Ye Chen, Sun Xiaowei, and Xu Jiaojiao entered the ordinary ward, and saw that the ordinary ward was similar to the ordinary wards of other hospitals, all of which were in a large ward, with eight or nine beds, and on the bed, there was a patient lying there.

Ye Chen and Xu Jiaojiao came over, and the Song Ji they wanted to see was on the innermost bed in the ward, and now when Ye Chen and the two of them walked over, they found that in addition to a young man in a white patient gown lying on the bed, there was also an old woman who looked to be fifty years old sitting on the bed.

When she saw Ye Chen and Xu Jiaojiao coming over, the old woman asked, "Are you Xiao Ji's classmates?"

Before Song Ji was sent to the hospital for treatment, except for Song Ji's classmates who occasionally came to see, naturally there was no one else.

What's more, Song Ji's hometown is not in Shanghai, but in other places, and it is not easy for relatives and friends from other places to come over.

Now seeing Ye Chen's age, almost twenty years old, Liu Lanfang feels that this should be her son Song Ji's classmate.

"Auntie, we are Song Ji's classmates and alumni. Ye Chen made up a reason and said.

When Ye Chen came, he didn't bring anything else, and even if he did, he wouldn't be able to wake up and eat it even if he did. Now Ye Chen looked over and found that Song Ji who was lying on the hospital bed, probably because of the hospital for too long, his muscles and skin belonged to the kind of body atrophy.

At the beginning, Sun Xiaowei was in a coma on the hospital bed for two months, and the skin and muscles on his body were atrophied, not to mention that Song Ji is now lying on the hospital bed for too long.

In the past four years, in addition to giving Song Ji regular nutrient solution, the nurse has massaged his body and basked in the sun to prevent the skin from atrophying all over his body. Even then, now that Ye Chen looked over and found that the situation on Song Ji's face was very different from that of his peers.

"Ye Chen, it's him!" Xu Jiaojiao whispered on the side.

At the beginning, Song Ji wanted to go to Xu's house, but was stopped by the Xu family at the door, Xu Jiaojiao took a look and still had some impression of Song Ji. Although Song Ji's whole person looks very different from Song Ji four years ago, she still recognizes it.

"Auntie, what does the doctor say about Song Ji's situation now?" Ye Chen asked.

"The doctor said that if a miracle happens, Xiao Ji will also wake up, otherwise, it will be like this for the rest of his life, but I'm afraid!" Liu Lanfang said helplessly, unconsciously, and wiped the tears from her eyes.

Her age, in fact, is only in her forties, but because of the concern about her son, she has now become like an old woman in her fifties, which is really completely different from other couples in their forties, who are only in their thirties.

This is naturally because her son has a lot to do with being in a coma and becoming a vegetative person, and for so many years, she has also been very worried and worried, will her son be like that for the rest of his life?

She knows very well that with her son's current situation, he now spends so much money in the hospital every day, even if because of his student status, the hospital has medical insurance that can reimburse a lot, but it still costs a lot in a month.

If it weren't for Liu Lanfang's wife, Song Ji's father Song Fugui could still do hard work, and Song Ji's medical expenses might not have been able to pay for it a long time ago.

At the beginning, the school and the hospital also helped Song Ji with sympathy. However, a year has passed, two years have passed, and Song Ji's condition is still the same, the school and the hospital are not charities, in that case, how much can the hospital and the school help?

Even Song Ji's classmates occasionally come up with some money to help Song Ji, but if he is not a billionaire, he will not help much, which is why Liu Lanfang is worried?

"Miracle?" When Ye Chen heard this word, it showed that the doctors in the hospital were almost the kind of people who gave up treatment for Song Ji. After all, if you want to rely on a miracle to wake up Song Ji, it must be impossible.

And Ye Chen also wanted to know more about Song Ji's situation, a middle-aged man who looked like he was also in his fifties, his clothes looked a little dirty, and he was wearing a construction site safety helmet, and came out of the door of the ward.

Judging by the other party's appearance, they should be working on the construction site. Ye Chen naturally has no sense of rejection for this kind of person, because when he was in the village, he met a lot, and now many people in the village are all plasterers who go to the city. They all rely on their own blood and sweat to make money, which naturally makes Ye Chen admire it even more.

"Lan Fang, are these three classmates Song Ji?" Song Fugui came in with the thermos box and asked.

In order to take care of his son, and even for his son's treatment expenses, Song Fugui traveled thousands of miles from his hometown to look for a job at a local construction site in Shanghai. In fact, now that real estate is so developed, it is not difficult to find that kind of hard and tiring work on the construction site, and the most important thing is that you don't need any culture, as long as you do hard work.

After Song Fugui came to Shanghai, the money he brought, soon because of Song Ji's treatment costs, he could only work on the construction site, which was four years, and he looked only in his forties, but now he also looks like he is in his fifties.

Now at this time period, it is lunch time, after he asked the contractor for leave, he brought a boxed lunch to his wife, casually to see his son's situation, unexpectedly, seeing three young people here, he thought it was Song Ji's former classmates.

"Uncle, hello, we are alumni of Song Ji, come and see Song Ji!" Ye Chen said.

"Thank you so much!" Song Ji has always been able to come out of that village and be admitted to Jiaotong University, which has always been his pride for Song Fugui. However, he never thought that this kind of thing would happen, and he would never wake up again after a car accident.

As for the classmates in Song Ji's class, four years ago, they were already in their third year of college, and most of them had already graduated and worked, and some of them were still studying for graduate school or taking the civil service exam. However, among the classmates who came, when he helped Song Ji pay part of the treatment fee, Song Fugui also did not refuse, because he knew very well that without their help, the hospital might have already stopped taking medicine.

"Uncle, doesn't the hospital have any other treatment other than giving Song Ji a nutrient solution?" Ye Chen asked.

"In addition to this, the doctor occasionally administers hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which is very expensive, and the rest is on our own, hoping to tell him stories or say something from the past to wake him up. However, it didn't work, and we were dead. Song Fugui said helplessly.

The reason why vegetative people are called living dead is that vegetative people are special human states similar to the state of existence of plants, except for retaining some instinctive neural reflexes and the ability to metabolize matter and energy, cognitive ability (including the cognitive ability to store for oneself) has been completely lost, and there is no active activity.

It is also known as phytoplasmic state, irreversible coma. The brainstem of a vegetative person still has a function, and when it delivers nutrients to its body, it can also digest and absorb it, and can use this energy to maintain the body's metabolism, including respiration, heartbeat, blood pressure, etc.

It can also produce some instinctive reflexes to external stimuli, such as coughing, sneezing, yawning, etc. However, the body no longer has consciousness, perception, thinking, and other high-level neural activities unique to human beings.

The EEG appears as a stray waveform. Vegetative states are different from brain death, which refers to the death of the whole brain, including the brainstem. Brain-dead, no spontaneous breathing, EEG in a straight line.

This kind of person is still alive, but in the eyes of many people, it is actually almost the same as dead.