Chapter 156: Top Authority
The door of the operating room opened slowly. The doctor in white gown came out with red eyes, looking tired. He took off his mask and pinched his nose with his hands to relieve fatigue.
“Doctor, how is my son?” Feng Mingjun asked hurriedly. Now her feeling was complicated with both expectations and anxiety.
“The operation was successful. I treated the wound for the patient. However, he was not completely out of danger due to his serious injury. We need to send him to the ICU for observation. Don’t worry. We will arrange him the best treatment and try our best to save his life.” After that, the doctor left. Having been working for hours, he needed to have a rest.
Then Yao Sheng was pushed out of the operating room by several medical staff. His head was wrapped in bandages with a special fixator outside. It could be said that his head was covered with bandages except for his eyes, nose and mouth. There was an oxygen mask on his face and countless tubes on his body. Seeing these medical instruments, they knew that the situation was very serious and it was not optimistic.
“Yao Sheng!”
“Xiaosheng… Xiaosheng…”
“Cousin!”
Several relatives and friends of Yao Sheng helped the medical staff to push the bed. They called Yao Sheng, but he closed his eyes.
“Here is the ICU, the Aseptic Ward. Please stop here.” A nurse stopped Ling Tianyi and other people. The medical staff who pushed Yao Sheng handed him to the staff who wore aseptic clothes in the ICU.
In order to let relatives see the patient, there was a visiting room next to the ICU. The visiting room was separated from the ICU by a thick layer of transparent glass. In addition, relatives could talk to the patient in the ICU through the microphone.
Ling Tianyi, Feng Yuan and Feng Mingjun stood in front of the glass. They were very anxious when they saw that the medical staff inside were busy feeding drips and connecting various instruments they knew or didn’t know.
Ling Tianyi handed the microphone to Feng Mingjun, she took the microphone trembling. “Xiaosheng, Xiaosheng…”
As a mother, Feng Mingjun did not know what to say except calling her son’s name. She sobbed and her cheeks were full of tears.
Xia Xiaoluo was uneasy when she saw this. First, she was worried about Yao Sheng. Second, her mother died when Xia Xiaoluo was a child and her relatives were not kind to her. Her father, step-mother and step-sister did not like her. If her mother was still alive, she might love her as much as Feng Mingjun cared about Yao Sheng. Xia Xiaoluo thought it in her heart, “Yao Sheng, your mother cares about you very much, she worries about you all the time. After you get better, you must be kind to her, otherwise I will be angry with you.”
Ling Tianyi wanted to persuade Feng Mingjun to go home for a rest, but in such situation, she would not go. It was difficult to persuade her to eat. But Feng Mingjun after all, was a woman in her fifties, who is not as strong as youngsters. In order to let her have a good rest, Ling Tianyi booked two wards on the same floor of the ICU, one for Feng Mingjun and Feng Yuan, the other for him and Xia Xiaoluo.
After arranging the affairs, the director came to Ling Tianyi again. After all, Ling Tianyi was a big shareholder. When he was in the hospital, the director must come to greet him at any time.
“Manager Ling, now the operation was finished, and we also arranged the best treatment for Mr. Yao Sheng. You don’t have to stay here all the time.” The director advised kindly.
“Sir, the doctor said that the operation was successful, but he was still in danger. We don’t know the details. Please help us to ask the doctor again. We are worried about Yao Sheng and we hope to know more information.” Ling Tianyi said.
When Feng Mingjun heard that, she quickly put down the microphone. She held the director and cried, “Please, please save my son. I only have one son. If anything happens to him, I can’t live. Please save my son…”
“Don’t worry. We will try our best to save his life!” The director said hurriedly.
Ling Tianyi also supported Feng Mingjun and comforted her, “Aunt Feng, you should let the director go first, then he could ask the doctor and give us a reply. Yao Sheng is strong, so I believe that he can wake up. Aunt Feng, I’m the biggest shareholder of this hospital. I have told them many times, so they don’t dare to neglect Yao Sheng. They will try their best. Therefore, you should be optimistic and be confident of modern medicine and Yao Sheng.”
“OK! I know. Yi, you must let them try their best! Please.” Feng Mingjun sobbed.
“Yes, Aunt Feng, I will. You know that Yao Sheng is my best friend. Don’t worry. I will do everything I can to save him.” Ling Tianyi supported Feng Mingjun to sit down and said to the director, “Go to ask the doctor quickly. I’ll give you half an hour. Half an hour later, we need to know Yao Sheng’s current situation and possible situation in the future. How will you arrange the treatment? In addition, if I want to arrange Yao Sheng to go abroad for treatment, which country is the best? If Yao Sheng can’t go abroad, which international expert is the best?”
“Yes, Manager Ling, I’ll arrange it immediately! I will come back and give you a reply in half an hour.” Then the director left in a hurry. Although Ling Tianyi’s questions were not too many, it was really not easy to make detailed answers in half an hour, so he must make good use of the time. If he didn’t do it well, Ling Tianyi, who was the biggest shareholder of the hospital, would change the director. Of course, if he did well, it would be easier to obtain the approval of the Board of Directors if the hospital needed any project funds or something like this.
Seeing that Feng Mingjun was always in a bad mood, Ling Tianyi was afraid that she would be too tired. He comforted Feng Mingjun with a few words and said directly, “Aunt Feng, I booked two wards next to Yao Sheng’s ICU. You have been tired for several hours and you should go to have a rest.”
“No, I won’t go to have a rest. I want to stay with my son. How can I leave him when he is in such a situation?” Feng Mingjun said firmly.
“Aunt Feng, now you can only see him outside. Maybe in a few days, Yao Sheng will be transferred from the ICU to the general ward. Then you can really stay with him. But if you don’t have a rest now, you will be out of spirits then. The two wards are on the same floor, which are very close to Yao Sheng’s ICU. You can come at any time for anything.” Ling Tianyi persuaded her continuously, so did Xia Xiaoluo and Feng Yuan.
Feng Mingjun was a kind person with a great sense of overall situation. Although she was reluctant to leave her son, she did not want them to worry about her. “I know you all care about me, but I’m still anxious. Just now Yi arranged the director to ask the doctor. I’m eager to know the answers. After that, I will go to have a rest.”
Ling Tianyi stopped persuading her, “Well, Aunt Feng, I won’t persuade you now. Let’s listen to what the director says first, and you will know the details. In short, don’t worry. I will try my best to help Yao Sheng.”
“Xiaosheng is so lucky to have a friend like you!” Feng Mingjun sighed. Although Ling Tianyi was a younger generation, he was decisive and considerate. If Ling Tianyi were not here today, Feng Mingjun really did not know what to do.
“Aunt Feng, that’s all right. Yao Sheng and I grew up together. When Xiaoluo was injured in ICU. Yao Sheng stayed with me all the time. You know Yao Sheng’s character. He was restless, but he helped me in the hospital all the time. I am lucky to have a friend like him.” Ling Tianyi sighed. Yao Sheng accompanied him to stay with Xia Xiaoluo not long ago, but now he accompanied Feng Mingjun to stay with Yao Sheng.
Half an hour passed quickly. The director appeared in front of Ling Tianyi with the doctor who performed the operation. He invited them to a small conference room.
In half an hour, the director and the doctor were very efficient. They not only made the plan, but also the PPT.
“Manager Ling, we discussed the questions you asked. In this field, Dr. Li Xiuqi, who performed the operation for Mr. Yao Sheng, is an authorized expert. Therefore, I would like to ask him to answer your questions.” When the director finished, he helped to operate the PowerPoint and asked Li Xiuqi to answer the questions.
“Hello, everybody. Now I will talk about Mr. Yao Sheng’s current situation first. The most serious injury is on his head. The injuries on his body are all injuries which are not serious so I’ll talk about the injuries on his head. When I performed the operation, I found that there were fractures in his skull, and there were intracranial hemorrhage and a lot of blood clots. These are two serious problems. After the operation, Mr. Yao Sheng’s intracranial blood clots have been removed and the hemostasis has been done. The suture position was also treated accordingly. We also fixed the position of the fracture.”
“The intracranial hemorrhage and the skull fractures can affect the nervous system and vision systems. Therefore, despite the operation is successful, the follow-up situation is not optimistic.”
“First of all, anesthetics would lose efficacy in 24 hours, so whether the patient can wake up or not is the most important thing. Due to serious trauma, the possibility of brain death can’t be ruled out, which we usually call vegetable.”
“If the patient wakes up, the possibility of blindness and amnesia will not be ruled out due to the compression of nerves when blood clots and skull fractures occur. But usually this kind of blindness and amnesia is short-term. In many similar cases, the patient’s blindness or amnesia can recover in three to six months, but there are also long-term cases.”
“For blindness, we can also perform a second operation, but I do not advocate such a risky approach. After all, craniotomy is risky.”
“In addition, the director conveyed several questions asked by Manager Ling about the best experts in Brain Surgery in the world and whether Yao Sheng is suitable for the treatment abroad. I’ll give you a brief explanation now.”
“The patient’s current situation is absolutely not suitable for long-distance flights. Once sudden situation occurs, the consequences may be unimaginable. Therefore, it is better for him to stay in A City. At least he could not be moved in the short term.”
“As for inviting the best doctors to A City. The most authoritative Brain Surgeon is Mr. Johnny Jeremiah in the United States, who is my doctoral supervisor. He has three apprentices, who are all elites. Among the three apprentices, besides me, one is in Germany and one is in the United States. Just now, I contacted my supervisor and two other classmates to invite them to come to A City as soon as possible. They all agreed. My classmate in German has booked the ticket and he will arrive tomorrow evening if everything is fine. As for my supervisor and my classmate in the United States, they will arrive later, but they promise to arrive in three days. To be honest, the four of us are the top authorities of Brain Surgery in the world. We will have a consultation to discuss the best treatment plan for the next step.”
“Before the final treatment plan is determined, we will try our best to treat Yao Sheng by using the best medicine. Once intracranial hemorrhage or vomiting due to nervous compression occur again, we have emergency plans.”
“So, don’t worry, Manager Ling. I can’t guarantee that I can save the patient’s life. After all, there is no medical certainty and anything may happen. But we have made the best and the most reasonable arrangements. We will try our best.”
Ling Tianyi was satisfied with Li Xiuqi’s explanation. He nodded and said, “Well! I know. I’m sure you’ll try your best. Meanwhile, I also believe in your medical skills, the development of modern medicine and Yao Sheng’s willpower. You can arrange the treatment. No matter what difficulties you encounter, you can contact me at any time, I will certainly help you to deal with them. I will spend most of my time with Yao Sheng in the hospital. You can come to me directly. In addition, my mobile phone will be on 24 hours these days. Later, I will ask the director to give my phone number to all the medical staff related and everyone could call me at any time.”