Life is like a journey

CCU.

Cardiovascular intensive care unit.

Lu Qingshi changed into the isolation gown and walked in. The glass screen door opened automatically in front of her eyes. A passing nurse bowed her head and said hello to her: "Hello, Director Lu."

She picked up the medical records from the triage table of the central intensive care unit and flipped through them: "How is the patient in the eleventh bed today?"

"I had a little fever in the morning, and my urine output was low. Yesterday, I fainted once due to arrhythmia and was rescued again." The nurse also sighed heavily: "I can't find a suitable match for heart transplantation, this child, oh... "

Lu Qingshi closed the medical records and walked towards the eleventh bed, there was already someone inside through the glass, a woman in a white coat and a gown was sitting beside the bed, talking and laughing with the child.

Qin Xuan brought her a pink puppet that girls like nowadays. Of course, it needs to be cleaned and disinfected before it can be brought in. A little bit of bacterial infection may kill He Miaomiao.

The child had a bottle of rehydration solution attached to his hand, and various instruments for monitoring vital signs were inserted into his chest. Although his face was pale, he still smiled sincerely when he saw the gift.

"Doctor Qin always brings gifts for Xiao Miao every time he comes. How dare we..."

Mother He rubbed her hands and stood a little cramped. The family background of He’s family is not bad. Both parents are from Jinzhou City. One works in the national government department and the other is a high school teacher. In the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, he was transferred to the CCU after the third-stage Norwood operation and his condition was stable. Since then, he has been traveling between home and the hospital for a long time, and it is now the fifth year.

But there are some diseases that cannot be cured even with money. He Miao was diagnosed with congenital hypoplastic left heart syndrome at birth.

This is her third year waiting for a heart transplant.

Qin Xuan comforted them with a smile: "At any rate, I watched Miaomiao grow up. I think back when I first brought Miaomiao out."

She gestured towards the air: "It's only this big, now, oh good guy"

She smiled and touched Miaomiao's head: "Yesterday, the nurse auntie measured your height to [-] centimeters, and the hospital gown is even shorter!"

This height is actually lower than that of normal children, but Miaomiao's ability to grow to such a large size is inseparable from the careful care of her parents and the efforts of many medical staff.

He's father and mother both laughed, hiding their sadness behind their backs.

Soon the visiting time came, and when she got up to leave, Mother He quietly wiped away her tears, leaned over and kissed her daughter's forehead gently through the mask.

Qin Xuan squeezed her little hand: "Miaomiao obediently listen to Auntie Nurse, next time Auntie Qin comes over to bring you Frozen cartoons."

He Miaomiao nodded vigorously, and shook her mother's hand again: "Mom, mom, when I get better, I'm going to bring the cartoons given by Aunt Qin to the kindergarten to share with the children."

The year she just finished Norwood surgery was the year she recovered the best. She went to kindergarten for three months. Although she can only stay at home or in the hospital now, Mother He knows that her daughter really wants to go back to the hospital. Kindergarten class, play with everyone.

For ordinary people, the daily life is so ordinary, but for He Miaomiao, it is a dream that is as far away as the Arabian Nights.

Mother He tried her best to hold back her tears, nodded heavily, and kissed her daughter on the cheek again. Father He helped her out, and Qin Xuan stood outside the glass door and waved to Miaomiao.

Looking back, Lu Qing was there too.

"You're not going in?"

Lu Qingshi shook his head: "No."

Qin Xuan curled his lips: "You are very hard-spoken and soft-hearted. I have seen you standing outside the door eight out of ten times."

Lu Qingshi's usually calm face showed a rare embarrassment of being exposed, and he slapped the medical record on the triage table.

"I went back to the ER"

Qin Xuan chased after him and pressed the elevator, and when the elevator door closed, his face showed a trace of loneliness: "I can't wait for a heart transplant, Miaomiao... I won't survive this winter."

Ten days after Miaomiao was born, she underwent Norwood's first-stage operation, merging the main pulmonary artery with the dysplastic ascending aorta.

A Hemi-Fontan procedure was performed six months later to connect the superior vena cava to the pulmonary artery.

One year later, the total cavopulmonary anastomosis was successfully completed, the right atrium and the right pulmonary artery were anastomosed, and the blood circulation of the whole body was maintained by the right ventricle. Failing condition, so readmitted to CCU.

Lu Qingshi didn't answer the call, the elevator arrived at the emergency center, she stepped out, Qin Xuan stopped the elevator door that was about to close: "Is there still no suitable one?"

Lu Qingshi shook his head, his thin back disappeared into the pure white corridor of the hospital.

"New here, go and change the medicine for the sixth bed, I'm too busy," Hao Renjie instructed her while grinding his fingernails.

Yu Gui went away and came back in less than 2 minutes.

"Doctor, doctor, the three-bed poop is pulled on the bed!"

"Isn't there a nurse?!"

"Aren't you idle?! Come here, give me a hand and turn over!" Yu Gui accepted his fate, and had no choice but to run over holding his nose.

Soon it was lunch time, the office dispersed in twos and threes, Yu Gui also planned to go to the cafeteria to have a meal before returning.

"New here, sort out these medical records and return them to me, the medical office will need them tomorrow." The colleague put a stack of medical records in folders in front of her.

"But...but..." Before she could refuse, the colleague had already walked away, so Yu Gui had to sit down heavily with a sigh.

"But... I haven't had lunch yet"

While hungry, Yu Gui typed up the medical records while taking advantage of no one in the office to call Fang Zhiyou, and the other party quickly connected, with a familiar gentle voice: "Xiaogui?"

Yu Gui responded in a low voice, rubbed his belly and complained to his girlfriend in a low voice: "I haven't had lunch yet, you know?"

"What do you want to eat? I'll give you some." Fang Zhiyou leaned on the rough bed of the rental house, but the smile on his face seemed to own the whole world.

"No, I'll go to the cafeteria to eat later." Yu Gui knew that she didn't earn much, but she often subsidized her to buy delicious food, and her eyes were slightly red with emotion.

"I know, I miss you"

If I could really want to touch her head, like I used to do to her in school, but reaching out just passed the sunlight coming in from the window, and couldn't hold anything.

"Good boy." Fang Zhiyou pursed her lips slightly and smiled, she had this month's salary in her pocket, and she planned to use the money to surprise her.

"You have to work hard, don't cry anymore, you know? Without me protecting you, be strong, all bad guys are paper tigers"

Back in time for a moment, she said the same thing the night after the college entrance examination, and then stood under the street lamp and kissed her forehead.

Yu Gui sniffled: "Yes! I will work hard and earn money! I will try to take you over as soon as possible!"

"Excuse me...how can I get to the emergency department?" A middle-aged woman in a washed gray nylon coat walked in hurriedly, holding two children by her hands, and carried one on her back with a hemp rope, all of which were dirty. Xi Xi had a flushed face, and her dark eyes looked innocently and blankly at everything around her.

Hao Renjie didn't raise his head: "Go straight and turn right, wait a minute" He suddenly stood up as if realizing something.

"Are you... Wang Youshi's family?"

"Yes, yes, I am" the woman hurriedly pulled the child up to him, her face full of hope: "What happened to the baby's father, doctor?"

Hao Renjie knocked on the door: "Wang Youshi, your wife is here to see you."

Wang Youshi quickly sat up from the bed, and because of too much movement, he tore off the infusion needle in his hand. Yu Gui held it down for him, and took a new one from the medicine cart to replace it for him.

"Why are you here? Didn't you tell me this..." As he spoke, his liver suddenly ached, and he covered his waist all of a sudden, his face turned pale.

Yu Gui became nervous: "Are you okay? What's wrong? I... I'll call Teacher Lu..."

"No...it's okay..." Wang Youshi endured the pain and pulled the three children over one by one to take a look. The ward was small and his wife could only stand awkwardly. The desk brought a chair over for her to sit on.

The woman declined, but took her hand instead: "Doctor, doctor, you are a good man, please, tell me what's wrong with him."

"This..." Yu Gui glanced at Wang Youshi.

"Shut up, you bitch!" Unexpectedly, he suddenly became angry, patting the bed and yelling: "Are you hoping that I will die quickly so that I can remarry with the baby!"

The children were too scared to speak, so Yu Gui had no choice but to turn to Hao Renjie for help.

Hao Renjie spread his hands and made a mouth shape: "Don't look at me, I'm the same."

Patients with liver disease are the most taboo to get angry and get angry. After taking the bed, Wang Youshi was throbbing in pain, beads of sweat dripped from his forehead, he gasped heavily, and his complexion turned blue.

Wang Youshi's wife patted the back for him and didn't bother to reply: "Doctor, doctor, this..."

Yu Gui became anxious, the sweat on his forehead was more than Wang Youshi's.

"This... what kind of medicine should I use..." She was anxious like an ant on a hot pot holding the syringe.

"Are you asking me? I'm not a doctor." Hao Renjie was also surprised: "How did you graduate from medical school?"

"I...I..." Yu Gui murmured, "Strictly speaking...I...my regular training is not over yet...not yet...graduation..."

Hao Renjie was stunned: "Okay, I don't think you will be able to graduate"

It was also a coincidence that Lu Qingshi happened to be patrolling the room and came to the door and walked over quickly, pressed the stethoscope on Wang Youshi's chest, and ordered the helpless man to go home.

"A static muscle push of Demerol"

"Oh, oh good!" Yu Gui heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly dug out the pethidine from the medicine cart, disinfected his skin with povidone iodine, and slowly plunged the sharp needle into Wang Youshi's blood vessel. something went wrong.

The painkiller took effect quickly, and the accompanying tranquilizer made him fall asleep quickly. Wang Youshi's wife stood in the corridor waiting for Lu Qingshi to come out.

"Doctor, doctor, please tell me what's wrong with my baby's father!"

Lu Qingshi took off his mask and looked at her quietly, with a calm expression, neither sad nor happy, announcing the cruelest result.

"Advanced Liver Cancer"

Wang Youshi's wife collapsed on the ground. She had no education or culture, and she didn't know what liver cancer was. All she knew was that in their village, anyone with cancer would not live long.

"He himself meant to give up the treatment, so we have no choice. You can negotiate to see when you will be discharged from the hospital, and then pay the fee."

The woman sat on the ground and wept silently. When Lu Qingshi turned around and was about to leave, she suddenly walked over on her knees and grabbed her by the corner of her clothes.

"Doctor...doctor...don't give up the treatment...baby...baby can't live without a father...money...I have the money..." She took out a neat 3000 yuan in a handkerchief from her pocket, There were red bills and scattered dime, which were stuffed into Lu Qingshi's hands.

"Doctor...Doctor, take it first...we will make up the rest if there is not enough... Please don't give up the treatment... A baby can't live without a father!"

As for the person she was pulling, he was unmoved in the slightest, and Yu Gui even suspected that her face was paralyzed, other than expressionless.

Really couldn't stand it anymore, Yu Gui helped him to sit on the bench, took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it to her, when he turned around, Lu Qingshi had already disappeared.

During dinner, Yu Gui specially bought two boxed lunches and carried them to the door of the ward. The family of four gathered around Wang Youshi's bed and chatted and laughed. Their eldest daughter was already ten years old, simple and sensible, and was reciting to him the Tang poems he had learned in school. , Wang Youshi heard a smile on his face, which was tortured by the disease.

The wife was standing beside the bed with the youngest daughter in her arms. Wang Youshi patted the bed, but this time he stopped shouting: "Come on, come sit down and let me touch my belly."

For the audience, the woman was a little embarrassed: "Don't...don't...what are you doing..."

Yu Gui quietly put the lunch box at the door, turned and left.

Maybe this family once made the mistake of patriarchal, but fate has given them the greatest punishment, hasn't it?

I don't know when, it started to rain outside the window, and the shadows of the trees swayed. Yu Gui looked up information on the Internet while eating his box lunch under the cool breeze.

Hao Renjie passed by her and glanced at the screen: "Let me tell you, you can't do this operation at the level of your junior in medical school."

Yu Gui was not convinced, and puffed up his cheeks: "Who said I..." Halfway through the words, his voice dropped again. People who can't even take painkillers really don't have the confidence to speak out.

Hao Renjie clicked his tongue, raised his orchid fingers and leaned over to look at her computer: "You have this spare time, why don't you go and ask Sister Lu, after all, the paper you are reading now was written when she was still in school."

The title is bold and large in a few large characters "Surgical specific operation methods and precautions for liver lobectomy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma"

She quickly scrolled down to see the signature:

Peking Union Medical College, Lu Qingshi.

Yu Gui was full of lovelessness, Hao Renjie turned his upturned buttocks and walked away, not forgetting to make up the knife: "But I think it might be a waste of time for you to ask Sister Lu, so don't write more when you have time." Got a few medical records”