"We are grateful and admired from the bottom of our hearts!I didn't expect you to be able to persist for several months to serve the elderly in our senior apartment at such a risk of fame and fortune!Please accept this pennant and this letter of thanks!Last month, the staff of the senior housing delivered an affectionate pennant to Bao Xinjian.
The old man in their mouth is Uncle Wang, who has lived in Nanjing Yihe Elderly Apartment for a long time and is over 90 years old. When he was young, his left leg fell into the disease of "old rotten leg", which troubled Uncle Wang for more than 40 years, and medical experts in many hospitals were helpless, until he met Bao Xinjian who came to visit.
In September 2023, Bao Xinjian, the nurse in charge of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, came to Nanjing Yihe Elderly Apartment for inspection together with medical experts from the hospital's sores department according to the arrangement of hospital leaders.
When I saw Uncle Wang for the first time, his left leg was partially ulcerated, swollen and painful, with pus and a foul smell. Bao Xinjian said, "The folk so-called 'old rotten legs' mainly refers to the chronic ** ulcer in the middle and lower calf. Patients like Uncle Wang may only have inflammation oozing at the beginning of the disease, and then ulcers occur, but if they are not timely or ineffective, the diseased part will become bigger and bigger over time, rotten and deeper, and eventually will be necrosis of the whole layer. ”
How long have you been changing his dressing?Did you come here on a snowy day before?”
It's been almost four months, and I have changed nearly 40 times, basically all of them are wind and snow, and it takes more than two hours to go back and forth, sometimes by taxi, sometimes by bus, subway, and sometimes my husband will also drive me here, because there are many patients in the unit during the day who want me to change wound care dressings, so the dressing changes for the elderly in the apartment are basically used when they get off work and rest on weekends. Bao Xinjian said with a smile.
How is Uncle Wang's condition now?How's the recovery?I've seen so many places before and I'm not optimistic, are you confident?”
After dozens of dressing changes, the wound of the old man has been significantly reduced, the exudate has been reduced a lot, and there is basically no swelling and pain. The most direct manifestation is that the old man's spirit is much better than before, and there are more smiles on his face!Although it will take some time to do all the best, I firmly believe in the power of the combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and my method of changing the dressing is called 'Xu's sores ** method', which is the intangible cultural heritage of Nanjing!Bao Xinjian said firmly and proudly.
Do you still have dinner in your bag?I didn't even have time to eat when I was so busy, did I?”
It's not dinner, it's lunch, and sometimes I don't feel hungry when I'm busyLet's not talk about it, today (December 29th) is my son's birthday, and the whole family is waiting for me!”
The short interview was over, but the reporter's mood could not be calm for a long time, and when he looked at the time, it was close to half past eight in the evening. What's even more touching is that Bao Xinjian's care for the elderly for several months is all free of charge, which is truly selfless dedication!
It is reported that since March 2023, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine and Xuanwu District Civil Affairs Bureau have carried out strategic cooperation on the integration of medical and elderly care, established a cooperation mechanism with the district's elderly care institutions and community home-based elderly care service centers through various ways, and provided medical and health services for the elderly and the elderly at home, successively carried out 16 rounds of medical and elderly care in community home-based elderly care service centers, and dispatched more than 400 medical staff to carry out medical inspections and community free clinics in nursing homes in the district, and provided on-site guidance and prevention and treatment of bedsores, chronic disease follow-up, TCM constitution identification and other services and training. Up to now, the hospital has provided free services to more than 3,000 nursing beds in nursing homes, benefiting more than 8,000 elderly people in the surrounding area(Correspondent: Yang Pu, Gu Jun).