Liao Xiong told Yu Zhiming that more than six years ago, he had suffered from severe pneumonia and was hospitalized for nearly a month before he was cured.
Although he recovered, he still had some illness in his body and would cough from time to time.
Not only that, as long as the climate changes slightly, he will either have lung inflammation or bronchitis, which will occur at least three to five times a year, and as many as eight or nine times.
Moreover, there are many types of lung inflammation.
Common fungal pneumonias such as Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia, Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia have occurred more than once.
I have also tested viral pneumonia caused by influenza virus, parainfluenza virus, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, etc.
As for pneumonia caused by various fungi such as Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus, Actinomyces, etc., it is also not avoided.
When Liao Xiong saw Yu Zhiming wearing medical gloves and looking at him quietly, he knew he should shut up.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was so excited that I couldn't control my mouth."
"I'll lie down right now."
Liao Xiong followed Yu Zhiming's gaze and obediently lay down on the sofa in the living room. He couldn't help but say, "They say that long illness makes a good doctor. I feel like I'm almost there now."
"Every time I go to the hospital for treatment, I can basically guess what injections to get and what medicine to take."
Yu Zhiming did not stop him anymore. He endured the guy's nagging and started the physical examination.
No problems were found in the head and neck area.
Yu Zhiming then checked Liao Xiong's lungs, and after a thorough examination with his hands, he was finally able to gain some insights.
Unlike common lung nodules, Liao Xiong's lungs were covered with healing scars caused by inflammation, and some lung tissues even had varying degrees of fibrosis.
Yu Zhiming initially estimated that this guy's lung function had been reduced by at least 20%.
Fortunately, no signs of bilateral lung cancer were found.
Yu Zhiming continued to check his heart and found heart damage as expected.
A mild cough has little impact on the heart.
However, the impact of severe or long-term cough on the heart cannot be ignored.
Coughing excites the sympathetic nerves, causing a faster heart rate. Severe coughing can also increase chest pressure, reduce venous return, and lead to reduced cardiac output. Furthermore, coughing can cause varying degrees of hypoxia, which can increase the burden on the heart and potentially trigger a heart attack.
In addition, severe coughing may involve local nerves and cause heart pain.
It is not just the heart that is affected. As the saying goes, a single move can affect the entire body. The human body is a complex and sophisticated system. When an organ is in a poor state such as pathology for a long time, other organs will be affected to varying degrees.
After a thorough examination, Yu Zhiming discovered that this guy's liver and kidney damage were also quite serious.
It should be caused by the side effects of long-term medication...
As soon as Yu Zhiming withdrew his hands from the examination, Liao Xiong couldn't wait to ask, "Doctor Yu, have you found anything?"
Yu Zhiming pondered for a moment before saying, "Your internal organs have been affected to varying degrees by the long-term coughing and lung infection. However, judging by the extent of the damage, their functions have only been weakened, and it hasn't reached the point where they would cause disease."
"However, if your condition continues for a year or two without improvement, it's hard to say."
Yu Zhiming met Liao Xiong's gaze and said bluntly, "During the examination just now, I didn't find the root cause of your cough and lung infection."
"It seems that your cough is caused by a weakened immune system or a nervous system issue?"
Liao Xiong stood up and replied, "Doctor Yu, I've been actively exercising and taking medication and vaccines to improve my body's resistance, but the effect isn't obvious at all. I still can't avoid getting sick when I should."
"The doctor also treated me for a nervous cough, but it didn't seem to help."
"Doctor Yu..."
Seeing this guy looking at him pitifully and eagerly, Yu Zhiming said thoughtfully, "Your condition is somewhat similar to that of a patient I had back home. He also suffered from various lung inflammations."
"The cause of his illness, as I found out in the end, is a foreign body in the bronchus."
Liao Xiong quickly introduced: "Doctor Yu, I have also checked for bronchial foreign bodies."
"Let me put it this way. I've done bronchoscopies at least ten times, and chest X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRIs several times, and no foreign body has been found."
Yu Zhiming smiled gently and said with great aura: "If the hospital's various instruments and equipment can detect it, then there is no need for patients to come to me for examination."
"Many patients who come to me have undergone all the necessary and unnecessary tests, but the doctors still have no clue what to do."
Liao Xiong took over and said, "As for me, I have consulted with experts more than once, but my health has not improved."
He pleaded again, "Doctor Yu, you are my last hope. Please take more care of me."
Yu Zhiming said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, since I have taken action, there will definitely be a result."
He walked towards the interior of the building.
"Come with me. Let's go to a quieter place and I'll give you a more thorough examination."
Liao Xiong hurriedly followed.
He followed Yu Zhiming into a bedroom and watched him open the closet door in confusion.
Then, I saw Yu Zhiming push open the partition at the back...
Liao Xiong's eyes widened instantly, and he exclaimed in surprise: "You...you...there's an elevator here?"
"You don't know?" Yu Zhiming was a little surprised.
He took it for granted that every small building here had such an elevator that went directly to the underground air-raid facilities.
Liao Xiong shook his head and said, "I know that before this place became a resort and convalescent center, it was once a combat readiness command center. It must have had comprehensive underground air defense facilities."
"It's just that I've never seen it in person."
Yu Zhiming said "oh" and responded seriously.
On his first day here, when the staff introduced the elevator to him, they did not specifically ask him to keep it confidential.
He looked at Zhang Hai who was following beside him. There was no special expression on his expressionless face, so he didn't say anything else.
Yu Zhiming entered the elevator first, and Liao Xiong followed.
Zhang Hai also followed him into the elevator.
There were no floor number buttons in the elevator, only door opening and closing and up and down buttons. When Yu Zhiming walked out of the elevator again, he was already more than ten meters underground.
He brought Liao Xiong and Zhang Hai to Qingning's rest room and let Liao Xiong lie on the sofa.
"Don't talk, just keep taking deep breaths."
Yu Zhiming gave a serious instruction and checked Liao Xiong's lungs again.
In the silent underground environment, Liao Xiong felt solemn and tense, not daring to act rashly. Following Yu Zhiming's instructions, he began to breathe deeply...
Take a deep breath...
To Yu Zhiming, the heavy breathing sounds sounded like a train whistling through a tunnel at high speed.
At the same time, his perception was like a cheerful deep-sea fish swimming quickly through the trachea with a stream of air, and then branched into the left and right bronchi.
Then, it branched into dozens of branches, and rushed into the thinner bronchi along with the airflow...
This meticulous and detailed lung exploration took Yu Zhiming more than nine minutes, and a thorough full-body examination took no more than that.
The hard work finally paid off. After such a long and careful investigation, Yu Zhiming finally discovered some anomalies worthy of attention.
But there are a few too many anomalies.
Yu Zhiming found a total of thirteen abnormal points in Liao Xiong's left and right lungs where the airflow was abnormally disturbed or even blocked.
Some of these abnormal points appeared in the trachea with a diameter of five or six millimeters, some appeared in the bronchi with a diameter of three or four millimeters, and even in the bronchioles with a diameter of two or three millimeters.
Yu Zhiming could not determine whether these abnormal spots were caused by tracheal or lung inflammation, or by foreign objects.
We can only check and confirm one by one.
What Yu Zhiming knew was that the deepest a bronchoscope could see was a bronchi with a diameter of 4.5-6.3 mm.
The ultra-thin bronchoscope can see the 1.8-2.8 mm bronchioles.
However, due to the bronchial bends and angles, not all bronchi and bronchioles can be explored.
At least half of the thirteen abnormal points discovered by Yu Zhiming should be blind spots that cannot be detected by bronchoscope.
Yu Zhiming couldn't think of a particularly good method to detect the abnormal points in the blind spot, so he could only conduct an examination through traumatic lung puncture.
"Just do the puncture, I'm not afraid at all. Doctor Yu, go ahead and check. If there's really a problem, it's just bad luck. I really don't want to keep coughing and being sick."
Liao Xiong expressed his opinion and then asked anxiously, "Doctor Yu, shall we do the examination now?"
Yu Zhiming shook his head and said, "We need to make some preparations."
He then instructed Liao Xiong, "You need to go to the head of the medical center, Dr. Wang Xingkui, and ask him to prepare an ultra-thin bronchoscope."
"Also, please ask him to temporarily set up a lung puncture operating room here or in another civil air defense facility."
"Punch sampling requires precise positioning, and I need to stay in this very quiet environment."
Liao Xiong nodded vigorously and said, "I'll go find him later. Doctor Yu, is there anything else you need to prepare?"
Yu Zhiming said: "That's all."
"That's all for today. Please prepare all these first. I will give you a lung examination tomorrow afternoon or evening..."
When he took the elevator back to the ground, Yu Zhiming heard Qingning chattering and talking on the phone with her elder sister.
Yu Zhiming watched Liao Xiong leave quickly, then saw Qing Ning end the call and come over jumping and skipping.
"Zhiming, Zhiming, I have great news for you. Our Yu family is going to have another baby."
again?
Yu Zhiming caught this key word and asked, "Could it be that my third sister is pregnant? Didn't she say two children were enough?"
Qing Ning grinned and said, "Guess again!"
"Second sister?" Yu Zhiming raised his eyebrows.
"No, I have to guess again."
Yu Zhiming frowned and said, "Could it be my eldest sister? She's almost fifty years old and in menopause. The possibility of her getting pregnant again is very small."
Qing Ning chuckled and said, "Why don't you guess it's someone younger? It's Xiao Bo's girlfriend Jiang Feng."
"My eldest sister said that they showed two lines on the pregnancy test stick this afternoon, so they rushed to the hospital for a blood test, and the results just came out."
Yu Zhiming said with a look of sudden realization, "So it was this brat. He got me pregnant before we even got married. He's so careless and irresponsible."
Qing Ning chuckled and said, "Big sister is very happy."
"My eldest sister said that Xiaobo and Jiang Feng are both in their mid-twenties, and it's time for them to get married and have children. Some of the children of Xiaobo's age back home are already old enough to help with cooking."
Yu Zhiming chuckled and said, "In my hometown in the countryside, there are indeed some people who get married and have children just after they turn 20."
He thought of something else and said, "Now that Jiang Feng is pregnant, we have to buy a house. It's not good for Jiang Feng to stay in a rental house for the confinement period."
"I wonder how much money that brat made?"
Qing Ning said with a smile, "All the money earned from his decoration company was invested in that real estate mortgage project."
She reached out and patted Yu Zhiming on the shoulder, saying, "Doctor Yu Zhiming, work hard and make money."
"At this stage, you are the big cow of the family, and you need to make great contributions."
Yu Zhiming smiled and said, "Even a house in Binhai is nothing to me. I can earn enough by treating two or three foreigners."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, my husband is the best at making money." Qing Ning walked forward and hugged Yu Zhiming's waist, raising her little face.
"My eldest sister said that if I get pregnant this year, our Yu family will be able to hold three full-month banquets next year."
Yu Zhiming pinched Qing Ning's nose and said, "Don't you want to relax for a year or two?"
"Having a child ties me up, and it's not so convenient to go out and play or do things."
Qing Ning chuckled and said, "My eldest sister said that my parents are still in good health, and she and my second and third sisters will help us take care of the children."
"And my biological mother, she will help too."
Yu Zhiming analyzed, "The situation isn't as optimistic as you think. Fourth brother-in-law doesn't have any close relatives. Fourth sister's child will definitely require more care and attention from her parents."
"Jiang Feng can't rely on her parents either, so her eldest sister has to make more efforts. The second and third sisters not only have to work, but also have to take care of their own two children."
"As for your biological mother, my mother-in-law..."
Yu Zhiming reminded: "Your sister-in-law can't say for sure that she will give birth to triplets, but two or three children is a high probability."
He touched Qing Ning's head and said, "So, anyone who can help us take care of the child next year will be very busy. Our best option is to postpone having children for a year or two."
Qing Ning pursed her lips and snorted, "I think the real reason you don't want a child is because you're afraid of the noise."
Yu Zhiming said half-seriously, "That's partly the reason, but the main reason is that I'm worried you'll be tired."
"Although we can hire a confinement nanny, it is more reassuring to have my own family take care of me."
He put his arm around Qingning's waist again and lowered his head to put his forehead against Qingning's.
"Well, it's getting late. Let's talk about the baby later. Let's practice the birth process first."
Qing Ning nodded hurriedly...
(End of this chapter)
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