Chapter 232 Fang Mei, we may lose our daughter forever
"Dad, this is not our home. How did you get here?"
"Xiaoxue, this is our 'new home'."
After one and a half hours, Lao Xia drove Xia Xue back to his hometown more than 100 kilometers away from the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu.
Standing at the door of a strange home, Xia Xue was surprised.
But she soon recalled from Lao Xia's answer that she had not been home for nearly three months from the beginning of the fourth chemotherapy to the end of the transplant surgery.
In the past three months, in order to raise money for her surgery, her original home had been sold to others, and she no longer had a home.
"Dad..."
Suddenly, Xia Xue lowered her head, and the joy of returning home was diluted a bit.
"Dad, I'm sorry! It was me who caused trouble to you and mom."
"We don't even have a home now."
Lao Xia was carrying luggage in his hands and wearing a thick N95 mask.
Hearing Xia Xue's words, he suddenly laughed, and even the mask couldn't hide the happiness in the corners of his eyes.
"Xiaoxue, what are you talking about!"
"With you, me, and mom, we are home wherever we are!"
"As long as you are healthy, that is more important than anything else!"
Saying that, Lao Xia urged:
"Okay, stop standing at the door!"
"Mom has prepared lunch for you, and your room has been arranged according to the previous layout!"
"Oh, also, your mother disinfected your room, the entire living room, and the kitchen with ultraviolet disinfection lamps early this morning. Don't worry!"
"Next, as long as you stay at home with peace of mind for half a year, you will be able to truly recover and become a normal person by then!"
"Hmm!"
Xia Xue nodded heavily, putting away her disappointed mood.
Soon, she took a deep breath, with strong hope in her eyes. She opened the door and glanced at Fang Mei who was busy in the living room.
An unprecedented warmth came to my heart:
"Mom, I'm back."
……
"Xiaoxue, after eating this lunch, you have to eat in your room for the next three months;
I have prepared your special bowls and chopsticks for you. Leave them at the door after you finish eating every day. We will come and clean them up, do you understand? ”
"Yeah."
After putting away their luggage and washing their hands, Lao Xia's family finally sat together and ate together.
As soon as it was served on the table, Fang Mei couldn't help but start to give instructions.
"Also, the reason why we can have this meal together today is because I disinfected everything in the morning, but then my parents have to go to work every day, and it is inevitable that they will bring the virus when they come back."
"So, in the next two or three months, not only will we have to eat separately, but you will also try not to leave the bedroom. We can't have too much contact, do you understand?"
"Yeah."
Xia Xue nodded obediently again.
As a second bone marrow transplant, she knew all this was being done to prevent infection.
"Be good! So good!"
After hearing her daughter's obedient answer, Fang Mei finally showed a happy smile on her face.
However, it seems her "nagging" is not over yet.
"By the way, I placed the ultraviolet disinfection lamp next to the sofa. We will disinfect the living room every morning before going out;
The UV lamp disinfection will be over in about an hour. At that time, you can come out and take the "UV lamp" into your bedroom for disinfection. Remember to disinfect every day, don't be lazy. ”
"Yeah."
"And..."
"I have disinfected all the clothes in the closet in your room. There is a bathroom in your bedroom where you can take a shower. You can put the clothes you need to change at the door. I will hand-wash them for you alone, and then disinfect them after washing. .”
"Yeah."
Fang Mei warned carefully, but Xia Xue didn't show any impatience.
Even,
Suddenly, she raised her head and whispered:
"Mom, thank you for your hard work."
Fang Mei was stunned for a moment. After two full seconds, a rare smile suddenly appeared on her face:
"No, it's not hard!"
"Xiaoxue, as long as you are healthy, mom will be willing to do anything!"
As she spoke, she looked at Lao Xia aside, then suddenly stood up and took out three small cups from the kitchen, and also took out half a bottle of wine from somewhere.
After pouring a glass for himself and Lao Xia, he poured a glass of water for Xia Xue and raised the glass:
"Lao Xia, you have worked hard taking care of your daughter these past six months!"
"Xiaoxue, you can't drink, just drink water instead of wine. After so much, our family is finally sitting together and reunited completely!"
"I believe everything in our family will get better and better in the future, cheers!"
"Cheers!"
The three glasses clinked together, and the rental house was filled with happy laughter.
In the air, in addition to happy laughter, there is also the desire for life!
And, hope for the outside world!
……
Xia Xue returned home successfully from the operation, which really made Lao Xia relieved.
Being in the hospital for a long time to take care of his daughter and seeing too many life, death and death put him under tremendous physical and mental pressure.
It's fine now, everything is back on track, and everything is moving in the right direction.
The same goes for Xia Xue.
After experiencing the pain and guilt of leukemia recurrence, and the worry of surgery, now that I am back home, I am gradually beginning to look forward to the future.
She is 26 years old, in her prime.
Perhaps the god of luck really began to favor this suffering family. In the next week, two weeks, and three weeks, everything was normal in Xia Xue.
Soon, one month after being discharged from the hospital, Lao Xia will take Xia Xue to Rongcheng Hospital for the first review tomorrow.
Afternoon,
Lao Xia deliberately returned home an hour early and bought his daughter's favorite rabbit.
As soon as he entered the door and washed his hands, he couldn't wait to walk to Xia Xue's room door and knocked on the door.
"Xiaoxue, guess what delicious food I bought you tonight?"
"Haha, your favorite rabbit, how about making it braised? The rabbit meat is so delicious!"
After saying that, Lao Xia pricked up his ears and waited expectantly.
Under normal circumstances, Xia Xue in the room would answer through the door soon.
But after waiting for about ten seconds, there was no response in the room.
Lao Xia couldn't help but frowned. After waiting for a moment, he hurriedly knocked on the door again:
"Xiaoxue, are you sleeping? Can you hear me?"
"..."
Still no response from the room.
Lao Xia's frown deepened, and a bad premonition suddenly began to spread in his heart.
It's five o'clock in the afternoon, not the time to go to bed!
Moreover, my daughter’s shoes were at the door, so it was impossible to leave the room! No response for so long, what happened?
Thinking of this, Lao Xia's heart couldn't help beating violently, but he still didn't panic and hurriedly took out his mobile phone to find Xia Xue's number and called him.
"Du..."
The sound rang out, and at the same time, the ringtone of a mobile phone came from the room.
One sound, two sounds, three sounds!
After three full beeps, just when Lao Xia was anxious, the call was finally connected!
Before Lao Xia could speak, Xia Xue's weak voice suddenly came from the other end of the phone!
"Dad, I feel very uncomfortable!"
Lao Xia was shocked and suddenly became anxious, saying anxiously: "Xiaoxue, dad is coming in right now!"
But just as he hung up the phone and was about to open the door, Lao Xia's many years of experience in escorting him deep in his heart forced him to calm down.
He hurried to the bedroom and put on protective clothing, a mask and disposable gloves, and then quickly ran into Xia Xue's bedroom.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw Xia Xue lying on the bed extremely weak in her pajamas. She looked painful and her face was obviously red.
Lao Xia's mood completely sank to the bottom. He hurriedly walked to Xia Xue's bed and squatted down, saying hurriedly:
"Xiaoxue, what's wrong with you?!"
After saying that, before Xia Xue could answer, his many years of nursing experience had given him a rich understanding of the complications of leukemia, and he hurriedly put his hand gently on Xia Xue's forehead.
The next second, even through disposable gloves, he could clearly feel that Xia Xue's forehead was extremely hot!
Oops, I have a fever!
Lao Xia's heart turned completely cold.
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Fever is the most common complication for all patients with blood diseases, and it is also a very dangerous complication!
Fever, there are only two situations that can cause fever!
1. Viral or bacterial infection in the body!
But after Xia Xue's surgery, she stayed at home and never went out. She insisted on disinfecting her home every day. It was almost impossible to have a fever caused by infection caused by bacteria!
Then there is only the second kind...
Post-transplant rejection!
"For God's sake, it must not be a rejection reaction!"
Lao Xia was completely panicked and kept praying in his heart.
After a while, he didn't dare to delay at all. He took Xia Xue's temperature and hurriedly called his elder brother to borrow a car. He had to take Xiaoxue to the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu immediately!
Five minutes later, the thermometer result came out:
39.5 degrees.
"Xiaoxue, take the antipyretic medicine first, and I will take you to the hospital right away!"
……
Lao Xia moved quickly and didn't dare to stop for a moment as he galloped along the way.
As a patient who has undergone two bone marrow stem cell transplants, he is well aware of the serious problems caused by postoperative rejection!
What is postoperative rejection? !
It is a rejection reaction produced by the body's own immune system against foreign transplants.
To put it simply, for example, if a very fine sawdust is pierced into a finger, if it is not pulled out, an inflammatory reaction will occur in the pierced finger after a day, and there will be redness, swelling, pain, etc.
This is because the body's own immune system recognizes that sawdust is a foreign harmful substance and begins to launch an immune response to attack the sawdust in an attempt to remove it from the body.
Bone marrow stem cell transplantation, kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, lung transplantation, all transplant surgeries will cause rejection.
This is the normal stress response of the body’s own immune system!
Therefore, before undergoing a transplant operation, the patient needs to take "immunosuppressants" to suppress and interfere with the body's normal immune system!
In layman’s terms, it means your immune system needs to rest and don’t go out to work.
After completing the transplant surgery, the patient will take large doses of "immunosuppressants" for the first six months to completely shut down the body's immune system. It will not be until half a year later that the dose will be gradually reduced!
The most well-known "immunosuppressant" in the world is called cyclosporine, which also accompanies almost all transplant patients throughout their lives.
Of course, if long-term use of cyclosporine can effectively suppress the immune system in the body and does not cause rejection, that will be the best outcome. The most feared thing for transplant patients is rejection!
because!
In addition to causing adverse reactions such as fever and liver damage, the biggest consequence of rejection is——
Transplant failed!
Because the immune system is not completely suppressed and interfered with, the immune cells in the human body will continue to attack the transplanted foreign organs. Soon, these transplanted organs and cells will be attacked and lose their function.
For example, it is entirely possible that the hematopoietic stem cells transplanted by Xia Xue will lose their hematopoietic function and fail to form normal hematopoiesis, and the transplant will eventually fail.
Thinking of this, Lao Xia couldn't help but tremble all over.
Once the rejection reaction cannot be controlled and the transplanted hematopoietic stem cells cannot be saved, doesn't that mean that the transplant operation that cost one million will be in vain? !
One million!
Has it been wasted? !
besides!
Once the transplant fails, how can Xia Xue survive?
"God, please, don't be a rejection reaction, don't be a rejection reaction!"
……
At seven o'clock in the evening, Lao Xia and Xia Xue hurried to the Hematology Department of the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu.
Because she was an old patient, and because Lao Xia had Director Hu's WeChat account, Xia Xue quickly completed the admission procedures and successfully started treatment.
Director Hu was already off work, but he rushed back after getting the news.
After a series of examinations, Xia Xue was diagnosed with obvious acute rejection.
Rejection reactions are divided into acute rejection and chronic rejection.
As the name suggests, acute means that in a short period of time, the immune system calls a large number of cytotoxic T lymphocytes to directly attack the transplant cells, causing a violent human reaction.
Chronic rejection is a situation where the attack on the transplanted cells is not that strong but continues over the course of several years.
Whether it is acute or chronic rejection, it is not uncommon in clinical practice. For example, 10-30% of kidney transplant patients experience rejection;
For example, liver transplantation has a 20-40% probability.
For example, bone marrow transplantation has a 40-80% probability.
However, just because it is rare does not mean that there are effective treatments. Director Hu can only increase the dose of immunosuppressants to suppress the rejection reaction in the human body as much as possible.
Three days later, Xia Xue's fever symptoms were under control, and various indicators began to improve.
but!
In the doctor's office, Lao Xia was sitting on pins and needles.
Five minutes ago, he was secretly called to Director Hu's office by Director Hu's assistant.
"I remember you, you are 45 bed Xia Xue's father, right?"
"Yeah." Lao Xia hummed.
After receiving Lao Xia's answer, Director Hu couldn't help but sigh softly.
"Then I'll just say it."
"This is the second time your daughter has undergone a bone marrow transplant. This time, the situation was not good and she had a severe acute rejection reaction."
"Although the reaction is currently under control, judging from the data we monitor, the 'bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells' transplanted this time... may not be saved!"
"I can't...can't save it?!"
"Yeah."
Director Hu glanced at Lao Xia, and a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes.
"In the past three days, the peripheral blood cell count has been continuously declining, which indicates bone marrow hematopoietic dysfunction."
“The ‘donor cell chimerism status analysis’ in the immune detection indicators also indicates that the donor cell chimerism rate continues to decrease, which indicates that the transplanted hematopoietic stem cells have been attacked and lost their normal functions.”
"In other words, the transplant may fail! You must be mentally prepared!"
After the words fell, Lao Xia turned pale and fell silent.
After ten seconds, he suddenly raised his head, looked directly at Director Hu, and said in a low voice:
"Director Hu, did my daughter's second transplantation fail and she won't be able to have another transplant in the future?"
"Is she...my daughter...dying?"
The heavy words made the office suddenly become depressing.
Director Hu didn't know how to answer for a while. Fortunately, at this moment, Lao Xia's phone suddenly rang.
It belongs to Fang Mei.
"Lao Xia, where are you? I just arrived at the hospital and I didn't see you in the ward."
"I'm in Director Hu's office."
"Oh? What's the matter, let me come too!"
"Yeah."
Half a minute later, Fang Mei's figure appeared outside the office door.
Seeing Fang Mei, who had shared joys and sorrows together for decades, suddenly appear, Lao Xia, who had always been calm, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Tears kept pouring out of his eyes, and he cried:
"Fang Mei, we..."
"We may lose our daughter forever!"
"Fangmei!"
(End of chapter)