Dr. Cao had a hard day. It was so hard that I only drank two bottles of 10% glucose a day and ate three Snickers.

At around eleven o'clock last night, he was called back to the hospital by a phone call to prepare for surgery. From preoperative preparation to standby in the operating room, to early anesthesia and laparotomy, to ectopic implantation of the kidney in the iliac fossa, it took more than five hours. By the time the surgery was over, Dr. Cao felt that his feet were no longer his own.

With breakfast a few hours to go, he walked into the anesthesiology conference room in his hand clothes, stole a random chair, and fell asleep on the conference table. The canteen in the operating room is also divided into time periods, and if you have to eat breakfast, you have to wait until the meal.

However, when Dr. Cao woke up, he was horrified to find that he had missed breakfast perfectly. According to the plan, in about 20 minutes, he had to go to his mentor for the first inpatient surgery of the day - a radical bladder cancer surgery.

Radical resection of various tumors is the most troublesome surgery in the undergraduate room. For example, radical pancreatic cancer resection can be a "fifth-level surgery" like atlantoaxial replacement. Radical bladder cancer resection is not as difficult as pancreatic cancer radical surgery, but it is still not a simple operation.

Counted from the beginning of lymph node dissection at the third station of the left colonic artery, plus cystectomy. Even if all goes well, a radical cystectomy takes at least three hours to complete. What's even more troublesome is that there is always an inevitable presence of a large number of hyperplastic blood vessels in the tumor. In radical tumor resection, bleeding is commonplace. Dr. Cao has performed so many radical surgeries, and so far, everything has gone smoothly during the operation without bleeding, and he has only encountered it five times.

If the tumor bleeds during the operation, all other work has to be stopped. Blood is removed from the surgical field through a suction tube, and hemostasis is stopped by ligation or cauterization for a short period of time. Once a blood is generated, the operation time has to be increased by 30 minutes to an hour, and it is a very difficult task to accurately locate the bleeding point in the contaminated surgical field, and to ligate or cauterize the bleeding point to stop the bleeding.

Dr. Cao's luck today was not particularly good, even if he was careful and careful, he still encountered three bleeding during the operation. As a result, an operation that was originally scheduled to take four hours was easily extended to seven hours.

And Dr. Cao missed lunch at 11:30 a.m. and dinner at 5 p.m.

If it weren't for the tutor who asked the little nurse to prepare two bottles of ten sugars and three Snickers for Dr. Cao Xin, there would have been two people lying in the operating room today - the patient himself and Dr. Cao. After the radical bladder cancer surgery was over, Dr. Cao was sitting on the floor gasping for breath when he heard another "bad news".

Another kidney source was already on its way to Ningyuan.

Dr. Cao, who is a doctor in the transplant team, has tears running down his face.

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"Did you really do two transplants?" Sun Lien listened to Dr. Cao's cry and hurriedly ordered a few takeouts with his mobile phone. He didn't care what he ordered, anyway, he fed the hungry Brother Cao first. "It's been a great job, it's been a hard job. ”

"I ......," Dr. Cao recounted his tragic experience, but he didn't even have the strength to cry, "I'm dying of hunger." ”

Sun Lien glanced at the date on his phone, and his salary will not be paid until twelve o'clock at noon tomorrow. He didn't need to ask him to guess that Dr. Cao must have no money. Otherwise, he wouldn't have even bought a bowl of fried noodles when he came back all the way.

"That, little grandson, please do me a favor. Dr. Cao slumped on the sofa and said to Sun Lien, "I also have a box of unfinished fried noodles on the table, help me get it." ”

"You wait. Sun Lien refused Dr. Cao's request, "I ordered takeout, and we'll eat it together later—you see, it'll be delivered in ten minutes." Sun Lien showed Dr. Cao his mobile phone, "After a hard day's work, you can at least eat something hot." The fried noodles are dry for a day, so you won't be afraid of stomach problems if you eat them so dry?"

Dr. Cao groaned, "Stomach problems are stomach problems, which surgeon do you see who doesn't have stomach problems......" He suddenly sat up and asked Sun Lien, "Orthopedic surgeons don't have stomach problems, aren't they surgery?"

Sun Lien couldn't help but laugh, "Why aren't orthopedic surgeons surgery? ”

Dr. Cao nodded seriously, "It's true that you can't say that, it's too much to say that." ”

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After eating takeout with Sun Lien, Dr. Cao thanked his roommate, and then went back to sleep without even taking a shower. As for the matter of cleaning up the table, Sun Lien didn't plan to let Dr. Cao do it again, after all, people have three major surgeries a day, and people who are so miserable to this point are forced to clean up the table, which is to be punished.

Sun Lien didn't want to meet a middle-aged man who didn't say a word when he was on duty tomorrow, stared at him for five minutes, and then spit out his collar.

I don't know who the other doctor, Dr. Cao Yanhua, forced to clean up the table before.

Now that the roommate has returned, it doesn't seem appropriate to continue playing games with the controller in the living room - after all, people have to sleep, and the roar of the car engine and the grinding of tires on the ground in the living room are clearly not good for sleep. Sun Lien turned off the TV and game console, went to the room to get a change of clothes, and prepared to take a shower and sleep. Then I saw Hu Jia's WeChat.

"We're already in London. Hu Jia's WeChat avatar is a steaming comic version of the bun, which looks white and tender, and it must be a fragrant and attractive pure meat filling. "Are you off work?"

"When I arrived at the dormitory, I heard about Dr. Cao's tragic experience today. Sun Lien doesn't like to use words in WeChat, he prefers typing. "Have you just arrived at the airport, or are you already staying in a hotel?"

"Just arrived at the airport. Prepare to pick up your luggage. Hu Jia's reply was fast, and by the way, he also attached a photo of the arrival hall of Heathrow Airport, "There are a lot of foreigners here. ”

"Sister, you're in a foreign country. Sun Lien couldn't help but laugh and said, "Are you tired?"

"Ok, slept all the way. Hu Jia took two more photos, and then wrote, "Thanks to my parents coming here this time, the luggage quota for three people is just enough." If they don't come, I'll have enough baggage to buy two more tickets. ”

Sun Lien and Hu Jia chatted more than 9,000 kilometers apart, but they felt little different from usual. It's still those who are not salty or light, or those parents who are short. Aside from occasional complaints about the inefficiency of British customs and airport work, it's not much the same as usual.

"I've decided!" Hu Jia said with three smiling expressions on the phone, "I'm going to taste the English breakfast when I stay." And I'm going to try to see if Haggis is as terrifying as everyone says. ”

"Director Zhou will come back tomorrow, and I will officially resume work tomorrow. Sun Lien reported his situation, "By the way, you go back and check to see if anything has fallen on the villa." I'm going to go to the villa again tomorrow. "After living with Xu's father and Xu's mother these days, Sun Lien's impression of the two old people is quite good. He and Hu Jia left early in the morning, so they didn't officially say goodbye to the two old people. He plans to go again tomorrow to say goodbye to his old fishing friend and the old mother of the kitchen god.

"Remember to say sorry to Sister Xu's parents for me. I didn't say goodbye in person in the morning. Hu Jia replied, "No, I can't think about it anymore, I want to cry when I think about it." ”

Sun Lien put down his phone and sighed softly.

For the first time, he felt that distance was the "thing" that would give people this feeling, that it was both a concept and a tangible thing. But this kind of physical existence always feels indescribable, as if it has no substance.

If it is described as emotional, the distance is probably the closest to the feeling of "melancholy", right?