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three and a half months.

From the birth of the child to the discharge from the hospital, it took three and a half months and a total of 104 days. For such a long time, Xu Tongdao was suffering day and night.

Every time he went to see his daughter, he was both anticipating and frightening.

What he is looking forward to is that he can see his daughter gain a lot of weight this time, because he heard that if the premature baby is to be discharged from the hospital, the weight must reach at least 4 pounds.

But every time he went to the hospital, he was disappointed. His daughter's weight increased by one or two taels a week, which was a surprise. Sometimes it didn't rise but fell.

What he was afraid of - he was afraid that after going to see his daughter, the doctor would tell him something more serious.

He was afraid that his daughter's condition would worsen.

very afraid.

Although generally speaking, his daughter's condition is gradually improving, and the problems diagnosed by the hospital at the beginning are all cured one by one.

For example, at the beginning, it was said that his daughter's left calf was turned out, and it would be cured in a few days.

For example, in the first three weeks of staying in the incubator, the hospital told him every time that his daughter's cardiopulmonary function had not developed well and needed oxygen infusion. Later, it recovered, saying that her daughter was able to breathe on her own.

Another example is hypothyroidism. After a few weeks of drug treatment, the thyroid value has returned to normal.

and many more.

In the last two months, there was no improvement, and there were only two problems left to torment the child.

One is that the direct bilirubin value is too high, and each inspection value exceeds the upper limit of the instrument measurement.

And what is the upper limit of the instrument's measurement?

1000.

The normal value range is generally 0-13.

One can imagine how frighteningly high his daughter's direct bilirubin is.

Another problem is that of cytomegalovirus infection.

Can this virus be cured?

The doctor said: Yes.

But the trouble is with drugs to treat the virus, which doctors say can range from minor to major side effects.

If it is big,

How big will it be?

The doctor said: may affect the child's intellectual development, may also affect the child's physical development.

This is a dilemma.

Cytomegalovirus can also be dangerous to children without this medication, and the side effects can be very serious with medication.

By the way, the name of this drug, because the attending doctor repeatedly mentioned to Xu Tongdao, Xu Tongdao was impressed, and it was called Ganciclovir.

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During the long treatment period, Tongdao Xu felt despair about the future.

Because every time he asks the doctor, when will his daughter's disease be cured?

When will you be discharged from the hospital?

No matter which doctor he asked, the other said: It's hard to say, it depends on the situation behind.

Ask the doctor if he can be cured?

The doctor also said: It's hard to say, it's really hard to say.

When he was most desperate, Tongdao Xu, who was never superstitious, suddenly took a car back to Tianyun City, and then returned to his hometown, Shazhou County, with his household registration book.

He took the household registration book and went to register his daughter with a household registration. What he thought at the time was: maybe registering my daughter's name on my household registration book, my daughter's identity will be recognized by heaven and earth, by ghosts and gods, and her life will be born from now on. to be settled.

Reason told him that it was superstition, it was self-deception.

But he really had no choice.

During the long treatment period, he took his daughter's medical records, went to Modu, went to the two most famous pediatric hospitals in Modu, and found the most famous experts for consultation.

But what do the experts from the two hospitals say?

Jinling Children's Hospital is very strong! You really don't need to transfer your children to our hospital, there's really no need for that!

The hospital in Modu is like this. He estimates that the hospital in Beijing is similar, and he is not in the mood to continue to run to the capital.

By the way, when he registered his daughter with a household registration, he gave her a very simple name and a very simple meaning - An An.

Xu Anan.

When he gave his daughter this name, he only hoped that her daughter would be safe and sound. Apart from that, he had nothing else to ask for, and he did not dare to expect more.

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result……

A coincidence happened.

Not long after he named his daughter and completed the household registration, he and Wei Chunlan went to visit her daughter again.

In the elevator, I happened to meet a deputy director of the very low birth weight neonatal intensive care unit of the Children's Hospital.

At that time, it had been almost three months since Tongdao Xu's daughter moved in here.

Because they come every week, their daughter's situation is special here, and the deputy director has long known their husband and wife.

That afternoon, when Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan met the deputy director in the elevator, the deputy director gave them a sigh with a helpless smile and said, Ouch! You've come! Hurry up! Hurry up! Go out and buy two pacifiers, your daughter! It's hurt us badly recently, I'm almost neurastheniac these days! Really, I'm not exaggerating at all, your daughter is really amazing, she can have it Human life!

At that time, Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan were both astonished.

Where did this come from?

Our daughter is so pitiful. After so long, she is only about three and a half pounds. What can she do? How could it hurt you so badly? Makes you nervous?

Are you trying to blackmail?

Before they could respond, the deputy director suddenly patted his forehead and said with a smile, Oh, yes, there is good news for you, I almost forgot, your daughter's direct bilirubin was not special before. Is it high? When I checked her yesterday, I didn’t know what was going on. Her direct bilirubin value suddenly became normal. We couldn’t believe it. The value of , do you think it is strange?

Tong Xu: ???

Wei Chunlan: ???

The couple were both surprised and delighted at the time, unable to believe their ears.

The direct bilirubin that made these doctors helpless before... just suddenly returned to normal?

When I checked last week, wasn't it still too high to measure the specific value?

In addition to being pleasantly surprised, Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan couldn't help confirming the news to the deputy director. The deputy director had a very good attitude today, and repeatedly stated that their daughter's direct bilirubin had really returned to normal, and then it became very strong. Ask them to hurry up and buy two pacifiers.

Tongdao Xu and Wei Chunlan were puzzled and asked why.

But the reason is - That little guy may have been making a fuss recently, and cries at every turn. Don't look at her small, she cries loudly, the key is that we can't coax her well, and every time she cries, she will The children who drove the whole ward cried, and the children in the ward next to them also cried. We often have children in all the wards here in the past few days, and your precious daughter has taken them to cry. How can we have so many? How many people are there to coax so many children? Really! Come and buy two pacifiers! Go and go! I beg you!

Xu Tongdao and Wei Chunlan couldn't believe what the deputy director said at that time.

In addition to being surprised, he also wanted to laugh a little.

That little thing is so powerful?