Chapter 23 Rehabilitation is not recommended.

Shen Mingxu, who is thin and eats very little, has a physique that is prone to thinness. After being hospitalized for a few days, he has obviously lost weight. He lay on the pillow with his head tilted. Yunxi saw the blue veins on his neck protruding, and the exposed collarbone was more obvious.

When he was asleep, Yunxi could see that Shen Mingxu was still frowning from time to time and sleeping very unsteadily due to physical discomfort. She took the opportunity to take a closer look at his left leg. The scars all over his knee and calf were not obviously thin, because they were already thin and had little meat. The thigh injury was fixed with a brace, which was changed twice in just half a month. Because the injured leg was much thinner, and the swelling of the wound disappeared, it quickly became thinner.

Fearing that the wound would be affected, Yunxi did not dare to massage his legs and feet. She just gently stroked them with heartache. When Shen Mingxu could feel her touching him, he would reach out his big hand and gently call her name, "Xiaoxi, come, come to me." He was afraid that she would dislike his disabled legs and feet. Shen Mingxu did not want Yunxi to pay too much attention to his disabled legs. If possible, he really wanted to amputate his left leg completely. He had suffered too much.

"It's time to eat. My mother-in-law sent me some delicious food... Hey, I don't know what it is yet. Don't frown. It won't look good if there are marks on your eyebrows." Putting down the big lunch box, Yunxi playfully touched Shen Mingxu's eyebrows, not wanting to see him frown.

"Do you want to eat?" Slowly raising his hand and catching her little hand, Shen Mingxu moved his arms. He always wanted to sit up by himself, but the stiffness in his thighs reminded him again and again that he could not get up by himself.

"I'll eat with you."

The nurse also came to help, adjusted the head of the bed and raised it a little, then held Shen Mingxu together to sit up, so that his thighs would not be stressed, and brought a large pillow for his back so that he could sit comfortably, put a napkin on his body and legs, and set up the small table on the bed. The nurse also went to the side to eat.

"Glutinous rice blood bone soup, tomato shrimp paste, steamed pork ribs with black beans, preserved egg and baby cabbage vermicelli, sea cucumber steamed egg custard, shacha beef, and two small green vegetables." Yunxi carefully named the dishes, then put a small bowl of rice in Shen Mingxu's left hand, and gave him a pair of chopsticks with her right hand. She sat by the bed and ate with him.

Various pork rib soups, pork bone soups, and delicious soups were sent to him every day to supplement calcium and nourish his body. Shen Mingxu had already drunk so much that he felt sick when he heard the word soup. Only when he heard Yunxi speak, he would not frown.

"Eat by yourself, don't worry about me, I'm not hungry." He couldn't see, and the way he ate could only be embarrassing. Shen Mingxu still felt sorry for his wife and told her to eat first.

"Let's eat together. I'll get you some food. Here, some baby cabbage vermicelli." She picked up the vermicelli that she had tasted first and gave it to him. She knew that he didn't have a good appetite, so she wouldn't persuade him to eat more, but just coax him slowly.

Feeling that she touched his bowl, Shen Mingxu obediently moved his hands, holding the bowl with one hand and holding the chopsticks

with the other, and tried to pick up some food. Seeing that he took a small bite, Yunxi picked up a small piece of beef for him without saying a word, "Another piece of meat, I tasted the beef and it's so tender, I'll give you a few more pieces." She found that if there was only one piece of beef. The probability of him picking up meat in the bowl casually was low. If he put a few more pieces in the bowl, it might be easier to eat.

"Are you afraid that I can't pick it up." With a snort, Shen Mingxu sneered faintly at the corner of his mouth, mocking himself.

"Open your mouth and try the egg custard." Yunxi didn't want to pick up his depressed topic. She had her own rhythm. She kindly fed him a mouthful of egg custard, then picked up some pork ribs and green vegetables for him. After eating a few more mouthfuls, she served two small bowls of soup, pulled his hand to determine the position of the small soup bowl, and ate a few more mouthfuls herself.

"Egg custard mixed with rice is so fragrant, Xiaoxu, have you ever eaten it like this?"

Thinking about the taste, Shen Mingxu shook his head and said no. Yunxi was a little eager to try, "Try a mouthful of mine, do you dislike it?"

How could he dislike it? So she nodded and said "OK."

"Ah, have a mouthful." Using the means of coaxing a child, Yunxi fed Shen Mingxu a mouthful of egg custard mixed with rice. Looking at his watch, he was not very surprised, but he didn't dislike it either. She tested the temperature of the soup and let him take a mouthful of the soup bowl himself.

Help, coaxing, and guiding, with Yunxi by his side, Shen Mingxu began to feel that groping for food was not such a troublesome thing. Even if she fed him, it was natural and caring, and would not make him sad about his "confusion".

After 20 days in hospital, the orthopedic surgeon finally agreed to discharge Shen Mingxu and go home. The ophthalmologist was very cooperative, and the attending doctor personally removed the gauze, and Shen Mingxu's left eye could finally see again.

The doctor who had performed the repair surgery on his right eye still did not allow him to see, and arranged to change the dressing every day, and still gently covered him with medical gauze to prevent the right eye from seeing the light and hurting.

"Give me the sunglasses that Yunxi brought." Shen Mingxu, who was about to be discharged from the hospital, half leaned on the head of the bed and took off his glasses. He vaguely saw that the people around him had basically sorted out their things. He couldn't walk, so he had to give orders again.

"Here you go." The nurse ran to take out the sunglasses for him and sent them to the bedside. Shen Mingxu raised his hand to take them. After putting them on, he closed his eyes to adapt, and then opened his eyes to look again and again, and it took a long time to adapt.

The sunglasses have degrees, specially customized for his eyes, but Shen Mingxu found that he had not seen light for a long time. Without these sunglasses, he could no longer adapt to slightly brighter light. After wearing sunglasses, he could basically see nothing with his left eye, and the things in front of him were blurry.

In order to hide his ugliness and to prevent others from seeing his one-eyed appearance, Shen Mingxu wanted to wear sunglasses, but he was in a wheelchair and couldn't see anymore, which made him even more disabled. So he gave up his cool sunglasses and wore his daily glasses.

Yunxi came to pick him up from the hospital and saw that Shen Mingxu stood up on the bed by himself, regardless of the nurses' support or obstruction. His left leg was not actually firmly on the ground, but his face was pale and he frowned in pain. Both hands were on the bed rails and he couldn't move at all.

"Xiaoxu, don't scare me. Have you forgotten what the doctor said before you were discharged?" She wanted to scold him loudly and complain, but Yunxi couldn't bear to do so. He had suffered so much and experienced so much pain for so many days. I'm afraid only Shen Mingxu himself knew how hard it was.

"My right leg is not broken. Don't worry. I'm just trying it." Looking up at Yunxi, Shen Mingxu endured the pain and explained to her.

"Mingxu, are you feeling better now that you are about to be discharged?" The director of the orthopedics department, one of the doctors who performed the surgery on Shen Mingxu, followed Yunxi.

"Your place is pretty good, but my home is definitely better." In fact, Shen Mingxu couldn't see clearly, but he knew it was his doctor. Even though he was in a hurry to go home, he still responded with a good temper.

"I have something to tell you. You may not like it, but I must tell you." The doctor came here because he had something to say, and it was something he had to say.

He personally helped Shen Mingxu slowly sit in the wheelchair. The doctor's hand touched his entire left leg again and again, and then he looked up and sat on the bed to talk to him, "After the bones grow well, you should not use your left leg to walk in the future, and rehabilitation exercises are not recommended. You should always protect it and don't practice walking."

After touching the doctor's arm, Shen Mingxu's hand grabbed the doctor's sleeve. He didn't use much force, but his displeasure had been expressed to the other party.

"You know best how many surgeries this leg has gone through. The bone quality is already very poor, so it fractured severely after a fall. This happens to people over 60 years old. If you fall again, it will fracture and become inflamed. If it happens repeatedly, it may require amputation. The internal plate will not be removed in the short term. Wait until your physical condition gets better in the future." It is absolutely not recommended for him to remove it. Others take it out for exercise and rehabilitation. The internal plate may be dislocated, affect the bone quality, etc., so they need surgery to remove it after a few months. Shen Mingxu can't walk with his left leg at all, so there is no need to suffer the pain of surgery again.

Similarly, after years of going in and out of orthopedics, wouldn't Shen Mingxu not understand the truth?

After being silent all the way, Shen Mingxu was finally discharged from the hospital and returned to his home with Yunxi.

He still couldn't watch various screens, and could only lie half-lying in bed. Listening to music was the main way to relax and divert his attention. Yunxi contacted several good brand wheelchairs and wanted to buy him two new wheelchairs. After all, wheelchairs, like the canes he used to have, would be indispensable to Shen Mingxu's daily life in the future.

Lying on the familiar bed, relaxed and friendly, even the air was the fragrance he liked. This was the home designed by Shen Mingxu himself, and it was a microcosm of his favorite lifestyle. The doctor's words kept replaying in his mind-his left leg could no longer walk.

What should he do if he could no longer walk? Positive thoughts, maybe it was fortunate that he still had his right leg and intact hands. Thinking of his scarred eyes, Shen Mingxu couldn't be positive and optimistic. He closed his eyes, and a deep sense of powerlessness tightly wrapped him.

The temperature in Nandu gradually rose, and it was soon the beginning of summer. In a season without a trace of coolness, Shen Mingxu confirmed from his attending physician that his right eye was completely blind.

"Xiao Xu, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just wanted to tell you slowly that you..." It wasn't that she decided to hide it from him, but at this moment she was by his side and had to face all his emotions. Yunxi felt sorry from the bottom of her heart.

"It's not your fault. In fact, I knew the next day after the eye surgery that this eye could not be cured." Sitting in the wheelchair, Shen Mingxu leaned back softly. His slender fingers carefully pushed the wheel rim, causing the wheelchair to move slightly towards Yunxi.

"You knew? How is it possible?" The news was kept absolutely confidential. The caregivers around Shen Mingxu were all unaware of it. They discussed and announced his condition in a low voice in the doctor's office time and time again. Yunxi couldn't figure out how Shen Mingxu knew it?

After nearly a month, Shen Mingxu managed to look completely indifferent. He raised his head and slowly found her face, focusing his remaining gaze on her. "It doesn't take three months. I had a retinal repair surgery. After a night, the doctor will check the condition of the cornea the next day. If the surgery is successful, most of my vision will be restored immediately. If it fails, it will be obvious the next day."

"From the accident to now, my right eye has never seen again. Every time I change the dressing, I pay attention to it. I can't see any light at all, not even the light perception." Shen Mingxu simply closed his eyes as he could not see with one eye, and stated the fact indifferently, a fact that he himself did not want to believe and was difficult to accept.