In the video, Lele, with only her upper body exposed, is sitting or standing, reciting ancient poems eloquently. She looks no different from other children. In 2018, Lele, who was 5 years old at the time, fell from her home on the 18th floor.

Every night around 7 o'clock, Shaoxing Mr. Liu posts a short check-in video of his son Lele reciting ancient poems on time. In the

video, Lele, with only her upper body exposed, is sitting or standing, reciting ancient poems eloquently, looking no different from other children.

But if the camera moves downward, you will see that his legs are covered with protective gear, and his posture when standing is still a little crooked.

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In 2018, Lele, who was 5 years old at the time, fell from her home on the 18th floor. After nearly 2 years of treatment and recovery, he struggled through each dangerous hurdle and is now able to walk with a cane.

The doctors involved in the treatment said that this was simply a medical miracle. And this little boy who is less than 7 years old has greater ambitions. He originally planned to enter elementary school this year and decided to postpone his enrollment for a year. "I want to walk to elementary school by myself."

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Taking off from the tarmac

During the National Day holiday that just passed, Lele met her kindergarten playmate after two years of absence. The last time

met, these little friends were still little brats who fought with him for toys and had tantrums. Now, they are all freshmen in the first grade and are adapting to elementary school life where they have to sit upright in class and cannot watch cartoons when they go home.

Time has not blocked the children's friendship. After a brief period of unfamiliarity, the boys immediately became familiar with each other and played in the park. But their running range has been significantly reduced, because Lele, who is using crutches, cannot walk as freely as a normal child.

Mr. Liu and his wife looked on, feeling happy and distressed at the same time, "Because every step he takes will take ten or even a hundred times the effort than ordinary people. What is happy is that he can finally integrate into the lives of his peers relatively normally." They couldn't imagine such a scene at the beginning of Lele's accident.
November 22, 2018 was an ordinary Thursday. Grandma stayed at home to take care of Lele, mother sent her eldest son to school, and Mr. Liu was on a business trip in Hangzhou.
At around 8 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Liu suddenly received a call from the community security guard, "Your child fell." At first, he thought he fell while playing on the slide in the community, but then the security guard added, "From the building downstairs. "
" I was stunned." His scalp was numb and his hands were trembling as he booked the earliest high-speed train on his mobile phone, completely forgetting how he got all the way back to Shaoxing.
Later he found out that his grandma was busy drying clothes that day, and without paying attention, Lele rolled over from the balcony on the 18th floor of her home, and fell to the ground after being buffered by a tree. The cleaning lady who witnessed the whole process quickly notified the community security.
Mr. Liu rushed to the local hospital as soon as he got off the high-speed train. When he walked into the hospital gate, he noticed a helicopter parked on the hospital's tarmac. At that time, Shaoxing was hosting a marathon, and the helicopter was equipped for emergency rescue. Unexpectedly, a quick glance turned out to be the last straw for the child.

At this time, Lele had been sent to the operating room for rescue. Her breathing was weak, she was unconscious, and her blood pressure could not be measured. Before he even saw his son, he signed several critical illness notices at the doctor's request.

In order for Lele to receive better treatment, the family unanimously decided to transfer him to the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University, but they were worried that the fatigue of the journey would cause secondary harm to him. Mr. Liu thought of the helicopter on the tarmac and immediately applied for "air ambulance" from the local hospital and Zhejiang University Children's Hospital.

After both parties coordinated, a race for life in the air began. In Shaoxing, doctors from the local hospital carefully put Lele, who was covered in tubes, on a stretcher and smoothly sent her into the aircraft cabin; in Hangzhou, the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University urgently borrowed the playground of a nearby primary school, and multiple departments quickly assembled to prepare for multidisciplinary consultation. preparation.

The medical staff of Zhejiang University Children’s Hospital picked up Lele from the helicopter

Before boarding the helicopter, Mr. Liu and his wife finally met Lele. It was a pale, bloodless little face with purple lips. There was a ventilator inserted into his nose. No matter how his parents called him, he remained motionless and unresponsive.

"We kept talking to him and told him that mom and dad will always be with you and don't be afraid. Although he didn't react at all, I always felt that he heard us and that he was responding to us in his heart, but he couldn't do it physically." Liu said Mr.

Conservative treatment or risky surgery?

The parents chose the latter for their aggressive son.

Mr. Liu and his wife spent the 22 days at the Children's Hospital of Zhejiang University guarding the door of the SICU (Surgical Intensive Care Unit).

During the day, people were coming and going at the door of SICU, all of them parents waiting for news. The story behind each family is different, but the same anxiety and sadness are written on the faces of the parents. It wasn't until late at night that the noisy crowd gradually quieted down. Mr. Liu and his wife took turns changing their duties, and whoever was tired would just sit on the chair and squint for a while.

When he couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep, Mr. Liu often had a dream: Under a ray of white light, the door of the SICU opened, and Lele ran into their arms, calling "Mom and Dad"...

But In reality, when the closed door of the SICU opens and doctors call their names, they often bring bad news: severe contusions on the lungs, contusions on the liver, spleen, kidneys, pancreas, intestines, and fractures of ribs, clavicle and other parts. Multiple fractures of the spine, spinal cord injury, intracranial injury, coma score of 6 points... A coma score of 8 or less is considered a severe craniocerebral injury, and the condition is extremely critical.

Subsequently, the multidisciplinary team of SICU, trauma surgery , general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, radiology and other departments of Zhejiang University Children's Hospital organized a joint consultation, in which Mr. Liu and his wife also participated.

Tan Linhua, director of the SICU of Zhejiang University Children's Hospital, told them that there are currently two treatment options: conservative treatment, which can save lives, but the best recovery effect is to spend a lifetime in a wheelchair or lying in bed; risky surgery, once successful, the child will hopefully return to normal in the future. life; but there is also the risk of not being able to survive during and after surgery.

Faced with this life-or-death decision, Mr. Liu and his wife did not hesitate much and unanimously chose surgery. Because they know their son very well, he has been very strong since he was a child and is not willing to spend his whole life in a wheelchair. When

was in a small class, Lele would go home depressed for a while because the class organized a pick-up ball competition and he couldn't compare with other children. Driven by his competitive spirit, he practiced on the balcony every day when he returned home, until he finally caught up with the others.

"If we choose conservative treatment, he will definitely complain about us when he grows up and becomes sensible. Moreover, I believe that my son will survive."

For the best surgical effect, Lele needs to do an MRI before the surgery. Examine to determine the degree of damage to the nerve center and spinal cord, so as to formulate a precise surgical treatment plan.

The door of SICU opened, and Lele did not run out as in his dream, but lay quietly on the transfer bed. Mr. Liu and his wife found that his face was slightly redder than before. "As soon as we called him, tears immediately flowed from the corners of his eyes. He heard our voices and was responding to us."

After more than 40 minutes of inspection, Mr. Liu and his wife have been with Lele, standing 2 or 3 meters away, watching and coaxing, "I will buy you the toys you wanted to buy before when you get home." "The teachers and children in the kindergarten miss you." "Wherever you want to go and what you want to do, your parents will accompany you to complete it"...

Due to severe contusion of Lele's lungs, he was unable to breathe on his own and needed a ventilator to assist breathing, but during the MRI No medical emergency equipment could be brought into the examination room. SICU director Tan Linhua and deputy director Ye Jing used artificial skin bag compression to assist breathing, lying on the MRI machine, and performed primitive artificial skin bag compression on Lele. He used pressure to assist breathing and paid attention to the child's vital signs while pressing. He lay down in one position for more than half an hour until the entire examination was completed safely.

After the examination, the blood on Lele's face disappeared, and her face was ashen. At this time, Mr. Liu and his wife called him, and he fell into deep silence again, with no more tears. Later they learned that after the examination, the medical staff actively rescued their son in the SICU for more than 40 minutes before bringing their son back from the brink of death.

SICU Director Tan Linhua made the ward rounds

After the condition was initially stabilized, departments such as the Orthopedics Department, Trauma Surgery Department, Anesthesiology Department, and Operating Room of Zhejiang University Children's Hospital cooperated to perform spinal surgery on Lele. After the operation, the head of the Department of Orthopedics, Director Ye Wensong, told them that the lesion was found and the operation was successful. The extent to which the child can recover in the future depends on the child's perseverance and the cooperation of the parents.

These words not only made the couple temporarily relieved, but also suddenly felt a heavy pressure on their shoulders.

took the initiative to ask for more training

He said, "I want to walk to elementary school by myself."

On the fourth day after the operation, Lele woke up. Sheng Meijun, the head nurse of the SICU, said to him softly, "Lele, Auntie will ask you a few questions. If you agree, just blink once. If you don't agree, blink twice." After a few questions, he "answered fluently", which shows that he has a small brain. Guazi is as smart as ever.

Next, good news came one after another: I could shake hands, hold a lollipop tightly, and play Transformers... Finally, my circulation and breathing were stable, my infection indicators were normal, and I met the discharge standards.

A small card sent to Lele by the SICU team

The scene after the SICU door opened this time was closest to Mr. Liu’s dream. Lele could not walk, run or jump yet, and her vocal cords could not make a sound due to long-term intubation, but she smiled very special brilliant. "Almost the brightest smile I have ever seen, but as soon as we started talking to him, his tears immediately fell down." Mr. Liu said.

Considering that the family also has Dabao who is in elementary school, rehabilitation treatment requires a lot of money, and accompanying him requires high physical strength, so Mr. Liu then took Lele alone to the rehabilitation hospital in Nanjing to continue treatment, and his wife returned to Shaoxing. Take care of your family while working.

In the next year, the separated couple suffered from their own pressure and torture.

In Nanjing, Mr. Liu can only sleep for 3 to 4 hours at night because Lele has to turn over every once in a while, otherwise he will develop bedsores. Sometimes the exercises were too difficult, and Lele couldn't find the feeling of exerting force in his muscles. He always couldn't do it right. He would inevitably feel frustrated and blamed himself, and he became anxious.

In Shaoxing, my wife couldn't concentrate on work, and she always thought about Lele. As a mother, her child is undergoing difficult training but she cannot be with her. She is surrounded by a strong sense of guilt every day.

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What pleased them was that Lele was conscious and sensible, and did not need adult supervision at all. “No matter which hospital he is in, doctors and nurses say he is the strongest and bravest, and he is simply a little star in the ward. ." Mr. Liu said.

Most of the other children train during the day and sit in wheelchairs to play with other children at night. Only Lele urged his father who was cleaning up the dishes shortly after finishing his meal, "Should we train?" He said that he didn't want to play until he learned to walk again.

Now, Lele has returned home to Shaoxing. Every Wednesday and Friday morning, he goes to the local rehabilitation hospital for treatment. The rest of the time, he studies in the morning and trains in the afternoon. His schedule is full.

At home, he can already walk independently with a cane, but at a slower pace. But when you go outside, especially when you encounter stairs and unstable roads, you need help from others.

Mr. Liu said that he originally planned to let his children go to elementary school as scheduled in September this year, but he did not want to trouble teachers and classmates at school, so he postponed it for a year. Lele's idea is simple and firm, "I want to walk to school by myself."

The back view of Lele practicing walking independently

The scene of playing with friends in the park increased the couple's confidence, both physically and mentally. , the children seem to be ready to return to normal life, "Now that the first step has been taken, I believe the next two, three, four, five steps will be more relaxed and confident."

Source: Qianjiang Evening News·Hour News reporter Zhang Bingqing