recovered consciousness, understand that he suffered a car accident, sports language and other functions are damaged, but he is showing people with a smile, seeing his smile, even if we are tired and tired, we are full of hope. Now I don't know how far the child can recover, but as long as he improves a little bit every day, he will definitely get better in the future. Aunt Shao Jing said. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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