Niu Niu awakens from fall coma
By Cai Wenjun and Xu Wenwen |
July 13, 2011, Wednesday
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After a 10-day coma, the two-year-old girl whose life was saved during a fall from the 10th floor of an apartment window woke up yesterday morning.
She recognized her parents, who were visiting her at the intensive care unit, by calling them "Dad, Mom" and could say simple words, said doctors from the Children's Hospital at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou.
"It is such a surprising joy for us," said Dr Zhang Chenmei, ICU director. "It means she started to regain consciousness and the brain function is recovering."
She said all these signs show that Zhang Fangyu, better known by her nickname Niu Niu, has gotten through the most critical phase of her injury.
But doctors still worry about damage to the girl's brain and spine.
"Nerve injuries caused her motion disability," Zhang said. "Now the left part of her body still has no response to stimulation, which means she has partial paralysis. Since the nervous system recovers slowly, her treatment should last for a long time and it is difficult to say how well the nerve function can recover."
Niu Niu's fall was broken by 31-year-old Wu Juping, who tried to catch the toddler on July 2 in Hangzhou. But she still suffered serious injury to major organs including her spleen, stomach, lungs, kidneys, brain and spine as well as fractures to her limbs. Wu broke her left forearm as the girl crashed onto her.
Injuries to the girl's chest and abdominal cavity are another big concern for doctors. Food entered her broken organs after the fall and caused serious infection, while lung injuries also threaten her chest.
The hospital performed surgery on Niu Niu yesterday afternoon to treat abdominal infection and to check her spleen and stomach. Some good news came in the evening when they told Shanghai Daily that the infection in Niu Niu's abdomen was "much improved."
Wu, who caught Niu Niu during the fall, said yesterday she was very happy that Niu Niu has awakened.
"I hope Niu Niu can recover more quickly than me and leave the hospital earlier than me," she said. "I am worried about her partial paralysis and hope it can get better soon."
She recognized her parents, who were visiting her at the intensive care unit, by calling them "Dad, Mom" and could say simple words, said doctors from the Children's Hospital at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou.
"It is such a surprising joy for us," said Dr Zhang Chenmei, ICU director. "It means she started to regain consciousness and the brain function is recovering."
She said all these signs show that Zhang Fangyu, better known by her nickname Niu Niu, has gotten through the most critical phase of her injury.
But doctors still worry about damage to the girl's brain and spine.
"Nerve injuries caused her motion disability," Zhang said. "Now the left part of her body still has no response to stimulation, which means she has partial paralysis. Since the nervous system recovers slowly, her treatment should last for a long time and it is difficult to say how well the nerve function can recover."
Niu Niu's fall was broken by 31-year-old Wu Juping, who tried to catch the toddler on July 2 in Hangzhou. But she still suffered serious injury to major organs including her spleen, stomach, lungs, kidneys, brain and spine as well as fractures to her limbs. Wu broke her left forearm as the girl crashed onto her.
Injuries to the girl's chest and abdominal cavity are another big concern for doctors. Food entered her broken organs after the fall and caused serious infection, while lung injuries also threaten her chest.
The hospital performed surgery on Niu Niu yesterday afternoon to treat abdominal infection and to check her spleen and stomach. Some good news came in the evening when they told Shanghai Daily that the infection in Niu Niu's abdomen was "much improved."
Wu, who caught Niu Niu during the fall, said yesterday she was very happy that Niu Niu has awakened.
"I hope Niu Niu can recover more quickly than me and leave the hospital earlier than me," she said. "I am worried about her partial paralysis and hope it can get better soon."
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