Chapter 156: Nurses’ resting area!
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
“Sister, I did it for yours and brother-in-law’s sake! Think about it, Chasu City is a small place, so just what will you do if the worst happens!”
“Leave!” Dai Wengang’s wife closed her eyes as tears streamed down her cheeks.
“Dad, Mom! Please, tell my sister that I truly don’t have bad intentions!” The brother-in-law knew what his sister meant. She wanted him to leave forever and never appear in front of Dai Wengang again. Although she didn’t know how hard her husband had it at work, she knew how vicious he could be to his enemies.
“What’s with you, dear daughter? If there’s something you siblings must say to each other, say it properly. Don’t scare him! He’s still young and doesn’t understand how things are. It’s not easy for him!” The brother-in-law’s mother was really unhappy to see how her son’s face was now red from the earlier slap. Her heart really hurt because she favored her son, but she did her best to tolerate her displeasure and plead with her daughter.
“Young? Doesn’t understand how things are? Not easy for him? So things are easy for me? I understand how things are?” Dai Wengang’s wife felt such coldness in her heart from how her family was! So icy!
“Let’s go home without her! Just look at who you think you are! You think we’ll starve to death without you? Don’t call me Dad in the future! I no longer have a daughter like you! You can’t even tell good from bad! Your husband is dying, but do you think that’s my son’s fault!? We’re leaving!” her father declared.
The brother-in-law didn’t dare to leave! He didn’t have the courage to! He kept imagining Dai Wengang’s furious expression in his mind!
“Leave! Go as far away as you can. I hope that he’ll go easy for the sake of our son...” Dai Wengang’s wife was unable to say anything else. Her family was now finished. She didn’t have the face to say anything else!
Dai Wengang’s older brother had summoned many people over. He wanted to be on guard against Dai Wengang’s wife and brother-in-law! If his brother never woke up again, he was prepared to commit murder!
Dai Wengang and his brother had already begun to travel all over China back when most people were simply content to work a steady job. They were daring enough to start their own business and face things head on, so of course they wouldn’t be simple people!
Inside the operating room, Zhang Fan was using a pressure plate to gently pressure the skull. He used saline solution to slowly rinse away the blood clots. Some parts of the bleeding brain tissue were beginning to erode already. Blood circulation to some other parts of the brain tissue had already become noticeably poor. Zhang Fan and Liu Zhaoyun slowly and steadily dealt with the blood clots. Things were no longer as urgent. Since the pressure on the brain had been removed, at least a cerebral herniation would no longer happen!
Zhang Fan’s techniques were incredibly gentle. More than three hours had passed so far since the start of the surgery, but he still didn’t feel any fatigue due to the System strengthening his body. However, Liu Zhaoyun was becoming fatigued. Yet, he still had to persist! The patient was still at risk of dying. He needed to continue working to save the patient! No matter how tired you were, you would still need to persist if you were a doctor!
“Give me some glucose! I’m getting a little dizzy!” Liu Zhaoyun was now having difficulty standing. He had been tense and fully focused under the astral lamp for the past three hours. He was also on a diet, and hadn’t eaten any dinner. This also contributed to why he was so fatigued right now.
“Director, open your mouth. I’ll feed you.” The operating room nurse opened up a bottle of glucose with a bottle opener. She gently pulled down Liu Zhaoyun’s surgical mask. Liu Zhaoyun tilted his head so that the nurse could feed him the glucose. He couldn’t move right now or let go of his surgical retractors!
The surgery reached the deepest parts of the brain. Zhang Fan went slowly with clearing out all the blood clots before stopping the bleeding. The brain was extremely sensitive to foreign objects. Any tiny skull fragments or hairs that entered the brain would be highly likely to cause a brain abscess. Zhang Fan was especially careful, and didn’t let go of a single point of bleeding. Every time that he entered deep into the brain, he would confirm that the brain tissue was alright. The surgery was incredibly slow.
The bleeding was now stopped. The patient’s breathing had become steady now. Dai Wengang’s vitals were now stable.
The last part of the surgery was to repair the endocranium. This was in order to prevent infections and epilepsy.
The surgery finished! Zhang Fan turned around to have the operating room nurse wipe his sweat. His disposable surgical cap was completely soaked through as if it was a towel. The nurse carefully wiped away all of his sweat and swiftly changed his surgical cap for him!
Zhang Fan stretched his back which had been slightly bent over for too long. He calmly told Liu Zhaoyun, “Director Liu, it’s finished. The patient has been saved.”
“Yeah, it’s finished. We succeeded.” Both of them were especially calm. Zhang Fan was intentionally suppressing his excitement, while Liu Zhaoyun had seen far too many patients in life-and-death situations before, which was why he no longer had so much excitement.
Xia Huadong didn’t have nearly so much experience. He had also participated for the entire duration of the surgery, which he knew was incredibly dangerous for the patient. The highly risky surgery had now succeeded! The moment that Zhang Fan said it was finished, Xia Huadong was so excited that both his hands trembled. He gave Zhang Fan a big thumbs up! “Zhang Fan! You’re amazing!”
It was past four a.m. when the surgery finally finished. However, the news that Dai Wengang had a cerebral hemorrhage and was receiving a surgery at Chasu City Hospital had spread through all of Chasu City’s high-class society as he was one of the richest and most powerful merchants in the city. Li Xiao also learned of this news.
Businessmen would often have many debts as well as loans with others, especially when the businessman was at such a high level. Dai Wengang indeed had many debts to others as well as loans he gave to others. In fact, Li Xiao had just loaned 10 million yuan to Dai Wengang’s company. If Dai Wengang really died here, then she would have to try and rely on the courts to get her money back, but it would be difficult to say how much she could actually get back.
Countless high-class cars, including Mercedes Benzes, BMWs, Land Rovers, and so on gathered at Chasu City Hospital even though it was the wee hours of the morning. Li Xiao also personally arrived because she wanted to know about Dai Wengang’s condition as soon as possible so that she could plan for what to do. She called Zhang Fan, intending on asking him about Dai Wengang’s ongoing surgery, but his cell phone was turned off! She then called Superintendent Ouyang, but Ouyang Hong’s cell phone was also turned off due to not wanting to be bothered again by that vice director of the Bureau of Health!
Superintendent Ouyang also had a secret cell phone number that only the highest-ranking government leaders of Chasu City knew about. Even the rich and powerful of Chasu City didn’t know of this number’s existence. This was the difference between politicians and the rich. However, the rich would still have their own methods. Soon, some doctors and nurses kept coming in and out of Zhang Fan’s operating room.
They whispered a few things to the anesthesiologist or operating room nurse and then quietly left the operating room.
“Who’s the primary surgeon? Director Yu Bin or vice director Liu Zhaoyun?”
“The primary surgeon is Zhang Fan?”
“Is he an expert doctor from Raptor City?”
“No, he’s a young doctor from Chasu City Hospital who’s recently been showing amazing skills!”
“Will Dai Wengang be saved?”
“Apparently, he will survive. The surgery was really successful!”
Those who owed Dai Wengang money could only go back in disappointment! Meanwhile, Dai Wengang’s debtors were really delighted. Li Xiao also learned the same information as the other rich people of Chasu City.
“No wonder I couldn’t reach Zhang Fan. Let’s go now! We’ll learn more about the specific situation later this morning. Call Doctor Zhang’s cell phone once every 20 minutes,” Li Xiao ordered her personal assistant.
The surgery was now over, but the patient was actually still in danger. Fever, gastrointestinal bleeding, pulmonary edema, and so on were all problems which might occur after such a surgery. The greatest danger of all would be if the patient continued to have internal cerebral bleeding. All of these could possibly be fatal, which was why the doctors couldn’t relax and still needed to pay close attention to the patient.
At the ICU, Zhang Fan told the doctor on duty, “I’ll be troubling you to pay extra attention to this patient because his surgery was so serious. There’s considerable damage to his body, so aftereffects might appear at any moment. Please pay close attention. Apart from the regular postoperative care medicine, I think we should also give him dexamethasone!”
“Alright, Doctor Zhang, I understand,” said the ICU doctor, but actually, he would have to ask his director before administering dexamethasone. No matter how amazing Zhang Fan was, he was a surgeon, not an ICU doctor. Zhang Fan suddenly realized that he had overstepped his boundaries, so he smiled awkwardly and hurriedly left.
The moment that he turned on his cell phone, he received a call from Li Xiao’s assistant. “Doctor Zhang, you’ve finally turned on your phone. Please wait a moment. My boss wishes to speak to you.”
Zhang Fan checked the time. It was now six am. ‘Could it be that Li Xiao is having back problems again? I really doubt she should have them anymore,’ Zhang Fan thought confusedly.
“Doctor Zhang, you’re finished with your surgery?” Li Xiao’s voice was still sleepy as she had just been woken up by her assistant.
“Yeah, Sister Li.”
“Will Dai Wengang be able to survive?” Li Xiao directly asked what she was the most concerned about.
“He should be alright as long as he makes it past today. What’s the matter, Sister Li?”
“Sigh! I have business dealings with him! You should hurry and get some rest while you can. I advise you to turn off your cell phone again. I wager that there’s many more people who want to ask you about Dai Wengang,” Li Xiao recommended to him.
“Okay!” Although Zhang Fan was still rather confused, he decided to turn off his cell phone. He figured there would be no harm in listening to this advice.
Liu Zhaoyun and Xia Huadong didn’t go back to their homes. It was now morning, and they would have to start the next day shift soon. They were both now sleeping in the doctors’ resting area, although they wouldn’t be able to sleep for long.
Zhang Fan still couldn’t go to sleep yet. Dai Wengang was his patient, which meant he needed to go talk to the patient’s family and report to them on Dai Wengang’s condition.
Dai Wengang’s wife had finally figured out what was going on earlier. She realized that her younger brother must have been tempted by Dai Wengang’s wealth and wanted to cause her husband to die by not receiving surgery in time. She also knew that everyone had seen her own hesitant behavior of not being able to instantly come to a decision. Dai Wengang would definitely learn of all this when he recovered. Her hesitation would be seen as a crime in his eyes!
Dai Wengang’s older brother was already glaring at her with an icy expression, and over the past few years, she could also sense that Dai Wengang had other women outside. Maybe Dai Wengang even had children with those other women, although she didn’t mind such a thing. She didn’t have the ability to mind such things, after all. Right now, she wasn’t worried about anything other than her son! She felt that a son without a mother would be the most pitiful.
She really understood how her husband was since she had been his wife for many years already. He was vicious to himself and even more vicious to others. Her younger brother had gone to such an extreme, so there would be no possible reconciliation. She now had an ashen expression. Even the most expensive makeup wouldn’t be able to cover up the aura of death around her. Her heart had died!
Zhang Fan arrived in the hallway outside the operating rooms from the ICU unit entrance. Dai Wengang’s older brother immediately came over the moment that he saw Zhang Fan. There were many people behind the older brother. These people were all from their old hometown village in Jiangsu Province. There wasn’t a single person from the border province in his faction!
“Doctor!” Dai Wengang’s older brother wanted to be able to tell the results just from looking at Zhang Fan’s face. However, Zhang Fan’s expression was as calm as water, with not even a ripple. Zhang Fan was currently practicing how to always remain as calm as water due to the influence of the top-level cardiothoracic surgeon from before. Although that expert doctor hadn’t been very emotional, his surgery techniques were exquisite, which would allow him to save more people. No matter how emotional one was, that wouldn’t help at all in saving patients. This was a hospital, not a retirement home. It would be important not to be emotional when it wasn’t necessary.
Although this sounded cruel, this was how things were. True expert doctors would almost never have any relationship beyond that of doctor and patient with their patients. Zhang Fan was also slowly figuring this out for himself.
“The surgery is now complete. The bleeding has stopped and all the blood clots have been cleared. However, the patient is still in danger. Unexpected consequences from the surgery might still occur and cause his death. This is the danger notification paperwork. Please sign it.”
“What do you need us to still do?” Dai Wengang’s older brother inquired. He was no longer worried that someone would try and stop the surgery, since the surgery was now over. He decided to let Dai Wengang decide what to do with his wife and brother-in-law.
“Just pay the medical fees and patiently wait. Patients’ family members aren’t allowed in the intensive care unit. Please just wait.”
“Alright, thank you! Sorry to trouble you so much. My younger brother will surely show his gratitude when he’s awake!”
“No need!” Zhang Fan left right after saying this. He was also a bit fatigued by now, and needed to rest. There would still be a major weekly patient checkup in the morning. If he wasted any more time here, he wouldn’t be able to get any rest for this entire night!
But when Zhang Fan returned to the neurosurgery department’s doctors’ resting area, the only beds were already taken by Liu Zhaoyun and Xia Huadong, who were sleeping deeply. Zhang Fan was about to go find an empty patient room to make do for a while when the nurse on duty called out to him. “Doctor Zhang, how about you go sleep for a while in the nurses’ resting area?