Chapter Seventy-Eight: I Am the Broadsword
Falling in love with a wild horse is destined to have a grassland above your head.
Familial Mediterranean fever is a spontaneous autosomal recessive disorder of unknown etiology, and its onset is not related to sex. In this recessive mode of inheritance, a combination of two copies of the mutation is needed to become ill, one from the mother and the other from the father. Therefore, both parents should be carriers of the mutated gene with only one copy of the mutation, and not the disease.
Familial Mediterranean fever is usually seen in siblings, cousins, uncles, or distant relatives in extended families of Mediterranean ancestry. However, in a small percentage of cases, one parent is a familial Mediterranean fever patient and the other is a carrier, in which case the child's illness can be up to 50 percent, and unfortunately Claudia is in the affected half.
Although Carl Alexander is a Greek citizen and grew up in Greece, he is only an Asian adopted by the Greeks by blood, and his biological parents are Koreans, so it is impossible for him to carry a copy of the mutated gene for familial Mediterranean fever, in other words, he cannot be Claudia's biological father.
"I said that I could cure Claudia, and any normal mother would at least breathe a long sigh of relief when she heard the news, instead of crying with ecstasy, but Maria did not react in a similar way, and when I said that I was lying to her, she showed anger and frustration, which meant that she lacked the emotion of 'happiness', but her reaction to anger and sadness was still sound. "No matter how much Liang Baoguang is a bastard, he won't joke about his dying daughter, everything he does is just to make a correct diagnosis," traveling everywhere, my daughter is sick but still insists on going to the playground, typical symptoms of anhedonia, do you know what this means?"
Li Yunjing is a little transparent, after all, she is also a top student from Perelman, and theoretically she has also learned all the knowledge that Liang Bao has ever learned, "This shows that her dopamine receptors are disturbed." ”
Liang Baoguang nodded, "Yes, considering that they are from Greece, then I prefer another answer than the explanation that both mother and daughter have schizophrenia at the same time." ”
"They all have familial Mediterranean fever. Li Yunjing held her forehead, not knowing what expression to use to face Karl Alexander.
"Brother, I'll stand up for you. Liang Baoguang raised his hand and wanted to pat Karl Alexander's shoulder to comfort the wounded heart a little, but after thinking about it, he withdrew his hand again, probably at this time all the men just want to be quiet, don't ask them why, and don't ask who Jingjing is.
Karl Alexander waved his hand to indicate that he did not want to speak.
"Micelle, give the mother and daughter colchicine and phenylalanine chlorambucil. "People's habits are always difficult to change, and after entering the work state, Liang Baoguang still habitually calls Li Yunjing's English name and regards her as his deputy, instead of jokingly calling her Nuna and treating her as a friend.
Li Yunjing hesitated a little, "Claudia's kidneys have failed, if it weren't for familial Mediterranean fever, we would still use colchicine......"
"You just have to do it. Liang Baoguang reverted to his former Karisa, showing a domineering temperament that belonged to "authority", and he was unquestionable when he was in Mount Sinai, "Now how about the two of us go out and smoke a cigarette, Mr. Alexander." ”
The smoking area of the hospital is outside the building, because there is a lush mountain behind the Korea University Hospital, so you can clearly hear the noisy cicadas, Liang Baoguang and Karl Alexander sat side by side, lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, "Actually, you changed your surname to Alexander after you were twenty years old." ”
"How do you know?" Karl Alexander's eyes widened, he said in front of others that he had followed his adoptive parents' surname since he was a child, but in fact he changed his surname to Alexander after he went back to receive the inheritance, this is not a secret secret that the people around him are not clear to now, but he didn't expect it to be broken by Liang Baoguang.
"I also know that you once attended the University of Florida Medical School in the United States. Liang Baoguang's memory is very good, and after carefully searching his memory bank, he recalled that it was this Carl Alexander who also attended the event when he went to the University of Buddha, and it was a graduate student over there, "Other doctors couldn't find the cause, and it took me a lot of effort to figure out why, but it's not difficult for you to draw conclusions." ”
Because of Carl Alexander's Asian identity, it is impossible for a normal doctor to link his wife's and daughter's illness to familial Mediterranean fever, as Li Yunjing just reacted, but he himself is different, and he has information that doctors cannot reach.
"Actually, I already knew that Claudia was not my own daughter, Maria and her brother...... Do you know how disgusting people are in the Mediterranean? If it were just a normal situation, Carl Alexander would have had a showdown when he learned that his wife was having an affair with a man, but that man was his wife's own brother, "I would have liked to shake things out so that the world could see their dirt and ugliness, but Claudia is innocent, and I don't dare to imagine what would have happened if she had learned that her uncle was her own father." ”
Liang Baoguang still understands the atmosphere of the Mediterranean Sea more or less, just look at Greek mythology, the so-called Greek mythology is a history of incest, but all the gods who can be named by name are either the products of their own black history or their parents' black history, "When did you realize that she might be a familial Mediterranean fever patient, I am not talking about Claudia but your wife." ”
"A year and a half ago, she had periodic fevers with joint pain. Karl Alexander said.
"But you didn't tell her, you didn't tell the doctor, did you?" Carl Alexander is now a medical device contractor, although he is not a doctor, but his medical knowledge is there, Liang Baoguang knows very well that Maria does not know that there must be such a thing as familial Mediterranean fever, which must be deliberately concealed by him, "and even you deliberately conceal it." ”
"Yes, I just want this son to suffer and pay for the things she did, and she still does that kind of thing with her brother regularly, and it's ridiculous that they think I don't know anything. Karl Alexander scoffed, if it weren't for his daughter, he would have retaliated even harder.
Liang Baoguang sighed, he really didn't know what to say, "You know that she will die like this." ”
"Yes, but what does it have to do with me, and I didn't kill her. "Not to mention that no one else can produce evidence, and even if they do, it is impossible to do anything to him, so Karl Alexander seems very indifferent to this.
"But what about your daughter, she will lose her mother. Liang Baoguang feels that it is more appropriate for children to grow up in a family with both parents.
"She doesn't need a mother like that, or what if she becomes like her mother in the future?" Karl Alexander laughed suddenly, "and do you know what the best part of this story is, when that biaozi dies, I will be dependent on Claudia, a daughter who is not related by blood......"
"Comrade Duxiu, I'm Li Dadao. Liang Baoguang was so shocked that he didn't even notice that the cigarette on his mouth fell to the ground, he felt that he had seen this plot, it seemed to be called "Sage Love" (if you don't know, please Baidu by yourself) or something.