Reborn Wife Strikes Back in the 80s

( ) "Then what's my mother's disease?" the patient's daughter asked.

"I suspect it is 'primary systemic amyloidosis'," Guo Xiang said.

"What kind of degeneration?" The mother and daughter were confused and had never heard of it. Most people say kidney disease, heart disease, leukemia, etc., but even Zidi seldom heard about it and understood a little, what amyloidosis?

"Is too much starch? What's the relationship with starch?" the patient asked.

"It has nothing to do with starch." Guo Xiang shook his head. "It is a disease in which proteins in the body are deposited in the interstitial spaces of extracellular tissues in the body like starch, thereby destroying the function of cells and organs."

"As your mother is now, if it deposits on the skin, it is cutaneous amyloidosis, so it bleeds when you touch it, and there is not only the skin, you see her tongue, which is so big, those on it are not the tongue coating but also the protein deposits, not only that, she said. Those uncomfortable places..."

"I suspect that there is a problem. This disease is that where amyloid is deposited, there will be lesions. For example, if it is deposited in the heart, it will lead to cardiac insufficiency. If it is deposited in the kidney, it will lead to kidney damage until uremia. damage."

The mother and daughter's expressions changed greatly, "Then my mother's internal organs are not good?" asked the patient's daughter.

"I don't know yet, so it is said to be checked, and a comprehensive check is required." Guo Xiang emphasized.

"This disease is also a clinical manifestation of myeloma. The more serious one is myeloma, but the treatment methods are similar, including hormones or chemotherapy, or bone marrow autotransplantation!" Guo Xiang said.

"Chemotherapy, transplantation? So this is cancer?" The mother and daughter were shocked.

"If it's not at the level of myeloma, it still needs to be treated like this. It's a relatively serious disease." Guo Xiang said, "Of course, it's still necessary to make a diagnosis, right?"

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and the daughter pulled her mother to the door, "Mom, why don't we change hospitals, I heard that this place is precious!"

"However, what if doctors in other hospitals don't know about this disease? You see, we haven't been to other hospitals before, and we have suffered so many crimes and taken so many medicines, but we still haven't found out..." The patient was worried.

"Then who knows if what she said is true, I heard that private hospitals are blackhearted." The patient's daughter curled her lips.

The mother's mood is complicated, and the daughter is reluctant to pay. "I still have some savings. I will ask the eldest and the second to send some money tomorrow..."

"Mom, that's not what I meant." The patient's daughter blushed.

"I'm still going to see this hospital.

I don’t want to mess around anymore. I need to go to other hospitals for inspection. I have already inquired about all the equipment in this hospital. I can check what others can’t find. I want to treat it, but I don’t want to die. "The patient's face was a little ugly.

"Mom, I didn't say that you won't be able to treat it... ah, forget it, just check it!" The patient's daughter was helpless, and she didn't want to bear the reputation of being unfilial.

The two walked in front of Guo Xiang again, and the patient said, "Doctor, please give me an examination, please tell me what examinations to be done."

"Okay!" Guo Xiang nodded, "But there are a lot of checks, and it can't be finished in a day or two, so go to the hospital!"

"Okay, I'll be hospitalized." The patient nodded.

Guo Xiang issued a hospitalization order to the patient, and then various inspection orders, and said some precautions.

After a few days, the test results came out, and it turned out to be systemic amyloidosis. In fact, it was similar to bone marrow cancer, except that the indicators were relatively mild and almost reached, and each organ had different degrees of damage.

Or to treat according to the method of bone marrow cancer.

"One is chemotherapy, and the other is autologous bone marrow transplantation!" Guo Xiang said, "Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancer. It may take more than half a year. This disease cannot be completely cured, but can only improve the quality of life."

"Autologous bone marrow transplantation is bone marrow transplantation, but unlike leukemia, this bone marrow can be used by one's own, and there is no need to match, and there is no fear of rejection."

In fact, some leukemias in later generations can also be transplanted with autologous bone marrow.

"How can I still use my bone marrow if I have a problem?" The patient was puzzled.

"It is processed, that is, a part of your own bone marrow is extracted, processed to kill cancer cells, and then re-injected into the bone marrow. However, our hospital already has a stem cell separator, which separates stem cells to kill cancer cells, and then separates good stem cells. Just inject it back into your body."

"However, the cost of this operation is very high, it costs 10,000 to 20,000 yuan." Guo Xiang said.

This operation will cost ten or two hundred thousand in later generations. Now, in the early 1990s, one or two thousand is still required.

"It's so expensive?" the patient's daughter called out. The current salary is only three or four hundred a month, and only three or four thousand a year. It takes several years of salary.

Her mother's generation had less money, and almost all her life savings were gone.

This is how people can live a good life when they are not sick. As long as they are seriously ill, their lifetime money will only be enough to see a doctor.

So some people say that people spend their lives to make money in the first half of their lives, and they use their money to make money in the second half of their lives.

"Let's see, if you want to get treatment, go and collect the medical expenses?" Guo Xiang said, now public hospitals have to pay for treatment first, not to mention that she is a private hospital here.

"I don't have enough money now. Let's go back and collect money first." The patient said that her life savings is only a few thousand yuan, which is not enough.

"Okay!" Guo Xiang nodded, whether it was natural that they had the final say, she had already told them the method and the money to be used, and they weighed it by themselves.

The two went out, and Guo Xiang heard them talking outside.

"Mom, it's too expensive. Should we go to another hospital?"

"also!"

Guo Xiang smiled, saying that the stem cell separator is only available here, and other hospitals really don't have it, but if you directly extract the bone marrow, it's not impossible, or even more painful.

If you go to a cancer hospital to see it, it is also possible, but the public hospital has a shortage of beds and it is not so easy to see.

Each has its pros and cons.

There are no patients for the time being, so Guo Xiang entered the medical records into the computer. There is no Internet yet, but she has already bought a computer, and some information can still be stored in the computer for later search.

At this time, footsteps came in. Guo Xiang looked up and saw that it was You Li, the woman who once said that she was pregnant with Gu Zhennan's child.

It's April now, the weather is warm, but it's not hot yet. You Li has already put on a skirt, and it's a maternity skirt, which is still rare in this period.

It was December when she came to make trouble. At that time, she found out that she was more than a month pregnant. It should be more than five months now. Her belly is quite big. I don't know if it is because of wearing a skirt.

She looked beautiful in a bright red maternity dress and light makeup, but it was a little too fashionable for this day and age.

Guo Xiang glanced at her lightly, "Come for a pregnancy test?"

Last time, I was going to sue Fu Peiwen, but because Fu Peiwen didn't succeed after the accident, the money promised to You Li was naturally not given yet. Are you asking for money today?