Hangzhou, First Hospital of Zhejiang Medical University.
A rapid siren sounded, and the white 120 ambulance drove into the hospital and stopped downstairs in the ICU.
The accompanying medical staff quickly jumped out of the car and pushed the patients on the car into the building.
Zhu Jun was lying on the stretcher, his mind was dizzy, his eyes moved feebly, but he could only see everything indistinctly.
He vaguely saw his mother's figure and his brother's anxious face.
It's a pity that he couldn't do anything. He wanted to call out "Brother", but his throat wriggled hard and he could only make a few inaudible moans.
In the blur, he saw figures surrounding him, and noisy voices buzzed in his ears.
Someone kept shouting, and the sound was rapid and messy, like a radio broadcast at 2x speed.
Soon, Zhu Jun was dazzled by the lights on the ceiling. In the whiteness, he seemed to see his dead father standing in the distance, waving to him with a smile.
Two lines of hot tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes instantly. He felt relieved, as if he had let go of the burden of life. At the same time, thinking of his family, he felt a strong sense of reluctance.
"Am I going to die? After lying in bed for 7 years, I am finally free?"
All the experiences of the past seven years came to his mind in an instant, as if they turned into slides, flashing before his eyes like a revolving lantern.
The first scene is in the school playground. 20-year-old Zhu Jun is standing in front of a two-meter-high horizontal bar, preparing to demonstrate the crunch-ups for the students.
The playground is full of energetic young people, and as a firefighter, he has developed a strong body, and his chiseled muscles stand out among the crowd.
Playing on the monkey bars comes easily to him.
He jumped quickly, grabbed the horizontal bar with both hands, drew in his abdomen, and rotated his whole body in the air to a head-down angle. Then he rotated 180 degrees with the help of force, and he could support the horizontal bar with both hands to complete the upper bar.
Zhu Jun had done this action countless times.
In the fire brigade, it only took him 40 seconds to climb a rope to the fourth floor, and he could pull sixty bars at a time. His physical fitness exceeded that of most of his comrades, making him the number one combatant.
Give a student a simple demonstration of how to move up the bar, and he can complete it beautifully with his eyes closed.
However, he never imagined that the moment he fell headfirst would be the end of his life. From then on, he would completely lose his ability to move, fall completely into the abyss, and fall into endless despair and pain.
At that time, when his head was down, the horizontal bar suddenly became loose and fell to one side.
Before he could react, he kept his original posture and hit the ground hard.
The next scene was the moment he woke up. Not only was he unable to move, a hole was made in his neck, and a ventilator tube was inserted into his trachea. At the same time, his body had lost all touch and could not feel warmth or cold.
From the doctor, he learned that his central nervous system and spinal cord had been damaged. In addition to being able to move his head, he was paralyzed at a high level throughout his body. He also lost the ability to breathe on his own and would have to rely on a ventilator for life.
Some tortures can make life worse than death, but Zhu Jun feels that the rest of his life he has to face will be worse than death every second.
At the age of 20, when he was in the prime of his youth, he suffered such a disaster. What was there to live for in such a life? He completely lost his desire to live and only wanted to die.
However, the law does not allow euthanasia, and his family will not agree. Jumping off a building and hanging himself is an extravagant wish that he cannot fulfill at all.
The constant mental torture made him want to die more and more.
Since only his head could move, he chewed his tongue to death.
The pain of this kind of death was nothing compared to the mental torture he suffered.
As long as we can be liberated by death, the temporary pain will be the happiness after liberation.
But he couldn't do it even after chewing his tongue to death. After biting a third of his tongue, he no longer had the energy to continue.
An old man in the hospital bed next to him was also unable to speak. When the two of them were awake, they communicated with each other's despair with their eyes.
A few days later, the old man passed away, and Zhu Jun even thought to himself: "Why wasn't I the one who left?"
He couldn't even think of dying, which made his spirit even more broken.
He became a firefighter because he didn't want to live a mediocre life, but now the mediocre life was as far away as the stars to him. In the long years to come, there would be only pain and suffering. How could he endure it?
Unable to die, he resorted to self-abuse to divert his mental pain.
Every day I stared at the ceiling with empty eyes, biting my lips until they were bloody.
This period of hospitalization was the darkest day in Zhu Jun's life.
Two months later, he returned home. Under the careful care of his family, his mood finally stabilized a little and he no longer sought life and death. However, the despair deep in his heart still existed, swallowing up the last trace of his heart. bright.
Although he was able to speak later and worked hard to learn to communicate with his family and surf the Internet, he completely closed himself in the spiritual abyss, letting his life pass quietly, waiting for the last day to come.
The slides flashed by quickly and settled on a live broadcast screen.
It was a high-level paraplegic anchor from abroad, using an auxiliary device to play online games with his mouth.
Zhu Jun instantly became excited, as if he saw a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation.
He originally liked playing games. Since high paraplegia prevents him from exercising or going out, it would be good to be able to realize his dreams of various sports in the virtual world.
So, he immediately sent a private message to the high-level paraplegic anchor, asking about the auxiliary equipment, and ordered one from abroad through an acquaintance.
Subsequently, this auxiliary equipment was successfully delivered to Zhu Jun.
It has four straw-like devices. As long as you hold these devices in your mouth, you can operate the computer keys by inhaling and blowing.
It is difficult to practice, but Zhu Jun still has to master it no matter how difficult it is. After half a year of hard work, he finally became familiar with the equipment and could play games freely.
In this way, his heart slowly opened up, and he took a video of his daily life and posted it online to tell about his experiences and mental journey.
The video was posted on Station B and received more than three million views in just a few days.
Zhu Jun was very inspired and started to become an amateur Up host from then on, playing live games online every three days.
The screen stopped again. It was time for him to recruit a group of disabled e-sports players to form an e-sports team. They defeated the team of healthy people in the competition and achieved runner-up results.
Seeing 27 years of his life passing by in front of his eyes, Zhu Jun couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
In the last five years, his life has become wonderful, and he has a faint hope in his heart. He thinks that even if he is paralyzed, he must live his life to the fullest and realize his dreams one by one.
He wanted to see Tiananmen in the capital, see the sea at the beach, leave some pension money for his mother, and also wanted to give a speech at the university to share his experience with more people, so that everyone can bravely face the setbacks in life.
Unfortunately, being bedridden for a long time has made his health deteriorate, especially since he has been plugged into a ventilator and catheter. He suffers from bacterial infections and has been taking medicine to fight it all year round.
The flash ended and disappeared completely, and the sounds around him became clear again. He could faintly hear his mother's silent sobs and his brother's hoarse calling.
A very penetrating voice came. It was the doctor comforting the family.
"The patient's condition is very critical. We will rescue him first."
Suddenly, Zhu Jun felt a sudden weakness in his body, his vision went dark, and he completely lost consciousness.
One last thought passed through his mind before he fell into unconsciousness.
"Are we finally free? But I haven't lived enough yet."
When his brother Zhu Ming saw his younger brother fainting, he suddenly felt flustered and could only pull the doctor and beg softly.
"Dr. Zhao, look at my brother's condition. What's going on?"
Doctor Zhao looked at Zhu Jun and his expression changed: "No, the patient has fainted."
"Send him to the ICU quickly and give him 200ml of ceftazidime intravenously."
After saying that, he turned back to Zhu Ming and said, "The family members should pay the fees first and then wait outside. I will notify you immediately if anything happens."
Zhu Ming nodded blankly, feeling a little relieved as he watched Dr. Zhao and his brother disappear through the door at the same time.
He pulled his mother and sat down: "Mom, you wait here first, I will pay the fee, don't worry, my brother is already being rescued and will get better soon."
At night, when Zhu Ming and his mother were waiting anxiously outside the door of the intensive care unit.
Dr. Zhao is in the ICU at the moment, looking at Zhu Jun who has a high fever with a very solemn expression.
"After the infusion, the patient still had a high fever and was unconscious. At the same time, the inflammatory index was still very high."
"Green sputum was sucked out of the ventilator, and there were green traces in the urinary catheter. Based on the past medical history, Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection was considered."
"The patient's urinary tract infection is very serious and has spread to the lungs. Judging from the test report, the liver and kidneys have also been damaged to a certain extent."
"If the condition is not controlled and continues to worsen, it is likely to lead to liver and kidney failure, leading to multiple organ failure throughout the body."
"The third-generation cephalosporins do not work. Considering that patients have been taking antibiotics for a long time, could they have developed resistance?"
Thinking of this, Dr. Zhao ordered the nurse: "Try changing the patient to a fourth-generation cephalosporin."
At this point, he was still a little worried and said: "Collect the first sputum tomorrow morning, and I will use it for sputum culture and drug sensitivity testing."
Three days later, the laboratory department called Dr. Zhao from the ICU.
"Old Zhao, this patient of yours is in a little trouble."
Doctor Zhao saw that the other party's expression was very serious, and his heart suddenly sank.
"The results of the drug sensitivity test are out? What do you say?"
"Come and see for yourself." The person from the laboratory department waved.
Dr. Zhao walked over and looked at the computer, and was instantly stunned.
I saw the column of drug sensitivity results on the screen, all marked with "resistant" in eye-catching red, so densely packed that I didn't know how many there were at the moment.
He impatiently took the mouse and pulled it down until it reached the end, only to see a few white "sensitive" results.
Dr. Zhao's lips trembled: "How could this happen?"
The laboratory doctor shook his head, poked the screen with his finger, and said:
"This result is abnormal. Generally speaking, even if Pseudomonas aeruginosa is resistant, it is impossible for it to be resistant to so many antibiotics. At least some usable antibiotics can be found."
"However, if you look at the test results, all cephalosporins are resistant, and not one is missing."
“Almost all antibiotics such as penicillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, ofloxacin, imipenem, gentamicin, tobramycin, amikacin, minocycline, etc. are resistant. "
"And Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium and is not very sensitive to vancomycin."
"Old Zhao, this is difficult to handle."
"This kind of super-resistant bacteria is very rare and unusual. I suspect it may contain drug-resistant gene mutations. I suggest you do another genetic test."
Dr. Zhao suddenly broke out in cold sweat on his forehead. He took the mouse and pulled it a few more times, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"Aren't there still one or two sensitive antibiotics?"
The laboratory doctor took a look and frowned: "Polymyxin! This is an ancient antibiotic that has been around for more than fifty years. It is called the last line of antibacterial defense. It is indeed very effective against gram infections. .”
"However, it is highly nephrotoxic and has serious side effects, so it is rarely used. There has been very little research on derivatives in recent years, but it is used more in animal husbandry."
Dr. Zhao sighed: "It seems that the source of drug resistance has been explained. This is the only way to use it now."
"However, the patient already has signs of liver and kidney damage. I'm not sure whether this drug can be used."
"We can only apply for expert consultation and see what the directors say."
The medical examiner glanced sideways at him: "Then I wish you good luck."
As soon as Dr. Zhao returned to the ICU, he saw the nurse rushing over in a panic.
"Dr. Zhao, it's not good. The patient in bed No. 6 has shown symptoms of renal failure in his biochemical test."
"What?" He was suddenly shocked.
Zhu Jun was in bed No. 6. He had just thought of a rough antibiotic treatment plan when the patient's condition suddenly deteriorated again.
He hurried to the bed and saw that Zhu Jun was still unconscious. He picked up the urine bag and saw that there was already a trace of blood in it.
"Quick, show me the biochemical test sheet." Dr. Zhao's expression changed and he immediately looked at the biochemical test sheet.
After reading it, his expression became uncertain.
"Serum creatinine and urea ammonia are both higher than the normal range, but the degree is not serious and has not reached an uncontrollable level."
"But this way, polymyxin cannot be used. This drug is very toxic to the kidneys. If it is used, what if the patient's renal failure worsens instantly."
He frowned and thought for a long time, but still didn't have a suitable solution.
Looking at the thick stack of test reports in his hand, Dr. Zhao gritted his teeth and made the final decision.
"I can't handle this matter, so I'd better go to the director for expert consultation."
Dr. Zhao hurriedly walked out of the ICU ward and was grabbed by someone.
"Doctor, how is my brother?"
When he looked up, he was startled. He saw that the man who caught him had a haggard face, disheveled hair, and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept for several days.
"Zhu Ming, why are you like this? I understand your family members' anxiety, but you must also pay attention to rest and not collapse your body."
"As for your brother, the current situation is not good. He has not improved after three days of infusion. However, it has been diagnosed as Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. However, this kind of bacteria can easily become resistant to antibiotics. We are conducting expert consultations. I believe there will be one soon. Appropriate antibiotic treatment regimen…”
Dr. Zhao informed the other party of Zhu Jun's condition in detail.
As an experienced ICU doctor, he often faces doubts from family members. He knows that under such circumstances, he must not conceal his condition.
Zhu Jun's condition is very serious. If the rescue fails, he cannot be rescued, and if he is not informed of the truth, his family will take a look and send him in alone, and he will be gone in a few days, then there will definitely be an ICU riot.
Concealing the condition is a taboo for patient conflicts.
Only by allowing family members to have a clear and detailed understanding of the patient's condition can they be comforted and prevent the situation from getting out of hand.
Zhu Ming stared at the doctor blankly, the words he said kept echoing and buzzing in his mind.
All he knew was that his brother's condition had worsened, and the doctors seemed helpless.
When the words "expert consultation" hit his mind, he suddenly woke up.
"Yes, expert consultation, I can also find an expert!"
"My younger brother is very popular on the Internet and has many fans. I can definitely spread the news and ask for help from fans."
"In this way, we will definitely find the best experts in the country and rescue him!"
(End of chapter)
