On Chinese New Year's Eve, the Viet-Chinese Hospital was very busy.

The custom of Vietnam is that the Chinese New Year is not hospitalized, and if you live from Chinese New Year's Eve to the first day of junior high school, it means that you have been hospitalized for two years, which is very unpleasant.

So on Chinese New Year's Eve, unless it is a serious illness, the average patient will choose to be discharged home, or come back after the New Year, so this day is very lively.

Wang Xingping and Feng Meili held the baby who was not yet a full moon, and was discharged from the hospital home in a state of anxiety.

Because the doctor thought that his son had some kind of chromosomal defect, the cry was like a cat's meow.

Wang Xingping also spent a lot of money to test a 21 chromosome, and the result was normal, but the doctor said that other chromosomal abnormalities could not be ruled out.

Although Wang Xingping scolded and felt that the doctor was cheating on their money, he was still very frightened in his heart.

During his hospitalization, Wang Xingping has been visiting various wards just to hear what the cries of other newborn babies are like.

All I heard was the sound of wow~~wow~~~, only his child cried meow~~meow~~~

This kind of cat meow is said to outsiders, and even his own father is panicked when he hears it.

As her own mother, Feng Meili was so scared that she didn't even dare to feed N.

Good guy, this is feeding, and suddenly meowing a few times, Feng Meili feels like a fluffy cat mother.

The point is that cats are not mascots in the customs of Vietnam, and they often represent gloomy and underworld. Whoever has a cat meow in the middle of the night often means that the family is going to be unlucky.

In this gloomy cloud, Wang Xingping and Feng Meili arrived home.

In the 90s, Vietnamese and Chinese people still mainly traveled by boat, and as soon as the boat docked on the shore, the Wang family had already set off firecrackers by the river, and the Wang family's grandparents and a large group of relatives and neighbors were waiting.

"Hurry up, my good grandson is back!"

"Congratulations to the mother of the Wang family, after so many years of looking forward to finally coming to Jinsun!"

The Wang family was overjoyed, and Wang Xingping and Feng Meili could only force a smile and get off the boat with their children in their arms.

As soon as I got off the boat, the relatives of the Wang family surrounded me, and the grandmother hugged her eldest grandson, so happy that she couldn't close her mouth.

"Ah, how cute this kid is, look at this round ......"

"That's it, with such a big nose, I'll be blessed in the future......"

"The forehead is so big, the big head is big, the head is big, the head is big......

"Hahaha......"

The Wang family was happy, but Wang Xingping and Feng Meili were even more worried, because the doctor could say that this child had a little hydrocephalus, and this head was not too big.

Wang Xingping can only comfort himself, he has spent tens of thousands of yuan, and if he finds out that he is not sick, then he must be not sick.

The whole family happily returned to their home, put the baby on the bed, and everyone gathered around to watch the fun.

At this time, the cupola was set off outside, which was set off by every household during the Chinese New Year, which was much more festive than small firecrackers, and the sound was louder.

Bang~~Horn~~~

The loud noise woke up the sleeping baby, and the little one writhed twice, and then began to cry aloud:

Meow~~Meow~~Meow~~~

The onlookers suddenly quieted down, you look at me, I look at you, all of them can't react, I don't know how to describe it.

A small child around suddenly shouted, "Wow, my little brother cries like a kitten." ”

This ignited the gossip around people:

"Listen, it's really like a cat meowing......"

"How is it so strange, I've never heard of such a thing in my 60s......"

"This, this, could this be the reincarnation of the cat demon?"

As soon as these words came out, the people who were tightly surrounding the small bed were so frightened that they took a step back, and some children wanted to get close but were pulled away by their parents.

"Mother Wang, come quickly, your grandson's cry is wrong."

Grandpa Wang and Grandma Wang were entertaining guests, when they heard someone shouting and hurried over: "What's wrong with my baby?" ”

"Listen, listen to yourselves......"

"Meow~~Meow~~~"

The bowl of longan chicken soup that Grandma Wang was holding in her hand fell to the ground at once, making a light crispy sound.

The old lady picked up her grandson and confirmed it again and again, only to see her eldest grandson's face flushed, and he kept crying: Meow~~Meow~~~

For a while, the old couple was stunned.

Wang Xingping knew that something was wrong when he saw that the expressions of his relatives and neighbors were wrong, so he hurried to drive people away:

"Everyone go home, in a few days we will do a full moon wine, everyone will come again, now my wife and children are going to rest, let's go!"

Grandpa Wang also reacted: "Yes, yes, I'm sorry, let's drink in a few days, we're tired today!" ”

The neighbors pretended to be cooperative, but they all looked at the baby with strange eyes before leaving.

The Wangjiatang house, which was still lively just now, suddenly became deserted, and only the cry of the little baby meowed was left.

Grandpa Wang lowered his voice and asked, "Son, what's going on?" ”

Because the baby was born prematurely, he has been in the neonatal intensive care unit since birth, so this is the first time that the old man and the old lady have held their grandson, and naturally they are not aware of what is happening in the hospital.

Before Wang Xingping went home to get the money, he only said that he was cured, and he didn't say anything about the cat's meow.

Hearing her father's question, Feng Meili covered her face and cried all of a sudden, and Wang Xingping also scolded with an obscure face:

"The doctor said it was a disease, and said that he had a chromosomal problem, but he didn't find it after checking it once."

The old lady also cried at this time: "Oh my God, what kind of evil has our family created, how did we give birth to a monster??? ”

The Wang family gave birth to a cat demon, and the matter quickly spread in the local area.

First a village knew about it, and then it spread to the whole township, and then to the whole county, and the sensational effect was no less than who was admitted to Tsinghua University.

It's the New Year, it's supposed to be a festival where you don't have to work and gossip professionally.

As a result, Fuqiang Village, where the Wang family is located, has become the focus of the people of the county, and the villagers of Fuqiang Village know for the first time that they still have so many relatives.

In addition to coming to Fuqiang Village as guests, these relatives will deliberately go to the front of Wang's house to go around.

Even many good deeds stuck to the gate and wall of the Wang family to listen to the shouts of the legendary "cat demon".

The Wang family has also become a mess, and the famous goddesses and Taoist priests around Fuqiang Village have been invited, and even the Taoist monks of the incense burner peak have also been invited to come and see.

But no matter sprinkling perfume, throwing glutinous rice, dancing gods, inviting Bodhisattvas, burning paper money, etc., etc., it is all useless, and the baby still meows and cries non-stop.

The whole family was tied up, and Grandma Wang and Feng Meili washed their faces with tears every day.

Grandpa Wang was so angry that he kept smoking, and finally threw away the cigarette butt and took out an iron box from the house:

"Son, this is our family's last money, a total of 5,000 yuan, you take the baby to the Yuezhong Hospital to see the disease, whether it is a human or a demon, there must be a saying."

If Chen Qi was present, he would definitely say: the state stipulates that animals are not allowed to become sperm after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so they are definitely not monsters.

"Okay, listen to Dad, I'll take the baby to the People's Hospital tomorrow to see the disease."

Feng Meili wiped her tears: "Isn't the People's Hospital moving, tomorrow is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and they probably haven't gone to work yet." ”

Grandpa Wang was angry: "If you don't go to work, let them go to work, and see if our family can live this life?" ”

Outside the Wang's house, it is densely packed with villagers who come to see the gossip, and there are even a lot of small traders selling melon seeds and peanuts, and the rhythm of tourist attractions is ......

Are doctors willing to work overtime?

If you come to the doctor with a common cold or a bad stomach, the doctor will definitely not want to work overtime, and you will be busy moving to the emergency room if you are sick.

But the arrival of the "cat-meow" baby was another matter, and the doctors of the Yuezhong Phytophytomy Center were quickly put in place, and even Chen Qi was attracted to it.

When this incurable disease is cured, it means that one international paper after another has been produced.

In the diagnosis and treatment room, Professor Chen Qi and Professor Ding Tiaoyun were personally doing a physical examination of the baby.

Chen Qi held a small flashlight and conducted an irradiation test on the pupils of the little baby, flashing and flashing.

"How's it going, what's new?" Professor Ding couldn't help but ask.

"How many of you come here", Chen Qi pointed to the doctor watching next to him:

"Look closely at the baby's reflection of light."

After speaking, Chen Qi took a flashlight and shone at the other side's eyes, and everyone watched with wide eyes.

The little doctor Yu Shanshan exclaimed: "The pupils have not narrowed, this child has visual impairment." ”

Chen Qi sighed: "As children grow up, all kinds of problems will appear, such as developmental delays, mental retardation, either ADHD or autism. In addition to visual impairment, hearing is also slowly lost.

More severely, there will be decreased muscle tone, recurrent respiratory tract infections, hip dislocations, scoliosis, etc., in short, it is impossible to live, and very few children can live to adulthood, which means that the child is not large. ”

Wang Xingping and Feng Meili next to them were dumbfounded, and there was only one sentence in their minds: This child can't be raised.

Ding Tiaoyun glanced at the poor little couple and asked unwillingly:

"Dean Chen, can you be sure that this kid is called cat syndrome now?"

Chen Qi shook his head: "I'm not sure, so I need to do genetic testing again, but the experts haven't arrived yet, and the engineers of Southern Gene Company are still at home for the New Year, although we have installed genetic testing equipment, but unfortunately no one will do it." ”

Chen Qi is not omnipotent, after all, he was not a genetic engineering major in his previous life, and it is okay to work in the laboratory, but not to do it.

After all, this is a high-tech gadget, and ordinary people can't play with it.

Ding Tiaoyun straightened his chest at this time and said:

"Dean Chen, don't you underestimate people, Cao Yuchen and Liang Jiameng and I have all been visiting scholars in Xiangjiang, and the three of us can complete genetic testing independently."

Cao Yuchen and Liang Jiameng, two associate professors, also nodded heavily.

All three of them were transferred from Haidong Medical University, although they were transferred to the research group of Viet Chung Hospital, which fully satisfied their academic pursuits.

But there is one thing they are very frustrating, that is, almost all genetically related diseases are discovered by Dean Chen himself, or completed under the personal guidance of Dean Chen.

This made several professors feel a bit like waste, not even as good as the doctors in the local hospitals.

Today, I finally came across something that Dean Chen Qi didn't know, so of course they had to show it.

Chen Qi clapped his hands when he heard this: "In the end, it is a professor trained by Haidong Medical University, I have found a treasure, ha, okay, then let's be self-reliant and don't ask for others." ”

Professor Ding also smiled when he heard this: "Then which pair of chromosomes should we focus on?" ”

There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in human somatic cells, including 22 pairs of autosomes and a pair of sex chromosomes.

Composition of chromosomes in male somatic cells: 22 pairs of autosomes + XY. Composition of somatic chromosomes in females: 22 pairs of autosomes + XX.

Every pair of chromosomal abnormalities can lead to a number of diseases.

For example, chromosome 1 is associated with diseases such as high-end disease (jaundice or anemia caused by a lack of lipase enzymes), prostate cancer, glaucoma, and Alzheimer's disease.

Chromosome 2 has been linked to conditions such as congenital tremors, colon cancer, learning disabilities, hearing impairment or color blindness.

Mutations in chromosome 10 can cause breast cancer, prostate cancer, brain cancer, type I diabetes, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's, to name a few.

Chromosome 21 abnormality will cause congenital stupidity, and people in the rivers and lakes call Tang Baobao.

So which pair of chromosomal abnormalities are specific, there are too many articles that can be done here, let alone papers, you can publish several books.

But if you want to find the cause, it is impossible to check all so many chromosomes, which is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also costly.

Although the Vietnamese and Chinese hospitals make a lot of money, they also spend a lot of money, and it is impossible to complete the testing of 23 pairs of chromosomes independently, which is not worth tens of millions of dollars at all, not including the labor costs of researchers.

Chen Qi held his chin and was thinking, which pair of chromosomes is wrong with this "cat cry syndrome"? He only remembered a single digit, and an odd number (who told him to play with his mobile phone at an academic conference in his previous life)

After all, this disease is so rare that by 2023, only more than 200 cases have been found in the world, and the vast majority of doctors will never encounter it in their lifetime.

"In this case, the three of you will test the 3rd, 5th, and 7th pairs of chromosomes respectively, and strive to get the results within a week."

Professor Ding, Associate Professor Cao, and Associate Professor Liang all nodded heavily: "Don't worry, Dean, I promise to complete the task." ”

Director Xu Anqin and other doctors from the Vietnamese Central Chinese Hospital can only look at it with envy, playing with high technology, it is really not their strong point.

Wang Xingping said weakly at this time: "Dean Chen, this, how much does it cost, I only have 5,000 yuan now, which is the best foundation in my family." ”

5000 yuan is definitely a huge amount of money for Huaguo in 1991, and you can buy two large color TVs with 21 inches.

But for genetic testing work, 5,000 yuan can only be regarded as a plug between the teeth, and returning to poverty due to illness is definitely not a joke in the era when medical insurance has not yet been popularized.

Chen Qi was also a little embarrassed, he was afraid that if he dared to be free today, tomorrow there would be countless rare disease patients flocking to him, all asking for free treatment, and the finances of the small Vietnamese Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital would be completely collapsed.

But if Chen Qi personally paid for the patient's help, he was afraid that the gate of No. 77 Lu Xun Road would be full of patients from all over the country and morally kidnap him.

Therefore, the money must be collected, but how to collect it is particular.

"Comrade Wang Xingping, 5,000 yuan is definitely not enough, but I have a suggestion, that is, you sign and agree, your baby will become our experimental object, and all academic achievements in the future will belong to our exclusive possession of the Vietnamese Chinese Hospital. If you can agree, I will give you 5,000 yuan to do the test. ”

Wang Xingping and Feng Meili don't care if you are academic or not, as long as they can save money.

"Okay, we'll listen to Dean Chen, then please."

A week later, the test results came out, and the baby really had a problem with the 5th pair of chromosomes, so the "cat cry syndrome" was officially diagnosed.

After Wang Xingping and Feng Meili heard the news of the diagnosis, their whole people were like five thunderbolts.

"Dean Chen, I, can my son be saved? Can it be cured? ”

Chen Qi took the report with a little regret: "At present, there is no treatment method, at most it is to deal with the symptoms, such as treating the heart if the heart is not good, treating lung problems if there is any lung disease, and rehabilitation training, but there is no such project in China at present." ”

In fact, Chen Qi wants to say that even if it is a few decades later, cat cry syndrome is an incurable disease with no medicine.

Feng Meili hugged her son, crying and asked, "Dean Chen, is my son really not able to raise him?" ”

Chen Qi can only tell the truth:

"You have to be mentally prepared, even if you live to adulthood, the quality of life is very poor, but after all, it is a life, treat him well."

On the day the results were issued, the Wang family went through the discharge procedures.

About half a year later, when the "Cry Cat Syndrome" research team of Viet Chung Hospital wanted to visit the patient, they learned that the baby had died.

The parents said that the child died of natural causes, but the neighbors said that the grandfather threw him into the river and drowned, and the body was not brought home......

Chen Qi was silent for a long time after hearing this, and felt extremely heartbroken for this little baby who had just come to the world.

But Chen Qi did not blame the child's parents, without the suffering of others, do not persuade others to be kind, there are sick people in the family, and every family will have difficult scriptures.

There is a major medical ethics involved:

If a patient is terminally ill and has no chance of cure, should he continue treatment?

If you don't treat it, you will see your relatives in pain, and you will not be able to get over it on your conscience, and you will be scolded by outsiders as a ruthless and unrighteous wolf.

governance, bankruptcy, selling houses and borrowing debts, and finally losing both people and money, the living may not be able to turn over for the rest of their lives.

Chen Qi had a college classmate in his previous life, two brothers in his family, his hometown was in the inland area, the economic situation was not good, and his parents provided for two college students to study and hollowed out the family.

The two brothers were more competitive, both studied at universities in Haidong Province, and stayed in Xihu City to work after graduation, and the jobs were not bad.

Later, the two brothers successfully found their lovers, got married, bought a house, and settled in West Lake City, of course, they also took a butt of mortgages and car loans.

Then the two filial brothers took their parents to West Lake City for the elderly, and the happy life of the family was broken when the old lady got cancer.

The old lady has no medical insurance in her hometown, and all the treatment costs are all self-paying.

The brothers paid together, emptied their family funds and only got 500,000 yuan, but the money was spent in a few months.

What's next? To cure or not to cure?

If the medical expenses continue, it will be an astronomical amount, and it will certainly be beyond the reach of the two brothers.

But the classmate's parents insisted on treatment, and offered to let their son sell the house to help his mother treat his illness.

However, Chen Qi's wife was unwilling to sell the house, so the originally happy young couple fell out, and the wife moved back to her parents' house to live, and left a sentence before leaving:

"If you want to sell the house, then get a divorce!"

Chen Qi's classmates were drunk at the time and asked Chen Qi whether it was cured or not.

On the one hand, the affection of his parents, on the other hand, the love of his wife, which one should he choose?

How can Chen Qi answer?

In the end, Chen Qi's classmate still chose to sell the house to his mother for treatment, and his wife officially divorced him, and the originally happy little family was shattered.

The situation of the classmate's brother's family is exactly the same, it is also a divorce between husband and wife, and he sold his house and car to his mother for treatment.

Two years later, the classmate's mother finally died of a terminal illness.

And Chen Qi's classmates, as well as the classmates' brothers, have not slowed down until Chen Qi is reborn, the two brothers rent a house for a living, and they still owe a lot of debts outside, and there is no hope in life at all.

Even his classmate's brother suffered from depression because of this, and even lost his job......

If it were you, would you choose to save or not?

(End of chapter)