I sat in his office and pinched my thighs with my hands several times because I really couldn't believe that I was in reality at this moment.
Liver cancer! And there is more than one lump in my father’s liver! I could see clearly just now that one of the lumps has infiltrated to the edge of the liver capsule. This can explain the cause of the pain in my father’s liver area. The liver capsule has a very sensitive
Nerves, when cancer infiltrates there, severe pain will inevitably occur. And as the infiltration of cancer cells worsens, the severe pain will develop to an unbearable level. Some people have said that such pain is like repeated over and over again.
It's like entering hell.
Regarding the causes of liver cancer, the following are currently known: one is viral hepatitis. Among the known hepatitis viruses, except hepatitis A virus, they can all be said to be the formation factors of liver cancer. Hepatitis B virus
Persistent infection with hepatitis C virus leads to chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis, and some patients develop liver cancer on this basis. Among them, chronic hepatitis B virus infection increases the risk of liver cancer by two hundred times; the second is eating Aspergillus aflatoxin and its molds
Foods contaminated with toxins. Aflatoxin has a strong effect on causing liver cancer. Foods prone to mildew include rice, wheat, soybeans, peanuts, corn, rapeseed oil, etc. The third is water source pollution. Polluted water has been found so far.
There are more than a hundred carcinogens or carcinogenic substances. Drinking water, especially ditch and pond water, is often contaminated by organic carcinogens such as hexachlorobenzene, benzopyrene, polychlorinated biphenyls, etc. The fourth is drinking alcohol. Chronic alcoholism is also a cause of liver cancer.
One of the forming factors.
My father likes to drink, and he likes to drink with peanuts. I have seen him doing this often since he was a child. However, in my impression, my father does not seem to have suffered from hepatitis. However, I believe that the cause of liver cancer is a combination of multiple factors.
result.
At this time, it is meaningless to explore the cause of my father's disease. Doctors study the cause in order to prevent it from happening to people who are still healthy. Judging from the current situation, my father's condition has reached a very serious level. At present,
There is no effective treatment for his situation in the world, and liver transplantation is not an option, because I have noticed that there is a cancerous mass near the portal of his liver.
The porta hepatis is where the hepatic artery, hepatic vein and common bile duct are located, so no surgery can be performed there.
The liver is a very, very important organ in the human body. Its function and function is to detoxify. Everything we eat every day is poisonous. If it directly enters other organs in the body, it will cause death immediately, and it is
The detoxification function of the liver is what makes various foods turn into nutritious substances, making our bodies healthy. Judging from my father's current condition, it is inevitable that his liver function is impaired, but it does not seem to be special.
Serious. But it’s hard to tell what will happen next. According to the progression of the disease, jaundice, ascites, increasingly severe pain, and metastasis to the whole body will appear.
Nowadays, there is one thing that cannot be predicted, and that is the speed or slowness of the course of the disease. Just now, I suddenly remembered my father’s worry and fear. He said to me: Many people are actually affected by some kind of disease.
The disease scares me to death.
Therefore, the first thing that comes to my mind is this question: How can we prolong his life as much as possible without making him feel fear and pain when it is impossible to have effective treatment for his disease?
Therefore, I think the only way at the moment is to hide the illness from him, and it is best not to let my mother know about it for the time being, because I am worried that my mother's abnormal mood will cause my father to be suspicious of his illness. I would like to solve the problem of pain.
I don’t think it’s difficult, because I believe I can get Pethidine from regular channels. But there is a problem: if my father often suffers from pain in the liver area and injects Pethidine frequently, wouldn’t he also be suspicious?
Your own illness?
The only way is... I suddenly thought of a way. Although this method may be a little difficult to do, I feel that no matter how difficult it is, I must do it.
I used to be a doctor, so although I would have the same shock, panic, and apocalyptic feeling as other patients and family members when I first learned about my father’s condition, after all, I had seen so many lives and deaths, and I had also experienced——
More than one person around me has left this world in different ways. Therefore, I can wake up quickly and immediately think of the most appropriate solution at the moment.
Except for the results of several blood tests that had not yet come out, the results of other examinations were all placed in front of me. I looked at my father's test sheets carefully again and found that in addition to serious liver problems, he had other
It is relatively normal, and no signs of metastasis have been found so far. However, the scans of my father's liver that I have now have been replaced and are normal, including the final conclusion.
Next, I went to see my mother's examination results. Her physical condition was very good, and she had almost no problems except for a slight increase in blood lipids.
I said goodbye to the director of the physical examination center and thanked him at the same time, "Please tell Dean Zhu about the situation. I really am not in the mood to stay and drink with him now."
He nodded, "Understood."
I walked towards the outside of his office, and at the same time I felt that my legs were limp and seemed to have little strength. At this time, I suddenly thought of a question: How should I explain to my father the pain in his liver area later?
When I went to the lobby of the physical examination center, I found that my father and mother were already waiting there. When my mother saw me, she hurried over and asked me: "How is it? Have the examination results come out?"
My father stood there without moving, but he was looking at me. I felt the tension and fear in his heart.
I raised the paper bag in my hand and said, "No problem, it's all normal."
Then my father walked over to me quickly and said, "Let me tell you, there is nothing wrong with my body. But recently I have been feeling severe pain under my right ribs. What is the reason? Do I need some medicine?"
I smiled and said: "It's okay. I guess you have had a mild cold recently, which may be a manifestation of stress pleurisy. I have also had such a situation before. In the case of a mild cold, the intercostal nerves in the chest appeared.
It hurts, and sometimes the pain is unbearable, especially when I inhale, the pain is even worse."
The situation I mentioned is true, but the location of the intercostal neuralgia caused by stress pleurisy caused by a mild cold is different from the location of my father's current pain.
My father said, "That's it. Then it'll be fine."
I felt slightly relieved and then looked at the time and said, "Dad, Mom, let's eat out at noon. There is a seafood restaurant nearby. I'm very hungry."
But the mother immediately said: "The child is still at home, let's go back to eat. It's also time to taste the food cooked by the new nanny at home."
I pretended to have something going on, but I didn't want them to suspect it, so I didn't say anything more.
I went home and had lunch. My parents kept praising the nanny for her cooking, but I felt like I was chewing wax and couldn't feel the taste of the food in my mouth.
Several times I was ready to ask my father if he needed a break or if he needed to go on a trip recently, but I never dared to ask. Now I find that I have become more sensitive than anyone else, but I have to be careful.
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After dinner, I said I was going to work, and my father said he would also go to the office in the afternoon. But I still persuaded him, "Dad, you still have to pay attention to rest and don't make yourself so tired."
He smiled and said: "It's okay, I like this feeling of being busy."
I sighed in my heart, and then asked him casually, "Dad, do you still have cigarettes at home?"
He looked at me and smiled, "You have a lot of rotten cigarettes, right? Bring me a few. Now I have figured it out. In your situation, it's okay to accept some cigarettes and alcohol from others. Fishes don't grow in clear water ponds, and occasionally
Accepting something from others is also a normal form of interpersonal communication.”
I immediately laughed and said, "Have you finally figured it out? Well, I'll bring you some good cigarettes when I come back in the evening. If I'm very busy today, I'll bring them back tomorrow."
The father smiled and said: "It's okay, there is one more thing to do. These two days are enough."
I immediately went out. When I left home, the child called me happily twice, and I just kissed the child lightly on the face, and then left with a sad heart.
When I got outside my home and drove out of the community, I realized that my face was covered with tears.
As human beings, birth, old age, illness and death are certainly a natural law, but if such a thing happens to the people around you, it can only make people feel endless and heartbreaking pain.
I originally thought that I would become numb after experiencing the deaths of Zhao Menglei, Chen Yuan, and several other people close to me, but now I find that the pain in my heart is still so clear, still
So unbearable.
I called Tong Yao and told her that I had something very urgent and important that I wanted to talk to her about. She immediately made an appointment to meet me in a teahouse.
After we met, I couldn't help but start crying. She immediately panicked and hurriedly asked me what happened. After a brief period of calm, I began to tell her about my father's condition.
"How could this happen? Is this the final diagnosis?" She was also shocked and asked me hurriedly.
I shook my head and said: "Now he has constant pain in the liver area, and I can clearly see in his MRI picture that there are several lumps. Judging from the size and texture of the lumps, it can only be like that. I
I used to be a doctor, and the opinions of the experts in the hospital are very clear."
She looked at me, "Feng Xiao, the situation is already like this, then you should ask your father to be hospitalized as soon as possible... By the way, why did you come to me? Do you need me to help you?
But you yourself used to be a doctor? Oh, by the way, do you want me to help you find some folk remedy to treat your father's illness?"
I shook my head, "Tong Yao, my father's condition is already like this. If he is hospitalized, he will definitely be frightened. Moreover, any treatment for his condition will not be very effective. All he can do is to treat his condition."
The disease develops faster, so I don't want him to know about it. Now I have changed all his test results to normal. I think maybe this can make his life last longer, and it won't
It will make him feel scared. But there is one problem that I cannot solve at the moment, and that is the pain in his liver area. You may not know that patients with liver cancer often die from pain, and the pain is simply unbearable for a person.
Yes. Today I saw that there was a mass in his liver near the liver capsule, but the infiltration into the liver capsule was not particularly serious, so his current pain is bearable for the time being, but I am worried that this situation will continue
It won’t be long. So, I want to ask you to do me a favor and help me find something to help him relieve the pain without knowing what’s going on.”
She looked at me doubtfully, "What do you need? Just tell me, as long as I can do it, I'll do it."
I looked at her and said softly to her: "Drugs." (To be continued)