Chiang Kai-shek was seriously ill, in a coma for half a year, and incontinent.
1972 did not seem to be an auspicious year for Chiang Kai-shek, as his life seemed to have come to an end. First, a sudden wrestling made him feel a serious deterioration of his body functions, and then he experienced a coma for half a year, his body was inserted with at least three tubes, and he was completely incontinent.
Shilin Mansion urgently organized a medical team of 13 people and began to snatch people from the Grim Reaper, all because of an ordinary car accident experienced two years ago.
According to the recollection of Chiang Kai-shek's personal adjutant, Weng Yuan, before the car accident, Chiang was in very good physical condition, and at most a few small colds throughout the year. However, after the car accident, his physical condition deteriorated rapidly, and the biggest sequelae was an enlarged heart (the main symptom was chest tightness and shortness of breath, and cardiac arrest could occur at any time).
Chiang Kai-shek's adjutant Weng Yuan once personally admitted, "After the Yangmingshan car accident, my physical condition deteriorated, not only my legs and feet were weak, but also my heart problems. ”
Was the accident an accident or man-made? Let's go back to the day in mid-July 1969, when Jiang and Song were ready to set off from the Shilin Mansion to the Yangmingshan Mansion for the summer vacation, as in previous years.
When he first arrived in Taipei, Chiang was very uncomfortable with the local island climate, which often made it difficult for him to sleep at night. Only Yangmingshan can make him live comfortably, both quiet and cool.
Therefore, he developed the habit of moving to Yangmingshan with his wife in June every year to escape the summer, and stayed until around the Double Ten Celebration before returning to the Shilin Residence.
Jiang Gong had an accident on Yangde Avenue at Yangmingshan Villa. This road, which was specially funded by the Yangmingshan Authority, has no shortcomings except for the steep mountain.
When Jiang Gong travels, he usually has 5 vehicles, and arranges military police in advance to take precautions. However, on a sunny afternoon, when his convoy was passing through a sharp turn, a military jeep traveling in the opposite direction suddenly overtook in a curve and crashed into his pilot car.
The huge impact force caused Jiang Gong to instantly crash into the glass partition in front of him, his chest was hit hard, and the dentures in his mouth were also knocked off.
Although Soong Meiling was injured in the car accident, fortunately, the third car protected Chiang Kai-shek by maintaining a safe following distance and avoiding a direct collision with Chiang Kai-shek's special car.
The accident happened very suddenly, and no one reacted. After the accident, Jiang Song and his wife were immediately taken to the hospital for first aid, and Kong Lingsheng, the deputy chief of the guard, also immediately reported the news to Jiang's eldest son, Jiang Jingguo.
Chiang Ching-kuo ordered all efforts to find the vehicle that caused the accident and severely punish it. Taipei is in a state of tension and unease, with military police conducting vehicle checks on major streets and intersections. The Gendarmerie Command, the Military Police and the Department of Communications urgently set up a special task force, which lasted for several months and carried out investigations day and night, and finally found ** - the car belonged to an army division commander, who was in a hurry to go home after attending an important meeting that day, so he urged the driver to speed up, but did not expect an accident.
After the incident, he hid for a period of time for fear of Chiang Ching-kuo's large-scale investigation, and was eventually dismissed from his post and investigated, and the driver of the car was also dealt with militarily for not reporting it.
Although the truth has been revealed, Chiang Kai-shek's pain has not been alleviated by this. The aftermath of the crash reached its peak two years later. In the spring of 1972, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife went to Sun Moon Lake for vacation, and they stayed at the Hanbi House Guest House.
One day, Chiang Kai-shek walked through his wife's study, and it was more appropriate to describe it as "no". Since the car accident, Jiang's limb muscles have been declining, his hands will tremble involuntarily, and he can't even complete the simple task of getting himself eye drops.
One day, when he was about to go out, the adjutant wanted to come forward to help when he saw it, but he was afraid of disturbing the old lady's rest, so he decided to wait for him to go to the door to help.
However, just as Mr. Jiang walked to the door, he suddenly fell, and the adjutant had no time to react. This accident woke up Song Meiling, and she blamed the adjutant for why he didn't help when he watched Mr. Jiang fall.
Although Mr. Chiang comforted the adjutant himself, I don't know if he felt a little lost, because he used to be a commander in command of thousands of troops, and now he even needs help walking.
After this incident, Song Meiling demanded that all the adjutants must follow Mr. Jiang closely and never leave. In June of the same year, Mr. Jiang underwent a full body examination, which found that his heart problems were more serious than before, and the military doctor advised him to stop all external activities and recuperate for half a year.
However, this suggestion was refuted by Soong Meiling, who feared that Mr. Chiang's prolonged absence would lead to the loss of his power, which in turn would affect the Chiang family's status in Taiwan and her status as "first lady."
He first reprimanded Chen Yaohan, thinking that letting the old gentleman recuperate for half a year would only increase his mental pressure, and if his condition deteriorated due to emotional problems, who would be responsible? Then he comforted Jiang, saying that he was in good physical condition and that there was no need to worry too much.
After that, all the true information about Jiang's condition had to be reported to Song Meiling as soon as possible, and she would judge whether to tell Jiang the truth. If Jiang asks a doctor on his own, the doctor usually says that his body is recovering positively.
After the full body examination, Chen Yaohan asked all the adjutants to record Jiang's daily water and urination, and summarize them for him on the same day. According to Weng Yuan's recollection, during that time, Jiang would pant as long as he moved a little, and when he gasped, he would stick his tongue out to breathe (lack of oxygen), and he would not be able to sleep at night due to wheezing and chest tightness, and when his asthma was severe, he could only go to the balcony to breathe fresh air and then go back to his room to sleep.
Around July, Jiang even had to pause several times to eat, and he had to catch for a few minutes each time before he could continue. There are even a few times when I vomit it all in the middle of eating. The military doctor said it could be a sign of a heart attack.
At a dinner, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly fainted and entered a coma that lasted for half a year. Only 1 3 of his lungs are functioning normally, the remaining 2 3 are hydrops, and his body temperature is as high as 40 degrees.
The doctor gave him a large amount of penicillin, but this ** method can only negatively stabilize the condition and cannot make him wake up quickly. Song Meiling was so anxious that she called Dr. Yu Nangeng and a medical team of 13 people, hoping to find a way to treat Jiang.
Dr. Yu Nangeng is a member of the imperial medical team of the Chiang father and son. At that time, he gathered top doctors from major hospitals in Taipei and was on call 24 hours a day at Shilin Residence, just to protect the health of Chiang's father and son.
However, despite the best efforts of the doctors, the Chiang father and son remained in a coma for a long time. Due to long-term bed rest, the muscles of the Jiang father and son gradually atrophied, especially the right hand, which has appeared unconventional curling, which is the result of long-term intravenous drips.
In order to prevent them from developing bedsores, 12 adjutants are on duty in turns, helping them turn over every 2 hours and giving them a full body massage with their hands to promote blood circulation.
However, some awkward issues arose during the period. During the massage, the bladder of the Jiang father and son would be unable to control their urine due to incontinence, so in addition to massaging their whole body, the adjutant also needed to change their bed linen and clothes regularly, always 3 to 5 times a day.
Compared with urinary incontinence, handling stool is the biggest headache for adjutants and medical officers. Since the Chiang father and son had been in a coma, they had to manually help them with their stool every other day.
The specific operation in the film and television drama is that a medical officer puts on medical gloves after thorough disinfection, and directly uses his fingers to go deep into Jiang's rectum to take out the feces that have formed solid one by one.
Every time such a decretion clean-up is carried out, it is basically done by President Deng Shuwei (Lieutenant General of the Army, former director of Taiwan's Tri-Service General Hospital) and Weng Yuan, who are so busy that they sweat profusely every time.
This is because only in this way can Jiang's body be guaranteed to carry out the excretory cycle normally and help him recover his health. Later, in order to improve work efficiency, Miss Kong Er (Kong Lingwei) thought of a way.
She solved the problem of urinary incontinence by having the adjutant put a long plastic bag in Jiang's pants, and then she also customized a special sponge mattress with a large hole in the middle of the mattress to make it easier for the medical officer to clean up the excretion.
After the meticulous care of all the medical officers and staff, as well as the unremitting efforts of the top medical team, in January 1973, Chiang finally woke up from a half-year slumber.
Despite waking up, Chiang also knew that his time was coming to an end. But Song Meiling doesn't think so, she has always been confident in her husband's body. Therefore, after a long wait, she developed a strong dissatisfaction with the conservative ** way of the medical team.
She needed a ** plan that would work immediately, so that Jiang could return to his previous energetic state.
In March 1975, he invited an American thoracic specialist, and following the expert's advice, he performed a "lung puncture operation" on Chiang. The operation was so successful that the specialist removed about a bowl of pus from Chiang's lungs and said that Chiang would soon be back to health.
However, the day after the surgery, Jiang's condition began to deteriorate, first with a persistent high fever, then heavy bleeding in the urine, and finally an intermittent cessation of the heart. Until the evening of April 4, 1975, Jiang's electrocardiogram turned into a white straight line, and the doctors failed to rescue him, and finally, Jiang left the world without having time to leave his last words.