Chapter 2 Dying
Li Zhen’s parents Li Kaiwen and Song Chenxiao were standing in the office of Dr. Cui in the first hospital of the city, holding a stack of test papers in their hands. Song Chenxiao’s lips were a little trembling. Although she was standing in the sunlight shining through the window, she always felt a chill coming out of the bone crack, making her unable to hold the things in her hand.
"Doctor, you mean..." She looked at the middle-aged man behind the desk with her last bit of expectations. The latter looked unbearable and nodded again.
So she sat down on the chair behind her, and the list in her hand scattered all over the floor.
Li Kaiwen held her and was silent for a while, as if he was telling the doctor, as if he was telling Song Chenxiao, and as if he was saying to himself: "Actually, this is also a good thing... I checked it out early and treated it early. It can be cured in the early stage, right?"
He paused and emphasized: "You have to cure even if you sell iron."
Dr. Cui looked at the couple through the lens and felt pity in his heart. After so many years as a doctor, the patients' families have seen too many of them, so they have long been a little numb. However, he really couldn't bear the family in front of him.
Let’s not talk about the couple for now, but only the child. It is said that they are still top students in key middle schools. They took the college entrance examination in summer, but they had a car accident. If they were in a car accident, they would be rescued for a year and would continue to take the exam next year. It’s just...
During the examination, I found that the child had been sick for a long time. It was not an ordinary disease. Let me put it this way... all the types of cancers that humans currently know can be found in him.
Thinking about it, it makes people feel numb - although it is all early, how did this child survive? His parents said that he never mentioned a word. This is the first time he has heard of such a thing since he went to medical school to more than ten years of clinical practice. Cancer patients have normal cells and some cytopathic lesions. Even in the late stage, they only spread throughout the body. But this patient who just turned 18 this year...
He is almost a "cancer person". No undestructed cells are found on his body now.
However, his appearance looks miraculously like a normal person!
This made him feel inexplicably chilled in his heart while pitying.
The pathogenesis of cancer, simply put, is that normal cells develop lesions and begin to reproduce infinitely. Normal human cells can divide about 50 times in their lifetime and then age and die. This makes human body growth within a controllable range and will not threaten the survival of individuals.
Cancer cells are caused by lesions, causing infinite proliferation, like greedy evil spirits, grabbing nutrients in the body and occupying a limited space in normal tissues and organs. The malignant tumors formed by cancer will also release a variety of toxins, causing a series of complications and leading to human death.
This kind of thing is all about this child right now.
According to his cognition, once a late-stage patient reaches this level - in fact, all patients will die if they fail to develop this level - but once they reach this level, they should have long since disappeared, but become a piece of meat composed of various tumors.
He looked at the couple in front of him, was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "Let's do this, you two, go and have a check."
Then he added guiltily: "This is to consider that if the patient needs a bone marrow transplant, it is better to prepare in advance."
Li Kaiwen hesitated for a while, helped Song Chenxiao up and nodded: "Where should I go to check?"
"Come on, I'll take you away." Dr. Cui quickly stood up.
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Li Zhen's condition began to deteriorate rapidly. In other words, the word "speed" is no longer enough to describe that speed. On the first day of the operation, he could turn his head and smile and say, "Dad, mom, help me read a few books."
However, the next day, the cancer cells seemed to have suddenly received some kind of instruction and began to reproduce wildly in this body. In the evening, Li Zhen fell into a coma intermittently - at least to others' eyes.
It was almost seven o'clock in the evening and it was completely dark. Song Chenxiao lay beside the bed and was dozing, while Li Kaiwen pushed open the door and planned to get some hot food for his wife. However, as soon as he went out, he saw a girl with a ponytail standing outside the door and looking into the ward, wearing a school uniform.
He had an impression of this girl - her name was Zhang Kesong, and her relationship with her son was better than that of ordinary classmates. He often saw two people going home together after evening self-study, and often had phone calls. To sum it up, it was his son's "suspected early love girlfriend".
Not only did he know this, but the girl's parents and her head teacher Zhang Xiulian also knew about it. Both parents met in the school's teacher's office - after all, at this time, the "love" relationship between high school students was not as common as it did later.
But that's all. Both children did not shy away from talking about this matter and claimed that they were just good friends. After all, they were all "good students" with good grades and did not have any excessive actions to delay their studies, so they let it go.
What's more, Li Kaiwen has a good impression of this beautiful girl.
He even lay on the bed on a few nights and said to Song Chenxiao: "Our son can really find such a wife in the future, but it will be worry-free."
However, when Li Kaiwen saw this child at this moment, he almost burst into tears.
But in the end he still held back and said to the girl: "Kesong, come to see Li Zhen."
The girl nodded, her eyes a little red: "Uncle, how is he doing? I heard from Teacher Zhang that he has taken a long leave, is it important? I brought the class notes for the past two days and gave them to him later..."
However, before he finished speaking, the girl saw the middle-aged man in front of him suddenly turn around and squat slowly against the wall. Was he... crying?
A deep sense of fear slowly rose from her body and then grabbed her heart. She didn't bother to comfort the man, turned around and rushed into the ward... Then she saw Li Zhen on the bed.
What kind of face is that...
It was as if it was poured with water, and the skin was swollen and shiny, and the color of black and purple appeared underneath. The closed eyes turned into a thin line. The lips were not only not the pale that ordinary patients had in particular, but were red and black. Although the body was hidden under the quilt, she could still feel that vitality was quickly escaping from that body and escaping every corner of the room.
This is no longer the handsome and weak Li Zhen used to be. Zhang Kesong stood there for a while, suddenly clenched his fists and walked forward. Then he covered Li Zhen's forehead and closed his eyes...
Chapter completed!