Chapter 16: My expression is ugly and my waist is so sore!
After hearing the noise outside the house subside, Su Mei got up and came out. She said:
"Come here, some men, bring in the bearer that was used to carry Li Yuan back during the day!"
Li Yuan's vital signs have stabilized a lot and reached the basic surgical indicators. Su Mei wants to perform surgery on Li Yuan immediately.
This operation was more difficult than any other operation Su Mei had performed before, because there was no assistance from any modern instruments and she could only rely on her own experience.
Soon, Huo Jianguo asked someone to carry Li Yuan to the next room.
Seeing her son being carried away, Auntie Wang burst into tears again. She grabbed Su Mei's hand and begged:
"I'll leave everything to you, Su Mei."
As a surgeon, Su Mei has been asked for help countless times by patients' families in modern times. She patted Aunt Wang's back very calmly.
Only at this time was Su Mei able to come over and take a look at the operating room built by Huo Jianguo.
She unexpectedly discovered that the operating room built by Huo Jianguo was more like the real thing than the one she had arranged. She didn't know where he found the brand new tent and set it up in the room.
The floor was covered with plastic film, and except for the fact that it had not been disinfected and sprayed, this temporary operating room already had a certain sense of a sterile environment.
Although he had never eaten pork, Huo Jianguo had seen pigs run away. He had been injured and sent to the operating room for rescue, so he had some impression of the layout of the operating room.
After entering the door, Su Mei did not go directly into the tent, but washed her hands with alcohol outside and then put on rubber gloves.
Then she handed the alcohol to Huo Jianguo and said:
"You should also disinfect your hands. I need two assistants to help me. Please call another person besides you!"
Huo Jianguo took the alcohol and disinfected it silently without saying a word. He knew that the doctor could not complete the operation independently without help.
"Commander, let me go!" Xie Li took the initiative to stand in front of Huo Jianguo and asked to go in and help.
This time Huo Jianguo rejected Xie Li:
"I know you have a good relationship with Li Yuan, and I am anxious, but you have been busy all day, and you are too tired and it is easy to make mistakes. Let Jiang Wei do it!"
After that, Huo Jianguo stuffed the alcohol into Jiang Wei's hand, and Xie Li could only retreat to the back with some disappointment.
After entering the operating room, Su Mei first performed some examinations on Li Yuan, and then she wrote down on a piece of paper:
"Temperature 36, respiration 22, pulse 75, blood pressure 110, heart rate 60. Vital signs are basically normal. Surgery is possible."
After completing the most basic preoperative examination, Su Mei tested Li Yuan with anesthetics. Only after confirming that he had no allergic reaction to the anesthetic did she give him intravenous anesthesia.
After seeing the painful expression on Li Yuan's face ease, Su Mei knew that the anesthetic had taken effect. She directly picked up a long-handled scalpel, lit an alcohol lamp, and began to burn the knife on the lamp.
Seeing Su Mei's actions, Huo Jianguo wanted to ask her what she was doing. He had wanted to ask this question when Su Mei took the alcohol lamp from the clinic, but in the end he chose to keep silent because he was afraid of disturbing Su Mei's surgery.
Soon, the knife in Su Mei's hand was roasted red. She placed the knife on the operating tray beside her and roasted five more in succession.
Then, she took the knife and began to cut the skin tissue around the stick.
The house suddenly smelled of barbecue.
Smelling this smell, Huo Jianguo's usual calmness disappeared in an instant. He widened his eyes and shouted, "Su Mei, what are you doing?"
"We need to find the blood vessels around the stick!" Su Mei explained professionally:
"There is a very small artery branch near the wound. He lost too much blood and fell unconscious. We need to find this blood vessel to avoid secondary injury when pulling out the stick."
"Just find the veins, why do you need to burn him with a knife?"
"What are you so surprised about?" Su Mei said as she changed the knife and continued to press on the wound:
"Scorching the flesh is the fastest way to stop bleeding. I do this to prevent further bleeding. He can't bleed anymore. And less bleeding will make it easier for me to find the blood vessels."
In order to prevent bleeding during operations, modern surgeries have invented electric scalpels. When an operation is performed, the operating room is filled with the smell of barbecue. Su Mei has long been accustomed to it.
As she spoke, Su Mei had already found the artery.
The blood vessel was not broken, but a hole was scratched by the wooden stick, and it started bleeding as soon as it was cut.
When the wooden stick was pulled out, the blood vessel would definitely be completely severed. Su Mei injected antidiuretic into both ends of the blood vessel. This drug can coagulate the blood in a short period of time and effectively stop bleeding.
After injecting the hemostatic drug, Su Mei looked at Huo Jianguo and Jiang Wei and said:
"One of you will be responsible for fixing his legs, and the other will be responsible for pulling out the stick from his thigh."
In order to prevent shock due to decreased blood pressure during the extraction process, Su Mei injected Li Yuan with a dose of diazepam in advance.
"Should we pull it out directly? Will there be heavy bleeding? We don't have blood to transfuse to him for emergency treatment." Huo Jianguo looked at Su Mei hesitantly.
He has been in the army for many years and has seen many of his comrades get injured, so he is well aware of some of the unexpected situations that may occur during surgery.
Su Mei's face was very calm:
"No problem. The artery has been injected with hemostatic drugs. Just take care of pulling it out. I can handle the bleeding in other parts."
Seeing Su Mei's calm expression, Huo Jianguo and Jiang Wei looked at each other, then Jiang Wei went over and grabbed Li Yuan's leg. Huo Jianguo glanced at Su Mei, took a deep breath, put his hand on Li Yuan's thigh, and pulled out the wooden stick.
Suddenly, blood gushed out of Li Yuan's thigh.
The blood splashed all over Huo Jianguo's face, making his heart tremble.
Just as he was about to speak, he saw Su Mei holding a freshly roasted knife and pressing it on Li Yuan's thigh. The room was filled with the sizzling smell of meat.
Huo Jianguo's usual calmness disappeared in an instant. He widened his eyes and shouted, "Is this your solution?"
"What else?" Su Mei glanced at Huo Jianguo and said lightly: "Didn't you see me cutting with a red-hot knife once just now? I thought you were used to it."
Huo Jianguo: "........."
He is not used to it. What kind of barbaric methods are these?
Su Mei didn't have time to care about what Huo Jianguo was thinking. She kept using the scalpel to burn the wound until the bleeding subsided. Then she took a deep breath and officially began to prepare for the operation.
Next, she had to do the most difficult thing. She had to use a scalpel to cut open the wound on her leg little by little, clean out the residue inside, and then sew it up.
What Su Mei was most worried about was a broken bone. If there was a broken bone, she could only pick out the bone fragments after cutting it open, and then sew it up to save Li Yuan's life.
Li Yuan could only be sent to the city for bone-setting surgery after the snow melted, because there were no tools for bone-setting here. However, if the delay was too long, Li Yuan might very likely suffer from lifelong disability.
Another thing is that Su Mei is now cutting the skin layer by layer, and she has to be extra careful not to damage important blood vessels and nerves.
The stick was inserted in a clever position, just avoiding the important main vessels and nerves, but both were near the wound, so Su Mei had to be extremely careful when cutting.
In an instant, Su Mei's aura changed. She lowered her head and cut one knife at a time with a serious and focused expression. Each cut was exceptionally straight and perfect.
While conducting a precise and careful examination, she asked Huo Jianguo for surgical instruments.
Before the operation, Su Mei had already laid out the surgical tools. She was afraid that Huo Jianguo would not recognize the things inside, so she just used the first one to replace them.
While handing something to Su Mei, Huo Jianguo looked at Su Mei's back with confusion. He thought he had seen countless people and could see through everyone's true face hidden beneath the skin.
But Huo Jianguo felt that he had completely misjudged Su Mei. After living under the same roof with her for a year, he had never realized that Su Mei could have such a side to her.
Especially when she asked him for tools, she didn't even look up, but she could clearly remember where the tools she needed were.
This was actually not a difficult task for Su Mei, because there were uniform regulations on the order in which surgical instruments should be placed during the operation, and Su Mei had already memorized them by heart.
Huo Jianguo was responsible for delivering the tools, while Jiang Wei was responsible for helping Su Mei grill the knives.
Every cut she made was made with a red-hot scalpel, which made it easier to stop the bleeding and facilitate observation.
Smelling the aroma of meat in the room, Huo Jianguo felt that the future was bleak. Su Mei's treatment methods were all things he had never heard of before.
At this time, Su Mei had already cut to the center.
She felt lucky that Li Yuan's bones were not broken, but only had some minor fractures.
As long as the bone fragments are cleaned out, sutured, and fixed from the outside, his leg will slowly grow back.
After cleaning up the residue, Su Mei sutured the wound stitch by stitch.
Then she asked Huo Jianguo and Jiang Wei to help Li Yuan lie on his side, and then she cut open the wounds on the back of his side one by one and sewed them up one by one.
Perhaps it was because her technique was too perfect, or perhaps it was because her expression was too meticulous, but Huo Jianguo's confused heart began to settle down a little bit without him knowing when.
Two hours later, Su Mei straightened her waist in pain. She looked at the wound that she had sutured with her fat hands with disdain, then went to check on Li Yuan's condition, and then revealed a particularly ugly expression.
Huo Jianguo had been looking at Su Mei. Seeing the expression on her face, his heart skipped a beat and he asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
"My waist is so sore!" Su Mei stretched and yawned.
This answer almost made Huo Jianguo draw his gun and kill someone: "I was asking what happened to Li Yuan?"
"He's fine!" Su Mei looked at Huo Jianguo strangely and said casually:
"The operation was successful."
Although the equipment used in this operation was relatively backward, the stick was cleverly positioned and Li Yuan was lucky enough, so in the end it was not difficult for Su Mei.
It was just a minor operation, but Su Mei felt that she had lost her confidence due to the separation from those modern instruments, which led to the false alarm.
Su Mei thought it was a minor operation, but Huo Jianguo didn't think so. Even when he heard Su Mei say it was successful, he was still worried.
He walked slowly to Li Yuan's side, personally checked his breathing and pulse, and after confirming that Li Yuan was indeed fine and the wound on his thigh had been treated beautifully, he exhaled deeply.
"Thank you for your hard work!" Huo Jianguo thanked Su Mei in a heavy tone.
Su Mei thought that this should be an opportunity to win his favor. Maybe if she did well, Huo Jianguo would temporarily give up the idea of divorcing her. So she adjusted her expression and looked at Huo Jianguo with a gentle and virtuous look:
"I'm glad to share your worries. I hope there will be such opportunities again in the future."
Huo Jianguo could tell that Su Mei was testing him. He looked at her face that was so fat that his features couldn't be seen clearly, and the obviously hypocritical expression on her face, and nodded very coldly:
"When we get divorced, don't make a fuss. Obediently get the divorce certificate from me, and you'll relieve me of the biggest worry."
Whenever he thought of what Su Mei had done to him, Huo Jianguo's determination to divorce became as solid as a diamond.
After saying that, Huo Jianguo walked out with a cold face.
"Oh, it's so unkind." Su Mei sighed helplessly. The hope that had just risen was shattered.
Harmful.