Soul to the Rhine

Chapter 93 Surgery
Rosia trembled outside the door, and she hurried in. Dr. Jim was standing in front of the desk, his beard trembling, pointing angrily at the door. A nurse in the room was almost frightened by him and could not stand still. .

"Why are you still standing there? Hurry up and get ready."

"Okay, okay..." The nurse shook her legs and ran out holding the medical record.Rosia didn't dare to touch his edge and could only look at him silently.

Jim patted his forehead and came over: "Doctor Luo, there is a German officer today who is seriously injured. I may need you to be the first assistant. I hope you will not hold any prejudices because he is a German."

Rosia froze for a moment, then shook her head: "No, when is the operation?"

She was in Poland, in Calais, and later at the Army Hospital. She was not treating wounds on Germans any day. If she had to be in the mood, she would have to wait until now.

"In 10 minutes, go get ready." Dr. Jim seemed a little tired, and after speaking, he opened the door and went out.

So urgent?It seemed that the German officer was seriously injured.

Rosia followed him towards the surgery.The two of them were walking in the corridor one after another. When they were near the end, a man suddenly came up from the stairs, dressed in black, with the indelible smell of blood and gunpowder smoke.

"Don't you have a doctor arranged yet?" the man said sternly, a murderous aura spreading out, and even his right hand was placed on the holster on his waist.

Dr. Jim frowned, but did not lose his temper. He explained: "This operation will be performed by me and assisted by Dr. Luo. It will start in 10 minutes. Please calm down. In addition, your health seems to be a little bad. It's best." Go downstairs and check."

"Stop talking so much nonsense, save people quickly." The man didn't appreciate it, it seemed that he was very angry before, and even his voice changed a little.

He took another step forward, and only then did Rosia see who this person was.

"You, you...Heinrich..."

His voice became a little loud, so much so that she didn't hear it just now.

Rosia was dumbfounded. She glanced up and down at Heinrich. He looked like he had just returned from the battlefield.He was wearing the black uniform of the Waffen SS. So, the Nazi officer the nurse mentioned before was him. So, the seriously injured officer...

She suddenly had a bad feeling.

Heinrich frowned, glanced at her, then at Jim in front of him, with a stern expression: "Rosia, since it's your operation, you give me..."

Halfway through his words, he suddenly stopped, calmed down, and then said solemnly: "The person inside is Werner."

boom!
Rosia was stunned for a moment.

Dr. Jim had already decided on the time for the operation and went directly to the operating room without giving her any time to react.She followed in a daze, and when she turned the corner, she subconsciously glanced back at Heinrich and saw him standing at the top of the stairs, looking over here, with his left hand hanging at an abnormal arc.

Only then did Rosia have a vague consciousness. Was his hand broken?
The officer was covered in blood but not injured... It seemed that he was also seriously injured, but he couldn't tell clearly.

Everything has been prepared in the operating room, and the wounded have been delivered, waiting for them to come.

Vitti was still the instrument nurse for this operation. She had a good relationship with Rosia, so she immediately discovered the abnormality.

"Sia, are you okay?"

After hearing this, Jim looked back at her and told her seriously: "Doctor Luo, please adjust your condition as soon as possible. Your mood swings are likely to cause changes in this officer's vital characteristics. If not, call John over. You Trade with him."

Rosia trembled and suddenly came to her senses. She had already put on a green surgical gown and was standing in the operating room. She was now a doctor, not a family member of the injured.

She quickly adjusted her emotions, suppressed all the distracting thoughts and the surging sadness, and her expression returned to normal.Dr. Jim glanced at her approvingly, turned around, nodded slightly, and several doctors quickly took their place.

"What's the matter?"

"There is a penetrating injury to the heart. I have taken out the bullet, and there is still a shrapnel in the mouth of the left ventricle. It is a cardiac tamponade type." Another doctor calmly pointed to the heart: "I have given oxygen, blood transfusions and antibiotics before. Shock treatment. However, his injury is too serious, and pericardiocentesis or subxiphoid pericardial window may first be used to reduce the pressure in the pericardial cavity to buy time for anesthesia and surgery."

He glanced at Rosia: "This Dr. Luo is the most powerful."

Jim also looked over, and Rosia took a deep breath. She understood why Jim wanted her to be his first assistant.She will do a good job, she has never failed since she became a doctor, she has never failed.The person on the bed is just an ordinary patient.

She recited it silently in her mind several times, and her tumbling emotions stabilized again.Vitti handed over the equipment, and there was nothing unusual about her movements. It seemed that, except for her heart, nothing was different.

Dr. Jim did the initial cleaning and anesthesia started.Rosia tried to calm down and concentrated on performing pericardiocentesis.

Not long after, a nurse said: "The blood pressure is dropping rapidly."

Dr. Jim immediately replied: "Establish intravenous access and make sure he doesn't go into shock."

"Got it." The nurse quickly took countermeasures and increased the pressure and infusion.

"Okay, here, I see shrapnel."

Dr. Jim closed his eyes and took a step forward: "Be careful. Once infected, it will be dangerous."

The surging blood was constantly irritating everyone's eyes. Injury to the left ventricle was very difficult. Even if Dr. Jim was the most authoritative doctor in the hospital's thoracic surgery department, he could not guarantee success without modern advanced medical equipment.Rosia looked at the blood in her chest and felt that she had never been tortured like this time before. The severe injuries and fluctuating emotions made her want to escape from the operating room.She kept blinking, and the time for her emotional stability became shorter and shorter.

After several failed attempts, Dr. Jim tried again and finally took out the shrapnel.

"Quick, blood transfusion."

The blood pressure suddenly rose to the equilibrium value again. Doctor Jim was already covered in sweat, and the nurse behind him hurriedly wiped it off for him.

"Doctor Luo, heart repair."

"Okay." She took a breath, took the handed instrument, and bent down.

Little by little, it seemed to be going smoothly. For a long time, the only sound in the operating room was the sound of the heart meter.Rosia's neck was sore, her eyes were sore, everything was sore. The nurse behind her wiped the sweat from her forehead again and again, and it came out again and again.

She didn't finish this step until she felt like she couldn't hold on any longer. At this time, the fingers of her right hand were already numb. If it took a while, she wouldn't be able to hold on at all.

Dr. Jim breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, I'll sew it up."

At this time, the operation is not over. Many complications or sudden symptoms may occur later, and the most serious one is infection.There were no antibiotics during this period, and infection was the biggest killer.

The surgery went smoothly until the end.But no one dared to relax. After the wound was sutured, the person was immediately transferred to the intensive care unit.Before the person wakes up, there is still a high probability that his injuries will kill him.

Except for Dr. Jim, who had just met Heinrich, no one else knew about her relationship with Werner. Even Dr. Jim only guessed that they knew each other.This operation lasted nearly six hours, and the other doctors and nurses were too tired to stand up.Rosia barely held on, and glanced at Werner's face outside the intensive care unit.

His face was bruised, his eyes were closed, and his platinum blond hair lay softly on his forehead, looking like a sleeping angel.

In front of Rosia's eyes, there was still blood gushing from the surgery just now.She thought of the gunshot wound on his chest and the wound in his left ventricle that she had repaired, and she suddenly wanted to cry, but in fact her tears were already flowing.

The bullet is in the heart, and the cold and cruel metal is in the warmest place of the person. What kind of pain should it be? It must be very painful, it must be very painful.

She leaned against the glass outside and kept crying. She didn't know why, she just cried.Several nurses passing by looked at her sympathetically, thinking that she had suffered a huge blow during the operation, and her fatigue caused her to cry uncontrollably.But in fact, she really couldn't control it.

Belgium, Bastogne, etc., that was just his starting point.It was ridiculous that she thought he would stay there forever.In the Soviet Union, the Battle of Stalingrad began. He fought desperately for Germany, how could he not go to the Soviet Union.

Rosia's body was frozen when she was outside the door. Her hand was so painful that she couldn't lift it to wipe her tears. At this moment, a hand suddenly pulled her over from behind, so hard that she almost lost her balance.

"Why are you crying? Werner is not dead. Didn't that bearded man say that the operation was successful?"

Through her hazy tearful eyes, she vaguely saw Heinrich. His face was ferocious that she had not seen for a long time, and his tone was also ferocious, but Rosia felt a strange peace of mind inexplicably.

"You, you, you... What, when..." She wanted to speak, but she kept hiccupping, as if she was about to recite it.

Heinrich let go of his hand in disgust: "It's worthless."

"You, you...well, you can do it!" Rosia retorted without any momentum.

Heinrich took a step back, put his left hand behind his back, looked at her face carefully, and ordered: "Since you are here, Werner will be left to you from now on."

"Hey, no!" Rosia waved her hand.

"You don't want to?" His expression immediately turned cold.

"No, no, I'm a doctor, no, a nurse." She may still be a little good at surgery, but in terms of nursing, she is really not as good as a professional nurse.

Heinrich was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about the credibility of her words. After a while, just when Rosia thought he was about to compromise: "Okay, you can come here for two or three hours every day."

"..."

Didn't she just enter the intensive care unit casually, and let her stand outside the glass for two or three hours?

Heinrich seemed to have been standing here for a long time. Although he behaved normally and his steps were steady, the dark blue under his eyes still showed his fatigue.

"Well, you, did you go down to see the injury?" Rosia carefully glanced at him, as if he could see some dried and invisible blood on the clothes.

Heinrich looked at her condescendingly, his eyes were very contemptuous, he snorted and said arrogantly: "Am I such a weak person?"

"...Yes, you are the most powerful." This arrogant guy.

Heinrich snorted again, put his left hand behind his back, and walked forward in a very aristocratic manner. Rosia looked behind him, a little worried that his hand would become useless if he dragged it any longer, but looking at his gesture My face looks flat, so forget it.

There were two Nazi officers standing downstairs, one was Dick and the other was unknown to her. They were both looking for Heinrich.She wanted to go back to the backyard to see Pino, and the two naturally parted ways.

It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon. The operation took too long and she hadn't eaten at noon. Normally she would have been hungry, but now she was confused, tired, sleepy, and in no mood, so she naturally skipped meals.

Pino had already received intravenous fluids, his fever had subsided a little, and he woke up once at noon.However, due to tonsillitis, he had no appetite at all. With Aunt Mesa's coaxing, he managed to eat a little porridge and snacks, and then fell asleep again.

Aunt Mesa was sitting on the chair provided for the caregiver in the ward. When she saw her coming, she hurriedly asked: "Why are you here? Have you eaten?"

Before she could speak, she stood up again and asked in surprise: "What's wrong with your face? It's so swollen? Are your eyes swollen too?"

Rosia raised her hand and touched her face, as if it was really swollen, but she was not in the mood to care about these trivial matters now.Aunt Meisha should know about Werner, but she thinks it's best not to talk about it now.

"I'm fine. I had an operation today and it just ended. I'm tired."

Aunt Mesa breathed a sigh of relief, but felt a little distressed, and suddenly thought: "It's just over, you haven't eaten yet, and he hasn't eaten any of the food I brought for Pino. It's a bit cold, so you can make do with it first."

Rosia nodded without refusing.Although she was not in the mood, she hadn't eaten anything all day, and she might be a bit overwhelmed when she went to see Werner's situation in the evening.

There are two layers of lunch boxes on the bedside table. There are snacks and sandwiches on the top, and two kinds of porridge on the bottom. Although it is a bit cold, it is more than August, so it is just right to drink cold.

After eating something simple, Rosia started to have a headache, which was a normal reaction after the operation and crying.She had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she lay down on another bed in the ward for a while. She originally thought she would just sleep for a while, but she didn't know that it was already midnight when she woke up.She was covered with half a quilt. Aunt Mesa was leaning on Pino's hospital bed not far away, and she also had a quilt on her body.

She looked at the moonlight outside the window and suddenly felt helpless. She couldn't run out in the middle of the night, so she had to lie back and sleep.

The next day, she woke up early, ran to the hospital cafeteria to eat something, and then climbed upstairs. Before she reached Werner's ward, she heard Heinrich's angry roar: "Didn't he say everything was fine? , aren’t we out of danger already, you useless idiots!”

This was accompanied by the sound of the pistol's safety being released.

Rosia was at the corner, and suddenly her heart skipped a beat.

　The backstage was so crazy that I couldn’t get out of my hair!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)