Chapter 21 Xiaoxu, Don't Be Afraid

The weight of the body was basically on him, and his head only hit once. After lying there for about one or two minutes, Shen Mingxu woke up completely in the stairwell.

His right leg pressed on his left leg and his body tilted to the ground. He felt around and couldn't find the cane. He began to try to support his body with both hands to move up. It was at this time that Shen Mingxu gradually felt the pain and strangeness in his body.

He didn't know where his glasses and cane fell. Shen Mingxu had poor eyesight and the light in the corridor was not good, so he was not surprised or scared that he couldn't see clearly in front of him and was all thick black fog; but the strong pain in his left thigh had already appeared. He guessed that he had injured his leg when he fell down. He didn't know the extent of the injury. His left leg was not very mobile, but he didn't know how much protection the leg brace could provide.

His ribs hurt, and he pressed them with his hands. It didn't hurt any more, probably because there was no fracture; with both hands, he raised his hips by an inch, and his thigh was in great pain and couldn't move at all. After groping for a while with his hands outstretched, Shen Mingxu could not find his cane, cell phone, or glasses. Feeling desperate, he lay on the concrete floor again.

Yunxi went to prepare lunch for Shen Mingxu and brought him some fruit to put in the rest suite, but he disappeared after the meeting.

After waiting in his office for a while, Yunxi did not wait for Shen Mingxu to come back. She asked the secretary and the secretary said that he was sure he had not come back. The two of them wondered if Shen Mingxu was stopped by someone to talk, or maybe he went to the bathroom in a hurry?

After a few minutes, Yunxi went to the meeting room where Shen Mingxu had just held a meeting, but there was still no one there. She began to feel uneasy and hurriedly sent him a message, but there was no reply.

After a few minutes, Yunxi's composure was gone, and the secretary was also puzzled. How could her boss suddenly disappear in the middle of the day?

Unable to resist, Yunxi started to call Shen Mingxu's cell phone. Fortunately, his cell phone was connected. It kept ringing. After calling for a long time, it was finally picked up. She couldn't believe her ears. "Xiaoxu? Xiaoxu? What are you doing?"

She turned the side of the phone to answer the call. Shen Mingxu heard the phone ringing, and he endured the pain and crawled a few inches on the ground. He found the phone after following the sound. A weak and slightly panting voice came over, "Stairs, Xiaoxi, I fell down on the stairs..."

Hearing his heavy and unbearable breathing, completely different from usual, Yunxi immediately grasped the key point and asked, "Stairwell? Our floor?"

"Yes..." Enduring the pain and coldness in all parts of his body, Shen Mingxu tried to speak loudly.

"Don't hang up the phone, wait for me." After hearing him say yes, Yunxi had already rushed out of the office, holding the secretary's hand and motioning her to take the phone with her to find Shen Mingxu.

The two girls trotted all the way and quickly opened the security door. In the flickering light, Yunxi saw Shen Mingxu lying at the bottom of the stairs.

The security door made a noise, and more light came in. Shen Mingxu couldn't see the person clearly even with his squinted eyes. He didn't have the strength to shout, and only his exhausted phone slipped to the side, but he knew that it was Yunxi who came.

"Xiaoxu, it's me." The voice came before the person arrived. Yunxi first gave Shen Mingxu a hint of the voice. She didn't know where he was injured, but she knew that his legs and feet were not good and he couldn't stand the fall.

She ran down the stairs desperately and knelt beside the man lying on the ground. She didn't pull Shen Mingxu, but carefully reached out to touch his face, head, and neck, and asked him in a low voice, "Where did you fall? Is your neck okay? Did you hit your head?" Turning on the light of the phone, she saw that his head didn't bleed obviously, but there were scratches on his face. She had begun to pay attention to his body and limbs.

"Legs, it hurts a lot, I can't walk, my head hit it, neck, it's okay." He couldn't see anything, but his neck didn't hurt or twist. Although his head hit it, Shen Mingxu didn't think it was serious, and the most painful part was his left leg.

"Call an ambulance and ask Brother Zhou to come." Yunxi asked her secretary to call a car and ask for help. She hugged Shen Mingxu and tried to help him sit up.

"Ah, my thigh, it hurts, it hurts..." He couldn't sit up. He was sweating all over from the pain. If Yunxi hadn't called him, Shen Mingxu would have fainted from the pain.

He hurt his thigh! Yunxi's heart shrank instantly. She was so distressed that she almost cried, but her lover was still lying on the concrete floor. She couldn't cry.

"Let's go to the hospital right away. Wait a little longer. We'll be fine after going to the hospital in a while." Her voice was a little trembling. Yunxi was terrified. She was afraid that he would be injured and suffer, but she felt more and more powerless.

With her ten fingers clenched, Yunxi felt sorry for Shen Mingxu's disabled leg lying on the concrete floor, but the fractured thigh was so painful. She could feel his body shaking slightly. She couldn't move him, so she could only kneel on the ground to accompany him.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Heng and his assistants arrived. The emergency doctor brought a stretcher and fixed Shen Mingxu's injured left thigh. Then Zhou Heng and the doctor carried him on the stretcher, carried Shen Mingxu out of the emergency passage, and into the elevator...

There was no anesthetic in this process. Shen Mingxu couldn't help groaning in pain. He couldn't see, and his hands were groping helplessly. Yunxi hugged him and gave him warm support.

It was still noon, but Yunxi felt like a long time had passed. Until she held Shen Mingxu's hand in the ambulance and saw the scratches on his face that had been simply cleaned, but he didn't look at her carefully, she suddenly remembered something and lowered her head to look carefully into his eyes.

"Xiaoxu, look at me." His body was fixed on the stretcher, and the ECG and blood pressure lines were connected. Yunxi was still worried. She was afraid that her imagination would come true.

"I can't see clearly, Xiaoxi, I'm fine." His body was getting more and more painful, and he was a little dizzy from the fall. Shen Mingxu answered Yunxi reluctantly, and his scattered eyes couldn't meet her face at all.

Yunxi stood up from the side seat of the ambulance and squatted beside Shen Mingxu who was lying in the middle. She wanted to touch his face, but hesitated whether to do it. She asked him in a low voice, "Does your eye hurt?"

"No, it does, a black shadow, it doesn't hurt." There were some scratches on his head and face, but Shen Mingxu felt it was okay. It was mainly his waist, hips and thighs that hurt so much that he couldn't help but want to scream and curse.

After arriving at the hospital, Shen Mingxu was carefully moved and his limbs were carefully examined. The most serious injury was in his left thigh, a fractured femur. The doctor said on the spot that he needed surgery. The contusion on the waist and the bruise on the knee were fortunately not to hurt the bones, and the multiple skin injuries were also disinfected and cleaned in time.

After hearing the news, Shen Zhongheng and his wife rushed to the hospital to see their son. The eldest son had important matters to attend to and could not come. In the spacious ward, the attending doctor was explaining the patient's condition and treatment methods to the patient's family. There was no place for Yunxi, so she took the opportunity to find an ophthalmologist, "Doctor, please help him check his eyes."

The Shen couple weighed the time and condition, and respected their son's opinion, and agreed to perform a femoral surgery in the hospital in Nandu immediately.

Before the operation, Shen Mingxu's eyes were initially diagnosed with retinal perforation, which was quite serious. The retina of his right eye fell off again after the fall.

"Mom, it will definitely be cured. I will accompany Xiaoxu..." When Mrs. Shen heard that her son's eyes were also broken, tears immediately flowed down her face. She did not cry loudly. Yunxi felt distressed when she saw her pitiful appearance. She tried to persuade Mrs. Shen, but in fact, she was more concerned about Shen Mingxu.

"Thank you, baby, Xiaoxu, he is really too hard. He is so young, but he is always injured. Alas..." Mrs. Shen sometimes blames herself for her only son, who has a lame leg and bad eyesight. More often, she thinks it is fate and can only accept it.

The retina repair surgery and thigh surgery were scheduled for the next day. Shen Mingxu was in so much pain lying on the hospital bed. His thigh was thin and slightly swollen at the fracture site. His family and he hoped that the surgery would be done as soon as possible, hoping to get rid of the pain as soon as possible.

"I just gave you some painkillers. Xiaoxu, while it's not so painful, you should take a nap and don't think too much. The best doctor will perform the surgery on you tomorrow, and everything will be fine."

Yunxi comforted him softly. In fact, she was also trying to be strong. Shen Mingxu was very reluctant to be stripped of his clothes and changed into hospital gown. However, he fell down the stairs without paying attention. He could not blame others. His torn body had to be repaired again. He could only lie here and let others do whatever they wanted.

"Okay, Xiaoxi, you go and rest. I'm fine..." With a nurse taking care of him, Shen Mingxu actually didn't want Yunxi to stay by the bedside. He had medicine and gauze on his eyes, so he couldn't see anything. He was in pain all over his body. He had monitoring equipment, catheters, and infusion tubes on him. He was a person who could not do anything on his own. He didn't want Yunxi to see him so weak.

"I'll stay with you." Seeing his body covered with injuries, Yunxi was even more reluctant to leave him.

"No, go home and rest. Tomorrow, bring me some underwear, glasses and other things before you come." It's good to have your beloved around, but Shen Mingxu is proud and conceited. He wants to be a big man who takes care of his lover and does everything for her. He doesn't want to be completely disabled in bed and be taken care of by her. This is something he can't accept yet.

The ward environment is very good, the nurse looks clean and responsible, and there are assistants and Zhou Heng on duty in the living room outside. Yunxi confirmed Shen Mingxu's safety and finally decided to listen to him.

After kissing Shen Mingxu's forehead, Yunxi went to talk to his attending doctor for a long time before leaving the hospital. He went home and sorted out a large bag of daily necessities for two people, preparing to stay in the hospital for a few more days.

The best orthopedic doctor in Nandu was invited. He was still explaining the details of the operation and postoperative matters to Mrs. Shen late at night. Shen Mingxu couldn't see anything with his eyes, and he was lying on the bed like being fried in oil. The assistants took turns to read to him and chat with him. The nurses took care of him carefully and properly, which somewhat dispersed some of his depressed and self-pitying negative emotions.

The biggest difficulty of Shen Mingxu's femoral repair surgery should be that his left leg itself has little function, and he has suffered serious trauma. The difficulty of the operation is to preserve and not damage the existing muscles and nerves of the left leg as much as possible, so that it can retain more functions.

The left thigh was cut open, and the femur was fixed with an internal steel plate after resetting. Shen Mingxu's operation was very smooth, completely within expectations, and no dangerous situation occurred. However, Shen Mingxu's diseased leg itself is extremely thin and has no function. After the operation, there is no need to apply plaster, but to use the most advanced and thin fixation brace to fix it, which reduces the difficulty of nursing him, and I believe that the leg bone will recover faster.

The anesthesia here has not completely subsided, and Shen Mingxu has just regained consciousness, and he was pushed into the operating room full of precision instruments in the ophthalmology department.

"Xiaoxu, don't be afraid, it will be over soon." Looking at Shen Mingxu's pale face after the operation, Yunxi felt that the words of comfort were too thin.

"Okay, okay, Xiaoxi, I'm not afraid..." Afraid that he would be cold, she used a wool blanket as a base and a silk quilt to carefully wrap his whole body. Shen Mingxu's arm, which was receiving an infusion, was still icy cold.

Medicine had been applied to his face, so Yunxi had to kiss the cold back of Shen Mingxu's hand, and received a weak response from his fingers. When he was pushed into the operating room, in a corner where no one could see, Yunxi's tears rolled down one by one.

After the femoral fracture reduction surgery, Yunxi followed Mrs. Shen and listened to the doctor talk about many medical terms; after the eye surgery, she realized that the doctor's words after orthopedic surgery were really not difficult to understand, and the various terms used by the doctor after ophthalmology surgery really made her, a young and patient person, almost collapse.

Because she had experienced Shen Mingxu's first retinal repositioning and repair surgery, Mrs. Shen understood the doctor's words even better than Yunxi, and it was she who helped Yunxi interpret the two doctors' medical advice.

"Don't be afraid, baby. Xiaoxu's legs can no longer walk. Now we are helping him to fully cooperate with the doctor. He needs to lie down for at least three hours a day so that his eyes can recover. The nurses all know this, so don't worry." Yunxi was surprised to hear Mrs. Shen's explanation.