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周琳手术的进展
(2006-06-28 19:38:52)美国的中文报纸《世界日报》关于周琳的报道。
周琳昨天（6月27日）满14岁了，她经历了一次大手术，双脚被切除。这是Brecken的记录。
Zhou Lin had her foot amputation
surgery for about 5-6 hours this morning, and her recovery so far
today is turning out to be more difficult than the doctors
expected. Apparently the quality of Zhou Lin's
foot and ankle bones is pretty bad (one of the surgeons told me
that her bones "could be cut with a butter knife" because of the
poor post-burn treatment and three years of non-use), so they had
to do a fair amount of scraping and chiseling away at the bones to
get a sufficient place to suture the stump
tissue. I never knew that tissue could be sutured
to bones, but apparently so, and it's especially important in this
case to get her stumps as strong and resilient as humanly
possible.
Zhou Lin is in
a great deal of pain -- "about the worst join pain
possible," one doctor commented -- so the decision was made to put
her on a lower-body epidural for 24 hours (the same kind a woman in
labor would get), complemented by stiff doses of morphine every two
hours. She has been vomiting and unable to keep
down any fluids, and her fever has
been over 101 degrees throughout the afternoon, so
she is very uncomfortable whenever she wakes from the
sedation. Because the nurses will need to
communicate with Zhou Lin on and off throughout the night to check
her pain level and make sure the epidural is okay, they've asked me
to stay with Zhou Lin and her mom overnight. I'm
grateful that Xu Lan is here also, so that she can
take over for us tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow is expected to be the
worst of Zhou Lin's recovery, because the epidural will be removed,
and then she'll just have to tough out the foot pain (which is
expected to be severe) between doses of
morphine. The intensive care wing of the
hospital, where we are now, is full of recently burned kids who cry
out frequently in pain, so it's a bit of an intense atmosphere that
makes it tough to rest. If Zhou Lin can make it
through tomorrow without the epidural, she can hopefully be
released on Thursday to the recovery wing of the hospital and
settle down into a routine.
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