his mermaid

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"Now we will insert a piece of traffic information that happened just now. At around 17:50 this afternoon, a serious car accident occurred at the entrance of Baisha Lane, Songlin Road, on the outskirts of the city. A large truck carrying mud and sand knocked down a man and a woman at the entrance of the alley. Entering the bottom of the car, the woman died on the spot, and the man was seriously injured. According to people around, the injured man and woman were arguing at the time of the incident, and broke into the middle of the road on impulse..."

"There is a traffic jam in the middle of Songlin Road..."

The black off-road vehicle suddenly stopped on the side of the road, and the radio on the car continued to play the news rustlingly.

"Songlin Road, Baisha Lane...impossible, impossible..."

Great fear gripped the men in the car.

***

Today's concert is Yueguo's favorite band, and it is also the only common hobby between Yaochen and Yueguo.

Even though Yueguo is just an ordinary piano teacher who can't be considered high-grade, he is the son of the famous violinist Jiang Dewen.In the case of disparate family backgrounds, this is the only point of intersection in their two different lives that can be talked about.

After the concert, Yaochen used the excuse to drive away, and Yuehui also chose to take a taxi home.They didn't share dinner or chat much.

During the concert, Yue Hui asked many questions that only laymen would ask, such as "What is the difference between a viola and a violin", "What instrument is making the sound now", "Who is Rachmaninov", etc. The question caused the audience next to him to throw bored eyes from time to time. It is really impolite to ask these questions during the concert, not to mention that Yaochen booked the seat in the row of VIP seats closest to the chief, and naturally they all understand Western classical music lovers.

Yaochen originally thought that she would know something about music under the influence of her brother, but she didn't expect that she didn't understand at all, and she was a noisy woman.

He has no interest in Yue Hui, let alone explaining those things, so as soon as the concert is over, he wants to leave immediately.

Yaochen just felt that after bringing her to listen to the music, he would receive a thank you from Yueguo, and Yueguo was the kind of person who would come over and nod in embarrassment when someone took care of his sister.

Sometimes he even thinks this person is ridiculously stupid. My sister has been using her brother's classmate relationship with her boss to want to become her boss's girlfriend. He should see that her boss has no feelings for her, otherwise how could there be no progress for several months?He still wants to try again and again to create opportunities for the two.

Yaochen didn't explicitly refuse either, after all, with Yuehui as an excuse, he would have more opportunities to communicate with Yueguo.

It was six o'clock in the afternoon when I went home, and I didn't receive a call from Yueguo until around seven o'clock, but I got a call from the hospital.

"This is Baiyun Hospital in S City. May I ask if this is Gao Yuehui's boss?"

"Yes."

"She was in a car accident, can you please come here on behalf of her guardian? Her father fainted on the way to the hospital, and our hospital couldn't contact her other relatives. We found the phone numbers of your company and your boss on her business card." .”

"A car accident? Is it serious?"

"When the car accident happened, she was dead, but I don't know why she was sent to the hospital. We are urgently confirming the problem of her body. We need someone to come and claim it, so that we can deal with the funeral."

"She has a brother, can you contact her brother?"

"You said her brother, he should be called Gao Yueguo, he was in a car accident with her, and they are still being rescued."

While busy signing, the nurse made one call after another.

She didn't expect that the other party hung up the phone as soon as she finished speaking.She thought this person would not come, but 10 minutes later, seven or eight men in black suits rushed in, occupying almost half of the aisle in front of the emergency room, and one of them came up and asked, "Where is Gao Yuehui?"The gesture startled the nurse.

The emergency room is always the most crowded and noisy place in the hospital.Patients, family members and emergency stretchers coming and going, disinfectant and sweat mixed with various odors and uncomfortable air.

And this is the nearest hospital to the suburbs, and most of them are farmers and workers.

When Yaochen arrived, he was already 10 minutes behind the colleagues he notified.The seven or eight people who came to the hospital just now were colleagues from the company, and they were Yaochen's subordinates.

Standing at the door for a while, a nurse stopped Yaochen.

"You are Gao Yuehui's boss, right? We sent her body down. You wait here. Some of you have already gone there just now."

Yaochen just nodded, and immediately answered, "Where's her brother who was sent here together?"

"Her brother?" The woman was stunned for a few seconds, and she looked around before she was reminded by her nurse colleague: "It was the car accident in Baisha Lane this afternoon. That woman's brother was also hit, so he was sent here for rescue. of."

"Oh! Let me ask the doctor in the emergency room." She walked towards the emergency room, "It must be still in the operating room!"

It was inconvenient for Yaochen to follow, so he hesitated for a while at the reception desk.He didn't know how much Yueguo was hurt, and he was very upset about what he was about to face next.

The nurse at the reception desk knew that he was the boss of "Gao Yuehui".

She deliberately murmured and sighed in front of him: "This pair of brothers and sisters quarreled and ran into the road and got into a car accident. Who can be blamed? I heard that their father rushed over and fainted before seeing anyone. Immediately sent to the emergency room."

"Her father fainted too?"

Yaochen suddenly remembered that in the phone call just now, the nurse had indeed described the fact that Yuehui's father had also come, and said that he also fainted.

He only saw Papa Gao once or twice, and he didn't say hello.

I heard from Yuehui that he has high blood pressure.

"That's right, that's why we informed Gao Yuehui's colleagues immediately. There are three members of the family and no other relatives. As her boss, you are quite unlucky."

She seemed to think that she was very humorous. She was used to seeing the warmth and coldness of the world in the hospital, and she uttered some innocuous words. It was hard to imagine that the nurse who was praised as the "angel in white" turned out to have such a face.

"Gao Yuehui is my fiancee."

Yaochen leaned over to the reception desk as much as possible, and asked the nurse in a calm tone, "Where can I pay the medical expenses?"

The nurse was really startled, and she was almost speechless when she opened her mouth.

"No, I'm sorry... I thought you were her boss... I'm sorry..." She saw Yaochen's eyes as terrifying as if she wanted to kill someone, and immediately regretted her actions.It's just that apart from the chills down her spine, she couldn't feel the grief that the man in front of her should have when she lost her fiancée. That's why she had so confidently thought that this man was just Gao Yuehui's boss.

Following the nurse who said he was going to the emergency room to see him, he walked to the emergency operating room, and Yaochen put down the phone.

A middle-aged male doctor wearing glasses with blood stains on his nursing uniform opened the door from the operating room. He went up to him and walked straight towards Yaochen.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Zhuang from the emergency department. Are you Gao Yueguo's family members? Now, all kinds of medical certificates and surgical problems faced by the injured need to be signed by the family members. You should know all about it." Dr. Zhuang didn't have too much ego Introduction, after all, this is not a well-known hospital.

Yaochen replied as before: "I am Gao Yueguo's younger sister's boyfriend, and we are already engaged."

"Then you are not married yet? Is the relationship of engagement...has legal effect?" Dr. Zhuang seemed to be really asking, rather than pretending to be stupid.

"Now that his sister has passed away, even if there is a legal effect, it probably won't count."

Worried that the doctor would embarrass himself, Yaochen frowned and looked at him, "If there were no accidents, I should be a member of their family immediately. Now they are unaccompanied. Is there anything wrong with me signing?"

Dr. Zhuang pursed his lips and handed out an urgently printed consent form: "Gao Yueguo's current situation is rather critical. The patient is in a coma and has no ability to make independent judgments. Only family members can sign."

"Why was he in a coma? He was seriously injured?"

Yaochen's tone suddenly became hurried, just as he expected, Yueguo was also seriously injured, and he suddenly thought of some bloody scenes.

With Doctor Zhuang's answering sigh, Yaochen already understood what he was going to say.

"We gave him a sedative and anesthesia to minimize his pain, so he fell into a coma. He was awake all the time, although he was very weak, and kept calling for his sister, but we didn't tell him about his sister. After being sedated, he calmed down." Dr. Zhuang handed out the bag in his hand.

Yaochen took it, and directly pulled out an X-ray film inside. Dr. Zhuang saw the film at the same time, and continued: "After the left leg was run over by the rear wheel of the truck below the knee, it was directly crushed, but he should have been in the X-ray. After being crushed, he continued to crawl on the ground for a certain distance before causing the legs to separate. Moreover, the severed limbs were also severely damaged, and they had no shape when they were delivered. The knees were comminuted fractures.”

"Why... he has to crawl for a distance?"

Yaochen asked.Can a person move himself in such severe pain?

"It should be to find his sister under the car. The medical staff who sent them also said that they were brothers and sisters who were injured at the same time. His sister's body was also severely damaged as a whole. She was run over by the front wheel and sucked into the bottom of the car with a broken sternum." , the lower abdomen is ruptured, it’s not enough before it’s sent, but according to the procedure, send it to our hospital to clean up the remains, and we also have funeral services nearby.”

"How is his leg now?"

"When the vital signs were temporarily stable just now, we took a film, you can open it and have a look."

Yaochen can't understand professional films, but even the most stupid people can see that the bones in the knee part show signs of fracture, while the bones below the knee part have some remnants, almost disappearing.

Including the nurses and doctors beside them, all three people looked at the black and white light film at the same time, and the air froze for a moment.

The nurse standing next to him answered involuntarily, "So, it's going to be an amputation, Dr. Zhuang."

Yaochen was unexpectedly calm.Even though the pupils of his eyes enlarged a lot in an instant due to surprise, he did not make any sound of losing his composure.

"In our hospital, the surgery can be signed by the doctor. In general, when the situation is in crisis, it is also our duty to save lives and heal the wounded. However, if the follow-up expenses are not guaranteed, I dare not replace the signature easily. If he has a work unit, he can be reimbursed." , or if the driver who caused the accident will compensate..."

"It seems that the premise of saving lives and healing the wounded is to consider the relationship of interests."

Yaochen interrupted his words, and suddenly laughed a few times mockingly, if he wasn't here today, Yueguo might be abandoned by these indifferent doctors.

Fortunately, he happened to be here.

And he plays a righteous role here, and blames these indifferent doctors.He will soon become Yue Guo's benefactor for life.

"But what do you mean—the fee is not guaranteed? I have already paid it just now, do you still need a private fee?" Yaochen asked deliberately word by word.Under his glaring gaze, Dr. Zhuang adjusted his glasses while holding his breath.

"Doctor Zhuang, just now Mr. Jiang asked his colleague to pay the bill. He said that he would pay all the hospitalization and treatment expenses of Gao Yuehui's family." The nurse quickly explained.

Dr. Zhuang suddenly felt sorry, his face seemed to be the most nervous one: "I know, I know. It seems that the cost is not a problem. If it is confirmed, we will perform the amputation within an hour , The blood loss is also very serious now, and it will be even more troublesome in case of infection. I have taken out the operation consent form, risk guarantee letter, etc., please take a look."

The information book that Dr. Zhuang carried under his arm was hastily typed out just now, and the medical certificate was also written in extremely scribbled characters.

While handing it out, he explained to Yaochen:

"I had an urgent discussion with the orthopedic surgeon and surgeon just now. We decided to amputate the injured man's left leg below the knee. Although his left knee was also severely damaged, it's just that we tried to amputate him as much as possible out of humanitarianism. There are fewer parts, so it is just 3cm below the knee, that is, the lower leg is removed, and the part where the prosthesis will be installed in the future is also the lower leg. And if the nerve recovers well, it is possible to consider adding artificial joints to the knee in the future. His left knee even The possibility of getting back to the point where you can flex freely is a good alternative to losing the knee."

He noticed that Yaochen's calm eyes suddenly changed, as if there was a flash of doubt, and he immediately returned to calm.

"The amputation is below the knee, and there is an extra piece of meat that is not connected by bones. That position is too ugly. Don't you think it is like those beggars who were accidentally disabled on the street?"

Yaochen thought about it, the amputation of the severed limb below the knee was really abrupt.

Doctor Zhuang and the nurse beside him were slightly stunned.They didn't expect that someone would ask such a question, making it impossible for them to continue talking.Who cares if it looks good when life is at stake?Shouldn't the issue of rehabilitation in the future be given priority?

"Actually, we don't have an opinion on whether it looks good or not. This operation is to save people first, but now it is stopping the bleeding and giving oxygen."

"Can I go in and have a look?"

"Okay, just stand at the door and take a look."

Doctor Zhuang led him towards the door of the emergency operating room, and the two of them stopped at the door after they walked past.However, from the position of the door, the situation of the people on the operating table can be clearly seen.Yueguo was wearing a breathing mask, and was completely stripped off. Only the medical cloth was placed on his body, and his legs were also covered by the figure of the nurse, but he could vaguely see his damaged parts.

"Up to the knee."

Yaochen only glanced at it, and quickly turned his head back to the corridor, "You said his knee was also damaged and seriously damaged, there's no need to keep it."

"But…"

"Dr. Zhuang, my mother and I both do charity work. We have been to the Association of the Disabled several times to understand their thoughts. When amputation is necessary, they will hope to make their amputated limb look as good as possible. A more aesthetically pleasing operation."

"Actually, with regard to aesthetics, after this operation is over, a plastic surgeon will come to see his condition and continue to perform some follow-up minor operations to make his severed limb as acceptable to him as possible. If the injured person cannot accept the disability himself, the follow-up treatment also has a psychological part."

Dr. Zhuang's voice trembled a little, and he might not be able to estimate the situation after the operation.

After Yaochen laughed lightly, he asked further: "You said that it is possible for him to recover to the point where his knee nerves recover and he can bend freely. What is the success rate?"

"I can't guarantee this right now, because it is necessary to consider his mental state to evaluate the level of his recovery."

"Since there is no guarantee, how can you have the confidence to make such an inference."

The almost affirmative tone made Dr. Zhuang lose his confidence. He held his eyes and said, "You should know that if the mental state of the disabled is always good, they can work hard enough. As long as the spinal cord is not damaged, even quadriplegia will be fine. There is a possibility of recovery."

Yaochen also answered him firmly: "However, Gao Yueguo is a weak person. His sister died suddenly, his father was still in a coma, and he lost a leg. He may not be able to bear so many blows. If he dies in the future If you can’t recover to that level, it’s better to cut it at a more suitable place as soon as possible.”

"As doctors, we just want to encourage the injured to work hard to recover. If he really recovers, he will be able to walk freely with the help of a lower leg prosthesis in the future. If the upper limb is amputated, it will not be solved by installing a lower leg..."

He looked at Yaochen with a guilty conscience, and Yaochen responded with a sarcastic look and tone.

"Why do you have to have a prosthetic? And you're making that assumption when you can't guarantee a recovery rate."

"that is because……"

"You want to encourage people with disabilities to stand up like normal people again, no different from normal people, in fact, they should be sitting in wheelchairs, so that they can better reflect their status as a socially disadvantaged person, so that they can get help in daily travel. Considering the understanding and tolerance of the pedestrians around, do you still need to lift up your trousers to reveal your artificial limbs when you need help?"

Dr. Zhuang was already speechless under his pressure. Although he still felt that something was wrong, he had no statement to refute.

Yaochen also stopped talking, and Dr. Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief.

An older female doctor walked out of the operating room. After she nodded briefly, she spoke to the two:

"He's right. Gao Yueguo's left knee has been severely damaged. It's not easy to recover from a comminuted fracture. What's more, he lost his calf and left only the joints. Failure to recover to the knee will make him more psychologically stressed, more regretful and more painful, which is a kind of injury to him and will affect his rehabilitation and psychological recovery."

Yaochen didn't answer her words, but just looked out of the window suddenly, maybe he felt that the female doctor's speech had more weight than Dr. Zhuang's, and he didn't need to argue anymore.

"Dr. Zhuang, I thought carefully just now. We can't use such a thing with no probability guarantee to make rehabilitation suggestions. Why not just amputate the limb above the knee. Dr. Li and I also talked about it, about 10cm above the joint. , is the middle part of the thigh, except for the broken limb, this is where no scars are left, because there is a deep scar on his left leg, which should be torn after being dragged on the road for a certain distance after the injury gone."

After discussing for a few more words, the two doctors pursed their lips suggestively and nodded.The female doctor took a step towards Yaochen, and she introduced herself: "I am Dr. Yue from the Department of Orthopedics. We have been constantly revising some guidance and suggestions related to the rehabilitation of various disabled people in the past few years. I think we can refer to your ideas. , and now you are the only family member who can make decisions for Gao Yueguo, and we don't want any patient to be dissatisfied with his appearance after the operation, and also suffer psychologically. At least not psychologically. Right?"

Before Yaochen could answer, Dr. Yue said with a nervous smile, "Hurry up and sign. By the way, who are you to him?"

"I'm his sister's fiancé." Yaochen repeated the lie flatly.

In this hospital, he has naturally become a member of Gao Yueguo's family.

"That's it."

The doctor didn't ask any more questions, because she had no reason to embarrass the only family member at the moment when saving lives was the most important thing.

It is indeed the only family member. Thinking of this, she reminded: "By the way, Gao Yueguo's father is in the emergency room of Area B next door. It is said that acute cerebral infarction was caused by high blood pressure."

Yaochen replied: "I will go to see it."

With a few clicks, the black signature pen has filled in all the parts that need to be signed.

I've quickly flipped through the content just now, and it's the same as the surgical procedure when he signed his grandfather's illness.

However, some risk statements and medication consent forms are attached.

He didn't know if Yueguo had bought insurance, but after flipping through a few pages, every time he signed the contract, the fact that Yueguo would have to be taken care of by him would come to him over and over again in his heart.

Just like when Yueguo accepted his help because of a broken leg in college and lived in his apartment.

He has once again become the "savior" of the Moon Kingdom.

He understood very well why he said those words just now.

It was just to make Yueguo lose the chance to walk with the calf prosthesis in the future, which already meant a lot to him.

He couldn't walk anymore, and he didn't feel a trace of sadness or sympathy in his heart, but was occupied by a huge excitement.

He tried his best to restrain himself from showing it in front of the doctor.

Moreover, he prefers amputation above the knee. Such a Yueguo must be weaker and more pitiful than when he only lost his calf. Such a deformity is even more shocking.

☆、Chapter 03