start with a pet store

Chapter 1066 Preconceptions
Xiao Liu was immediately eager to try it out. He took the scalpel and started working without any hesitation.

None of the three spoke. The entire operating room was so quiet that only the beeping of the machines could be heard.

Lu Jingxing was afraid that talking would distract Xiao Liu, while Situ Fang was a little nervous. Although he did not do it himself, he was inexplicably nervous.

Afterwards, he even looked down on himself. It was just a minor operation, and he had been on the battlefield before, so what was the big deal?

But at this moment he did not have such a high level of awareness.

"What is this..." Xiao Liu suddenly shouted.

Lu Jingxing also stretched out his hand, and in the middle of Xiao Liu's opened abdominal cavity, they both saw a mass of white object with flesh and blood.

"This is it..." After finding the culprit, Lu Jingxing couldn't help but speak out.

"What is this? How come this is here?" Situ Fang didn't react.

"Gauze? It should be gauze..."

During the ultrasound examination, Lu Jingxing had already guessed that the foreign body should be related to the little guy's last surgery, because the location was wrong, outside the intestine and in the abdominal cavity. If it was not a cyst, then it could only be something brought in by the surgery.

But he wasn't sure what the object was until he saw it in person.

So, when he saw the real thing, although he was mentally prepared, he was still a little shocked. After all, according to the owner, this thing had been in the little guy's belly for at least a year.

That's why this little guy is so thin. No one can understand how much pain it has gone through this year.

"Damn, that's a total medical malpractice." Situ Fang couldn't help but shout.

"I have heard that there are cases where doctors forget to leave gauze in the abdominal cavity or even the uterus during surgery. But this is a kitten. How big is the abdominal cavity? How could such a large ball of gauze leak in the belly?" Xiao Liu was also stunned.

Lu Jingxing shook his head. It is easy to enter this industry, but it is also very difficult to master it.

However, there are inevitably some people who do not have very good skills and just enter the pet shop industry because they think they can make money. They dare to perform surgery after learning some skills.

He also felt a little powerless.

But he couldn't just start cursing like Situ Fang did, because maybe the video of removing the foreign object would have to be given to the little guy's owner.

Whether it was a hospital accident or not, he needs to find someone to identify it.

Although, in their opinion this was a clear case of medical malpractice, they were not an appraisal agency and could not say such things.

Lu Jingxing stopped Situ Fang from complaining again: "After taking it out, give it a good anti-inflammatory treatment, and its problem should be solvable..."

So, the operation was relatively successful, at least the foreign body was removed successfully.

Situ Fang helped to sterilize the little guy, and Lu Jingxing walked out of the operating room early.

When he came out of the operating room, the owner and his wife came to greet him immediately. Especially the little guy's mother, when she saw the lights in the operating room were on, she stood up immediately and asked, "How is it, how is it, doctor, was the operation successful? Did you find the foreign body?"

Lu Jingxing looked at the tray in his hand and nodded: "Yes, I found it, this is it..."

Then he glanced at the people coming and going in the corridor and said, "Come to my office."

The host immediately agreed to follow him to his office. Lu Jingxing asked the two of them to sit down first, poured them a glass of water, and then sat down himself.

"This is the foreign object we took out..."

"What is this?" the hostess asked with a frown, looking at the mass of flesh and blood.

"It should be a piece of gauze..." There was nothing to hide. The fact was that it was a piece of gauze, so Lu Jingxing chose to tell the truth.

The two owners looked at each other, and both saw the surprise in each other's eyes: "Gauze? Doctor, you said this is gauze?"

Lu Jingxing nodded and confirmed again: "Yes, it is a piece of medical gauze. As for how it got in, I have to ask you. Have you ever done any other surgery on it before..."

"The surgery was only the difficult delivery surgery a year ago. We performed a caesarean section on it. We did it in Hangzhou. I was working there at the time, and we found a pet shop nearby..." The man said, looking at his wife.

The hostess nodded, "Yes, that was the only time he had an operation. Our little Di has always been in good health. He never caught a cold when he was little. We almost never took him to the hospital. Is this gauze? Oh my God, does that mean this gauze has been in his stomach for at least a year?"

She looked at her husband in disbelief, then at Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing nodded helplessly: "If you can confirm that it has not undergone any other surgery since then, then it means that yes, this piece of gauze has been in its stomach for a year."

"Oh my God, how has it been this year? It can't speak, it doesn't even tell us when it's in pain. Sometimes it sticks up to us and we think it misses us, but actually it's because it's in too much pain, right?" The hostess couldn't help but shed tears when she thought of this.

"Okay, okay, the doctor said that as long as it is removed through surgery, it will be fine and it won't hurt anymore." The man patted his lover's shoulder gently and comforted her softly.

The hostess was sad for a while, and suddenly looked up: "I will go find them, find the original hospital. What they have done is a medical malpractice, an obvious medical malpractice..." She said it with certainty.

Lu Jingxing held his forehead with his hand. You can't blame him for betraying his colleagues. He couldn't save them either. That was the fact.

Therefore, he did not say anything at this time. It was up to the two owners whether to look for them or not. His task was to complete the operation and make the little guy recover.

"Doctor, can you give us this gauze? Also, when you perform the operation just now, do you usually record it on video? Can you give us that, too?" The hostess made up her mind, but then thought of a solution.

Lu Jingxing nodded: "Of course, we can provide these to you, but the video is silent, you can only see the picture."

"Okay, as long as there is a video, the rest is our own business. We won't bother you." The hostess nodded. They were already helping by being willing to record the operation for her. As for the rest, they could only watch it themselves.

"It's been more than a year. The pet shop wasn't very big at that time. I wonder if it's still there now." The male owner said somewhat worriedly.

"Let's talk about this later. Let's go and see Xiaodi first. By the way, doctor, how long will it take for Xiaodi to come out?" The hostess already had a solution in her mind, so she stopped worrying about this issue and looked at Lu Jingxing again.

Just then, Ding Fang brought another customer. Lu Jingxing nodded to Xiaodi's owner and said, "It will be out soon. Let our front desk take you to the observation room. It may not wake up completely from the anesthesia that quickly."

The two of them immediately stood up while saying thank you. Lu Jingxing put the gauze in a small transparent box and handed it to them: "Here, this is for you."

The two thanked him again. As the hostess left, she whispered, "I told you last time that small pet shops are unreliable, but you didn't believe me. Look, the doctors here are so good. I will never listen to you again. How much money was wasted and how much suffering Xiaodi has endured."

"Ah, yes, yes, I'll listen to you from now on..." The host replied and nodded to the new customer who came in.

Lu Jingxing stood up and raised his hand to greet the new customer: "Hello, please take a seat..."

He saw that the new customer didn't bring a pet, so he sat down and asked, "How can I help you?"

The new customer was a woman in her thirties, wearing a suit. She must have just got back from get off work and was passing by, or just stopping by.

"It's like this, doctor. I want to ask about the condition of my kitten. I want to ask if its condition can be cured..." The woman took out her cell phone, searched for a few seconds and found the photo, then handed it to Lu Jingxing.

Lu Jingxing answered her phone and asked, "What's wrong?"

"My little cat has been coughing and sneezing all the time. It's been more than a year since I bought it, but it has never gotten better..." The hostess herself had a stuffy nose, and her voice echoed.

"Well, have you seen it before?" Lu Jingxing looked at the photo on her phone. It was just a photo of a cat. He thought she wanted to show him some kind of examination photo...

"I have seen it. I'm not from here. I'm on a business trip here. I have seen it locally. Our local doctor checked and said it was calicivirus..." said the hostess.

"Calivirus? Are you sure? It's not some herpes virus, mycoplasma or something, right?" Lu Jingxing held a pen in one hand, put her phone on the table, and unconsciously turned the pen in his hand gently.

"Well, that's what they said, it's the calicivirus..." The hostess stood up and flipped through the pictures on her phone: "This is the result of the examination at that time, take a look..."

Lu Jingxing picked up the phone again: "Well, it seems that this result is indeed only the calicivirus..."

"Yes, that's what they said too. They said it's an incurable disease and cannot be cured at all. But this is the first animal I gave to my daughter. It's been sick every other day, and my daughter loves it to death. I'm in a dilemma. If I leave it alone, I can't bear it. But I heard that you are very good. Do you have any medicine to treat calicivirus?" asked the hostess.

Lu Jingxing returned to the previous photo and clicked on a video of a kitten between the two photos to watch.

Then, he returned the phone to the other person and sat slightly crooked in the office chair.

"Well, doctor, can it be cured? Do you have any medicine to treat calicivirus?" Seeing that Lu Jingxing didn't speak, the hostess asked again.

"Ahem..." Lu Jingxing took a deep breath, "Well, no, we haven't developed a drug to treat calicivirus yet..."

"Oh..." The woman sighed heavily with disappointment.

“However, I don’t think your little cat has calicivirus…” Lu Jingxing said with certainty.

"Ah? No, how is that possible? I've visited several pet shops and they all said it was calicivirus..." The hostess raised her head abruptly when she heard this and said in disbelief.

"When did you buy your kitten? How old was it?" Lu Jingxing asked.

"It was probably just one month old when I bought it, and it's been more than a year now..." the hostess said after thinking for a while.

Lu Jingxing leaned forward to his desk and gestured with the hand that didn't hold the pen: "You said that when it was young, it sneezed, had a runny nose, and tears, so it might be calicivirus. But the symptoms you mentioned later, including the short video I just watched, it's unlikely that it was calicivirus."

"Well...well...I checked online and it said yes. Moreover, I also went to several local pet stores and they also said yes..." The hostess looked at Lu Jingxing in confusion.

Lu Jingxing chuckled: "Do you always do the same thing as you told me today, showing the test results to the local doctor first, and then telling the doctor that my kitten has calicivirus?"

"Ah?" The woman didn't understand for a moment, and then said embarrassedly: "It seems so..."

"So, others may be somewhat influenced by you. Let me tell you this: Calicivirus is indeed a very complicated disease. Many people cannot prevent this disease even after vaccinating their kittens. Why? Calicivirus has many types and many symptoms...

When a kitten is infected, it may have sneezing, runny nose, drooling, or even inability to eat or a sore tongue. Does it have all these symptoms? "

The hostess shook her head: "It's just sneezing, runny nose, and coughing..."

"Calivirus also causes persistent high fever, and the most obvious symptom is lameness. One leg may be lame, or the other legs may be lame alternately, right?" Lu Jingxing also looked at the hostess.

"No, no..." This time the hostess answered very straightforwardly.

"When the little guy was tested, did he show any signs of anemia, jaundice, or low platelets?" Lu Jingxing continued to ask.

"I don't remember those. It seems that I didn't have them. The doctor didn't seem to tell me about them..." The hostess replied in confusion.

"Hey, the symptoms I just told you are all the symptoms of calicivirus..." He summarized it again, and told the woman all the symptoms one by one: "From mild to severe, these are all the symptoms of calicivirus. What I said are all acute calicivirus infections...

There is also a mild type, which may not even have any symptoms, or may only occur once, with sneezing, runny nose, and occasional coughing. It is very rare for this disease to cause coughing, because it generally does not attack the lower respiratory tract, but only the upper respiratory tract and eyes. In most cases, if you can eat and drink, or are fine within a month, you will generally be fine. Some people will be fine in about seventy-five days.

Of course, a large number of cats will carry the disease for life, but this type of cat generally has no symptoms. It may infect other cats, but it will not show any other symptoms itself...

(End of this chapter)