This doctor has a system

Chapter 590 653. Patients with pulmonary fibrosis

The patient's name is Gao Zhaodi. One month ago, she was a normal person and never thought that she would end up in this situation.

"My mother said the other day that she felt a little chest tightness after walking too much," Ma Jiande, the son, told Gao Feng. "I took her to the county hospital at that time."

Gao Zhaodi didn't want to go at first. In her mind, an institution like a hospital was an unlucky place, but she couldn't resist her son's patient persuasion.

"Please water my half acre of vegetable garden later." She told her husband before leaving.

Gao Zhaodi lives on the 6th floor of Xinglong New City. She has reclaimed half an acre of vegetable garden in the green belt downstairs, where she grows a lot of things, including cucumbers, onions, spinach, peppers and many other varieties.

Naturally, the neighbors downstairs and the property management disagreed with such an action.

The owner of the first floor is particularly angry. He thinks that the green space downstairs should be occupied by him, and that you, who lives on the eighth floor, are being a bit too much!

The property management was also dissatisfied. The good green plants were destroyed. From a distance, it looked like a big scar. Many people came to complain from time to time.

But all this could not shake Gao Zhaodi's determination to grow vegetables. No matter what anyone said, it was useless. Besides, he had a son who was a director, so over time, everyone turned a blind eye.

Before the owner of this half-acre vegetable garden could return, Gao Zhaodi was hospitalized.

The doctor at the respiratory medicine clinic asked her to take a chest CT scan, who said there were interstitial changes in her lungs and that a further examination was needed.

"I don't think there's any big problem. Why do I need to be hospitalized?" Gao Zhaodi was a little anxious. Hospitalization was not in her plan. She had imagined that the whole thing would just be a check-up, and she would take some medicine and be done with it.

"I don't want to be hospitalized. Many people must have died here. It's so unlucky!" she said to her son.

After all, her son was a highly educated person. He scoffed at her approach and applied for hospitalization on the spot.

When Gao Zhaodi was young, she was a strong person and would not tolerate anyone disobeying her at home. Her son was also a little afraid of her when he was young, but it seems that this fear disappeared after he went to college.

When he became the director, the person with the most say in the family changed completely.

Seeing that her son had completed the hospitalization procedures, Gao Zhaodi helplessly lay down on the hospital bed.

"Auntie, come here, let me take your blood pressure." The nurse said with a smile, "You look so young, you don't look like someone in their 50s at all."

"Really? I'm 58 years old this year." Gao Zhaodi felt a little happy. Time flies. When she was young, she was the recognized beauty in Lou Village.

It was a pity that she was blind and married a useless man. She worked hard for most of her life. Fortunately, her son worked hard and became the director, which made her proud.

"what is this?"

"The oxygen tube is used to breathe oxygen." The nurse explained, "You won't feel chest tightness if you wear it."

This was the first time Gao Zhaodi was hospitalized in her life. She gave birth to her son at home, so it was a bit novel at first, but she soon felt uncomfortable.

"Girl, why am I the only one in this room?" she asked. "I saw that everyone else has a partner."

"Theirs are triple rooms." The nurse said with a smile, "Yours is a single room, most people can't live in it."

"Is that so?" Gao Zhaodi suddenly felt happy.

But she moved out of the single room two days later. The reason was very simple. Her husband was a taciturn person who just sat there all day long. She had no one to talk to and she couldn't stand it.

After moving to a triple room, I immediately found someone to talk to. The old lady in the next bed had chronic bronchitis. We chatted for a while and were surprised to find that she was an old acquaintance.

"Zhaodi, it's such a pity for you." The old lady in the next bed said regretfully, "You were the smartest among us when you were a child, but your father wouldn't let you go to school." This really brought up Gao Zhaodi's sad story. She has four brothers and sisters, two older sisters and one younger brother.

My two elder sisters went to school and there was no one to work at home. My father thought about it and felt that this was not a good idea as the farm work was so busy and we needed someone to help.

So Gao Zhaodi was called back from school before she finished the first grade and went to the fields to herd sheep every day.

People's destiny is not in their own control. When they are young, they can only depend on their parents, who can decide their life to a large extent.

Gao Zhaodi's two older sisters, one graduated from junior high school and the other graduated from high school. In the past, they had lived better than her.

"How is your father's health now?"

"He was gone last year," Gao Zhaodi replied.

"Oh, I'm sorry." The old lady next door was a little embarrassed. "My parents passed away early, and I haven't been back to the village for a long time." She explained hurriedly.

"It's okay. My dad is 88 years old and he didn't suffer when he passed away."

Speaking of her father, Gao Zhaodi had very complicated feelings. Her father always felt guilty about her because he did not let her go to school. He was always cautious and flattering when talking to her.

She is the first person that comes to mind when seeing something in her hand, which is also the reason for her strong personality.

Before he died, the old man stuffed her a small bag containing 5000 yuan.

Gao Zhaodi chatted with the other party for a while, and the latter told her that he would be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.

"By the way, what's your illness?"

"I don't know either. What is fibrosis? It's said to be a lung disease."

Two days later, when Gao Zhaodi could no longer sit still, the attending physician and the department director showed up together.

"Your mother has pulmonary interstitial fibrosis," the department director said to her son. "It's quite troublesome."

Pulmonary fibrosis is a terminal lung change caused by various reasons and characterized by fibroblast proliferation, large amounts of extracellular matrix deposition, and destruction of lung tissue structure.

The main clinical symptoms are dry cough and progressively worsening dyspnea.

The disease is divided into secondary and primary.

It is easy to understand that secondary means the cause can be found, such as allergic pneumonia, certain drugs, radiation, high-concentration oxygen therapy, connective tissue diseases, vasculitis, and some people have genetic factors: for example, familial idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Primary refers to a chronic progressive pulmonary fibrosis disease with unknown etiology, whose chest imaging and histopathological manifestations are common interstitial pneumonia, also known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Secondary pulmonary fibrosis is more effectively treated, and the symptoms of most patients can be quickly relieved or no longer worsen after causal treatment.

But the situation is more tragic for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Due to unknown causes, they usually cannot receive effective treatment.

"Your mother's condition is currently considered to be idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis," the director said. "But don't be too depressed. You can start taking pirfenidone and we'll observe the efficacy."

"But I need to tell you that her condition is likely to progress rapidly, and she will have obvious breathing difficulties and may even be unable to get out of bed and need oxygen support."

"Is it so serious?" Gao Zhaodi's son was a little overwhelmed and silent for a while. He asked the doctor not to tell his mother the truth for the time being.

(End of this chapter)