In pediatrics, this disease has a very poor prognosis, so it’s no wonder Immortal Brother is focusing on this patient.
The academic language spoken by doctors is something family members can only partially understand. However, when doctors speak plainly, the family can definitely comprehend.
What Mother Zhuxing heard was that her son is about to die, and to save him, there is no medication or surgery possible, unless a new heart is available to extend her son’s life.
Where can she find a new heart for her son?
Cao Zhao said, "We will quickly report his current situation to our colleagues responsible for liaising with organ donation organizations at our hospital. Once a donor becomes available, they will notify us, and we will try to prioritize him for the transplant."
"This, is it difficult to wait for—" Mother Zhuxing asked the doctor with trembling voice.
"Yes."
The doctor could not lie about this. The demand and supply of donor organs worldwide are imbalanced, and most patients belong to the majority who cannot wait indefinitely.
Mother Zhuxing’s hands moved frantically like a hurricane.
Several medical staff rushed forward to help her with the cup, fearing that the water might spill and burn her body.
After Xie Wanying took the cup from the patient’s family member’s hand, she pulled out a tissue to help Mother Zhuxing dry her hands.
Mother Zhuxing suddenly shook off her hand, stood up emotionally, and said to the attending physician, "Dr. Cao, how about giving my heart to my son—"
The heart is not like the liver or kidneys. For liver or small intestine transplants, a healthy person can donate a portion to a relative because the liver can regenerate after a part is removed, and the intestine is long enough to compensate. Each person has two kidneys, and losing one can be compensated by the other. Only the heart, which each person has only one of, cannot be spared.
Removing a healthy person’s heart would also result in their death. Doctors can’t do something that kills. This is why heart transplants are far more difficult than liver, kidney, or small intestine transplants and why donors are hard to find.
A mother might be willing to give up her life to save her child, but doctors will not allow it.
"Auntie." Xie Wanying pressed the shoulder of the child’s mother with one hand and tightly held her hand with the other, saying, "Don’t worry, you will get through this."
Cao Zhao also assured, "We will do our best to support him until a new heart becomes available."
"Is it possible to wait?" Mother Zhuxing asked while feeling like she could not wait any longer.
"Yes. Auntie. There are many advanced medical means now that can help patients through the most difficult periods while waiting for a heart transplant. For example, when necessary, we can help Zhu Xing by implanting an assistive device into his Left Ventricle, or even both ventricles, allowing machines to help his heart pump blood and substitute for his heart’s function so he can continue to wait for a suitable heart to become available for transplant," Xie Wanying said.
Mother Zhuxing turned her head and stared at her intently.
Xie Wanying nodded to the patient’s family.
Mother Zhuxing calmed down. As said before, what the family wants is not the empty comforting words of doctors but the useful technological assurances.
The students succeeded in comforting the family in his place, so Cao Zhao didn’t need to say more.
Doctor Cheng Yuchen called PICU, while Duan Sanbao wrote medical orders to transfer the child to the intensive care unit.
All along, Wei Shangquan held the child’s hand, accompanying him in the transfer process, while internally cursing that devil Cao for using him as a hook to cheat kids into living, being honest to a somewhat "excessive" degree.
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