On the morning of April 17, in the neurosurgery ward of the inpatient department of the First People's Hospital of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, 42-year-old patient Peng Weiqing was lying on a hospital bed, undergoing rehabilitation treatment such as raising his hand and lifting his feet, and his 67-year-old mother, Wu Yongxiu, was assisting. If the time goes back half a month, this scene can only be a dream, and now, the dream has come true.
Peng Weiqing and mother Wu Yongxiu
In August 2016, Peng Weiqing fell into a coma due to a fall injury. After 20 surgeries and careful care from his family, at the end of March 2019, Peng Weiqing, who had been in a coma for two years and seven months, finally woke up. Huang Weiliang, deputy director of the hospital's Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, said that Peng Weiqing's ability to wake up was really a miracle, at least in the vegetative cases he had seen with his own eyes, which was the first case.
April 1 is Peng Weiqing's 42nd birthday, after the tracheal surgery mouth was basically healed, he said the first words in more than two years: "I love your mother", and everyone at the scene cried red eyes.
>> unexpectedly fell into a coma
In August 2016, Peng Weiqing, then 39, accidentally fell and caused intracranial injuries. As his condition worsened, he saved his life after undergoing several surgeries at the Chengdu Air Force General Hospital, but since then he has fallen into a coma.
While Peng Weiqing was undergoing treatment, his father died of a sudden illness due to overwork.
"Before [my husband] left, he was still concerned about his son's situation and encouraged me to persevere and not give up on my son."
Wu Yongxiu recalled that when her son was unconscious and her husband died, she felt like "the sky was about to fall." During that time, Wu Yongxiu couldn't sleep at all, and his white hair increased a lot.
Wu Yongxiu clearly remembers that during his treatment in Chengdu, his son underwent 17 surgeries, large and small.
After more than two years of coma, he finally woke up
On September 1, 2017, Peng Weiqing was transferred from Chengdu to the First People's Hospital of Zigong City for continued treatment. Wu Yongxiu admitted that after more than a dozen surgeries, he was still unconscious, and everyone basically thought that his son was destined to become a "vegetative person". However, even if there is still one in ten thousand hopes, even if it is a luxury, the family must try.
>> last-ditch hope in despair
Tong Yu, the attending doctor of neurosurgery, introduced that Peng Weiqing's family conditions are very ordinary, coupled with long-term treatment, the family is even more frugal. At the beginning of his transfer to the hospital, Peng Weiqing's condition was severe high-grade neurological dysfunction, coma, muscle atrophy of the limbs, joint contractures, and serious infections. From Chengdu to Zigong, the main consideration is still conservative treatment.
Tong Yu said that after practicing medicine for more than ten years, he has seen many situations. Usually in the first 3 months, the patient's family will be very active in treatment, but then almost inevitably slowly begin to lose confidence, and after a year, most people will choose to give up.
During Peng Weiqing's coma, his mother Wu Yongxiu and lover Yang Liping ran up and down, took good care of him, and often told him about the past at bedside and played his favorite songs. Through contact with Peng Weiqing's family, the medical staff saw the family's firm determination to hope that Peng Weiqing would be treated. After research, it was finally decided to give it a go.
Wu Yongxiu recalled that in May last year, the family had exhausted their energy and thought that there was no hope in sight. However, in an exchange with the attending physician, they decided to make a last attempt.
Tong Yu said that the success rate of this operation is extremely low and the risk is high, whether it is conservative treatment or surgical improvement, for most patients' families, more choices of the former. Even if the surgery is successful, in medicine, the patient regains consciousness and faces cognitive dysfunction and motor dysfunction.
This time, Peng Weiqing's family gave the hospital neurosurgeons absolute trust.
>> mother, wife, mother-in-law, and support a home with love
At the First People's Hospital of Zigong City, Peng Weiqing underwent three surgeries. After the operation, Wu Yongxiu and his daughter-in-law and her mother, who is more than seventy years old, three women jointly supported a family, and began to work day and night to take care of Peng Weiqing in a coma, and look forward to the arrival of the miracle together.
I can't remember how many days and nights there were. Wu Yongxiu and his family followed the doctor's instructions, turned over every two hours, fed liquid food every three hours, massaged the whole body, tapped back, sucked sputum, wiped the body, changed diapers every day... Carefully take care of Peng Weiqing.
In order to ensure that the liquid food eaten by the son-in-law has enough nutrition, the mother-in-law Li Shukun sends the soup porridge prepared at home to the hospital at six o'clock every morning, chicken soup, duck soup, and nutritious porridge, which are not repeated for a week.
Wife Yang Liping is responsible for picking up the children after work every day, and after settling the children, she rushes to the hospital to take care of her husband.
"As long as Peng Weiqing is still there, this home is there."
This is their unanimous view.
>> miracle happens The first words after waking up are "I love you, Mommy"
In February this year, when Wu Yongxiu was scrubbing his son's body, he suddenly saw a smile on the corner of his mouth. At that moment, she burst into tears of excitement.
Gradually, Peng Weiqing gradually showed his reaction to the outside world. April 1 is Peng Weiqing's 42nd birthday, after the tracheal surgery mouth was basically healed, he said the first words in more than two years: "I love your mother", and everyone at the scene cried red eyes.
April 1 is Peng Weiqing's 42nd birthday
Wu Yongxiu told Red Star News that since April 1, his son's recovery has been particularly obvious. Lying on the hospital bed, Peng Weiqing can raise his hands, slightly clench his fists, his feet can be slightly lifted, and his language function is also well restored, not only can he slowly talk and chat, but also hum songs...
Watching his son's condition getting better and better day by day, Wu Yongxiu was happy in his heart, and repeatedly said that "the most grateful are the hospital doctors, the leaders of his son's work unit, and the strangers who have donated money for his son."
Peng Weiqing's awakening once again ignited the family's expectations and expectations for future life. Wu Yongxiu said that her son's awakening made her see the dawn, although there is still a long way to recover, but she has the confidence and determination to accompany her son all the way until he runs again.
Red Star News reporter Yuan Wei provided a picture of the interviewee
Edited by Liu Jing