How do people with spinal cord cavities struggle to find medical care?

  Guan Ming, male, 39 years old, lives in the northeast of the countryside, the patient twenty years ago for no reason the right side of the arm numbness, pain and hyperalgesia, sometimes he was scalded by boiling water can not feel it, rural people have a little disease never want to go to the hospital to see, so it has been delayed without going to the hospital, did not expect these symptoms gradually aggravated with the extension of time.  Seven years ago he slowly felt the right side of his face and half of his body did not also begin to numb, sometimes with a needle can not feel the pain, he realized that the hospital, so he came to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, the hospital did a head spinal MR examination and diagnosed him with a diagnosis of “spinal cavernous disease”, these symptoms are due to this spinal cavernous disease. In 2001, there were not many treatment options for this disease, so the doctors at Harbin Medical University prescribed him a lot of medication and told him to take it for treatment, but after taking the medication for a long time, it did not relieve him, and his symptoms were getting worse.  One day in 2009, he unknowingly found that his right lower limb also began to numb, walking and no strength, the family can not do farm work, can only face the family every day sighing. In the middle of helplessness, he went to the Jiamusi Central Hospital and the First Affiliated Hospital of Jia University for treatment, but was told that it was impossible to treat. Guan Changming is in the prime of life, watching the condition worsen day by day, the thought of having this incurable disease. Sighing all day long, not only will increase the burden on the family, but also have to let his wife bear the burden of supporting the family, the more you think about the more uncomfortable …… even thought of death.  The more you think about it, the harder you feel. One day I went to see a doctor and heard from the hospital of Jiamusi University that there were doctors who treated this area in Sanbo Hospital, so I planned to go to Sanbo Hospital for consultation and treatment, but then I saw the Jiamusi TV station that Jiamusi University Hospital had a cooperative relationship with Beijing Sanbo Hospital, so I went to Jiamusi University Hospital on February 28, 2008 and asked the director of Beijing Sanbo Brain Hospital, Fan Tao, to conduct a remote consultation. His right limb, half of the body, pain and temperature sensation disappeared, only a slight sense of touch existed, ataxia of the lower limb, unable to walk normally, and muscle atrophy of the right hand.  After understanding the patient’s condition in detail, Director Fan made the following diagnosis: idiopathic total spinal cord cavity; the incidence of this disease is very low and is commonly found in young and middle-aged males, which is very harmful and often leads to loss of working ability and even self-care ability, causing great pain to the patient. Because the formation of spinal cord cavity leads to chronic atrophy of the spinal cord, the patient’s symptoms worsen day by day, there is no good drug treatment plan, the only way is to use the spinal cord cavity – thoracic shunt surgery, the method of surgery is to cut open the spinal cord under the microscope, place a slim shunt tube, and then put the other end of the drainage tube into the thoracic cavity, so that the cerebrospinal fluid in the spinal cord cavity with the slow flow into the thoracic cavity, absorbed by the pleura The pressure in the spinal cord cavity is reduced and the cavity disappears, preventing further deterioration or improvement of the patient’s condition.  After thorough preparation, Director Fan performed the surgery for him, which went well. Now he has started to work on the ground, and the family is smiling happily again as they see their symptoms improving day by day.