Chapter 2: Dying
Li Zhen's parents, Li Kaiwen and Song Chenxiao, were standing in the office of Dr. Cui of the city's No. 1 Hospital at the moment, holding a stack of test sheets in their hands. Song Chenxiao's lips trembled a little. Although she stood in the sunlight shining in from the window, she always felt a chill forced out of her bones, making her a little unsteady in her hand.
"Doctor, you mean ......," she looked at the middle-aged man behind her desk with a little expectation. The latter looked unbearable and nodded again.
So she sat down on the chair behind her, and the list in her hand was scattered all over the ground.
Li Kaiwen held her and was silent for a while, as if he was saying to the doctor, as if he was saying to Song Chenxiao, and as if he was saying to himself: "Actually, this is also a good thing...... Get checked out early, treat early. It can be cured in the early days, isn't it? β
He paused and said in an accentuated tone: "Smashing pots and selling iron must also be cured." β
Dr. Cui looked at the couple through the lenses, and felt pity in his heart. After being a doctor for so many years, the patient's family has seen too much, and he has long been a little numb. However, for the one in front of you...... He couldn't bear it.
Let's not talk about the couple, just the child. It is said that he is still a top student in a key middle school, and he took the college entrance examination in the summer, but he had a car accident. If there is a car accident, no matter how serious it is, if you rescue it, you can raise it for a year, and you can take the test again next year. It's just that......
During the examination, it was found that the child had already been sick. It's not an ordinary disease. Let's put it this way...... All the types of cancer known to mankind can be found in him.
It's a tingling of the scalp when you think about itβit's all early, but how did this kid survive? His parents said he never mentioned it. From the time he went to medical school to now, he has been clinical for more than ten years, and it is the first time he has heard of such a thing. Cancer patients have many normal cells and some cells are diseased. Even in the late stages, it only spreads throughout the body. But this patient, who just turned 18 this year......
It's almost a "cancer person". He now has no undiseased cells on his body.
However, he miraculously looks like a normal person!
This made him feel pity at the same time, but also an inexplicable chill in his heart.
The pathogenesis of cancer, simply put, is that normal cells develop lesions and begin to multiply indefinitely. Normal human cells can divide about 50 times in a lifetime, and then age and die. This allows the growth of the human body to be within a certain controllable range, and does not threaten the survival of the individual.
Cancer cells, on the other hand, are diseased, leading to infinite proliferation, grabbing nutrients in the body like greedy demons and occupying the limited space in normal tissues and organs. The malignant tumors formed by cancer also release a variety of toxins, causing a series of complications and leading to human death.
Right now, this kid is full of this kind of thing.
According to his knowledge, once a terminal patient reaches this point β in fact, all patients die before they develop it β but once he reaches this point, he should have become a lump of flesh made up of various tumors long ago.
He looked at the couple in front of him, was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "In this case, you two, go for a check-up too." β
Then he added weakly: "This is to consider that once the patient needs a bone marrow transplant, it is better to prepare in advance." β
Li Kaiwen hesitated for a while, helped Song Chenxiao up, and nodded: "Then where should I go to check?" β
"Come, I'll take you away." Dr. Cui quickly stood up.
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Li Zhen's condition began to deteriorate rapidly. In other words, the word "rapid" is no longer enough to describe that speed. On the first day he woke up from the operation, he could still turn his head and smile and say, "Dad, Mom, help me get a few." β
However, the next day, the cancer cells seemed to have received some kind of instruction and began to multiply wildly in the body. In the evening, Li Zhen fell into an intermittent comaβat least to others.
At seven o'clock in the evening, it was already completely dark. Song Chenxiao was lying on the side of the hospital bed and napping, while Li Kaiwen pushed the door open, intending to get some hot food for his wife. However, as soon as I went out, I saw a girl with a ponytail standing outside the door looking into the ward, wearing a school uniform.
He has an impression of this girl - her name is Zhang Kesong, and her relationship with her son is better than that of ordinary classmates. He often saw the two of them go home together after evening self-study, and they often exchanged phone calls. To sum it up in one sentence, it is his son's "suspected early love girlfriend".
Not only did he know about it, but the girl's parents and homeroom teacher Zhang Xiulian also knew about it. Both parents met in the school's teacher's office β after all, "love" relationships between high school students weren't as common at this time as they were later.
But that's about it. Both children were shy about talking about it, claiming that they were just good friends. After all, they are all "good students" with good grades, and there is no excessive behavior to delay their studies, so they let it be.
What's more, Li Kaiwen also has a good impression of this beautiful girl.
He even lay in bed and said to Song Chenxiao on some nights: "Our son can really find such a daughter-in-law in the future, but he will be relieved." β
However, seeing this child at this moment, Li Kaiwen, who was in his forties, almost shed tears.
But after all, he held back and said to the girl, "Kesong, come and see Li Zhen." β
The girl nodded, her eyes a little red: "Uncle, how is he?" I heard Mr. Zhang say that he took a long leave, does it matter? I brought my notes from the two days and brought them to him later......"
However, before she finished speaking, the girl saw the middle-aged man in front of her suddenly turn around, and then slowly squatted down against the wall. He is...... Crying?
A deep sense of dread slowly rose from her body, and then grabbed her heart. She didn't bother to comfort the man, turned and rushed into the hospital room...... Then I saw Li Zhen on the bed.
What kind of face is that......
It's as if it has been injected with water, and the skin is swollen and shiny, revealing a black and purple face underneath. The closed eyes became a thin line, and the lips were not the usual pale of the average patient, but were red and black. Although her body was hidden under the quilt, she could still feel that the life force was rapidly escaping from the body, escaping to every corner of the room.
This is not the handsome and weak Li Zhen who used to be. Zhang Kesong stood in place for a while, then suddenly clenched his fists and stepped forward. Then he put his hand on Li Zhen's forehead and closed his eyes......
Then he staggered back a few steps, and large tears slid down.
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