Chapter 119 Chapter 119
Being stared at by the He family, Ye Qing didn't know how to start talking for a moment.
This was not the first time she had faced this kind of situation. In the last years of the world, natural disasters occurred constantly and various strange ancient viruses spread. The survivors not only had to resist the extreme weather, but also had to fight against various diseases. As a doctor, when faced with diseases that she was completely helpless against, she would often feel a deep sense of powerlessness from the bottom of her heart.
At present, Mr. He's disease is still in the early stage of progression and has not actually developed to a very serious level.
But when it comes to Alzheimer's disease, Ye Qing has no relevant treatment experience and can't come up with any effective methods.
Perhaps because Ye Qing's expression was too solemn, He Lianshan saw her embarrassment and could not help but ask:
"Ye Zhiqing, have you confirmed it?"
Ye Qing nodded slightly.
Now, there was no longer any sense of luck, and the He family's anxious hearts finally died.
Even though they had expected it, the younger generation of the He family were still hit hard by the tragic news, and all of them looked unhappy.
Old Mrs. He could no longer control her emotions and collapsed on the chair, crying loudly.
On the contrary, Mr. He, the person involved, looked very calm and composed after learning that he might have a serious illness.
It may be because the old lady has taken the old man to seek medical treatment everywhere and has gone through too much trouble over the years, and the old man's initial fear has gradually become numb. He has already prepared himself mentally for illness and death, so now he is calmer than other people in the family, accepts the result well, and thinks it is no big deal.
The He family was very sad. He Lianshan even grabbed Ye Qing's arm, with an anxious and pleading look on his face:
"Ye Zhiqing, please think of a way to save my father. As long as his disease can be cured, we will actively cooperate with you no matter what you do!"
Ye Qing felt helpless.
If she could have been saved, she wouldn't have acted so distressed right after the diagnosis and treatment.
Alzheimer's disease is a very complex disease with many causes. It is caused by a combination of multiple factors such as genes, lifestyle and environmental factors. Moreover, the disease does not have any obvious signs at the beginning. It slowly penetrates into the human organs and tissues and even meridians and neurons. Through a little bit of erosion, the patient's brain nerve cells gradually atrophy and finally the intercellular signal transmission function is lost, causing the patient to have cognitive disorders and even completely lose the ability to take care of themselves.
Precisely because the specific cause of this disease cannot be pinpointed, it is difficult to identify the disease in the early stages of the disease and prevent the patient from developing the disease. Therefore, even decades later, when Ye Qing's world was facing an apocalyptic crisis, targeted drugs for this disease were still in the research stage.
Just like the case of Mr. He right now, the white matter lesions manifested by abdominal epilepsy are actually an early warning. But even if we know that it is the body sending out a red warning, with current medical technology, we can only watch. Not to mention that Ye Qing is helpless, even if those medical giants come, they can't come up with a practical and effective solution.
Ye Qing could only apologize to He Lianshan:
"Director He, I won't beat around the bush. My grandfather's illness is a difficult and complicated disease. The knowledge I have learned is not enough to cure it for the time being."
"Even if abdominal epilepsy is confirmed to be caused by white matter lesions, I can find ways to curb the white matter lesions, but this is like suppressing one problem but causing another. Surgical intervention on a single diseased tissue cannot cure the disease and may even cause other complications, directly accelerating the deterioration of the disease."
"So my suggestion is to use conservative treatment. I'll prescribe a prescription, and you can use it to gently regulate the old man's body. Take him to my health center for acupuncture once a month. This method can delay the onset of the disease as much as possible, and delay the cycle of his disease from seven or eight months to seven or eight years. But there is more that I can do nothing about."
He Lianshan's eyes were red and he said nothing.
The other young people also all had sad expressions on their faces. It was obvious that no one was satisfied with the result.
Who doesn't want to die healthy and peacefully? But when facing illness, human power is sometimes so small and powerless.
However, after hearing what Ye Qing said, Mr. He couldn't help but burst into laughter and said calmly:
"Isn't this great? It's rare for a person to live to be seventy, and I'm already sixty-something. If it's really like what this young doctor said, I can still live for another seven or eight years, and then I'll be over seventy. Then this old man like me will definitely make a fortune!"
The old man patted his wife's hand and consoled her with a smile.
"Why are you crying? I'm still seven or eight years old. I'm still alive and kicking. I should live happily every day. Don't send me to the hospital for those medical examinations. If you keep going, I'll be driven crazy by all those messy examinations before I die of the disease."
"Besides, by that time, the grandchildren will have all started their own families and careers, and I, Old He, will be able to rest assured and give an account to our ancestors. You are crying so hard right now, worrying about this and that every day, and you have no time to rest. With your life of worrying, it is hard to say whether you can live longer than me! If you don't believe me, let's compete and see who can last longer."
At this point, the old man was still making faces at his wife. His mischievous look made the old lady laugh and cry. She couldn't help but congratulate the old man:
"Pah, pah, pah, you have such a reckless mouth, you dare to say anything!"
This joke by Mr. He actually diluted the gloomy and depressing atmosphere in the house. No one else in the house dared to make a decision, so they could only turn their attention to the backbone of the family, the eldest son of the He family, He Lianshan.
He Lianshan knew that if Ye Qing really had a way, he would definitely not hide it on purpose, so no matter how unwilling he was, he could only accept the reality. After taking a deep breath, he pulled the corners of his mouth to reveal an ugly smile at Ye Qing:
"Then we will follow your method, Ye Zhiqing. We will use conservative treatment. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. We will try our best to accommodate your schedule."
As long as no surgery is required, conservative treatment is simply taking Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Apart from the hassle of decocting medicine every day and having acupuncture on time every month, there is really no problem with anything else.
After Ye Qing wrote down the prescription and carefully instructed the patient on how to take the medicine and what he needed to pay attention to in his daily life, he left the He family with a heavy heart.
Grandpa He's case is too special, otherwise Dean Gu would not have taken it so seriously at the beginning, and even summoned senior doctors from several surrounding counties to hold an expert consultation. Now that Ye Qing has made a final diagnosis on Grandpa He's illness, she will definitely inform Dean Gu of the relevant pulse analysis and the treatment methods she has proposed.
Gu Changqing hadn't seen Ye Qing for a while. He was quite happy to learn that Ye Qing was visiting. But after Ye Qing told him the details of Mr. He's situation, the smile on Gu Changqing's face instantly faded.
He immediately realized that this special case was very worthy of research. Currently, the entire domestic medical industry has no research on Alzheimer's disease, and no one pays attention to Alzheimer's disease. In the common sense of most people, they believe that the memory loss and loss of self-care ability of the elderly are just a normal aging process, and no one has ever linked this situation with the disease.
The key is this misunderstanding. Not only ordinary people think so, but even many medical practitioners judge it this way. This leads to many elderly people coming to the hospital for treatment without being able to find the cause of the disease.
This can be seen from the fact that Mr. He had so many tests in various major hospitals, but no hospital was able to confirm the specific cause of the disease.
If this case is not taken seriously, there is no telling how many similar patients will be neglected, thus delaying their illness and treatment, both now and in the years to come.
Gu Changqing felt that this matter needed to be taken seriously and that the situation needed to be reported to the Ministry of Health as soon as possible so that the Ministry of Health could follow up on Mr. He's illness in more detail, find more similar cases, conduct unified treatment, and conduct observation, comparison, and data collection to facilitate research on this pathology.
After knowing that Gu Changqing was going to make a report on this case, Ye Qing immediately raised his hands and feet in agreement.
This disease is difficult to cure. In the beginning, the country did not pay enough attention to it and did not invest enough research efforts, so after several decades, no specific medicine has been developed.
But as far as Ye Qing knows, when the apocalypse breaks out, there will be at least tens of millions of elderly people around the world suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It can be said that among the elderly population, one in ten people will be affected, and the incidence rate is quite high.
Therefore, Ye Qing felt that if Gu Changqing could submit the pathology report and get the attention of the higher-ups, more industry elites would surely devote themselves to the research of this disease. Perhaps within a few decades, they would be able to figure out the cause of the disease. By seizing the initiative, they would be able to lead the world, which could be an important milestone for domestic medicine.
After saying goodbye to Gu Changqing and leaving, Ye Qing planned to look around the county.
The main reason was that she came here on Li Yong's tractor. Li Yong had previously cooperated with Nie Wei in the black market, but after being repeatedly warned by Gu Weidong, the two stopped doing it.
Nie Wei asked the Liu family for help, and through some unknown connection, he got Li Yong to work as a temporary purchasing agent in several factories in the county.
Then this guy started running around every day, going to the various communes to find members to buy various mountain products, grains and vegetables grown in each household’s private plots, poultry and eggs not grown in the plan, etc., and then collecting them in small quantities and delivering them to various factories.
The purchase of these items required special registration and filling out of a purchase order, and the price was transparent, so there was no way he could make a profit from the price difference. However, the factories where he worked had to pay him a salary, even if he was just a temporary worker, with a monthly allowance of more than ten yuan, which would add up to a lot when paid by several factories.
Moreover, this guy was bold and daring. He secretly found a few partners who were as daring as him, and cleared a piece of wasteland somewhere in the deep mountains and forests. He secretly raised a group of chickens and ducks and planted various vegetables. In addition, those people went into the mountains to hunt from time to time, so he could smuggle various kinds of meat into the factory, and the money from the sales went into their private pockets.
Not only did they make a lot of money, the key was to have approval slips signed and stamped by big manufacturers and to go to the countryside to purchase openly, which was much safer than engaging in black market speculation before.
Li Yong knew in his heart that the reason why the Liu family was willing to help him find such a stable way to make money was entirely because of Ye Qing's treatment of Grandpa Liu. Therefore, Li Yong respected and appreciated Ye Qing very much. Whenever he had something to do, he would go to Ye Qing to see if Ye Qing needed his help. Whenever he went to the county, it was common for him to bring something for Ye Qing. If Ye Qing wanted to come to the county to do something, he would go there at any time without any hesitation.
This time Ye Qing was going to the county to see a doctor, and Li Yong took the initiative to be Ye Qing's driver. After sending Ye Qing to the place, he also told Ye Qing not to take the car back in the afternoon. At around four or five o'clock, he would come to pick Ye Qing up after collecting things at the commune below. Ye Qing only needed to wait at the agreed place at that time.
So Ye Qing was in no hurry to go back to Kaoshantun. After coming out of the county hospital, she first went to a state-owned hotel for a big meal, and then went to the county supply and marketing cooperative for a stroll. When passing a street corner, she saw an old lady carrying a bunch of toothpaste tubes into the alley. She guessed that there should be a waste collection station inside.
Thinking of her disciples at home, she couldn't help but turn around and followed them into the alley.
Sure enough, as soon as he entered, Ye Qing saw a shabby scrap collection station at the end of the alley, which was filled with various scraps classified into different categories.
Before Ye Qing went to the countryside, he had been to the waste collection station in Shencheng, but the waste collection station in Shencheng was quite different from the one in Jiaotan County.
The scrap collection station in Shanghai has things categorized into different categories, and the various items are detailed to an almost abnormal degree. On the other hand, although the one in Jiaotan County is also neat, it is much simpler and rougher than that in Shanghai. Books and newspapers are piled up in a mess in an entire room, and broken copper and iron fill another room. As for wooden furniture, there is none at all. Upon asking, I found out that even if such things are so broken that they are completely unusable, they can still be chopped up and used as firewood, so no one would bother to send them to the scrap station.
Ye Qing came to the scrap station to see if she could find any basic books on traditional Chinese medicine. Although she applied for a batch of books from the county's Agriculture Bureau and Dean Gu after the health station was built, there were still too few books related to traditional Chinese medicine.
The current situation in the country is that Western medicine is prevalent, while traditional Chinese medicine is in an awkward position due to the policy of destroying the four olds. This has led to many people being very cautious about this industry. Before the policy is clear, they dare not easily get involved. Some people are even timid and dare not keep the related books collected at home, and throw them all into the waste collection station.
So Ye Qing wanted to try his luck at the scrap yard to see if he could find some good books.
The books and newspapers in the room were piled up into a small hill, and there was no place to step. It was not easy to find the book she wanted. Fortunately, the person in charge of the purchasing station was a middle-aged lady in her forties. After bringing Ye Qing in, she didn't pay much attention to her and sat in the shed outside to concentrate on knitting her sweater.
Moreover, the location of this purchasing station is quite remote and not many people come here. Ye Qing is the only one in the room, so she took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and secretly used her supernatural power to catalyze the vine to help her open the layers of newspapers and books so that she could quickly flip through and search.
With this approach, the efficiency was obviously much higher, and Ye Qing quickly found several books she wanted from the dazzling array of books.
Ye Qing quickly used a cane to roll up the book in his hand and put it aside, preparing to take it out to pay the bill later.
She had been searching like this for about half an hour. Perhaps it was because she had taken too long to come in. The auntie who was knitting outside was getting a little impatient and started to urge Ye Qing outside, asking her what she was looking for and why she hadn't come out for so long.
Ye Qing's heart tightened, and he didn't dare to delay any longer. He quickly put away the cane and prepared to leave.
As a result, when she pulled the cane back, it accidentally touched a pile of comic books in the corner. The pile of comic books fell to the ground, revealing several yellowed large-scale thread-bound books hidden behind them.
As soon as Ye Qing saw the name of the thread-bound book at the top, his heart began to beat wildly. He subconsciously stepped forward and hurriedly picked up several books.
After randomly flipping through the books for a few times, Ye Qing didn't dare to confirm whether it was true or not. Anyway, her heart was beating like a drum at this moment. She didn't dare to delay and could only pick up all the books. She was afraid that the aunt outside would notice something, so she quickly grabbed a few newspapers from the ground and wrapped the covers of the books.
After making sure that none of the thread-bound books hidden in the corner were missed, Ye Qing didn't dare to dawdle any longer, fearing that the aunt outside would not be able to wait for her to go out and would come over to look for her in person. She quickly picked up the books she had picked out and ran out in a hurry.
After arriving at the shed outside, Ye Qing put the selected books on the scales and deliberately placed the batch of medical books she selected on top of the thread-bound books. Then she chatted with the auntie to divert her attention:
"Auntie, are you knitting a sweater for a baby? The stitches are so beautiful. You are a skilled hand at knitting. Are you knitting it for your grandson?"
The auntie was originally frowning because Ye Qing stayed in the house for too long, but when Ye Qing praised her knitted sweater, her expression immediately brightened up, and she couldn't help showing off to Ye Qing:
"It's for my grandson. My daughter-in-law is pregnant, so I want to make the baby's clothes in advance. Otherwise, I will be in a rush to prepare them when the baby is born!"
As she spoke, the fat lady glanced at the books Ye Qing had taken out, frowned slightly, and reminded him,
"No one dares to buy these books outside, so they are thrown to my waste collection station. You should be careful not to get into trouble, little girl."
Ye Qing initially thought that this aunt had a rather impatient temper and seemed difficult to deal with, but she did not expect that after seeing her buy these books, she would kindly remind her to be careful. Ye Qing felt warmed in her heart and hurriedly explained with a smile:
"Auntie, it's okay. I'm the director of the health station. These books are reference books that I brought back to our station to use for treating patients. I'm not afraid of being in trouble."
The aunt was stunned. After looking Ye Qing up and down for a few times, she did not investigate further. She did not even open the pile of thread-bound books under Ye Qing for careful inspection. She just casually threw the books into a snakeskin bag, hung the scale hook, and after weighing them, she quickly calculated the price of the books and asked Ye Qing to pay.
The pile of book cases cost Ye Qing only one dollar and thirty cents, and a snakeskin bag was also given as a gift. Ye Qing quickly paid the bill and was about to leave with the bag, but suddenly he stopped and his eyes fell on the aunt's hands, which were covered with frostbite and some were even cracked and festering.
"Auntie, I'll write you a prescription. If you trust me, go get some medicine and boil it into a paste. Apply the paste on your hands. I guarantee that within half a month, the frostbite on your hands will scab over."
As he spoke, Ye Qing took out a pen and paper from his bag, quickly wrote a prescription and handed it to the lady.
The aunt was skeptical, but still took the prescription.
Ye Qing was afraid of revealing any clues, so he picked up the half-full snakeskin bag of books, suppressed his nervousness and excitement, and hurried to the purchasing station.
As a result, when she was about to walk out of the yard, she bumped into an old man riding a shabby tricycle at the door.
The old man's footwork paused, and the tricycle nearly flipped over. Ye Qing quickly stepped forward and helped him stabilize the tricycle.
The aunt had already put away the prescription. Seeing the old man at the door, she couldn't help but curl her lips and scolded loudly:
"You old donkey, are you blind? Why don't you pay attention to the road? What if you hit someone? If you leave your cart of junk at the door again, I'll beat you up!"
The old man trembled and slowly got off the car, pushing the tricycle full of broken things into the yard.
But the gate to the yard had a threshold, and although it wasn't very high, the old man tried several times but still couldn't push the car over.
The auntie not far away continued to knit her sweater and showed no intention of coming forward to help.
Seeing this, Ye Qing had no choice but to put down the snakeskin bag in his hand, walked forward to lend a hand to the old man, and after some effort, he finally pushed the car into the yard.
The old man lowered his head and hunched his body. After thanking Ye Qing in a hoarse voice, he dumped the wreckage he had retrieved from the fight in the yard and was about to ride out again. When passing the threshold, the car staggered and almost fell over. Ye Qing happened to be walking out of the door carrying a snakeskin bag. Seeing this, he raised his hand and supported the old man's arm, barely stabilizing the old man's body.
The old man turned his head, revealing a pair of cloudy eyes from his messy hair. After glancing in Ye Qing's direction, he rode away slowly without saying a word.
Ye Qing stood at the gate of the yard for a long time without moving. She looked at the hand that had just supported the old man with suspicion, then frowned and looked at the old man's receding back. She couldn't help but narrowed her eyes slightly.
This old man——
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