Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s-Chapter 1977: Major Blow
This disease is regarded as one of the most terrifying acute emergencies in ophthalmology, with very limited medical means to treat it.
By comparing the treatment plan for myocardial infarction to RAO, the treatment methods and prognosis for RAO don’t emphasize the golden rescue time like cataracts and other eye diseases. Similar to heart attack treatment, it’s crucial to seize the limited rescue window; once the timing is missed, the prognosis is unimaginable, worse than a heart attack.
The reason is that the diameter of the retinal arteries is much smaller than the coronary arteries, and humans have not yet broken through material limits to stent such tiny obstructed vessels as in heart attack treatment. If only relying on thrombolytic drugs for treatment, the emboli causing RAO may not just be ordinary thrombi but can be fat, tumor, calcification emboli, or drug emboli of various types, which may not respond to thrombolytic medications.
Doctor Hu, being a doctor, knew the severity when the symptoms occurred and immediately went to ophthalmology for treatment. The timely rescue preserved some of her vision, preventing immediate blindness; however, she experienced the rare occurrence of both eyes being affected, with special emboli and general medication effects. The ophthalmologist concluded that even though her case received relatively timely treatment, due to the persistent presence of emboli, as long as any careless move occurs, her retinal cells will continue to necrotize.
Even being a doctor knowing these matters, she couldn’t save herself; she isn’t far from total blindness.
Doctors are human, possessing the same seven emotions and six desires as ordinary people. During this period, she didn’t want to reveal her condition too early, but wanted to remain at her work position she held for decades before possibly going blind. However, the hospital wouldn’t allow her to linger with her scalpel.
She pledged not to harm patients, yet the hospital didn’t trust her words. The hospital is actually a most cold-blooded and heartless place, emphasizing science and technology but not human emotions. Du Haiwei, being a saint in these circumstances, showed even less human warmth than Doctor Hu.
Aunt Min’s incident indeed dealt her another major blow. That day, she accidentally dropped a paper, thinking it was blown into the hallway, and opened the door to search. Upon opening the door, perhaps due to the wind, the emboli in her left eyeball shifted again, causing her vision to plummet, leaving only blurred images.
She didn’t witness Aunt Min’s episode, only heard a thud, perplexing her as to what had fallen to the ground. Aunt Min’s cries for help were too faint, surely unheard, making her suspect something from the ceiling had dropped. By the time she managed to return to her department using her memory to call a nurse to check the corridor, someone already shouted a patient had fainted and needed rescue.
Someone went to rescue, her current state preventing her from assisting, fumbling back to her office, retrieving emergency medications, pressing and rubbing her eyeball, striving to regain some capability in her vision.
Soon, Xie Wanying and her colleagues confronted her, questioning why she hadn’t saved a life.
She never intended to stand by idly, her heart filled with grief, eventually arguing with Xie Wanying and her peers. Actually, she knew she might no longer be suitable for her position, so when the hospital suggested it today, without objection, she immediately returned home.
Are Doctor Hu’s eyes truly about to go blind? Shen Xifei felt like sitting on the ground and crying out loud. How did misfortune find her to this degree, finding employment only to see no hope before even starting?
