Rehabilitation of a 3 year old child with severe re-infections

The winter of 2013 was an unusually cold one for the parents of Xia Yirou, a little girl from Hunan province who had just turned 3 years old. After discovering that their baby had scattered red spots (bleeding dots) and lumpy bruises all over her body, the couple anxiously sought medical treatment, and were finally diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia at a local hospital. When they found out that the treatment effect was only 20% to 30%, the young couple was struck by a bolt from the blue! Which baby is not the heart of its parents? Looking at this cute little life, is God really so cruel? The couple asked around and searched the Internet for relevant treatments. Half a month later, the couple learned from their relatives that the Department of Hematology at the Twelfth People’s Hospital of Guangzhou City was good at treating this disease, and that the hospital’s biocellular therapy was very effective in avoiding the need to take drugs with many side effects! They also saw Director Chen Lingzhen’s webpage, and personally called to consult Director Chen Lingzhen about the treatment. After learning about the situation, the couple even immediately came from Hunan, bringing the information to Director Chen Lingzhen to consult the relevant treatment methods and efficacy. Director Chen patiently, meticulously and enthusiastically explained to them the hematology department’s experience in treating severe remittance and the process and advantages of cell therapy, as well as the promising results that had been achieved. This undoubtedly brought the gospel to their baby! The couple had renewed hope in their hearts! On the following day, the couple checked in for their baby. A checkup revealed that her blood count was 2109/L, neutrophils were only 0.01109/L, hemoglobin was 64g/L, and platelets had dropped to 3109/L! This is a series of dangerous numbers! It suggests that the little girl is already a serious patient with severe granulocyte deficiency and a tendency to spontaneous bleeding. Every day, the doctors were very enthusiastic and patient in checking the body, providing information on the progress of treatment, and informing her family that the most important thing for Rou Rou at this stage of treatment was to avoid infection, prevent bleeding, and cooperate with the treatment. At first, for Rou Rou, a little girl who had just turned 3 years old and was not yet familiar with the world, the daily injections and medications were just torture for her! But soon, the couple realized that Zoe didn’t even cry when she was given injections and medication! Upon closer observation, they realized that this is not surprising: the doctors here are so considerate and meticulous in their care, the nurses are skilled in their injection techniques and their gentle and friendly smiles, treating her as if she were their own child and little sister, and the little girl has long since taken this place as half a home, following the doctors and nurses around, calling her auntie, sister, and so on and so forth. Under the leadership of Director Chen Lingzhen and the bedside doctors and the unremitting efforts of all medical staff, Rou Rou started with blood and platelet transfusions and frequent infections every now and then, and gradually got rid of the blood transfusions after four months of treatment, got rid of the granulocyte deficiencies and infections after five months of treatment, and got rid of the platelet transfusions after half a year of treatment, and watched the values on the blood test report form change constantly, and we gradually saw the long-lost smiles on the faces of her parents! Smile! Finally, one morning in early February 2015, the doctors checked the room as usual, when they came to Rou Rou’s bed, they saw the lively and lovely her rosy face, the head of the department and the doctor in charge of the bed carefully studied her recent blood and bone marrow test report form, the blood routine showed: white blood cells 6.76109/L, neutrophils 1.58109/L, hemoglobin 111g/L, platelets have been risen to 63109/L. “Meet the discharge criteria, Zoe has been basically cured and can be discharged!” When the couple heard the director’s words, they excitedly held the director’s hand tightly, “Really? You are her new parents!” Tears of happiness flowed in excitement. Moreover, Zoe didn’t need to take any medicine after discharge and lived a healthy and happy life like a normal child! Zoe is one of the youngest children with severe aplastic anemia admitted and cured by the hematology department of our hospital in recent years. As medical workers, although we have seen so many heartbreaking incidents of injury and insult to doctors in recent years, we inevitably regretted why we entered the medical field in the first place, but after seeing this young couple’s smiles after a long time from their near collapse one year ago, and the healthy and lively appearance of this little life in front of us from pulling it back from the hands of the grim reaper one year ago, we felt that being a medical doctor was the best thing for us once again. I feel the supreme honor of being a doctor.