son suffering from elephant leg disease, father and son two people are begging along the street. Wen / map female reporter Han Xiaocan due to lymphedema, 32 year old Guo Jihua left leg is as thick as the waist, his feet can not wear normal shoes. Supported by his more than 60 year old father, he could walk slowly. "This is a congenital disease. I really want to die when I get sick." Guo Jihua had never been to school for a day. He could only express his feeling of illness by "wanting to die".
the left foot swollen and still wore cotton shoes at high temperature. Yesterday, when the newspaper reporter arrived, the father and son were sitting under the shade of the south of Quancheng Square. Guo's father's hair is grey, and he is wearing a coat of colored clothes that students wear in military training. He is wearing coarse blue trousers underneath.
Guo Jihua, wearing a white shirt and leg, showed two extremely asymmetrical legs: the right leg was normal, wearing a large number of shoes, the left leg and foot more than normal, bare feet, and heel with a thick layer of black horny. His father said the condition of the leg was worse in the summer. A lot of blisters on the skin gave off an unpleasant smell.
although the temperature has been quite high, Guo Jihua still has only a pair of cotton shoes to wear. These shoes are specially designed by his manufacturers.
no money operation, father and son begging for medical treatment. This is the father and son of Hunan Shaoyang people. They came to Ji'nan to seek medical treatment. In Hunan, father and son two often went begging at Changsha Railway Station. His father was no longer young, and his son needed to take care of him. Guo Jihua's only elder sister was married. In addition to farming, begging is their only source of life. At Changsha Railway Station, good people told them that a hospital in Ji'nan could cure this disease. In March 24th, they arrived in Ji'nan by train, and they paid 2000 yuan for the hospital to live in and buckle a certain bed fee every day.
now, they beg in the daytime and live in the hospital in the evening. But the doctors told them that the cost of the operation was about 300000 yuan, and that the cost of the operation was 150 thousand. The father and son didn't have so much money, so they had to beg near the Quancheng Square.
looking forward to treating the disease as a normal doctor, Guo Jihua said: "lymphedema is because the lymph is blocked, and the doctor says it has little effect on my bone development. If you have an operation, you can get back to normal. " The newspaper reporter has learned that lymphedema is a pathological change caused by the obstruction of lymph circulation. But this kind of operation is difficult to do. If it is not the experience of hospital treatment is not good, performance can not be cured, will relapse. If the disease continues to aggravate symptoms, patients may face the risk of amputation.
Guo Jihua wore a suit and a smile on his identity card handed over by him. "I can't even wear shoes now. I have to rely on my father to walk. I hope to find a manufacturer to make a pair of sandals. Don't make my father so tired. "