‘Little Cutie’ in Ward

In the sizzling days of July, Amyotrophy No. 1 Ward was greeted with a ‘little cutie’. The 5-month-old boy held by his mother was smiling to nurses as if he was currying favor. He was a boy suffering lipoatrophy from left loin to the haunch with a major deep furrow on he left buttock as if he were cut by a knife and a deep furrow cut his left buttock to two parts. Electromyography: ‘no abnormality seen’. Nuclear magnetic resonance: ‘partial attenuation in left gluteus maximus, T2 high signals surrounding it, thin and hollow rear fat layer, please refer to the clinical application,’ His mother had been dropping at many hospitals and got the message that he was incurable. 

Director Lu Chunling received the little boy in the clinic office and agreed to help figure out a way on seeing the anxiety in his family. In fact, Director Lu knew it was difficult, but she wanted to work out a method to help the little boy. 

It’s difficult to take medication for sure, for the boy was just more five months ago. The first scheme was that the mother took medicine and the little sucked his breast, but the Mother did not have any breast milk and the kid had been fed via bottle-feeding. After discussions, we came up with the diagnosis scheme to propel partial tissue regeneration and gain flesh via washout of TCM along with exterior coating of TCM medicinal extract, adopt the therapy of pinching the skin along the spinal column to dredge the channel, regulate the Yin and Yang, propel qi-blood circulation and improve viscera functions, and refer to rehabilitation exercise to cure developmental retardation. 

After the scheme was set, patient therapy followed. Though each day was a torture for the little kid, yet he smiled to us and never cried. We all praised him to be a considerate ‘little cutie’. 

Yang Xiaoli, his physician, always massaged his little butt and applied medication. He had been repetitively studying it by taking photographs via phone. For one to two weeks, it worked wonders. His butt began to be plump and the furrow grew thin. Both the doctors and the nurses were relieved in smiling face. 

After three months, miracle came out. The original deep furrow disappeared and the ‘little cutie’ became the ‘little naughty’. He learned how to turn over and play around while seating. He learned how to sit with the help of his mother and was muttering things nonstop to woo his mother’s attention. He was the ‘little cutie’ in the ward in its true sense.  

We were all happy for the recovered ‘little cutie’ though we were reluctant to say goodbye after his hospital discharge. We had to bid farewell to him and wished that he grew up sound and strong. We did not take photographs of his smiling face, just the little butt as below.