Chapter 282: The greatest pity is losing hope
One’s emotions and living environnt would be a great influence on any disease, especially autoimmune diseases. Although there was no data which could display how important the emotions and living environnt were, these factors would indeed affect the patient’s desire to live as well as cooperation with treatnt.
An autoimmune disease would start spreading very swiftly once the patient lost the desire to live or lost hope for the future. Even dical treatnt might beco no longer effective in that scenario.
After Wang Yan was diagnosed to have systemic lupus erythematosus, not only did her husband not console her, he even demanded a divorce. This only served to pour fuel on the fire, cutting off her hope for the future—a truly heartless move by her husband.
Wang Yan gazed listlessly at the hospital room’s ceiling from her hospital bed. She no longer cared one bit about her body’s condition. Although she did whatever the doctors told her to do, including taking dicine, she had no more will to live on at all.
Her condition originally hadn’t been severe, but then her lupus rapidly developed into severe symptoms. In the dical textbooks, it was listed that the #1 most important factor for treating systemic lupus erythematosus was to help the patient have an optimistic outlook. However, it was already quite good already that Wang Yan wasn’t trying to commit suicide in her emotional state.
Vice President Chen’s driver brought Zhang Fan over to the hospital. He imdiately started running after he got off the car. When he arrived in the rheumatology departnt, he imdiately took a look at Wang Yan’s current dical information sheets and inwardly exclaid over how bad things were.
Lupus was capable of affecting many organs in the body, but usually this could be kept under control. But right now, thrombocytopenic purpura was occurring in her body.
“Things are looking bad. Cylindruria has also appeared!” Hu Jun exclaid as he looked over Wang Yan’s dical information sheets.
“The dicine also isn’t having any apparent effect!” Zhang Fan sighed.
“I know. I checked your dical report on her already. The dicine you used for her is completely correct. thylprednisolone (a hormone), gamma globulin, vincristine, and danazol. Yet, her blood platelets are still decreasing in number.”
“I’ll go take a look at her!” Zhang Fan put down the patient’s dical information sheets and went to her patient room.
Zhang Fan had especially arranged a single-person room for Wang Yan since her emotions were unstable, as well as because she was Shao Hua’s acquaintance. When he entered Wang Yan’s patient room, he imdiately saw a completely listless woman with no signs of life.
Her lips were so dry that they were becoming chapped. She also had a blank expression. She didn’t react even when Zhang Fan walked over to her patient bed. “How are you feeling, Miss Wang?” Zhang Fan had to greet her in a soft voice.
“Oh, Doctor Zhang!” Wang Yan slowly turned her head and greeted him when she saw that it was Zhang Fan.
At this mont, Zhang Fan noticed that her gums were bleeding. Her teeth roots were already stained red. Blood slowly dripped out because she had opened her mouth to speak! Not only that, blood which was almost black started dripping out of her nose because she had raised her body to speak with Zhang Fan!
This blood slowly dripped onto her bed! She seed to notice this as she gently wiped it away with her hand, which sared so of her nose blood onto her face and mouth.
Wang Yan raised her head and gently smiled at the blood on the back of her hand. Zhang Fan actually felt a strong instinctive fear when he looked at Wang Yan who still had the red rash on her face combined with sared blood and such a wretched smile, for he could sense the aura of death around her.
“Miss Wang, you shouldn’t sit upright right now. Co, you should slowly lie down. I will give you a checkup. This disease really isn’t that big of a deal. It will get better slowly as long as you take your dication on ti.” Zhang Fan didn’t dare to let her do any sudden movents!
After Wang Yan lay down, Zhang Fan gave her a simple physical examination. He found that large patches of purpura had already appeared on her arms, chest, abdon, and legs. This was a classical symptom of having low blood platelets.
Having thrombocytopenic purpura was like having a ticking ti bomb in one’s body. A patient with such a condition might cause major internal bleeding inside their body with just a single sneeze! This really would be a frightening condition. It would be as if all the blood vessels in the body had been simultaneously exploded. Major bleeding would often be so vicious that no doctor could possibly save the patient in ti.
Zhang Fan slowly and gently assisted Wang Yan to lie back down on the bed after he finished the physical examination. When he left her patient room, he imdiately told the nurses, “Level one treatnt for this patient. Classify her as being in critical condition. Contact her family mbers. Right now, no matter what, she’s not allowed to get off her bed! Change her food to a semiliquid diet.”
Both of her white-haired elderly parents arrived in less than half an hour. “Doctor, we’re Wang Yan’s parents. What exactly happened to her!?”
Wang Yan had left two phone numbers when she was hospitalized. One phone number was for her husband, while the other phone number was for her parents. But, when her husband picked up and heard that the hospital was calling him, he imdiately hung up without saying a word. He then refused to pick up any more phone calls from the hospital!
“Please have a seat, Sir and Ma’am. It’s like this...” Zhang Fan hesitated because there really wouldn’t be any good news at all. Wang Yan’s current condition was incredibly severe. Things might get worse if her parents were unable to take the news!
Wang Yan’s father noticed Zhang Fan’s hesitation, so he said, “Doctor, please tell us. No matter what condition our daughter Yan is in, we can handle it. Just please save her! She’s had such a hard ti!”
Murky tears started dripping from Wang Yan’s parents’ eyes. They were ntally prepared. Zhang Fan had no choice but to tell them since Wang Yan’s husband had refused to co. Zhang Fan was helpless about the situation. He would have to tell them the truth, no matter how cruel.
“Alright, it’s like this. Your daughter’s current condition is quite grave. She might suddenly have major internal bleeding at any ti. If that happens, then, then... there won’t be any saving her. There’s two treatnt plans that are possible now. The first is to continue using internal dicine to treat her. However, this will be highly risky. The second treatnt is to perform surgery on her. This will also have its risks, but it will be slightly less dangerous than using internal dicine. However, this will require a splenectomy, which is the surgical removal of the spleen. You should hurry and discuss things imdiately with your daughter. Ti is of the essence right now.”
Normally, only a splenectomy would resolve the current situation since internal dicine treatnts were no longer having any apparent effect. However, the human body was incredibly complex. There were no absolutes. The patient and their family mbers would need to make the decision on their own after receiving the doctor’s advice.
Even if internal dicine wasn’t effective today, that didn’t an that it wouldn’t be effective tomorrow. Then again, it also still might not work tomorrow. The doctor’s job was to explain the risks clearly to the patient and their family mbers. Zhang Fan really preferred to do the splenectomy, although the decision wasn’t up to him. He simply felt that losing one’s spleen would still be far better than dying.
Currently, Wang Yan’s condition was extrely dangerous. To give an analogy, her body was just like a balloon that was resting on top of a bed of needles. The balloon might explode at any mont from too much movent. Not only that, this type of explosion would be impossible to predict or prevent. Blood vessels were everywhere in the body, which ant that major internal bleeding might occur almost anywhere. Right now, Zhang Fan could only ask that she quietly lie on the bed and reduce her movent as much as possible in order to prevent the possibility of major internal bleeding!
“Doctor, please help us convince our daughter. She, she...” Originally, the parents had a teary expression, but now they suddenly seed awkward for so reason.
Zhang Fan felt like sothing was odd, but he had to tell them, “This is a matter for the patient and their family mbers to discuss. My recomndation is to take the surgical treatnt option. You should hurry and discuss things with your daughter. Co sign the paperwork after you’re done discussing.”
“Sigh! Alright.” The parents supported each other as they slowly made their way over to Wang Yan’s patient room with difficulty. Zhang Fan felt that this was a little strange, but he didn’t pay it any mind. He busied himself with preparing the surgery paperwork and contacting the operating rooms.
Zhang Fan now had special authority. Normally, as he was currently in an internal dicine departnt, the patient would first need to be transferred to a surgical departnt, and the surgical director would make the decision regarding the surgery and contact the operating room.
Just as Zhang Fan was printing the surgery paperwork from his computer, he heard a loud crashing sound as glass shattered. He then heard Wang Yan’s voice shouting in despair. “Get out!”
Her voice was really loud! Zhang Fan imdiately got up and swiftly rushed over!
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