Chapter 128 – A Filial Son by the Bedside

Both RenDong and Lian Qiao ended up on the operating table.

Was it a coincidence? When RenDong’s belly was opened, there was a pool of blood. When Lian Qiao’s belly was opened, there was also a pool of blood.

The reason is simple: a ruptured spleen.

The spleen is an organ that is very fragile and easily ruptured by external forces. It has a rich blood supply, so it is easy for it to bleed when injured. But this part is not sensitive to pain, so although the stomach was bleeding, the pain was not great. Lian Qiao was able to endure until he fell into hemorrhagic shock with a thud.

The operating room exploded on the spot.

The patient, RenDong, hadn’t even gotten onto the operating table yet before this family member of his, Lian Qiao, collapsed first. It was a major operation for a ruptured spleen. Lian Qiao’s father was so angry that he scolded him and called him a bastard on the spot for causing trouble. After scolding, he found that the muscles in the corners of his colleagues’ eyes were twitching slightly, obviously because they wanted to laugh and didn’t dare to, only then did he realize that he accidentally scolded himself.

Curses were curses, but this idiot son and this idiot son’s partner still needed to be rescued.

So the two operating rooms are left and right. Director Lian, as the number one expert in trauma surgery in the province, went to Xu RenDong for a while and went back to his idiot son for a while. He was very busy going back and forth.

To be honest, although the rupture of the spleen may sound terrible, in Director Lian’s view, it was not a problem.

If the spleen is ruptured, then it’s ruptured. If the bleeding was massive then a blood transfusion was needed. Wasn’t it a coincidence that Xu RenDong next door has the exact same blood type as him and they’d already ordered a massive amount of that blood type for his operation in advance. It was very convenient, just a little expensive.

Of course, in the face of life, dignity is not a thing, so how can money still be a thing?

In short, the elite backbone of the whole hospital was busy and finally saved these two people.

Director Lian threw away the surgical gown when he got out of the surgery and went back to his? department angrily. The next steps would be up to the ICU. He can’t get involved and he has no courage to intervene. His wife was number one in the ICU. Although he is the chief director of surgery, he specializes in surgery, and the divisions between departments are like mountains. If he went to the ICU, he would be disliked just like Lian Qiao and kicked out just like him.

That would be humiliating.

As a result, two comatose young people were pushed into the ICU one after the other.

Now it was Lian Qiao’s turn to be stripped and intubated. It can be said his wish was fulfilled.

Although the two have both undergone major operations one after another, Lian Qiao’s injury was indeed much lighter than that of RenDong. About five hours after the operation, Lian Qiao’s anesthesia wore off and he woke up in a trance with pain.

He opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling, his dry lips moving slightly.

The little nurse on the side was pleasantly surprised: “Director Qiao, Director Qiao, look, your son is awake!”

Director Qiao next to the computer was instructing the young doctor to adjust her doctor’s orders, and she heard the words without raising her head: “It’s about time to wake up.” She didn’t have any intention to look at her son at all.

The little nurse stuck her tongue out. She didn’t know about Director Qiao’s parent-child relationship and she didn’t dare to ask. But then she saw Lian Qiao struggling on the bed, he had lifted the quilt and was about to get up.

“Hey, what are you doing!” The little nurse hurriedly held him down.

“Where is he..” Lian Qiao had just been rescued from hemorrhagic shock, but his face was still as pale as a zombie and he couldn’t exert any strength. He struggled a few times but he couldn’t break free from the little nurse’s hand, so he could only ask sadly, “How is he..”

“He’s right next to you!” The little nurse pressed him while moving the curtain up so he can see the scene behind him.

Lian Qiao turned his head and only saw a high bed rail, and could not help frowning.

The bed rails in the ICU are specially made, so high that he can’t see the situation on the other side when he is lying in the bed.

The little nurse said: “Be obedient, don’t make trouble, I’ll put the bed rail down for you.”

Lian Qiao couldn’t help nodding and then the little nurse pressed the hidden button on the side of the bed and, with a click, the bed rail came down.

Lian Qiao was finally able to see the RenDong he was longing for.

The bed of RenDong was also like a fence, so only a little of his outline could be seen from over here. But just from the tip of his nose, Lian Qiao recognized that it was his RenDong.

Lian Qiao turned her head with difficulty and looked at the monitor beside Ren Dong’s bed. Fortunately, the vital signs were close to normal. The surgery was presumably successful.

Lian Qiao’s heart finally fell back down to earth and he let out a long breath.

The little nurse asked, “How are you feeling?”

Lian Qiao blinked blankly, only to realize that something was indeed wrong with himself. He looked down at the tube that had been inserted into him and said in surprise, “Why am I lying down?” He tried to move and immediately yelled out.

The little nurse was shocked and said, “You just found out?”

Lian Qiao then learned that he was not born with a natural talent of coming through accidents unscathed, but suffered an internal injury without knowing it. His spleen was completely cut open and he underwent a major laparotomy. There was now a drainage tube attached to his stomach.

The nurse picked up the drainage bag next to him and showed it to him. It was a big bag with a red and yellow substance, and it looked disgusting.

Lian Qiao stared at the drainage bag for a while, then asked, “Did I do the surgery together with him?”

Nurse: “Yes.”

Lian Qiao: “Are the operating rooms together?”

Nurse: “Huh? “

Lian Qiao didn’t know what to think. His entire person suddenly panicked and he stammered and asked: “Surgery.. How far is the operating table? Mine and his operating table..”

The nurse looked confused: “What’s the point of asking this? Of course it’s one person per operating theater.”

Could it be that even this eldest son wants to create a double operating room for couples?

The nurse was secretly laughing in her mind but Lian Qiao suddenly opened his legs and rolled off the bed!

“Damn it!” The nurse was so shocked that she exploded, “What are you doing? You said you wouldn’t make trouble!” While calling for help, she struggled to hold Lian Qiao with both hands to prevent the confused Lian Qiao from falling to the ground.

What a joke! There are seven or eight tubes attached to him. If he really wants to jump away, wouldn’t it be all ripped out?!

The nurses around were also shocked. After all, the bed rail was put down by the little nurse herself. If there was a major accident such as a patient falling to the ground, the responsibility would all be on the nurse.

A group of nurses ran over screaming, trying to get Lian Qiao back to the bed.

Lian Qiao struggled desperately: “Leave me alone, let me go to him, please.. I must go.. Let me get closer to him..”

The head nurse said angrily: “You are already next to him, what else do you want!”

The nurses then instructed the nurses to tie his hands and feet and fix him to the bed.

Lian Qiao was about to cry without tears. What could he do? Could Ren Dong have already entered the elevator? Just when they were operating together.. why did he faint? Why couldn’t he hold on for a while?

He should have persisted until RenDong got off the operating table! During the operation is the most dangerous time for RenDong! And he wasn’t by Ren Dong’s side!

Why did he faint at that time?

Lian Qiao was so anxious that he was full of remorse and anxiety. While struggling, he begged bitterly: “I’m sorry, it was my fault, please let me go, let me go over to him, let me..”

“What’s the matter?” The crowd surrounding the hospital bed suddenly separated as Director Qiao walked over with a frown.

As soon as Lian Qiao saw his mother, it was like seeing a savior and he almost cried out: “Mom! You let them let me go! Can you let me get closer to him! He will have an accident if I’m not by his side! Mommy! please....”

Lian Qiao’s mom turned her head to look at RenDong’s monitor and said to Lian Qiao: “He’s fine. It’s you that’s the problem, the wound will burst if you move around and will need to be stitched up again.”

“No, no..” Lian Qiao was so anxious that tears fell, “I’m fine, I’m fine, Mom, let me..”

Lian Qiao’s mother ignored him and told the nurse, “Take a temperature.”

“Yes!” The little nurse hurriedly brought an ear thermometer and put it into Lian Qiao’s ear. She? exclaimed, “39.8 degrees!” {Celsius for my American readers

Although Lian Qiao had a fever, the medical staff around him showed an expression of “Oh, no wonder”. Lian Qiao’s mother was relieved: “Oh, it turned out to be a fever, no wonder you are talking nonsense. I thought your brain was broken. I was just thinking, how come there was nothing shown? on the brain MRI..”

So, disregarding Lian Qiao’s wishes, Lian Qiao;s mother gave him antibiotics and fever-reducing injections selflessly and then, also out of motherly love, upped his anaesthetic and sedatives so that he fell into a drowsy sleep. Thus the first first postoperative day passed peacefully.

When Lian Qiao woke up again, his fever had subsided. He was so numb with a large dose of sedative that his brain hurt and, looking at the snow-white ceiling, it took him a long time to remember where he was.

At this time, there was no one around, and the high bed board was pulled on both sides, and he couldn’t see anything. He could only open his mouth to call: “Is there anyone.. Someone.. Mom..”

Soon, the little nurse’s face appeared in his field of vision.

The nurse was obviously frightened by him last time and said with a gloomy face: “What do you want this time?”

Lian Qiao’s voice was hoarse: “How is he..”

“He’s doing great.” Probably the last accident had caused the nurse to get scolded, so she was extremely impatient with Lian Qiao now, “Leave him alone and focus on healing yourself first.”

After that, she left.

Lian Qiao shouted again but no one came. He heard footsteps coming and going around him, and heard doctors and nurses talking loudly, but no one paid him any attention.

.. Is this how their ICU treats patients! Why is their service attitude so bad!

Lian Qiao thought angrily and tried to sit up by himself. Then sadly found that he was wearing special gloves on his hands, one end was tied under the bed rail, and his ankles were also tied with ropes. The range of motion of his hands and feet was very limited and he can’t get up at all.

He called again for a long time, but no one paid him any attention. He had to turn his head and craned his neck with difficulty to look at the monitor next door.

It’s okay, the heart is still beating.

Just can’t see his face, so he felt a little worried.

Lian Qiao was lying in the airtight senior hospital bed and was forced to calm down. He gradually realized that his worries were unnecessary.

If RenDong really did trigger the elevator on the operating table, there’s nothing he can do now. RenDong was still alive, which means that he either survived the elevator or didn’t go there at all.

As for now, RenDong is lying beside him. Although the bed spacing in the ICU is large, it is only one or two meters apart. He remembered that when Zhong Xiu opened the elevator, he was actually standing at the door of the ward and was still sucked in. Thus, given the distance between him and Ren Dong now, if the elevator really opened, he should be able to feel it.

He was so anxious that he had forgotten himself.

Once the string in the heart was relaxed, the pain in the body will rise back up.

It hurts so much.. his stomach seems to be split open, it hurts from the inside to the outside..

He really wanted to touch his stomach to see what kind of injury it was, but his hands and feet were tied. He just sighed and closed his eyes to rest.

But as soon as he closed his eyes, a terrible thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

– Did they lie to him?

Wouldn’t it be because..the person next to him wasn’t RenDong at all?!

Would RenDong be already..

Thinking of this, Lian Qiao’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated and he shouted again: “Is there anyone? Can anyone help me? Where’s my mother? Let me see him! Let me see him!”

The alarm on the monitor by his bedside also went off, by the time help arrived his heart rated had exceeded 120.

There were footsteps around. The little nurse came over, reached out her hand and turned off the alarm and said angrily, “What the hell are you trying to do!”

The nurse seemed to be in her early twenties, probably even younger than him. Lian Qiao opened his mouth, knowing that his life and death was in the hands of this bed nurse so he carefully begged: “I’ve already been tied up like this, what can I do? You help me, let me take a look at him, okay? I beg you, I will repay you when I go out.”

The nurse said in displeased manner, “He hasn’t woken up yet, what’s so good about looking at him.”

Lian Qiao hesitated for a while but finally he asked what he was most worried about: “..Is it really Xu RenDong? Is Xu RenDong really still alive?

“He’s alive! How about I push his monitor in front of you?”

Lian Qiao was overjoyed when he heard the words: “Really? Thank you then!”

The little nurse was originally angry but Lian Qiao was unexpectedly good-natured. In a bit of shock, the little nurse said: “Okay, I’ll push his monitor in front of you. But we agreed, you are not allowed to scream any more! I’m very busy!”

Lian Qiao nodded quickly, indicating that he would be good.

So RenDong’s monitor was really pushed in front of him.

The bed rail was so high that Lian Qiao had to lift his neck hard to see the full view of the monitor. The nurse was kind and put a pillow under his neck before leaving.

So Lian Qiao stared at the monitor. As soon as there was any problem with the vital signs of RenDong, he called out louder than the monitor.

In the end, all the doctors and nurses were so annoyed by him that they applied to a superior doctor, that is, Lian Qiao’s mother, who told them to give Lian Qiao a sedative.

The world was finally quiet again.