That evening, after modifying the plan, Ding Yun informed her grandson, Liu Chang'an, about it. She also mentioned that she had already ordered a wheelchair and some assistive devices online.
The delivery number was his.
He was instructed to collect the items and bring them home upon receiving the pick-up code.
Then, as yesterday, she sent her grandson home to do his homework while she re-entered her study mode, continuing to learn prerequisite subjects for medicine.
She diligently worked on expanding her knowledge base.
However, as she studied, Ding Yun began to regret it, realizing just how much there was to learn.
Each book alone could be hundreds of thousands of characters long. While she didn't need to study hundreds of thousands of books, there were still several hundred to a thousand. The modern medicine portion was manageable, using words and phrases Ding Yun could relatively easily comprehend, with notes for difficult parts. But Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was truly challenging. Despite fewer characters, it was far harder to understand than modern medical textbooks with several times the word count.
With the original body's knowledge level, attempting to learn it was impossible.
Forget understanding; she couldn't even recognize all the characters.
So, after two days of studying, Ding Yun decided to abandon some subjects and focus solely on paralysis-related knowledge.
In TCM, she would primarily study meridians and acupoints, along with related knowledge and herbal formulations. In Western medicine, she would focus on neurology, reflexology, and the like.
By not aiming for complete medical mastery and instead concentrating on a single condition, it was indeed much easier. The overall progress also accelerated exponentially.
Before long, on the day before Ding Yun's planned discharge, a new skill appeared on her skill page.
Neurology Lv0 (Proficiency 86/100)
The level was a bit lower than she expected. Ding Yun had initially thought skills started at level one, but this one began at zero. Nevertheless, the appearance of this new skill and the eighty-six proficiency were proof of Ding Yun's efforts during this period.
Her efforts had indeed been quite fruitful.
However, due to the upcoming discharge, Ding Yun had to pause her studies for a few hours. She eventually hired a professional moving company to help transport herself, her paralyzed daughter, and all the newly acquired items back home.
It was fortunate that the company was willing.
Otherwise, Ding Yun truly wouldn't have known how to manage the move.
Upon arriving home, she immediately got busy again, arranging the purchased items in their proper places and setting up various assistive devices around her daughter's bed to facilitate her turning and cleaning her daughter when she was in the wheelchair.
In short, they completed the discharge procedures at 8 AM.
It wasn't until past 3 PM that everything was finally settled.
It was fortunate that it was Qingming Festival holiday that day, and Ding Yun had her grandson, Liu Chang'an, to help, which made everything go so smoothly.
Without that extra person,
She didn't know how long it would have taken.
After finishing these tasks, Ding Yun had temporary respite. However, her grandson Liu Chang'an still had other matters to attend to: he needed to go to the public cemetery to burn paper offerings for his grandfather and father.
Normally, the original host would have accompanied him. But now that Ding Yun was immobile, asking her grandson to push her wheelchair to burn paper offerings would only add to his burden. So, this time, he had to go alone.
He was instructed to return immediately after burning the offerings.
Upon his return, he was to help with whatever tasks he could manage.
Thus, Ding Yun settled into a routine of spending several hours each day in her wheelchair, using various assistive devices to care for her daughter, and dedicating all her remaining time to studying. It was an incredibly taxing existence.
Only a mother could sustain such care for a decade or more. Anyone else would have long since given up.
Ding Yun currently had no other options, unable to afford a caregiver. She had to personally tend to her daughter. However, she soon discovered that caring for her daughter was not without its rewards beyond just the labor. In addition to the slow improvement in her nursing skills, having a paralyzed patient meant she could take her daughter's pulse at any time and examine her body. This indirectly accelerated the proficiency increase in her Neurology skill.
It wasn't any slower than directly studying related knowledge.
After only three days back home,
Her Neurology skill successfully accumulated one hundred proficiency points, leveling up to one. At the moment of leveling up, Ding Yun could clearly feel a strange energy flow into her mind from within the system. Subsequently, the fragmented, unsystematic related knowledge she had been studying was rapidly integrated. Some knowledge disappeared, and some new knowledge appeared, forming a complete system, a complete foundational system.
This was the foundational knowledge system of Neurology.
In addition to this, she also gained approximately three years of clinical experience and diagnostic experience in her mind.
At this point, Ding Yun finally confirmed the function of this life skill system. She had to admit, this thing was incredibly powerful, a true divine artifact.
Because, if her guess was correct, the disappeared knowledge in her mind was likely incorrect information deemed erroneous by the system, belonging to inaccurate Neurology knowledge. The newly added knowledge was clearly a supplement to incomplete or not entirely comprehensive Neurology knowledge.
This aspect alone was remarkable.
Because under normal circumstances, most people studying a subject merely absorb the content from textbooks. They rarely question whether the information in the textbooks is correct. Even the academic community doesn't question it without someone raising objections and providing proof.
Yet, in reality, very few people can guarantee that most knowledge is absolutely correct. Much of what is considered correct today
Might be overturned on some future day.
The system's integration and refinement of knowledge in Ding Yun's mind after the skill upgrade, discarding the erroneous and adding the correct, undoubtedly perfected her foundational knowledge in this field. This would put Ding Yun ahead of others from the outset in terms of this skill's foundation. The added three years of clinical experience would prevent her from being purely theoretical, lacking practical application.
Overall, the system was amazing!
If it continued to level up like this, the Neurology skill and related knowledge she possessed would absolutely be the most accurate and comprehensive. Even curing her daughter no longer felt like a distant dream.
After experiencing the benefits of her first skill upgrade,
Ding Yun was even more motivated than before and immediately threw herself back into work. She busily sought more neurology-related knowledge, including the latest research papers, to continue expanding her knowledge base and increasing her proficiency.
Additionally, utilizing her newly acquired Level 1 Neurology skill, she appropriately modified the methods of caring for her daughter. She incorporated massage techniques to prevent muscle atrophy and nerve degeneration. While it couldn't restore her daughter's condition, it would at least slow down its deterioration.