The miracle of life! A female white-collar worker collapsed on the subway and became a vegetative state. Her family stayed with her for a year and a half before waking her up.
After being bedridden in a coma for a year and a half, her daughter suddenly called out "Mom", and the 80-year-old mother burst into tears.
At the end of March 2016, my 45-year-old daughter Zhang Li (pseudonym) suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fainted while riding the subway. Due to the acute illness and heavy bleeding, she was saved by emergency treatment at the West Branch of Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital. Unfortunately, she became a "vegetative state". Although she could open her eyes, she was unable to communicate with others. At the insistence of her elderly parents and her husband, Zhang Li entered the hyperbaric oxygen chamber for more than 100 times to recover, but to no avail. Just when the family was about to despair, Zhang Li woke up after being in a coma for a year and a half. The doctor praised her as "creating a medical invention." miracle". Recently, Zhang Li was able to eat on her own and was discharged from the hospital for lengthy rehabilitation training.
Having an unbearable headache while riding the subway, the female white-collar worker fainted and became a vegetative state
45-year-old Zhang Li (pseudonym) is originally from Xi'an. After graduation, she stayed in Wuhan to start her own family. Become a business manager through hard work. On March 30, 2016, Zhang Li took the subway home after get off work. When she was about to leave the Dongfeng Company site, she suddenly felt severe pain in her head.
Unable to hold on any longer, Zhang Li returned to the security checkpoint, took out her mobile phone and asked the staff for help: "I have a bad headache. Can you please call my home?" As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Li His eyes went dark and he fainted and fell to the ground.
When the 80-year-old mother Zhang arrived after receiving the call, her daughter Zhang Li was sitting in a wheelchair and was unconscious. With everyone's help, the 120 ambulance sent her to the hospital 2 kilometers away from the incident.
“It had only been 4 minutes since we drove all the way to the hospital. My daughter’s pupils were already dilated and she was only breathing weakly. I was scared.” One and a half years later, Zhang’s mother still recalls the situation at that time. There is lingering fear in my heart.
What's worse is that the emergency doctor's CT examination found that Zhang Li had a large area of ??intracranial bleeding in the right occipital lobe, up to 100 ml, which compressed the central nervous system, and the brain edema was severe, which put her life in danger.
"With your daughter's condition, she may not be able to get off the operating table." The doctor advised the two elderly people to think again. Zhang's mother pulled the doctor and said: "As long as there is still breath, let's take a gamble and treat it!"
Professor Fu Rong of the Department of Neurosurgery of Union Hospital nodded and immediately performed a craniotomy. After removing the hematoma and decompressing the brain, Professor Fu found the "culprit" causing cerebral hemorrhage: cerebral arteriovenous malformation, and cut out and sutured the blood vessels bit by bit.
The operation lasted 7 hours, and Zhang Li’s life was finally saved. But unfortunately, she suffered from bleeding and edema after the operation and fell into a coma.
After more than 100 hyperbaric oxygen treatments a year, the 80-year-old parents almost want to give up
“The patient can open his eyes, but cannot communicate with others.” Professor Fu Rong said that this kind of “ "Waking coma" is what everyone often calls a vegetative state. As for when he will regain consciousness, the doctor has no idea. However, the coma lasted for more than 3 months, and the possibility of clinical awakening was extremely slim.
Outside the ward, Zhang Li’s husband, Mr. Han, kept watch all night. "We just talked on the phone a few minutes before the accident, why did he suddenly become a vegetative state?" Mr. Han said, his father-in-law and mother-in-law were 80 years old and had just come to Wuhan from Xi'an to visit their daughter a week ago. They did not expect such a big thing to happen.
"Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, we have to try." Mr. Han said that he heard that entering a hyperbaric oxygen chamber can help recovery, so the family took Zhang Li to the Provincial Xinhua Hospital for treatment 2-3 times a week. Second-rate. The three of them stayed by the bed, chatting with her and massaging her.
"But after three months of the "golden period" of awakening, Zhang Li still had her eyes open and was unresponsive. She had to open her mouth to feed her, and the family was in panic. "I thought about it all night, Decided to continue the treatment! Until the two of us can no longer take care of him. "Zhang's mother said that she was worried that her son-in-law would delay work, so they "issued an order" to only allow him to take care of him after get off work.
As of April last year, Zhang Li had undergone hyperbaric oxygen treatment more than 100 times. The doctor did not She couldn't bear to see the two elders waiting so hard, and said with relief: "Grandma, your daughter has been in a coma for a year, and I have tried all the methods, but the possibility of waking up is really slim.
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“This sentence seemed to hit me at the top of my heart. I hid and cried all night. "Mother Zhang said that she actually thought at the time that her daughter might be like this for the rest of her life. But she didn't dare to think about what her daughter would do for the rest of her life if the two elders were gone.
Every day they rubbed each other and chatted. , unexpected recovery miracle
With one last attempt, in April last year, the old man took his daughter to Tongji Hospital for treatment. During this period, Zhang Li’s small gesture gave Zhang’s mother hope again. " When I fed her, my daughter opened her mouth slightly. "Mother Zhang was surprised and said that this had never happened before. In a few days, she would actually blow into the food on her lips.
Mother Zhang immediately thought of Professor Fu Rong. This year In June, the two elders and their daughter were transferred back to the West Campus of Union Medical College Hospital. Professor Fu lamented the persistence of the two elders. He said: "After so many years of practicing medicine, it is rare to see a person in a vegetative state wake up after being in a coma for three months, but the old man still doesn't care. give up. ”
In response to Zhang Li’s situation, Professor Fu Rong invited experts from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Rehabilitation to provide symptomatic bedside rehabilitation treatment and closely monitor her lung infection. Nurses came in every hour to treat Zhang Li Li turned over and sucked sputum. Because she had allergic dermatitis, her skin was often red and hard, which made it difficult for the nurse to insert the needle.
At the end of October this year, Zhang’s mother sat by the bed to massage her daughter. Looking at Zhang Li's appearance, she felt sad and said, "Daughter, my mother is so old and has been serving you for more than a year. Can you please call me 'Mom'? "Mother Zhang was still very excited when she recalled the scene at that time. She said that she raised her head and looked at her daughter, and she actually moved her mouth. "My daughter had a tracheotomy and couldn't make a sound, but I knew by looking at the shape of her mouth that she was really awake. Coming.
Mother Zhang held her daughter and cried until she burst into tears, but she did not dare to tell her family. "I'm so afraid that this is a dream. I'm afraid that as soon as I say it, the dream will wake up." Zhang's mother said that her daughter can occasionally move her mouth, but most of the time she is still the same.
Half a month later, the medical staff heard the news and were too surprised to believe it. Until Professor Fu Rong made one of his ward rounds, Zhang Li moved her mouth and said, "Hello." Everyone was stunned: "The vegetative person who had been sleeping for a year and a half is really awake."
The doctor called it a "miracle of life" and the strong woman's personality became gentle
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, "I really can't believe it." Professor Fu Rong said that 99 people in vegetative state died of complications such as infection. Zhang Li was in a coma for more than a year, and it was a miracle of life that she could survive so many difficulties. Too rare.
Professor Fu Rong speculated that this may be related to the location of the patient's bleeding. The occipital lobe of the brain where the disease occurred is located far back and is in charge of the human visual center. If it were in other parts of the brain, his life might not be saved. After the accident, immediate rescue provided the possibility of recovery.
A few days ago, when the reporter saw Zhang Li in the ward, she was reclining on the bed undergoing acupuncture treatment, with two elderly people happily accompanying her. Zhang's mother said that her daughter could not remember what happened when she woke up, but the family felt that after escaping from death, she changed from a strong woman with a strong personality to a gentle and coquettish person.
“In the past, she was never submissive to her parents, but now she talks sweet words all the time, which makes us two feel happy.” Mother Zhang said that her daughter woke up and thanked the caregiver, saying that she would repay her kindness; see The doctor will shed tears of gratitude.
Due to being bedridden for a long time, Zhang Li’s limb muscles are stiff. Currently, she can only move her left hand slightly, and there will be a long recovery process. But judging from the situation after waking up, Professor Fu Rong said that Zhang Li recovered well and the tracheal incision was closed at the end of November. If you cooperate better, you will be able to walk like a normal person in the future.
It’s really a miracle! I wish her a speedy recovery and let her parents feel the love of their daughter!