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Li Ping is a 49-year-old high school teacher, she is busy with work, she often neglects her physical health, usually she always buries herself in preparing for class, correcting homework, and tutoring students after work, almost no time to rest, due to long-term staying up late and excessive pressure, Li Ping's body began to have some problems, such as insomnia, headache, fatigue, etc., but she did not take it to heart.
Until she accidentally touched a small lump on her neck while taking a shower, at first she didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was a swollen lymph node caused by the recent work pressure, but as time went by, the lump not only did not disappear, but grew bigger and bigger, and began to feel pain.
Li Ping's husband Wang Qiang is an engineer and is usually very busy, but he has always been very concerned about his wife's body, and when he found a lump on his wife's neck, he immediately persuaded her to go to the hospital for examination, but Li Ping always shirked on the grounds that he was busy with work, and Wang Qiang could only sigh helplessly.
A month later, Li Ping felt that the lump was getting more and more painful, and even began to affect her daily work and life, and under the repeated persuasion of her husband, she finally decided to go to the hospital for examination.
After a series of examinations, including palpation, color ultrasound, and puncture cytology, Dr. Gao told her a shocking news: her thyroid gland had a malignant tumor, which was already at an advanced stage.
This news was like a thunderbolt from the sky, Li Ping felt that the world was spinning, and it was difficult to accept it for a while, she couldn't believe that she could have such a serious illness as a person who seemed healthy?
Dr. Gao patiently explained: "Ms. Li's thyroid cancer is a common malignant tumor of the endocrine system, the early symptoms are not obvious, it is easy to be ignored, many patients just because they did not pay attention to it in the early stage, missed the best time for treatment, your disease has reached an advanced stage, the tumor has invaded the surrounding lymph nodes and tissues, we need to formulate a treatment plan as soon as possible." "
Li Ping's husband Wang Qiang held her hand and cried silently: "Doctor, please save my wife, I really regret not insisting that she come for examination, it was all my fault, if I had found it earlier, wouldn't it have been so serious?"
Dr. Gao comforted: "The most important thing for Mr. Wang now is to cooperate with the treatment, the cure rate of early thyroid cancer is very high, but the advanced stage is not hopeless, we will do our best." "
In the days that followed, Li Ping began a lengthy process of treatment, first undergoing surgery to remove her thyroid gland and surrounding lymph nodes, and then undergoing multiple radioactive iodine treatments and chemotherapy, during which her body deteriorated, her weight plummeted, her hair fell out, and her immunity weakened leading to recurrent infections, but with the encouragement of her husband and medical staff, she gritted her teeth and persevered.
After more than a year of treatment, Li Ping's condition finally improved, although he has not fully recovered, but finally passed the dangerous period, recalling this difficult time, Li Ping sighed with emotion: "I am really grateful to Dr. Gao and all the medical staff in the hospital, they gave me a second life, and I am also very grateful to my husband, without his support, I really don't know if I can survive." "
From Li Ping's story, we can see that many cancers have no obvious symptoms in the early stage and are easy to be overlooked, but if we can develop the habit of regular physical examinations, detect problems and treat them in time, many tragedies can be avoided.
However, in real life, there are not a few people like Li Ping who neglect their health because they are busy with work, many people always feel that they are still young and will not get any serious diseases, and often hold a fluke mentality; some people feel that the cost of physical examination is high, and the hospital queue is time-consuming, and they are unwilling to spend time and money, but they don't know that the disease will never let you go because you are busy and you are young.
According to statistics, there are nearly 4 million new cancer cases in mainland China every year, a large part of which is caused by the late detection of the disease, and among these cancers, the incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing year by year.
Many of them are not health-conscious, believing that they are young and strong and will not get sick, some choose to avoid the test because they are afraid of problems, and some people give up the test because of financial constraints.
But what I want to say is that no matter how busy and tired you are, you have to give your body a chance to "take a vacation", even if you take one day out every year to do a physical examination, it is also a manifestation of your own health, many diseases, early detection and early treatment, can not only reduce the pain, but also save a lot of medical costs.
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