I run a clinic in the United States

Chapter 297 The Northern Lion ascends the ladder to heaven, the Southern Lion plum blossom pile

For congenital microtia like Little Vicky, the treatment principles basically include the following:

One is a non-surgical method, where prosthetic ears are made of plastic or silicone. But there is a drawback, that is, these ears are fake and cannot feel anything, so they are inferior to inferior ones.

The second is to implant a post prosthetic ear, which is a two-stage operation. In the first stage, about 4 titanium nails are implanted in the bone of the mastoid area, and the titanium nails are completely osseointegrated with the bone (3 to 6 months); then in the second stage, Connect the prepared prosthetic ear to the titanium implant nail.

The third is the classic Tanzer-Brent method of total ear reconstruction, which is more complicated and requires four stages.

The fourth is one-stage total ear reconstruction. This method is to raise the anterior pedicle skin flap in the mastoid area of ​​the affected side, and then raise the fascia flap in the deep layer; cut the autologous costal cartilage and medium-thickness skin graft, and carve the costal cartilage into the shape of the ear cartilage scaffold; then implant the scaffold into the prepared ear cartilage scaffold. Between the two flaps, wrap it with two flaps, and graft the remaining wounds behind the ears and mastoid area with skin.

The fifth is the expansion method of total ear reconstruction, which is divided into three stages. In the first stage, an expander is embedded in the subcutaneous tissue layer of the mastoid area to expand the skin; the second stage surgical procedures are basically similar to the first stage total ear reconstruction; the third stage surgical reconstruction Ear trimming, concha cavity deepening, medium-thickness skin grafting.

These multi-stage surgeries are actually quite mature, safe, and have a high success rate. However, they are long-lasting and cost much more, as well as the children's suffering.

An operation is a disaster. No operation is comfortable and relaxing.

In addition, major surgery will put a lot of psychological pressure on the patient.

Many people abroad need the help of a psychologist after being hospitalized for a long time.

Zhou Qiao still chooses the one-phase method.

At the same time, he also wanted to perform "eyelid reconstruction" on little Vicki.

This is not just a matter of creating an eyelid, because little Vicki was born without eyelids, resulting in almost total blindness in her left eye.

To put it seriously, it is equivalent to blindness in this eye. Ugliness is secondary, and invisibility is the key.

For this eye, Zhou Qiao, Murphy, and Stephanie consulted together to discuss the surgical plan, and selected the optimal solution, which was eyelid reconstruction, fetal eye reconstruction, and fake eye mask transplantation.

After recovery, a prosthetic eye will be installed.

Although this eye is still non-functional, with Zhou Qiao's skills, at least there is no abnormality in appearance.

Zhou Qiao has also contacted some organizations, but unfortunately, no one has donated eyes so far.

Since the child is relatively small, a child's eyes are needed. Her mother wanted to donate it, but the size wasn't right. Even if it succeeds, it will end up with "big and small eyes" and look even weirder.

This kind of incoordination affects the appearance and is fatal to girls.

Therefore, in the end, the patient's family agreed with Zhou Qiao's approach.

In addition, eye transplantation is actually quite difficult.

Vision is a very complex nervous system in the human body, involving countless nerves that are invisible to the naked eye. Tens of thousands of optic nerves, which are invisible to the naked eye, are all connected, so you can imagine how difficult it is. I guess no one can do it except Zhou Qiao.

It is much more difficult than disconnecting and reconnecting.

Even if all the nerves match perfectly, what about the rejection reaction? The eyeballs are very close to the brain.

Perhaps the future development direction is nanorobots?

When Zhou Qiao takes action, it must be a masterpiece. The surgery went very smoothly.

……

Thalia has been a little depressed lately.

She missed the two-person life in Sacramento with Zhou Qiao a while ago.

Here, there is really very little time to spend alone with Zhou Qiao, especially when my friend Jenna comes over to "have a meal".

It's okay to cheat on food, and Talia is not that stingy, but after Jenna came, due to financial reasons, she and Talia were squeezed into the same hotel room.

They originally lived together in Los Angeles, which is normal.

Jenna didn't think too much about it. How could she know that the little fairy Thalia needed a separate personal space now.

With Talia's temperament, it was naturally impossible to "drive people away". Therefore, she and Zhou Qiao could only occasionally make love secretly in the car or in the bathroom to comfort their lovesickness.

Hollywood screenwriters and actors continue to go on strike for such a long time that it astonishes the world.

Of course, this is also determined by the nature of the work.

A three-day strike by doctors and nurses is already the limit. After all, it is impossible to really ignore the hospitalized patients. Most doctors and nurses still have basic professional ethics.

Sometimes, medical staff strikes and demonstrations are held in batches.

Dr. Victoria Fewes called Zhou Qiao and talked about the current situation. When talking about this matter, Dr. Victoria Fewes expressed great envy.

……

A new Haidilao restaurant opened in San Francisco, and Zhou Qiao took a few girls to eat hot pot.

I have to say that many foreigners in San Francisco are very good at using chopsticks, and there are many beautiful foreign girls among them.

Since it was a new store opening, many people came, including Koreans and Japanese.

Then, there was a child celebrating his birthday near Zhou Qiao's table. The clerk came over to sing and dance, and a customer asked, "Can you dance subject three?"

"Of course!" The clerks nodded and made gestures.

"Not only can we dance, but at the end of the month our store will also hold a competition for employee subject three!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked. The people around him were stunned.

At the urging of the guests, cheerful and rhythmic music sounded, and "Yi Siao Jiang Hu DJ Version" began: "The sword raises the grievances of the rivers and lakes, the sleeves flicker to cover the bright moon, the leaves of the west wind fall and the flowers fade..."

Three shop assistants, one Chinese and two foreigners, arranged in a zigzag formation, began to dance skillfully. Many people stopped eating hot pot to watch and take photos. Elena, Ava, Murphy, and Stephanie smiled knowingly. They had not danced this dance for a long time.

Zhou Qiao glanced at it casually and suddenly lost interest. Because the four top beauties around him danced subject three, that was the real ceiling.

Although the dancing skills of these shop assistants are good and quite eye-catching, if there is a level of dancing, these girls are the kings of glory, and these shop assistants are silver at best.

Zhou Qiao also didn’t expect that Subject [-] would become popular in many places abroad.

Japanese, Korean, British, Russian, Australian, African... there are shakers everywhere, which can be said to have taken the universe by storm.

Not to mention Baodao, a place with the same culture and species, some netizens joked that they did not expect that the "dance system" would be the first to be realized!

Qin Shihuang didn't even expect that the person who unified the world would be subject three.

No one would have guessed that the team that broke out of Asia before the national football team would be subject three.

Some netizens cried loudly, "I will take the subject three exam the day after tomorrow, but when I searched online, it was all about this dance, and I couldn't find any teaching materials."

Some netizens smiled bitterly. I twisted twice in the mirror, but my grandma pointed at me with a mahogany sword and said, no matter who you are, get out of my granddaughter’s body immediately.

Although subject three is a bit unsophisticated, even the big names in the national standard circle have failed, which is enough to show its appeal.

……

Chinatown, a lion dance training ground.

In the antique backyard, twenty plum blossom stakes of different heights are arranged in six groups.

The heroic girl with a single ponytail stood on a tall plum blossom pile facing the wind, shouting to the boy below: "Come up quickly!"

The boy felt the faint pain coming from his left heel and smiled bitterly: "I can't go up. I can't go up anymore."

"Don't you want to marry me?"

The girl took out a pair of small, embroidered brass lion-awakening ornaments, clicked them, and leaned over to place them on the plum blossom pile.

This is a love token given by a boy to a girl. They agree to win the Lion King Championship together at the end of the year. At that time, the boy will propose to the girl on the plum blossom pile on the spot.

However, things are unpredictable, and people have misfortunes and misfortunes. More than a month ago, the boy had a problem with his right ankle.

The pain is unbearable and I can't even walk. How can I practice on the pile?

The boy had a poor life since he was a child.

When he was one year old, his parents divorced and he was sentenced to his mother. When he was three years old, his mother remarried and went to Chicago to start a new family.

He became the unwanted child. He has no father, that is someone else's father, and no mother, that is someone else's mother.

If he has parents, why doesn't he remember what they look like? After his mother remarried, she rarely came back to see him, and she didn't even have much contact with him.

Fortunately, there is a master who loves him. The master was his mother's third uncle. He took pity on him and took him in and kept him by his side since he was a child.

Follow the master and practice the ancestral lion dance skills.

There was a problem with his ankle, and the master was worried, so he took him to a Chinese medicine clinic in Chinatown. The old Chinese medicine doctor there specializes in treating bruises and injuries and is very good at orthopedics.

After the examination, the old Chinese medicine doctor sighed on the spot and only asked: "My child, how old are you?"

The boy replied: "I'm eighteen!"

"Eighteen years old... Sigh~..." The old Chinese doctor sighed again.

The boy and the master were both anxious.

The master quickly asked: "Doctor, is my apprentice's... foot serious?"

The boy also stared at the old Chinese doctor anxiously with burning eyes.

The old Chinese doctor tugged at his white beard and said very sadly: "His feet are crippled and cannot be cured."

So, he stopped talking, prescribed some medicine, and let the boy master lead him back.

I am not afraid of the old Chinese doctor smiling, but I am afraid of the old Chinese doctor sighing and flipping through the vertical version of medical books.

The horizontal version is a medical book, but the vertical version is a dusty ancient book that may be the Death Note.

This old Chinese medicine doctor is a very famous old doctor in the Chinese circle. If he made this comment, it might be that it really cannot be cured.

The master took the boy back, and the girl carefully prepared the medicine and brought the medicine to the boy's bed.

The boy was leaning on the bedside. He used to be as agile and lively as a little monkey, but now he was dumbfounded.

"Drink the medicine and you'll be fine. When you recover, I'll dance the lion dance with you again." The girl consoled her.

The girl was only seventeen years old, an innocent age. She did not believe that it could not be cured and that her beloved could not be disabled like this.

The boy picked up the bowl, tears dripping into the bitter liquid, endured the pain, and drank it all in one gulp.

After conservative treatment, the boy's ankle pain was relieved, but he was also lame.

"This is our career and pursuit, do you really want to give up?" The girl stood on the plum blossom pile, looking at the pair of splendid lion awakening ornaments, tears rolling down her face.

That was his junior sister. Like him, she was an orphan adopted by her master. The two were childhood sweethearts, and they agreed since childhood that they would carry forward the legacy of lion awakening together.

(End of this chapter)