From the time the child was born to the time he was discharged from the hospital, it lasted three and a half months, a total of 104 days. For Xu Tongdao, such a long time was a torment day and night.
Every time he goes to see his daughter, he is both looking forward to it and afraid.
What he is looking forward to is that he hopes to see his daughter gain a lot of weight this time, because he heard that if a premature baby is to be discharged from the hospital, he must weigh at least 4 pounds.
But every time he went to the hospital, he was disappointed. His daughter's weight increased by one or two taels a week, which was a surprise. Sometimes it did not increase but dropped.
What he was afraid of was that after he went to see his daughter, the doctor would tell him that the situation was more serious.
He is afraid that his daughter's condition will worsen.
Very scared.
Although in general, his daughter's condition is gradually improving, and the problems diagnosed by the hospital at the beginning have been cured one by one.
For example, he initially said that his daughter’s left calf was splayed out, and it got better within a few days.
For example, during the first three weeks of living in the incubator, the hospital told him every time that his daughter's cardiopulmonary function had not developed well and that she needed oxygen. Later, she recovered and said that his daughter could breathe on her own.
Another example is hypothyroidism. After several weeks of drug treatment, the thyroid values returned to normal.
etc.
In the last two months or so, there has been no improvement. There are only two problems that are tormenting the child.
One is that the direct bilirubin value is too high, and every time the value is checked, it exceeds the upper limit of the instrument's measurement.
And what is the upper limit of the instrument’s measurement?
1000.
The normal value range is generally 0-13.
One can imagine how alarmingly high his daughter's direct bilirubin was.
Another problem is cytomegalovirus infection.
Can this virus be cured?
The doctor said: Yes.
But the trouble lies with the drugs used to treat the virus. Doctors say the side effects can range from minor to major.
If it's big, how big will it be?
The doctor said: It may affect the child's intellectual development, and it may also affect the child's physical development.
This is a dilemma.
If not treated with this drug, cytomegalovirus is also very dangerous to children. If treated with drugs, the side effects may be very serious.
By the way, the name of this drug, because the attending doctor mentioned it to Tongdao Xu again and again, Tongdao Xu was deeply impressed, and it’s called ganciclovir.
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During the long treatment period, Xu Tongdao once despaired of the future.
Because every time he asks the doctor, when will his daughter's disease be cured?
When can I be discharged from hospital?
No matter which doctor he asked, the other doctor said: "It's hard to say, it depends on the situation later."
Ask the doctor if he is sure it can be cured?
The doctor also said: "It's hard to say, it's really hard to say."
When he was most desperate, Xu Tongdao, who had never been superstitious, suddenly took a bus back to Tianyun City, and then took his family's household registration book back to his hometown of Shazhou County.
He took the household registration book to register his daughter. He thought at the time: Maybe if my daughter's name is registered in my family's household registration book, her identity will be recognized by heaven and earth, and by ghosts and gods. From then on, her life will be
Only then can it be settled.
Reason told him that this was superstition and self-deception.
But he really had no choice.
During the long treatment period, he took his daughter's medical records to Shanghai, visited the two most famous pediatric hospitals in Shanghai, and found the most famous experts for consultation.
But what do the experts from those two hospitals say?
"Jinling Children's Hospital is very powerful! There is really no need for you to transfer your child to our hospital. There is really no need!"
The hospitals in the capital were like this, and he estimated that the hospitals in the capital were about the same, so he didn't have the heart to continue traveling to the capital.
By the way, when he registered his daughter's household registration, he gave her a very simple name with a very simple meaning - An'an.
Xu Anan.
In choosing this name for his daughter, he only hoped that her daughter would be safe and sound. He had no other wishes than that and did not dare to expect more.
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result……
A coincidence happened.
Not long after he had chosen his daughter's name and completed the household registration, he and Wei Chunlan went to visit his daughter again.
In the elevator, I happened to meet a deputy director of the extremely low birth weight neonatal intensive care unit of the Children's Hospital.
At that time, it had been almost three months since Xu Tongdao's daughter moved here.
Because they come every week, and their daughter's situation is special here, the deputy director has known the couple for a long time.
That afternoon, when Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan met the deputy director in the elevator, the deputy director had a helpless smile on his face, sighed loudly at them, and said: "Oh! You are finally here! Hurry! Hurry up!
Go out and buy two pacifiers, that daughter of yours! It’s been causing us so much lately, I’ve almost had a neurasthenia these days! Really, I’m not exaggerating at all, that daughter of yours is really amazing, she can have
Human lives!”
At that time, Xu Tongdao and Wei Chunlan were both shocked.
Where did this start?
Our daughter is so pitiful. She only weighs about three and a half pounds after such a long time. How can she be so powerful? How can she cause you such misery? And make you almost have a nervous breakdown?
Are you trying to blackmail me?
Before they could react, the deputy director suddenly patted his forehead and said with a smile: "Oh, by the way, I have some good news for you. I almost forgot about it. Your daughter's direct bilirubin was not special before.
Is it high? When I checked her yesterday, I didn’t know what happened, but her direct bilirubin value suddenly became normal. We couldn’t believe it, so we quickly did another check on her, and the result was still normal.
Do you think the numerical value is strange?"
Xu Tongdao: "???"
Wei Chunlan: "???"
The couple was surprised and happy at the time, and couldn't believe their ears.
The direct bilirubin that had left these doctors helpless before... suddenly returned to normal?
When I checked last week, wasn't it still so high that I couldn't measure the specific value?
Surprised, Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan couldn't help but confirm the news to the deputy director. The deputy director had a particularly good attitude today and repeatedly stated that their daughter's direct bilirubin had really returned to normal, and then strongly expressed
Ask them to buy two pacifiers quickly.
Xu Tongdao and Wei Chunlan were puzzled and asked why.
And the reason is - "That little guy may have been noisy recently and cries all the time. Even though she is young, she cries very loudly. The key is that we can't coax her well, and every time she cries, she will
It caused all the children in the ward to cry, and the children in the next ward would also cry.
Cry loudly. In the past few days, all the children in the ward are often made to cry by your precious daughter. How can we have so many people to comfort so many children? Really! Go buy two pacifiers.
Come! Go, go, go! I’m begging you!”
Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan couldn't believe what the deputy director said at that time.
Apart from being surprised, I also wanted to laugh a little.