After being fired, I became the light of medicine

Chapter 232 Fang Mei, we may lose our daughter forever

"Dad, this is not our home, why are you here?"

"Xiaoxue, this is our 'new home'."

It took an hour and a half for Old Xia to drive Xia Xue from the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu back to his hometown more than 100 kilometers away.

Standing at the door of a strange house, Xia Xue's face was full of surprise.

But she soon recalled from Lao Xia's answer that she had not been home for nearly three months, from the beginning of the fourth chemotherapy to the completion of the transplant surgery.

During these three months, in order to raise money for her surgery, her original home was sold to someone else, and she no longer has a home.

"dad……"

Suddenly, Xia Xue lowered her head, and the joy of returning home in her heart was somewhat diluted.

"Dad, I'm sorry! It's my fault that I got you and mom into trouble."

“We don’t even have a home now.”

Old Xia was carrying luggage and wearing a thick N95 mask.

When he heard Xia Xue's words, he suddenly laughed, and even the mask couldn't hide the happiness in his eyes.

"Xiaoxue, what are you talking about!"

"With you, me, and mom, wherever we are is home!"

"As long as you are healthy, it is more important than anything else!"

As he spoke, Old Xia urged:
"Okay, stop standing at the door!"

"Mom has already prepared lunch for you, and your room has been tidied up according to the previous layout!"

"Oh, and your mother disinfected your room, the entire living room, and the kitchen with ultraviolet disinfection lamps early this morning, so don't worry!"

"Next, you just need to stay at home for half a year and you will be able to recover and become a normal person!"

"Ok!"

Xia Xue nodded heavily and put away the feeling of loss in her heart.

Soon, she took a deep breath, her eyes showing strong hope, pushed open the door, and saw Fang Mei who was busy in the living room.

An unprecedented warmth surged in my heart:
"Mom, I'm back."

……

“Xiaoxue, after this lunch, you will have to eat in your room for the next three months;

I have prepared your special bowls and chopsticks for you. Just put them at the door after you finish eating. We will come to clean them up, okay?"

"Ah."

After putting away their luggage and washing their hands, the Xia family finally sat together for dinner.

As soon as the food was served, Fang Mei couldn't help but start giving instructions.

"Also, we can eat together today because I disinfected everything this morning, but mom and dad will have to go to work every day, and it's inevitable that they will bring the virus with them when they come back."

"So, for the next two or three months, not only will we have to eat separately, but you should also try not to leave the bedroom. We can't have too much contact, okay?"

"Ah."

Xia Xue nodded obediently again.

As this was her second bone marrow transplant, she was well aware that all this was done to prevent infection.

"Be good! So good!"

Hearing her daughter's obedient answer, Fang Mei finally showed a relieved smile on her face.

However, her "nagging" seems not to have ended yet.

“By the way, I put the UV disinfection lamp next to the sofa, and we disinfect the living room every morning before going out;

The UV light disinfection will be finished in about an hour. Then you can take the UV light into your bedroom for disinfection. Remember to disinfect every day. Don’t be lazy.”

"Ah."

"besides……"

"I have disinfected all the clothes in your closet. There is a bathroom in your bedroom so you can take a shower. When the time comes, just leave your clothes at the door and I will wash them by hand and disinfect them afterward."

"Ah."

Fang Mei gave careful instructions, but Xia Xue did not show any impatience.

even,

Suddenly, she raised her head and whispered:

"Mom, thank you for your hard work."

Fang Mei was stunned for a moment. After two full seconds, she suddenly showed a rare smile on her face:

"No, it's not hard!"

"Xiaoxue, as long as you are healthy, mom is willing to do anything!"

As she spoke, she looked at Old Xia standing beside her, then suddenly stood up, took out three small cups from the kitchen, and took out a half-remaining bottle of wine from somewhere.

After pouring a glass for himself and Lao Xia, he poured a glass of water for Xia Xue and raised his glass:

"Old Xia, you've worked hard taking care of our daughter for the past six months!"

"Xiaoxue, you can't drink alcohol, so just drink water instead. After going through so much, our family is finally able to sit together and reunite as a whole again!"

"I believe everything will get better and better in our family from now on. Cheers!"

"cheers!"

The three glasses clinked together crisply, and the rental house was filled with happy laughter.

In the air, besides happy laughter, there is also a desire for life!

And, hope for the outside world!
……

Xia Xue returned home after a successful operation, which really made Old Xia feel relieved.

Taking care of his daughter in the hospital for a long time and witnessing too many separations and deaths have put him under tremendous pressure both physically and mentally.

Now, everything is back on track and everything is moving in the right direction.

The same goes for Xia Xue.

After experiencing the pain and guilt of a relapse of leukemia, and then the worry of surgery, I am now back home and gradually beginning to look forward to the future.

She is 26 years old, in the prime of her life.

Perhaps the god of luck really began to favor this suffering family. In the next week, two weeks, and three weeks, everything was normal for Xia Xue.

Soon, one month after discharge from the hospital has arrived, and tomorrow Old Xia will take Xia Xue to Rongcheng Hospital for the first follow-up examination.

in the afternoon,

Old Xia returned home an hour early and bought his daughter her favorite rabbit.

As soon as he entered the room and washed his hands, he couldn't wait to walk to Xia Xue's room and knocked on the door.

"Xiaoxue, guess what delicious food I bought for you tonight?"

"Haha, your favorite rabbit, how about braised? Braised rabbit meat is so delicious!"

After saying that, Old Xia pricked up his ears and waited expectantly.

Under normal circumstances, Xia Xue in the room would soon answer through the door.

But after waiting for more than ten seconds, there was no response from the room.

Old Xia couldn't help but frowned. After waiting for a moment, he hurriedly knocked on the door again:

"Xiaoxue, are you sleeping? Can you hear me?"

"..."

There was still no response from the room.

Old Xia frowned even deeper, and a bad premonition suddenly began to spread in his heart.

It's five o'clock in the afternoon, not time to go to bed!

Besides, my daughter's shoes were at the door, so it was impossible for her to leave the room! She didn't respond for so long, what happened?

Thinking of this, Old Xia's heart couldn't help but beat violently, but he didn't panic. He quickly took out his cell phone, found Xia Xue's number and called her.

"beep……"

The voice rang out, and at the same time, a cell phone rang in the room.

One, two, three!
After three rings, just when Lao Xia was getting anxious, the call was finally connected!
Before Old Xia could say anything, Xia Xue's weak voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone!

"Dad, I feel sick!"

Old Xia was startled and immediately became extremely anxious. He said hastily, "Xiaoxue, Dad will come in right away!"

But just after hanging up the phone and about to open the door, Lao Xia's years of experience as a caregiver forced him to calm down.

He hurried to the bedroom, put on protective clothing, a mask and disposable gloves, and then ran quickly into Xia Xue's bedroom.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Xia Xue lying on the bed in her pajamas, looking extremely weak. She looked painful and her face was obviously a little red.

Old Xia's mood completely sunk to the bottom. He hurriedly walked to Xia Xue's bed, squatted down, and said anxiously:

"Xiaoxue, what's wrong with you?!"

After he finished speaking, without waiting for Xia Xue to answer, his years of care experience also gave him a rich understanding of the complications of leukemia, and he hurriedly placed his hand gently on Xia Xue's forehead.

The next second, even through the disposable gloves, he could clearly feel Xia Xue's forehead was burning!

Oh no, I have a fever!

Old Xia's heart turned completely cold.

Fever is the most common complication among all patients with blood diseases, and it is also a very dangerous complication!

Fever. There are only two situations that can cause fever!

1. Viral or bacterial infection in the body!

But Xia Xue has been at home since she came back from the operation and has never gone out. She also insists on disinfecting the house every day. It is almost impossible for the fever to be caused by bacterial infection!
Then there is only the second one...

Rejection after transplantation!

"Oh my God, I hope it's not a rejection reaction!"

Old Xia was completely panicked and kept praying in his heart.

After a moment, he didn't dare to delay at all. After taking Xia Xue's temperature, he hurriedly called his eldest brother to borrow a car. He had to take Xiaoxue to Rongcheng Third People's Hospital immediately!
Five minutes later, the thermometer results came out:

39.5 degrees.

"Xiaoxue, take the antipyretic first, I'll take you to the hospital right away!"

……

Old Xia moved quickly, speeding along the way without daring to stop for a moment.

As a patient who has undergone two bone marrow stem cell transplants, he is well aware of the serious problems that post-operative rejection can cause!

What is postoperative rejection? !
It is a rejection reaction of the body's own immune system to foreign transplants.

To put it simply, if your finger is pierced by a very fine piece of sawdust, if it is not pulled out, the pierced finger will have an inflammatory reaction after a day, and symptoms such as redness, swelling, and pain will appear.

This is because the human body's own immune system recognizes that wood chips are foreign harmful substances and begins to initiate an immune response to attack the wood chips, trying to eliminate them from the body.

This is the case with sawdust. Bone marrow stem cell transplantation, kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, lung transplantation, all transplant surgeries will have rejection reactions.

This is the normal stress response of the human immune system!

Therefore, before undergoing a transplant operation, the patient needs to take "immunosuppressants" to suppress and interfere with the body's normal immune system!
In simple terms, the immune system should rest and not work.

After completing the transplant surgery, the patient will take large doses of "immunosuppressants" for the first six months to completely shut down the body's immune system, and the dosage will only be gradually reduced after six months!

The world's most well-known "immunosuppressant" is called cyclosporine, which accompanies almost all transplant patients throughout their lives.

Of course, if long-term use of cyclosporine can effectively suppress the body's immune system and prevent rejection reactions, that would be the best outcome. What transplant patients fear most is rejection reactions!

because!

In addition to causing adverse reactions such as fever and liver damage, the biggest consequence of rejection is -

Transplantation failed!

Because the immune system is not completely suppressed and interfered with, the immune cells in the human body will continue to attack transplanted foreign organs. It won't be long before these transplanted organs and cells are attacked and lose their functions.

For example, the hematopoietic stem cells transplanted by Xia Xue may completely lose their hematopoietic function and fail to produce blood normally, resulting in the transplantation failure.

Thinking of this, Old Xia couldn't help but tremble all over.

If the rejection reaction cannot be controlled and the transplanted hematopoietic stem cells cannot be preserved, doesn’t that mean that the transplant surgery costing one million yuan was done in vain? !
100 million!

Is it a waste of money? !

and also!

If the transplant fails, how will Xia Xue survive!
"Oh God, please, it's not a rejection reaction, it's not a rejection reaction!"

……

At seven o'clock in the evening, Lao Xia and Xia Xue hurried to the Hematology Department of Chengdu Third People's Hospital.

Because she was an old patient and because Xia Xue had Director Hu's WeChat, she was able to complete the admission procedures quickly and successfully started receiving treatment.

Director Hu had already left work, but rushed back after receiving the news.

After a series of examinations, Xia Xue was diagnosed with an obvious acute rejection reaction.

Rejection reactions are divided into acute rejection and chronic rejection.

As the name suggests, acute means that in a short period of time, the immune system mobilizes a large number of cytotoxic T lymphocytes to directly attack the transplant cells, causing a violent human reaction.

Chronic rejection is a situation where the aggressiveness is not that strong, but the attack on the transplanted cells continues over the course of several years.

Both acute and chronic rejection are not uncommon in clinical practice. For example, 10-30% of kidney transplant patients experience rejection.
For example, liver transplantation has a 20-40% chance.

For example, bone marrow transplantation has a 40-80% chance of success.

But being not rare does not mean that there are effective treatments. Director Hu can only increase the dosage of immunosuppressants to try to suppress the rejection reaction in the human body.

Three days later, Xia Xue's fever symptoms were under control and all indicators began to improve.

but!

In the doctor's office, Old Xia felt very uneasy.

Five minutes ago, he was secretly called into Director Hu's office by Director Hu's assistant.

"I remember you. You are the father of Xia Xue in bed 45, right?"

"Yeah." Old Xia hummed.

After getting Lao Xia's answer, Director Hu couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Then I'll tell you directly."

"This is your daughter's second bone marrow transplant. This time the situation is not good. She has a severe acute rejection reaction."

"Although the reaction has been brought under control, according to the data we monitor, the 'bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells' transplanted this time... may not be able to be saved!"

"Can't...can't keep it?!"

"Ah."

Director Hu glanced at Old Xia, and a hint of guilt flashed in his eyes.

"In the past three days, the peripheral blood cell count has continued to decline, which indicates that the bone marrow hematopoietic function is abnormal."

"The 'donor cell chimerism analysis' in the immune detection index also indicated that the donor cell chimerism rate continued to decrease. All these indicate that the transplanted hematopoietic stem cells were attacked and lost their normal function."

"That means the transplant may have failed! You should be mentally prepared!"

After he finished speaking, Old Xia looked ashen and fell silent.

After ten full seconds, he suddenly raised his head, looked directly at Director Hu, and said in a low voice:
"Director Hu, did my daughter's second transplant fail? Is it true that she won't be able to have another transplant in the future?"

"Is she...my daughter...going to die?"

The heavy words suddenly made the office feel depressing.

Director Hu didn't know how to answer for a moment, but fortunately at this moment, Lao Xia's phone suddenly rang.

It’s Fang Mei’s.

"Lao Xia, where are you? I just arrived at the hospital and didn't see you in the ward."

"I'm in Director Hu's office."

"Oh? What's wrong? Come over here too!"

"Ah."

Half a minute later, Fang Mei appeared outside the office door.

Seeing Fang Mei, who had been through thick and thin with him for decades, suddenly appear, the usually calm Old Xia finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Tears kept pouring out of his eyes, and he cried:

"Fang Mei, we..."

"We may lose our daughter forever!"

"Fang Mei!"

(End of this chapter)