The second season of "Hello, Pediatrician" has come to an end, and the last 2 episodes do not have a knife man's plot, but it is still moving. What touches me the most is Xia Xia's family, because Xia Xia is a super premature baby, and they have had a really difficult time in the past few years.
Xia Xia was born at 27 weeks and had a birth weight of only 650g! What is this concept? That's about the weight of 2 apples, or about the weight of a bottle of mineral water!
Such a small baby was born in a very bad condition. When he was transferred to Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, the baby suffered from acute and severe chronic lung, severe pulmonary hypertension, severe bronchomalacia, and severe expansion of the right upper lung to compress other lung lobes.
The doctor first stabilized the infantile pulmonary hypertension and then performed the first bronchial closure in the country. After the closure, the right upper lobe was resected. A small baby has to go through surgery again and again, which makes people feel distressed.
As a super premature baby, Xia Xia was through many life and death difficulties as soon as she was born. Fortunately, the child has passed one level after another, and behind it is the deep love and non-giving up of the parents.
They owe more than 300,000 yuan in medical bills. Someone persuaded them to give up, and Xia Xia's father said: "We (husband and wife) may not be able to do anything big in this life, but if we can't even keep our own children, then what's the point of my life......”
Fortunately, after these surgeries, the child is slightly better. However, tracheostomy could not be avoided, so a tracheostomy was performed. Since then, the child has been temporarily out of life-threatening condition, but he cannot be left on the ventilator.
After Xia Xia's condition stabilized, he returned to his hometown in Huaihua, Hunan, and was taken care of by his parents. Doctors will help remotely, adjust ventilators and other remote management.
Xia Xia needs to wear an endotracheal intubation every day, and her breathing is supported by a ventilator. This kind of care is not easy, his home is full of all kinds of medicines, and his parents have to learn to change the tracheal tube and learn to care for the child.
It is not easy for children to win life, and parents take special care of them. Mop the floor with disinfectant water at home three times a day, do not let children contact outsiders, and send a message in the circle of friends saying "greenhouse flowers, please do not visit". How much sadness there is behind this is only known to parents.
Xia Xia is weaker, and it takes a month or two for a cold and fever to get better. He slept with his father at night, and his mother did not dare to take care of him alone because she was afraid, and the child was too fragile.
Xia Xia has rescued several times at home. Once, I had a high fever and went into shock, my heart stopped, my breathing stopped, and my mother was completely scared and stupid. It was still my father who held back his fear and used first aid knowledge to rescue, do artificial respiration, do cardiopulmonary resuscitation ......Finally, the child was rescued again.
Xia Xia is older and rarely goes out to play. Because he was on a ventilator, others would not treat him as a normal child. Also because of the endotracheal intubation, he could not make a sound and could not go to kindergarten. His mother bought a lot of books for the family and taught him to read and understand the world at home.
Xia Xia is now more than 4 years old. The doctor felt that he should go back to the hospital and do a new assessment to see how to help him do a weaning and weaning so that he could return to his normal life.
The doctor came to his home first and examined him. The initial assessment of breath sounds was very good, so I took him to Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center by high-speed train.
The day after arriving at the hospital, the doctor performed a transbronchoscopic airway exploration, which was done under full anesthesia. The probing results are very good and have reached the offline criteria.
On the fourth day of admission, the doctor cut off Xia Xia's ventilator and installed an artificial nose, which is an airway management tool with thermal insulation and moisturizing filtration function. After the break, it is necessary to observe the breathing condition and check the change of blood oxygen value. Thankfully, everything was fine.
4-year-old Xia Xia walked on the ground out of a ventilator for the first time in her life! He finally gained independence and freedom. I couldn't hold back my tears at that moment, life is so great! The little baby who is more than 1 pound can finally feel all the beauty of the world like ordinary people.
Xia Xia's mother was very excited, she wanted to take the child to ride in a rocking car and make up for all the things that had fallen before.
The doctor said that if everything goes well, after this winter, Xia Xia is expected to be completely weaned and out of tubes.
That strong child, under the joint care of his parents and doctors, went through the most difficult time of his life. May he have a safe and healthy future and a successful life!
Reading their stories will make people cherish their lives in the moment even more. Every life is a miracle, and those ordinary days when we can play with our children together are the greatest happiness of every family.
Reference: Season 2 of the documentary "Hello, Pediatrician".