Chapter 09: Suspected Cancer
After Yuan Man finished the infusion, he felt very sleepy, so he fell into a deep sleep.
When I fell asleep, I heard the old man Mei in the next bed say, how can I cover the quilt like this, it's strange if I don't catch a cold! So when I heard him, I got up and came over to help Yuan Man cover the quilt. first tucked the quilt of Yuan Man's vest, then pulled the quilt up to his chest, and then covered his face. Yuan Man shook his head, didn't put the quilt off, and didn't feel uncomfortable, so he just stopped.
Before long, I heard the sound of the nurse entering the ward, and then she exclaimed, who is this quilt that is going to cover the dead! It seems that the nurse also came to help Yuan Man pull the quilt, but she still didn't pull the quilt off her head, and she didn't hear her voice again, so she probably left. Yuan Man also said in his heart, how can this person just talk and not practice!
At the same time, I felt that the quilt on my head suddenly became heavier, and it was pressed against my face, and it was difficult to breathe. Yuan Man began to struggle, shouting, hoping that Old Man Mei or the nurse would come to help him and remove the quilt for him. As a result, not only did he not call anyone for help, but the quilt became heavier and heavier, and he was about to suffocate him!
At this time, Yuan Man saw a face appear on the ceiling. It's the dress of an old Tujia man, just like the trademark pattern of the Lao Ba people, but the person is not so old. Just looked at him with a smile.
Yuan Man also looked at him. I felt so inexplicable! Who is this person?! Suddenly, I felt like my dead father again.
Suddenly, I felt uncomfortable with my heart. When his gaze moved down, he saw that the old man was holding a pair of tongs in his hand, pressed against Yuan Man's left chest, and strengthened little by little. made Yuan Man's heart more and more depressed.
The old man still had a smile on his face, but the strength in his hands did not diminish.
Yuan Man was shocked. Using his hands and feet at the same time, trying to break free from the shackles of the quilt, he kept screaming in his mouth. I wanted to shout for help, but I couldn't pronounce the word "help", so I could only scream.
I struggled for a while, and I shouted for a while. I saw the old man's face getting closer and closer. Although it was a kind smile, it changed into the appearance of his father for a while. But it made Yuan Man very frightened!
He's about to press me down! The tongs are about to pierce my chest! Teacher Mei, save me!!! Yuan Man shouted loudly.
Yuan Man's sober consciousness told himself that he had to get the help of Teacher Mei, otherwise I would die!
Yuan Man turned his head and glanced at Old Man Mei, who was sleeping with his back to Yuan Man, turning a blind eye to his struggles and turning a deaf ear to his cries!
The tongs are about to dig into the chest, and it hurts in the chest.
Yuan Man let out the last shout before he died—ah!
"Husband, husband!" At this time, Yuan Man heard Zhou Xiaolan's voice.
The old man's smiling face suddenly departed from him, slowly fading from the ceiling.
Yuan Man danced his limbs and finally broke free from the shackles of the quilt!
Zhou Xiaolan's warm hands grabbed his frightened waving hands, and a "husband, what's wrong with you" gave Yuan Man a sense of security.
The feeling of pressure in my chest disappeared suddenly. Yuan Man returned to the world.
Yuan Man turned his head to look at the old man Mei in the next bed.
Bed 39 is a man in his 30s who has just moved in.
Yuan Man twisted his head, convinced that he was living in reality, not in a dream.
But I feel that my hands are so numb. It turned out that he had a nightmare with his hands on his chest and pressed his chest.
Yuan Man asked Zhou Xiaolan, did I call just now?
Zhou Xiaolan said, you just opened your mouth and yelled, and you shouldn't call you if I call you. I knew you had nightmares.
Alas, thank you, if it weren't for you, I would have died!
"Have a nightmare?" asked Zhou Xiaolan.
"Yes," replied Yuan Man, "I'm scared to death!" and told Zhou Xiaolan about the terrifying dream.
"It may be that the hand is placed in the position of the heart," Zhou Xiaolan said, "or the quilt is heavy and compressive, and it will have nightmares." Don't scare yourself! ”
The man in bed 39 was transferred from a county hospital below.
It is said that it has been blood in the stool for a while, and the abdomen has a dull pain from time to time. According to the examination of the county hospital, it is a submucosal stromal tumor of the gastric fundus.
"What is a fundus submucosal stromal tumor?" 39 asked his attending doctor, a very handsome and handsome substitute doctor.
"Fundal stromal tumors are gastrointestinal stromal tumors," Dr. Dai said, "and are a type of tumor that originates in the mesenchymal tissue of the gastrointestinal tract." You're still under the gastric mucosa. ”
"Tumor?" 39's face turned pale, "Is it cancer?" his daughter-in-law wrung the corners of her clothes in fear.
"You don't have to be nervous," Dr. Dai said, "stromal tumors are somewhere between benign and malignant. We need further tests to confirm the diagnosis. Then I can give you a treatment plan. ”
"I've got blood in my stool!" said 39 Bed Trembling.
"What color?" asked Dr. Dai.
"Red. 39 bed replied.
"Bright red, dark red, or black?" asked Dr. Dai.
"Bright red. 39 bed replied.
"If it is upper gastrointestinal bleeding, it should be black or dark brown when it is digested and absorbed by the stomach and intestines and discharged from the body. "If there is bleeding in the stomach and intestines, then the stool that is expelled from the body is dark red. ”
"The bright red you're talking about is a bit like hemorrhoids. The substitute doctor asked, "Do you have hemorrhoids?"
"Yes. "39 beds said.
"Is the stool dry or runny, is there any mucus in it?" asked the substitute doctor again.
"Dry, no mucus. ”
"It's not a gastrointestinal problem," Dr. Dai said, "it's bleeding from hemorrhoids." ”
"In the future, when it is difficult to solve the stool, don't try to solve it. Dr. Dai said, "Use a little cork, otherwise it will break the hemorrhoids." Hemorrhoids can also cause heavy bleeding. ”
The husband and wife made a continuous sound.
"Give him an appointment for a Monday EUS. Dr. Dai said to the nurse on the side.
"What is EUS?" asked Bed 39, puzzled.
"Oh, it's an ultrasound gastroscopy. Dr. Dai said.
"What is an ultrasound gastroscopy?" 39 asked.
"Ultrasound gastroscopy is an advanced medical device. It has both ultrasound and endoscopy. This allows for direct visualization of the intracavity morphology with an endoscope and real-time ultrasound scanning. In this way, ultrasound images of the histological features at all levels of the duct wall and surrounding adjacent organs can be obtained. ”
The substitute doctor tried to make professional things as popular as possible.
"Do you have to wait until Monday?" 39 asked, "Can't you do it today?"
"Our director only has time to do it on Mondays. Dr. Dai explained, "This is something that only our director can do." ”
Dr. Dai said, "Besides, you have to be fasting for at least 6 hours to do this. You've all eaten. No matter what, it's going to be tomorrow. ”
"Then tomorrow. 39 And the bed said, with supplication.
"Then I'll have to ask our director to get you answered. The substitute doctor said, "Try to arrange it for you." ”
Because he was introduced by an acquaintance of the director, the director specially arranged for him to be examined for EUS the next day. The result is unfortunate and malignant.
The two couples in the 39th bed cried on the spot.
"Don't be so pessimistic. Director Jiang said, "Although it is malignant, it is early and has not spread, and it will be fine if it is cut off by surgery." The prognosis should be fine. ”
At the moment, they were scheduled to have an operation date. The two husbands and wives are again grateful.
Hearing the news that 39 beds were suffering from malignant tumors, Yuan Man was shocked. Thinking of that terrifying dream again, my heart was even more uneasy.
He said to Dr. Yan, "Dr. Yan, will I get cancer?"
"No," Dr. Yan said, "your last ultrasound showed that you just had a cyst on your liver. Don't scare yourself. ”
"But," Yuan Man said, touching the position of the xiphoid process and his throat, "I have always felt uncomfortable here during this time. ”
"What's uncomfortable?" asked Dr. Yan.
"When you eat something, it swells," Yuan Man said, "and sometimes it hurts a little bit, and it refluxes a little." ”
"Do you feel choked when you swallow?" Dr. Yan asked.
"Not really. Yuan Man said.
"Then you have inflammation in your stomach and esophagus. Dr. Yan said.
"But," Yuan Man felt that there was an important piece of information that he needed to tell Dr. Yan, "my father died of esophageal cancer. ”
"Really?" Dr. Yan became serious, "then you need to do a gastroscopy." ”
Doing a gastroscopy is not that fun. It's a long and thick black tube that goes down your throat, through your esophagus, to the bottom of your stomach!
"Is there a painless gastroscopy?" asked Yuan Man. He heard Old Man Mei say that there seems to be a kind of ball with ultrasound, which can be swallowed, and he can swim around the digestive tract by himself, take images of the digestive tract, and finally pull it out casually.
"That's called capsule endoscopy. Dr. Yan said, "At present, there are no ones in our hospital. ”
"At present, our hospital only has electronic gastroscopy and ultrasound gastroscope. Dr. Yan said, "In your case, you can do a digital gastroscopy." ”
"Does it hurt?" Yuan Man resisted.
"It's all painless," Dr. Yan said with a smile, "not as scary as you think." ”
"What kind of painless method?" Yuan Man asked, "Is it really painless?"
"One is general anesthesia and the other is general anesthesia. It's all painless. "But I don't recommend that you have a general anesthetic." ”
"Why?" Yuan Man didn't understand.
"Anesthesia is always bad for your health," Dr. Yan said, "and you can withstand ordinary ones." ”
At 6 o'clock the next morning, the nurse came to give Yuan Man an indwelling needle. After 8 o'clock, after a night of fasting, Yuan Man, who was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, came to the gastroscopy room with a disposal sheet. As a result, I was told that the appointment was full in the morning and that it would not be done until the afternoon. Said that the arrangement of hepatitis B is done in the afternoon.
Do it in the afternoon? That's not to starve Lao Tzu to death!
Back in the ward, Yuan Man was in trouble. Venting frustration on doctors and nurses.
"How did you arrange your work?" Yuan Man said angrily, "I was told to fast and water at night, but I didn't arrange the inspection, and they said that they would check it in the afternoon." Do you want me to be hungry for another half a day?
"You didn't make an appointment?" asked Dr. Yan.
"When did you call me to make an appointment?" Yuan asked angrily, "I always thought it was arranged by your doctor." ”
"I gave you a disposition order on Saturday," the doctor said, "you didn't show up for your appointment?"
"You didn't tell me I was going to make an appointment!" Yuan Man said dissatisfiedly.
"I'm sure I'm telling you I'm going to make an appointment. Dr. Yan still insisted.
"Am I stupid?" Yuan Man asked, "You asked me to make an appointment, I won't go?!"
"Contact the gastroscopy room. Yuan Man said. "Shouldn't hospitalization be a priority?"
"It's not what you think," Dr. Yan said, "The gastroscopy room comes on a first-come, first-served basis, not that inpatient or outpatient patients are given priority." ”
"Then you didn't contact me well, so you told me not to eat," Yuan Man was dissatisfied, but his tone softened a lot, "I'm starving to death!"
"If you really can't hold on," Dr. Yan said, "I'll give you a nutrition injection first." ”
Damn, as soon as the nutrition injection was injected, the gastroscopy room called and asked Yuan Man to come over for a gastroscopy. It's a quarter past 10 o'clock!
I registered in the gastroscopy room and was told to sit at the door and wait. After a while, the doctor in the gastroscopy room came to check the patient's information, and then handed out a lidocaine glue and told Yuan Man to drink it.
Lidocaine glue is not unpleasant, but it is by no means pretentious. After a while, the mouth went numb. Then came the throat, completely numb and mechanically swallowed saliva.
However, until the numbness in his mouth and throat was almost gone, Yuan Man's name had not yet been called.
When Yuan Man was called into the gastroscopy room, his mouth and throat were completely numb.
"Do you need another bottle?" asked Yuan Man.
"No, you don't. The doctor said.
"But my mouth and throat are not numb at all. Yuan Man said worriedly.
"That's not for the mouth and throat," the doctor said, "it's for the stomach." ”
When that pipe went in for a while, it didn't want to die?
The doctor ignored Yuan Man's worries and took him directly into the gastroscopy room.
The doctor spread a blue sterile cloth on the disposal bed and told Yuan Man to lie on his side.
"I can't help it for a while, I can spit on this cloth. The doctor said, "Open your mouth." "The voice has no emotional overtones.
Whoa! A very large cylinder was stuffed into his mouth, and he clenched it with his teeth. In order to suppress the tongue and expose the throat, it is convenient for the gastroscope to enter the esophagus smoothly.
Yuan Man was very resistant to this.
But before he could speak, the doctor rudely poked the tube in. A wave of nausea came over him, and Yuan retched with uh-uh.
"Don't push yourself," said the doctor, "relax." Eh, yes, swallow it. ”
How can you relax? Yuan Man retched a few more times, and wanted to spit it out.
"Relax!" the doctor ordered, "it's too tense and it's easy to hurt." ”
Nima's, has already done harm. Sore throat!
The doctor ignored Yuan Man's reaction and stretched the gastroscope in.
Finally, after passing the most uncomfortable esophagus and entering the stomach, I didn't feel pain. Presumably lidocaine glue did the trick. The tube entered the stomach without discomfort, only a slight foreign body sensation.
The tube stretched forward a little further and into the duodenum. The doctor turned the gastroscope and examined it carefully.
After 7 minutes, the examination is over.
Yuan was retching incessantly.
The doctor said, "This 5-year-old child is doing quite well, but you can't do it well as an adult?"
Regardless of whether it is good or bad, it is finally done. I also experienced the legendary gastroscopy.
The results came out quickly.
There is no cancer, just inflammation. Both the esophagus and stomach have erosive inflammation. Yuan Man thought about it, the inflammation may be due to eating too many spicy strips during this time.
Dr. Yan looked at the test results and said, "It's nothing, it's just inflammation." ”
Hearing this, Yuan Man's hanging heart was relieved.
However, the inflamed throat seemed to have been stabbed and it took two days to get used to it.
Yuan Man's mood relaxed.