The outpatient complex of Dahua Jikang Hospital, the waiting room of the orthopedic surgery department on the fifth floor, and rows of waiting chairs are filled with patients and families waiting for treatment.

Some of them were in wheelchairs and some were holding crutches, which was the norm in orthopedic surgery. There was also an uncle who had been waiting for a long time snoring while leaning against the chair.

Zhou Haorui sat in one of the positions in one row, pressing the phone in his hand, and from time to time looked up at the electronic screen lined up on the wall. It was almost his turn. He touched his cervical spine, and there was a slight sting, which made his heart twitch.

"It won't be so unlucky..."

Zhou Haorui is twenty years old this year. He is not a local. He came to Dahua from other places and majored in chemistry at Dahua University of Technology.

Dahua Science and Technology is an ordinary second-tier university, just like he is an ordinary boy.

I once wanted to enter Tianji University, but I didn’t have that kind of qualifications and talents.

Zhou Haorui touched his neck, and the medical record bag next to him contained the results of the newly taken X-ray, and the mobile phone showed a rare disease he had found:

Progressive musculostomy

fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, referred to as for.

Today is March 30th, about a week ago. When Zhou Haorui woke up, his neck felt sore. At that time, he thought it was a stiff neck, so he would be fine after a break. Unexpectedly, after two days, not only did not improve, but his neck became stiffer and sometimes it would make a crackling sound when moving, which was very uncomfortable.

Zhou Haorui had to pay attention to it now. He went to the pharmacy to buy a bottle of dysfunction ointment and applied it. However, after applying it for a few days, the symptoms were still aggravating.

Sometimes he would even faint for no reason, not sleep well, be in a class, and his life was affected.

Therefore, Zhou Haorui had to come to the hospital for orthopedics, find the attending physician Xiao Gang to see the doctor, and ask him to take an X-ray first for examination.

Like many of his peers today, Zhou Haorui is passionate about supernatural power, Tianji Bureau, Gu Jun and other things covered with mysterious fog. But it is precisely because of this that he is so nervous now that he always has many thoughts and always feels something is wrong...

Could you have some strange disease? Or even the starting patient of a certain epidemic?

This idea made him more and more scared. Before coming to the hospital, he had already searched the Internet with his own symptoms.

Although cancer started to be diagnosed online, the more he checked, the more he felt a strange and inexplicable feeling, which was a strange feeling caused by the cervical spine...

The more you look at this rare disease called progressive sarcosplasia, the stronger the sensation.

It seems like I have seen my death on the calendar.

"Zhou Haorui." At this time, the electronic number calling system called his name.

At the door of Dr. Xiao Gang's clinic, a patient walked out slowly with a cane.

Zhou Haorui quickly got up and took the medical record information bag and strode into the clinic. The clinic was less than ten square meters. Dr. Xiao sat behind the desk, with a nurse helping, and an intern operating a computer at another desk, responsible for the entry work.

"Doctor Xiao, I've taken the X-ray." Zhou Haorui walked up, handed over all the medical records to Dr. Xiao, and sat down in the chair.

Dr. Xiao Gang is a young and strong man in his thirties. He is wearing a pair of frameless glasses and is gentle. He took the X-ray and the report and read it. He quickly said, "Minor bone hyperplasia." He looked at the patient, "You should pay more attention to protecting the cervical spine, look at your mobile phone, read computers and read books appropriately. You are still young and have no big problems. Don't worry too much. Prescribe some anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving medicine for you, and then go to the rehabilitation department to cooperate with physical therapy."

Is bone hyperplasia? Zhou Haorui was relieved when he heard this, but immediately, the strange feeling surged in his heart again...

The tingling sensation of the cervical spine seemed to tell him that it was not that simple, it was not bone hyperplasia...

"Doctor Xiao, I have some questions." Zhou Haorui frowned and asked. He had really checked a lot of information. "Isn't bone hyperplasia only available for the elderly? I was 20 years old. Is this a lot?"

"There were not many before, but now it is more and more." Dr. Xiao has a good attitude. Only by fully communicating with doctors and patients can heal the disease. He patiently explained: "Because modern people's life and work will cause a great burden on joints and cervical spine, bone hyperplasia is becoming younger. This requires your personal long-term care and protection."

Is that true? Zhou Haorui thinks that he does have a lot of mobile phones when he usually lowers his head, but he also plays a lot of balls. The key is that kind of weirdness.

This made him unable to help but ask: "Doctor Xiao, look at my condition, is there any possibility of progressive musculostomy?"

"What?" Dr. Xiao was stunned. The nurse next to him and the intern opposite him seemed to be stunned. Dr. Xiao suspected: "Progressive musculostomy?"

Dr. Xiao really had to think about it before he remembered that there seemed to be such a rare disease, "Oh, progressive musculostomy...what to say..."

Zhou Haorui listened nervously, and saw Dr. Xiao instructing him the x-ray film and said: "Look, bone hyperplasia will show a wide bottom and thin tip on the x-ray film. This position of your cervical spine is a very typical bone hyperplasia."

"Yes." Zhou Haorui looked at the bones on the X-ray film. Although he nodded, he really couldn't understand it.

"In addition, what you said is progressive musculostomy..." Dr. Xiao put down the x-ray, and still had to search for information on the computer on the desk before asking: "Do you have a family history of this disease?"

"No." Zhou Haorui shook his head, "I know this is a genetic disease, but I see that most cases are caused by new genetic mutations..."

"I think you know a lot about this disease." Dr. Xiao was still patient. "You know that the incidence rate of this rare disease is estimated to be one in 2 million. From the last century, there are about 800 confirmed cases worldwide. One or two cases have been confirmed in China. This disease is a congenital disease, and patients usually develop before the age of 10."

While looking at several pathological pictures on the computer screen, Dr. Xiao said: "This disease does not start with similar osteogenesis. If it occurs suddenly, it will be a tumor-like lump. Because it is a genetic mutation that causes the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the body to become ossified spontaneously or under trauma, forming sub-bones. These ectopic secondary lumps are permanently fused with the original normal main bone, resulting in limited joint movement. In the end, the whole body is covered with bones, becoming like a stone. I see that the tissues around your cervical spine do not have tumor-like lumps, and there is no fibrosis. You don't need to worry too much about this possibility."

"Then...Doctor Xiao, absolutely not?" Zhou Haorui asked. Although he knew that the doctor would not be able to speak all the time, he wanted to get a guarantee.

"Your symptoms are really not the same now." Dr. Xiao pointed solemnly, "It is unlikely from a probability point of view. But I can't say whether it will happen in the future."

Zhou Haorui couldn't feel at ease and touched his neck again, which was painful, stiff, and a sense of strangeness...

As Dr. Xiao said, it seems that bones are growing...

Fibrosis, ossification, petrochemical...
Chapter completed!