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Chapter 78 Finding an Abnormality (for further reading)

The feeling of gastroscopy varies from person to person, and the same is true for colonoscopy.

During the operation of the colonoscopy, the doctor needs to continuously inflate it, and the intestines will bulge and swell!
Some patients will feel—to the cloud~, but some patients will feel particularly uncomfortable!

Moreover, the intestines of some patients are long and winding, like Jiuquhua Street. Some patients who have undergone surgery still have intestinal adhesions. Therefore, when passing through the more curved sections, the operating doctor needs to pull the endoscope. This can cause abdominal pain.

Therefore, some people enjoy gastrointestinal endoscopy, while others suffer.Then, a painless general anesthesia gastroscopy came into being!
……

With the deepening of the gastroscope, Zhou Qiao slowly probed, and suddenly, an abnormal small image flashed on the computer screen, and he was caught by his sharp eyes!

Go back and focus!
After careful inspection, it was finally found that there was a small bulge in the mucous membrane of Grandpa Murphy's gastric antrum.

Although small, it still failed to escape Zhou Qiao's eyes!
Zhou Qiao was startled, and Murphy's iceberg-like expression trembled suddenly, his pupils shrank!

unusual!
Such bulges on the gastric mucosa are absolutely abnormal!
"Let's do pathology, then do a serum marker, and then do an MRI." Zhou Qiao said after pondering for a moment.

"Well, listen to you." Murphy nodded, her expression became colder, and she had a bad feeling.

MRI, which can identify lymph node invasion and distant metastasis, plays a pivotal role in determining the depth of tumor invasion and formulating treatment plans.

……

It’s hard to do a gastroenteroscopy, of course it can’t just end like this, Zhou Qiao will continue to investigate carefully, and do a colonoscopy after the gastroscopy, what if there are lesions in other places?
This, is not a joke.

Digestive system tumors such as gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, and intestinal cancer have high morbidity and mortality rates. There are no special symptoms in the early stage, and it is very difficult to be noticed!

If you want to find out early, you can only pass a gastroenteroscopy!
Other methods, such as CT, MRI, etc., cannot be replaced.

The earlier the diagnosis, the higher the 5-year survival rate and the better the prognosis.

Some patients are very resistant to gastrointestinal endoscopy, because it is difficult to accept ordinary ones, and they are afraid of affecting their intelligence after general anesthesia!
In fact, a single short (0.5-4 hour) general anesthesia does not increase the risk of neurological lesions.

What's more, the painless gastrointestinal endoscopy uses short-acting anesthetic drugs, which are metabolized quickly and wake up quickly, so there is no need to worry about this.

Of course, except for infants and young children.

Studies have shown that infants under the age of 3 are in the developmental stage of the nervous system. When receiving anesthesia for more than 3 hours or repeated anesthesia, it may cause potential harm to the nervous system. In other cases, anesthesia can cause damage to the nervous system. can be ignored.

Zhou Qiao was investigating and teaching the students at the same time. They were relieved that except for the small area just discovered, there was no abnormality in the rest of the area.

That's great!The inspection is over!
About 3 minutes later, Grandpa Murphy woke up with a dazed look on his face.

who am I?Where am i?

There is a feeling of being silly!
In fact, this is just waking up, and I haven't come back to my senses yet. It's not because of general anesthesia that I really became stupid.

Soon, in just ten seconds or so, Grandpa Murphy remembered it, with a look of astonishment on his face!

"So I was doing an inspection just now!"

"I'm so dizzy and want to sleep...Murphy, is grandpa okay?"

Although Murphy was wearing a hat and a mask, Grandpa Murphy recognized his precious granddaughter at a glance.

"You're fine, we've found the lesion, but don't worry, because if it's found early, the problem shouldn't be serious." Murphy comforted Grandpa.

Then, her grandfather wanted to get up and get out of bed!

Murphy quickly stopped and said, "Lie down, don't get up. Let's talk slowly."

If you get out of bed at this time, you still have to fall down?

However, Grandpa Murphy refused to cooperate and insisted on struggling to get up, so Murphy could only say, "I'll help you up, sit quietly for a minute or two before talking."

Under Murphy's strong request, with a straight face and glaring at him, Grandpa Murphy sat down obediently.

After a short rest, Murphy helped his grandfather to change his clothes, because he was afraid that he had just woken up from anesthesia, and it would be bad if he fell down.

The old man can't fall.

Back at the Iris Clinic, Grandpa Murphy was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. However, Murphy did not advise him to eat immediately, and even refused to let him drink water.

"Grandpa, please be patient and wait for 2 hours before drinking a few sips of mineral water. If there is no nausea and vomiting after drinking the water, I will take you to eat delicious food, okay?"

After all, Grandpa Murphy agreed.

Of course, delicious foods should not be greasy or difficult-to-digest foods, but should be mainly light and liquid.And can't eat too much.

After observing for about half an hour, there was nothing abnormal about Murphy's grandpa, so Murphy took his grandpa and grandma home.

Although it's not time to get off work, but his grandfather is sick, Zhou Qiao is naturally humane and accommodating.

Murphy got her driver's license three years ago when she was 16. Her grandfather's classic car looked dilapidated, but the driving experience was actually quite good.

While in the car, Grandma Murphy couldn't bear it and called her daughter who was far away in Los Angeles.

Murphy's mother was also quite worried, and asked her grandma to turn on the speakerphone, so she wanted to talk to Murphy.

"Murphy, tell mom the truth, is your grandfather okay?"

Murphy thought for a moment and said, "The test results haven't come out yet. Can I tell you when I get the report?"

Murphy's mother was silent for a while, then said, "Okay!"

After hanging up the phone, I hurriedly went to the vice president to ask for leave.

Because she knows Murphy very well.

Murphy suffered from autism since she was a child. Many times, even her mother was indifferent. Unexpectedly, this time, speaking to her in a comforting tone for the first time, Murphy's mother was frightened on the spot. !

Murphy's mother knew immediately that her father's illness was definitely not a minor illness!
She was a little lucky that Murphy went to San Francisco.

"Although Murphy has a withdrawn personality, he is definitely a genius in medicine. He received his doctorate degree in medicine at the age of 19. With such an excellent doctorate in medicine, Daddy should be fine, right?"

Murphy's mother comforted herself along the way, feeling like a cat scratching her heart like playing a drum!
……

Soon, when they arrived at the leader's office, Murphy's mother walked in anxiously, because she was very busy with work recently, and she didn't know whether the leader would approve the leave.

Although this leader is the vice president (VP) in name, his actual authority is only the head of the department.Within the company, there are dozens of others with the same title.

No way, American companies, no matter how big or small, are flooded with VPs, which is quite normal.Theoretically, there can be countless, and many companies even crown old employees who have worked hard as VPs.

After being translated into "vice president", there is a beautiful illusion of "below one person, above ten thousand people".

Before the proliferation of VP titles, C-titles were popular.That is to say, various chiefs, CEOs, CFOs, CBOs, CDOs, COOs... are all very qualified.

　Thanks to "Paladin1996" for sending a small gift to "Elena and Ava"!
　　
　
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