Starting from the deputy company commander of the Soldier Assault Team

At this point, the head nurse of the 301 Hospital, who was used to big scenes, became serious. "He said it very firmly at the time, it's just a small appendicitis, no need for anesthesia, just surgery."

Gu Xiaonan, who was sitting on the sofa with a peeled loquat between her fingers and bringing it to her mouth, was stunned when she heard this. She pulled the fruit back as soon as it touched her lower lip.

Her pupils, which had been full of smiles, suddenly contracted, and the tender yellow loquat in her hand hung in mid-air, its juice dripping gently down her fingers.

The relaxed back straightened instantly, the shoulders tensed slightly, the eyebrows suddenly shot upwards, the lips parted slightly, and the flesh of the fruit between the teeth was forgotten to be chewed.

She paused for a full two seconds, squeezing the soft loquat flesh in her hand until it was dented in several places. Her gaze was fixed on Yuan Lang's wife, her clear almond-shaped eyes filled with disbelief, as if to say, "Is this really true?"

Yuan Lang's wife smiled, looked at Gu Xiaonan's expression and nodded, "Yes, I had the same expression as you at the time, it was really hard to believe."

Xiaonan, you're not in the medical field, so you don't understand. Back then, laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery had just begun to be introduced into large tertiary hospitals in China, such as our main hospital, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking University First Hospital, Ruijin Hospital, and the Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University.

Many provincial capital hospitals didn't have top-tier hospitals, let alone the medical camp where I was at the time. So, back then, these kinds of surgeries were performed using the standard appendectomy procedure: the traditional McBurney incision.

I've seen this kind of procedure countless times in the operating room, but I've only seen it done without anesthesia once.

When Yuan Lang's wife talked about this, her eyes seemed to be shining. "Xiao Nan, this kind of McBurney incision requires cutting through seven layers of tissue."

The first layer is skin; the scalpel directly cuts through the epidermis and dermis. The second layer is blunt dissection, pushing aside the subcutaneous fat tissue. The third layer is the white aponeurosis layer, which is the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle.

Next, the internal oblique and transverse abdominis muscles are bluntly separated along the muscle fibers, and then the transverse abdominal fascia and parietal peritoneum are cut open. This step is considered to have entered the abdominal cavity.

Next, you need to locate the cecum. This requires pushing the small intestine and greater omentum inward to find the three taenia coli. After tracing the taenia coli to locate the appendix, gently lift the tip of the appendix with toothless ovum forceps and pull it out completely.

Even under anesthesia on the field, a situation like his, with severe congestion and swelling of the appendix, a short mesentery, and the need for forceful traction to expose it, would cause chest tightness and nausea.

This is a kind of pain that pulls at the internal organs, it's extremely uncomfortable, and that's not all, it also needs to be stitched up, stitched up separately.

The first layer uses round needles and absorbable fine sutures to perform continuous locking sutures on the parietal peritoneum. The second layer uses round needles and ordinary silk sutures to uniformly suture the three layers of tissue: transversalis fascia, internal oblique muscle, and transversus abdominis muscle.

The third layer uses a thicker round needle and silk thread to intermittently suture the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle. The fourth layer deals with the subcutaneous fat, and the two layers are shallowly sutured together with fine needles and thread. Finally, the skin is sutured with a triangular needle and silk thread.

At that time, the simple surgery was performed in a tent in the field, with rudimentary equipment and poor lighting. Even though our deputy battalion commander was very skilled at performing McBurney's incision emergency surgery, it still took him a full 81 minutes and 39 seconds.

Throughout the entire process, he only cried out once when the scalpel started cutting him. I even said to him, "Are you from the Tiger Regiment afraid of pain?"

He asked for a roll of gauze, bit it tightly in his mouth, and for the next eighty minutes, he didn't utter a sound, nor did he even twist his body; he only experienced physiological tremors.

After the surgery, when I was cleaning up, I found that the sheets on the operating table were not only torn in a bunch of holes, but the thick absorbent cotton pad underneath was also torn in several places, with the cotton fibers bulging out through the holes.

He was truly the man with the strongest will and the greatest endurance I had ever met. From then on, I became more and more curious about him, thinking he was a freak and wanting to understand him.

The more I got to know this person, the more attractive I found them, and then we slowly started dating. Don't you think I'm a little abnormal?

"No," Gu Xiaonan loosened her clenched fists from listening to the story, and her stiff back relaxed considerably, though the deep shock in her eyes hadn't completely faded away.

She turned to look at Yuan Lang's wife, her voice full of emotion, "Anyone who witnessed this entire surgery would remember it for a lifetime."

Sister-in-law, just listening to you describe the process just now made my scalp tingle. Cutting open seven layers, pulling out internal organs, suturing four times, a full eighty-one minutes and thirty-nine seconds, it hurt every single moment.

How many people can endure such a thing by biting down on a roll of gauze without moving their body, only experiencing a slight tremor of triumph?

According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Biography of Guan Yu, arrowheads are poisoned, and the poison enters the bone. One should cut open the arm to make an incision, scrape the bone to remove the poison, and only then will the ailment be cured.

When Yu invited his generals to eat and drink together, blood flowed from his arm, filling the plates and dishes. Yet Yu continued to cut roasted meat and drink wine, laughing and talking as if nothing had happened.

Even someone like Guan Yu, who underwent bone-scraping surgery, was still drinking wine, playing chess, and chatting with others. The pain of appendicitis removal must have been no less than that of bone-scraping surgery.

A man with such willpower and endurance is truly admirable. Anyone would admire him and develop feelings for him. It's perfectly normal for you, sister-in-law, to be attracted to him and get together with him.

Yuan Lang's wife laughed upon hearing this, a happy and relaxed laugh. After all, who wouldn't be happy when someone praises their husband and themselves, especially when the person praising them is also an outstanding person?

"Okay, okay, you've been talking about me. What about you? How did you and your husband, Xiao Zhang, get together?"

Gu Xiaonan took a tissue and wiped her hands, then wiped up the loquat juice that had dripped on the ground and threw it into the trash can. "Our relationship is a bit strange. Now I believe a sentence I saw before."

Once you develop curiosity about someone of the opposite sex, it's easy to fall for them if they're not bad, and even faster if they're outstanding.

When I met Comrade Xiao Zhang, he was on a business trip with his boss. While the bosses were talking in the office, I took him to the shooting range to practice shooting skills.

From childhood to adulthood, I was always first in my class, first in many subjects. Even after joining the army, I was the best marksman in my unit.

As a result, at the small shooting range, I lost miserably with both rifles and pistols. The worst thing was that when he saw me using a binder to store the target papers, he just shot two holes in the target with his gun.

Hearing this, Yuan Lang's wife was also shocked. "Wow, that's amazing! This kind of marksmanship is like hitting the bullseye every time you point at it. No wonder he's a major at such a young age."