Rebirth: In short——this time I will take back everything that belongs to me!

This is the 5155th article of Da Yi Xiao Hu

"Boss Ba, Boss Ba... wake up!" I heard a vague call in my ears. I couldn't open my eyes. My head felt like it was hit by a hammer. But there was always a voice in my heart calling, "Wake up, wake up..."

Finally, he forced his eyes open, sat up abruptly, gasped for breath, stumbled into the bathroom, and looked at the person in the mirror. He saw thick black hair, healthy rosy cheeks, two hundred pounds of fat on his body, and no chemotherapy needle marks on his hands.

"What happened?! I am not in the advanced stage of rectal cancer, which has caused systemic metastasis. Am I dead? Am I back again?" Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar self, I got used to losing a lot of hair after chemotherapy, and later I couldn't stand it anymore and shaved my head; I got used to my increasingly thin body due to indigestion and poor appetite, and even my bones hurt; I got used to the inflammation of the stoma caused by wearing a fistula bag for a long time, the odor on my body and all kinds of travel inconveniences; I got used to the indwelling needle in my arm, the pain all over my body and the piles of medicine... Family and friends gradually became distant and separated, the company gradually left my control, and the business was divided and occupied! Health, happiness, family, wealth, status, the beauty in life slipped like quicksand!

Oh no!! Now that I, Mr. Ba, have been reborn, God has given me a chance, and this time I will take back everything that belongs to me!

"Boss Ba, are you up? We are leaving for the physical examination center!" The person outside the door shouted again. It turned out that he was reborn on the morning of the physical examination at the health care center. He still remembered this physical examination. Every day when he fought against the disease tenaciously, he couldn't help but recall the fork in his fate. He saw that there was an examination called "digital rectal examination". When he walked to the door of the clinic, he said to the doctor: "Give up, give up voluntarily. I'm fine, but I have hemorrhoids at ordinary times. I don't want to do this examination." He threw the doctor's retention and inquiry behind his mind and missed the first chance to save himself. In fact, digital rectal examination is a very cost-effective examination method. The doctor only needs to put on gloves and touch it lightly with his fingers to find a series of anorectal diseases, especially for the screening of low rectal cancer. Therefore, people call anorectal doctors "Tanhualang", as the saying goes, "a golden finger can save millions of families."

He missed the physical examination, and two days later he had blood in his stool after a drunken social event. This was the second bifurcation point of his fate that he regretted the most. Because he had to go on business trips to discuss business, he chose to ignore the blood in his stool and asked his assistant to buy some hemorrhoid cream. "Hemorrhoids attack! I have experience. If you get angry, use some medicine. It's okay." In fact, there are no pain nerves in our intestines. If you have polyps or tumors, you won't feel anything in the early stage, and even your stool will not change. Many people tend to ignore the problem of this key part. When polyps or tumors in the rectum cause blood in the stool, it is often easy to confuse it with hemorrhoids, but perhaps the real life-threatening problem will be covered up by hemorrhoid bleeding. In fact, if you go to the hospital for a rectoscopy, preferably a colonoscopy, you can tell which part is bleeding, and you can find hidden dangers earlier and kill the disease in its infancy.

"I like to drink alcohol, eat meat, and eat fresh seafood. I don't like vegetables. They're like grass, boring. Coarse grains? They don't taste good. I like to eat fine, soft rice. As for exercise, I don't have time. I'm CEO Ba. So many people in the company are waiting for me to pay for their meals. The group needs to develop and the business needs to expand. It's common to stay up late, have social events, and be under a lot of pressure. I don't even have time to sleep at night, let alone exercise. Besides, why would I try so hard to lose the meat I've worked so hard to eat? I'm fat because I'm broad-minded. I'm tolerant! This is a blessing."

Thinking of what he had said before, those wrong life concepts, Mr. Ba couldn't help but feel annoyed again. In fact, for colorectal cancer, only about 25% of the cases are caused by genetic inheritance, and most of them are caused by bad living habits: smoking, drinking, high-protein, high-fat, high-calorie diet, obesity, lack of regular diet, exercise and work and rest, staying up late, sitting for a long time, high psychological pressure, etc., are all risk factors that easily lead to intestinal diseases. There are so many living habits to improve, and there are physical examination items every year. There are so many opportunities to save yourself, but they are missed again and again. So much so that later because of ignoring the intermittent blood in the stool, until anemia and defecation obstruction occurred, I had to go to the hospital for examination and treatment. At this time, it had developed into the late stage of rectal cancer. In less than half a year, he left behind a huge family business and a beautiful wife and young children and passed away, leaving behind endless regrets and regrets.

I must seize this chance! I want to live, I want to be healthy, I want to ask God for another 500 years!

"Boss Ba, let's go!"

He opened the door and said with great vigor, "Let's go! Go get a physical examination."

"Hello, please check your name."

"My last name is Ba, and my given name is Zong. I'm called Zong Ba."

"Okay, Mr. Ba, through the preliminary digital rectal examination, we found a 0.5 cm small polyp at the lower end of your rectum. I suggest you make an appointment for a colonoscopy in time. During the colonoscopy, we can screen for other polyps at the upper end and remove them together."

"Very good, thank you!"

Author: Shanghai Health Care Center (Huadong Sanatorium)

Department of Surgery, Dr. Zhou Lu