Chapter 57: CH 53

“Hey, Brother Xu, are you going back to school?”

He took off his jacket, and Yu Sang caught a glimpse of the bright orange sweatshirt Jiang Xu was wearing underneath, saying, “This isn’t like your style.”

Jiang Xu glanced at Shen Fangyu, who turned to Yu Sang and said, “Does it look good?”

“Yes.” Yu Sang subconsciously answered, only to realize that it was Shen Fangyu who had asked him, and he looked at Shen Fangyu with an expression as if he had seen a ghost before his inquisitive eyes fell back on Jiang Xu.

“Teacher Jiang!” Shao Le called out to him from the doorway.

Jiang Xu nodded at Shao Le and rushed out of the office before Yu Sang’s question popped up in his head, leaving a bewildered Yu Sang, who patted his head and muttered to himself, “I think I’m hearing things.”

“What’s the matter?” Jiang Xu asked Shao Le.

Shao Le handed a pile of documents to Jiang Xu and said, “The patient transferred from a lower-level hospital this morning and is suspected of having primary unilateral ovarian cancer.”

“Is there metastasis?” Jiang Xu glanced at the ultrasound checklist.

“The metastases were sorted out at the previous hospital, and nothing has been found for now.” Shao Le asked, “Do we have to drain it again?”

Jiang Xu didn’t answer him, first flipping quickly through the case, then frowning slightly, “The patient is only seventeen?”

That was too young.

Jiang Xu picked up the CT film again and looked at it against the light. Half a minute later, he put the CT film back into the bag and flipped through the previous test results page by page.

“Is that all?” He asked Shao Le.

“That’s all the patient gave,” Shao Le said, “I went through almost all the tests that should have been done; the ultrasound showed cystic lesions, and in the CT enhanced echogenic area, it does look like a malignant tumor.”

Jiang Xu showed the ultrasound sheet to Shao Le. “Don’t you think the boundary outline is too clear and the cyst wall is rich in blood flow?”

“Huh?”

Jiang Xu said to Shao Le, “Ask the patient if she has any digestive symptoms, give her an expedited gastroscopy and colonoscopy, and do the ultrasound again so the doctor can focus on the ovary on the side without the mass.”

“Teacher Jiang ……” Shao Le heard what he was saying: “Are you suspecting that she was misdiagnosed?”

Jiang Xu remained silent. He glanced at Shao Le and handed the paperwork back to her. “I’m just ruling it out, I hope I’m overthinking it. Is the patient here yet? Take me to her.”

“Okay.” Shao Le put all the information away and prepared to take him to the ward.

“Jiang Xu!” A familiar female voice interrupted the two of them.

Jiang Xu raised his eyes at the sound and found that the person calling him was Yan Hua, who had changed into a light gray trench coat today and was standing next to a girl with dyed green hair and tattoo stickers all over her arms, wearing only a hipster sleeveless vest.

She was quite a character.

Yan Hua dragged the little girl to Jiang Xu. She saw Shao Le following him and realized that they were working, so she asked, “Busy?”

“I’m going to see a patient.” Jiang Xu said, “What’s the matter?”

“This is a patient from the association,” Yan Hua pointed to the girl beside her, “Is Shen Fangyu around? I can go to him if you’re busy.”

In the women’s rights association, they were a part of, many of the people who needed help were sick, and departments like obstetrics and gynecology, where all the patients were women, were often involved.

Yan Hua had often brought patients over before, but this was the first one to come dressed so uniquely.

“He was just here,” Jiang Xu said, glancing at the goosebumps on the girl’s arms that couldn’t even be hidden by the tattoo stickers: “Take her to the office first, it’s cold outside. I’ll come over if you haven’t found Shen Fangyu by then.”

“Okay.”

Seeing Jiang Xu and Shao Le walking away, Yan Hua patted the girl’s shoulder and said, “Let’s go.”

The girl didn’t move. It was as if she were pinned to the spot, and Yan Hua sighed and took her hand.

“You’re a big girl, do you need to hold hands?”

The green-haired girl turned her face away, obviously not going to reply to Yan Hua’s comment.

Shen Fangyu was standing up to get his coffee when she knocked on the office door, and he was surprised to see her coming in, “Yan Hua?” He then complimented her in passing, “Your dress is quite pretty.”

After saying that, his eyes fell on the girl Yan Hua was holding and he quickly took in the saturated, green-as-wild grass hair. He pointed at her with his chin and asked, “Your sister?”

“Thank you,” Yan Hua smiled, then she pointed at Shen Fangyu and introduced him to the little girl, “This is Dr. Shen, also a member of the association.”

The young girl lifted her eyes at her words and gave Shen Fangyu an extremely perfunctory glance, her deliberately exaggerated eyeliner looking particularly eye-catching.

“How much is this tattoo sticker?” Shen Fangyu looked at the piggy on her arm and said, “It’s quite special.”

“Who told you it is a tattoo sticker?” The young girl’s chin was raised so high that she was almost looking at people with her nostrils. “I went to someone to get it done.”

Shen Fangyu looked at Yan Hua’s trench coat and then at the little girl’s vest. “Aren’t you cold with so little clothing?”

“I wanted to take her shopping for clothes, but she refused to say anything and insisted on wearing this.” Yan Hua looked a little helpless at her rudeness too, though her tone seemed slightly anxious, “Let’s not talk about that first.”

She explained, “This little girl is called Ren Han, she contacted our association on her own, saying that she had an ectopic pregnancy and no one was looking after her. Although I have never studied medicine, I know that this disease is very frightening and can be fatal, so I quickly brought her here to you.”

Although the association has been conducting some publicity, its financial resources were limited after all, and most people who have received help didn’t search for relevant information on the internet and were initially unaware of the association’s existence. This girl was obviously a trendy girl and went to seek help on the internet.

And strangely enough, when Yan Hua and Ren Han met, she didn’t say anything and refused to go to the hospital, following Yan Hua like a tail all the time, asking her to eat with her, play games with her, and hold her hand as she walked.

Yan Hua knew that an ectopic pregnancy was no joke and had to threaten Ren Han with a cold face, saying that if she didn’t go to the hospital, she (Yan Hua) would leave her alone, before Ren Han reluctantly followed Yan Hua to the hospital.

“Ectopic pregnancy?” Shen Fangyu frowned and glanced at the girl who was blowing the bangs on her forehead. When Ren Han saw him looking over, she rolled her eyes and said impatiently, “What are you looking at?”

Shen Fangyu: “……”

The girl in front of him was high-spirited, but her teeth chattered every now and then, so it was possible to catch a cold. …… Ectopic pregnancy?

Not to mention the ectopic pregnancy, Shen Fangyu doubted she could even endure a 1,500-meter run.

“Have you been examined?”

Ren Han said, “I’m not telling you.”

“Ren Han has a bad temper.” Yan Hua hesitated and added, “She’s still young, only seventeen; don’t get upset with her.” She explained, “I don’t think she’s been examined.”

“Let’s do a vaginal ultrasound.” Shen Fangyu put down his coffee and said gently, “There’s no need to register at the clinic, I’ll take you to the emergency room.”

“Wait-“ Ren Han suddenly tugged at Yan Hua’s cuffs and hid behind her, asking, “What’s a vaginal ultrasound ……? “ She felt a little pain at the term alone, “Does it involve sticking an examination instrument in?”

“Yes, it’s highly accurate and recommended for those who are sexually active.”

Ren Han’s lips trembled as she bargained, “Can’t you do an abdominal ultrasound?”

Shen Fangyu took a disposable cup and gave her a cup of hot water, which Ren Han took and held in her palm, looking at him cautiously.

“You need to drink water and hold your urine so that your bladder fills up, that way, we can see clearly.” Shen Fangyu threatened her in a solemn tone, “But you could rupture your fallopian tubes at any moment. The situation is critical, we can’t risk your life.”

“It’s not that critical though…”

“If an ectopic pregnancy isn’t critical, then what is?” Shen Fangyu made a move to get up.

The arrogant Ren Han immediately wimped out and shook her head repeatedly, saying, “I’m afraid of pain, I can’t do it.”

“I’ll tell the doctor to be more careful.”

Ren Han said anxiously, “I don’t want to do it, I’ve never had sex!”

Shen Fangyu raised an eyebrow and said, “Then how did you get pregnant?”

“……” Ren Han glanced at Yan Hua helplessly, then at Shen Fangyu, and finally gritted her teeth and said, “I …… I was wrong, okay? I’ll do it, can we go do it?” She stood out from behind Yan Hua with a look of heroism and righteousness.

Shen Fangyu and Yan Hua looked at each other, and it was obvious that Yan Hua had also figured out that something was not right.

“Let’s go then.” Shen Fangyu made up his mind and walked in front.

Yan Hua cooperated and pulled Ren Han, who was still tugging at her cuffs, to follow, saying, “Do we really have to do that kind of examination? I don’t want to do it, I’ve seen other people getting examined from their abdomen.”

“Dr. Shen is an expert, so trust him,” Yan Hua reassured her with an air of calmness.

They reached the examination bed, and Ren Han lay down on it with her heart in her mouth, her eyes closed, and her teeth clenched.

The female doctor in the examination room and Shen Fangyu looked at each other, and she understood what he meant, “Lift your clothes a little.” She said to Ren Han.

She felt the material of her clothes rubbing against her, and a sudden chill came from her abdomen, which was exposed to the air. Ren Han’s whole body shook like chaff. Her previous hostility was gone, and her smudged eyeliner made her look a bit pitiful.

The warmed gel landed on her abdomen, and her eyes snapped open to see the imaging examiner of the emergency room rolling the ultrasound probe over her abdomen while Shen Fangyu was looking at the image on the screen.

“You lied to me!” Ren Han sat up angrily, clearly agitated.

Shen Fangyu looked at the screen, but his eyes were slightly frozen.

“Lie back down,” he said.

“I don’t want the checkup anymore!” Ren Han stood up angrily and glared at Shen Fangyu, “I’m not pregnant, okay? I lied to you all, I just wanted someone to care about me! You don’t even want to talk to me!”

Shen Fangyu tilted his head at her words and looked at her for a long time before saying, “Lie back down.”

Ren Han wanted to say something else but was shocked by the look in his eyes. That look was not very imposing, but it somehow made her a bit scared.

Shen Fangyu tapped a spot on her abdomen and said to the examining physician, “Look here again.”

The image that had disappeared because Ren Han had sat up was now fixed in the ultrasound machine. Shen Fangyu’ stared at the blurred black-and-white image for a moment before he and the imaging physician exchanged a glance.

Shen Fangyu originally wanted to scare Ren Han so that she would learn a lesson and stop pretending to be sick in the future, but to his surprise, he had found something wrong.

Ren Han’s abdomen did not contain a pregnancy sac, as he had expected, but there was a fibroid in her uterus.

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors with a high incidence rate that are common in women of childbearing age. They are not a serious illness, but Ren Han’s was a bit large, so it was best to have an operation.

“Do you usually have a lot of menstrual bleeding?” Shen Fangyu asked, “Does it last for a long time?”

Ren Han saw something wasn’t right, and she looked a little panicked. “I ……” she bit her lower lip in disbelief, “am I really sick?”

“You answer me first.”

Ren Han hesitated for a moment and nodded.

“Do a blood test,” Shen Fangyu said, “If there is secondary anemia, then I suggest you have surgery.”

“Surgery?” Ren Han jumped off the examination bed, never expecting to turn out to be sick after faking it. “How is that possible? I’m very healthy, how could I possibly need surgery?”

“Dr. Shen!” She remembered her manners now and said with a panicked look, “Will I die? Is it serious?”

Yan Hua was also shocked and a little nervous. “Is it really that serious?” She asked Shen Fangyu.

The three of them walked back to the obstetrics and gynecology office, and Shen Fangyu handed Yan Hua the examination results, saying, “Take her for a blood test first.”

This time, Ren Han didn’t hesitate anymore. Before, it was Yan Hua who was pulling her, but now she is pulling Yan Hua. She grabbed the results and ran out of the room in a hurry, obviously a bit scared.

Almost as soon as the two of them had left, Jiang Xu returned, and when he saw Shen Fangyu in his office, he asked, “Did Yan Hua come to you?”

“The girl was pretending to be sick,” Shen Fangyu said, “then the scan showed there is a fibroid, and it’s not small.”

Jiang Xu nodded, “So a minor surgery.”

Seeing him frown, Shen Fangyu asked, “What’s wrong?”

Jiang Xu shook his head, remembering the girl he had just seen.

The girl who had been transferred to the hospital was called Ren Miao. She was pale and had deep eye sockets, speaking in a gentle, polite voice. Her big eyes were like those of a Barbie doll. She was a rather pleasant girl.

But her fate was not as fortunate as Princess Barbie’s.

She was also only seventeen.

Some people were pretending to be sick at seventeen, while others were battling terminal illnesses at seventeen.