Doctor Zhao, help!

Chapter 173 Ten Fingers Connecting Heart
"Doctor, believe me, I am really in pain!"

The old lady pinched her left thumb again and said with tears in her eyes.

"Old man, don't be in a hurry. If you have anything to do, let's talk about it slowly."

Zhao Sheng said to comfort the old lady.

This old lady was really excited.

Next, with Zhao Sheng's comfort, the old lady's mood stabilized. After the old lady and her son's narration, Zhao Sheng knew what happened to the old lady.

It turned out that this old lady had had her nails pulled out six times because of pain in her left thumb.

The old lady's son had taken her to see her many times before. Some doctors diagnosed her with paronychia, which is an inflammation of the nail grooves formed by the skin along both sides of the fingers (toes) and the surrounding tissue, often due to tearing. Caused by thorns, nail biting, finger eating, excessive manicure, or ingrown toenails.

The old lady had already had her nails pulled out six times before she came here.

After each nail removal, the pain in the old lady's left thumb was relieved for a while, and she could sleep well for a few days. However, after a while, the pain started again.

Therefore, every time, in order to relieve the pain, the old lady underwent nail removal, which can be called torture.

You know, nail removal surgery, even with anesthesia, is still very painful and cruel.

First, you need to use the tip of a scalpel to poke a hole between the nails, then insert the tissue forceps along the hole, then push the tissue forceps to both sides, then fix the nail with the forceps, and roll it hard. Pull it out.

Even if there is anesthesia during the whole process, the anesthesia is not very effective. In other words, the process of injecting anesthesia into the fingernails is a very painful act in itself.

This whole process is very painful.

The so-called ten fingers are connected to the heart. In ancient times, pulling out armor was one of the ten tortures.

This old lady can endure six times of pulling out her armor. This kind of willpower is simply too tenacious.

Moreover, because repeated nail removal could not completely improve her, doctors at the hospital diagnosed her with cervical spondylosis. They suspected that the compression of the 2-7 nerves in the neck, which are the sensory nerves that control the fingers, caused the pain in the fingers. .

However, a CT scan of the neck found nothing.

Later, when there was really no other way, the old lady's son took her to see a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist diagnosed her with neurosis and hypochondriasis. In other words, she may not have been sick in the first place, but she always felt that she was sick. .

In addition to going to the hospital for treatment, in my hometown, there are various services such as dance masters and goddesses, not to mention.

The goddess in my hometown actually said that the old lady stepped on a scorpion spirit in her previous life, and her fingers would only hurt in this life. The only way now is to chop off her fingers and burn them to pay off the debt, so that she can completely get better.

Because of this ridiculous nonsense, the grumpy old lady's son almost destroyed the goddess's house, and caused a lot of trouble over this matter.

It can be said that the old lady's medical treatment experience can be said to have gone through 81 hardships, full of bitterness and tears.

"Doctor, we've seen every department we can think of. What do you think we should do?"

The old lady's son sighed when he saw his old mother like this. While comforting the old mother, he said to Zhao Sheng helplessly.

It is natural for a son to take his old mother for medical treatment, and there is nothing to say about it.

But looking left and right, swiping left and right, it had no effect at all. What on earth was going to be done? The old lady and her son really didn't know.

"Doctor, why don't you chop off my fingers? I'm old and my fingers are useless."

When the old lady heard what her son said, she immediately said again.

"Old man, please don't talk about chopping off the limbs. This is a hospital. Even if you perform surgery, you can only ampute the limbs, there is no such thing as chopping off the limbs."

"Don't worry, I'll check it for you first,"

Zhao Sheng said with a somewhat helpless expression.

Open and close your mouth [Chop off your fingers], think he is a gangster here!

After saying that, Zhao Sheng wanted to pull the old lady's left hand over a little, and wanted to take a closer look before talking.

At this time, an accident happened.In the process of pulling the old lady's left hand over, Zhao Sheng accidentally touched the nail of the old lady's left thumb.

This touch is huge! !

"Ouch!"

"Ouch, oh, doctor... it hurts..."

The old lady went crazy all of a sudden, screamed in agony, and her whole face wrinkled up.

Next, the old lady pulled her left hand back and kept blowing air on her left thumb, as if this would relieve her pain.

"Mom, the doctor is checking you out, please bear with me, huh?!"

The old lady's son couldn't bear to see his old mother like this.

What he was angry about was that he couldn't get a clue by looking left and right, not about taking his old mother to see a doctor.

Think about it, I pulled out my nails six times, plus other miscellaneous times, it would add up to more than ten times.

This hospital is not right next to my home. Every time I see a doctor, I have to travel a long distance, which is tiring and tiring.

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that the old lady was in such pain after just a slight touch.

He originally thought that the old lady might have neurosis, or a mental illness such as hypochondriasis.

But the way he jumped in pain at the slightest touch, this real pain reaction, didn't seem to be caused by a mental illness.

Even if you pretend, you can't pretend like this.

After a while, Zhao Sheng saw that the old lady's pain seemed to have eased a lot, and then he started to ask: "Old man, when did this finger pain start?"

"It's been almost two years, doctor. That's when I went to the market and bought a piglet. I thought that when the piglet grew up, it could be a New Year pig. The guy who sold the piglet, Zhang Laosan, insisted on me 500 For one piece, I said you are a little pig, can you do four hundred..."

The old lady started talking nonchalantly.

Zhao Sheng didn't interrupt the old lady until she was talking about buying the piglet and preparing to give it a bath.

"Old man, your fingers have been hurting since you went to the market two years ago, right?"

Zhao Sheng interrupted the old lady and said, wiping sweat in his heart.

"Yes."

The old lady nodded.

"Doctor, do you think I have swine fever? It was after I bought the piglet that my fingers started to hurt."

After a pause, the old lady began to speak again on a whim.

"Old man, people don't get swine fever."

"Each pain, how long does it last, and when does it become more severe?"

Zhao Sheng continued to ask.

"It hurts whenever I sit, it hurts when I lie down, it hurts when I touch it, it hurts even when I don't touch it!"

The old lady said very aggrievedly.

After hearing the old lady's description, Zhao Sheng fell into deep thought.

Finger pain refers to the painful feeling in the phalanges of the fingers or the finger joints. Most of them are accompanied by swelling and limited movement of the fingers.

Clinically, the causes that may cause finger pain are not complicated, and generally include trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, etc.

So, what is the cause of this old man’s left thumb hurting like this?
(End of this chapter)