The Guardian of Unseen Dreams Chapter 7

One who can't hear, and one who can't speak.

The young man looked at Nathan Tao and didn't understand why he hired these two people in the store.

After changing the needle, Nathan Tao said to him, "Eat your meal first. I'll go downstairs to eat too. Call them if you need anything."

"Ah." The other party nodded.

Huang Yida saw him enter the kitchen and served him a bowl of rice.

Nathan Tao said: "Serve in a big bowl and put the dishes directly on it."

Huang Yida changed his plate to a round one and said, "Eat slowly, why are you in such a hurry?"

Nathan Tao ate quickly while working, and basically finished in a few minutes. He found a stool in the corner, sat there and ate quickly, then picked up an apple and went upstairs while chewing it.

"Brother Dong's eating style is scary." said a worker nearby.

"He's anxious." Huang Yida also finished eating and started to use his big teacup to make tea. "He has been like this since I met him. He is always under pressure."

Nathan Tao has indeed always been like this. As long as he has unfinished work, he eats like this. He is used to it.

Huang Yida went out in the afternoon to discuss business with a partner. When he came back, Nathan Tao was still working. The young man might have been numb from the pain or too tired, so he fell asleep.

Huang Yida moved a stool over and sat next to Nathan Tao, and asked him: "Are we still going to invest in the second phase of the medical aid we mentioned earlier?"

Nathan Tao tilted his head towards him: "Which one?"

Huang Yida said: "The one from the Third Hospital."

"Vote." Nathan Tao said without thinking, "I have to vote."

"Okay." Huang Yida nodded.

Nathan Tao lowered his head while drawing a picture and said, "I'll use my own account."

Huang Yida said, "What Bullsh!t are you talking about."

"One is one thing," Nathan Tao insisted. "Rhubarb is not the same thing."

"Get lost." Huang Yida was too lazy to say this to him, so he stood up and left.

Department of Ophthalmology, Third Hospital, Ocular Trauma Group.

Adrian Tang performed eye injury surgery on New Year's Eve. The high school student had both eyes stitched shut. His mother was kneeling at the door of his office, begging Adrian Tang in tears to save her son.

Many ophthalmologists around her were trying to persuade her to calm down.

"Doctor Tang! Please save the child! The child can't survive! Please save him... Save him! I kowtow to you!" The mother desperately begged for help in front of Adrian Tang, and her hysterical and collapsed cries tore everyone's heart.

Adrian Tang reached out to help her: "Don't be like this, listen to me first."

"I listen, I listen! I listen to whatever you say, please save the child..." She was still crying, and she was obviously close to collapse. "The child told me this morning that he didn't want to live anymore, and I lied to him and said he could still be cured, and Doctor Tang could still cure him! Please save him, my son is in so much pain! Please save him!"

Adrian Tang had just performed a vitrectomy and retinal repositioning surgery. He was still not relaxed and was even wearing a scrub suit. He was blocked by family members at the door before he even entered the office.

"Calm down first. You are too emotional now and you can't listen to anything I say. So, calm down for five minutes, I will change my clothes, and then I will talk to you." Adrian Tang said to the other party.

However, the other party was worried that he would find an excuse to leave and never come back, so he would not let him go no matter what.

There are many family members crying in despair in the hospital every day. This is a place that gives people hope, but also erases people's hope.

Adrian Tang glanced at the high school student's attending physician, a newly graduated master's degree holder, who immediately came over to tell Adrian Tang about the patient's condition. The high school student suddenly became upset this morning, making a lot of noise in the ward and engaging in self-harming behavior.

Adrian Tang asked: "How are the indicators?"

"Intraocular pressure is 3.6 mmHg, vitreous opacities, initial signs of eyeball atrophy, light sensitivity. The intraocular pressure has dropped slightly compared to the morning ward rounds." The resident doctor lowered his voice and spoke into Adrian Tang's ear.

Adrian Tang nodded.

The family member kept crying, but Adrian Tang said nothing and signaled the doctors and nurses around him not to make any noise or comfort them. The family member cried for a while, then gradually calmed down and cried less.

Adrian Tang glanced at the nurse next to him, and the nurse immediately handed him a tissue and comforted him softly.

Adrian Tang was silent for a few minutes. The family members had obviously calmed down. Someone went into Adrian Tang's office to take out his white coat. He looked strange wearing scrubs all the time. Adrian Tang put on his coat and said to the family members: "Parents are the last wall of their children. If they fall, you support them. If you fall, they will fall too. The current disease progression is really hard to accept. From my personal point of view, I don't want any patient to lose their eyesight. I hope they can all be cured."

The family member opposite nodded repeatedly. As soon as Adrian Tang spoke, she seemed to be about to cry, and her eyes were red.

Adrian Tang continued: "The hospital takes this very seriously and will not give up on any patient. Professor Xu Shi came back in the early morning and has arranged a consultation for tomorrow morning."

A glimmer of hope appeared on the family member's face. Adrian Tang looked at her and dashed her hope: "But I have already told you what the current medical technology can do. So there are bound to be regrets, but we will do our best."

The family member's expression froze on her face, and she didn't have time to change. Adrian Tang looked at her, looked into her eyes, and said with a harsh voice: "Mother is a support. Emotions are transmitted to each other. Don't let him feel your sharpness and despair, even if he can't see it now. Only when you accept it, he will feel that it is acceptable. Do you understand what I mean?"

After a long time, the other party nodded stiffly.

Adrian Tang sighed the moment he entered the office.

The female intern who followed in whispered, "Why didn't you speak more tactfully just now? I was afraid she would suddenly break down again when you talked about it later."

Adrian Tang said: "If you give her hope, she will be so excited that she won't be able to sleep tonight, and her pain tomorrow morning will be doubled. If the result is destined to be impossible, don't give her hope anymore."

"But I think this is also very cruel." The young doctor had just started his internship in the hospital and had not seen much of these things. He felt that what Adrian Tang had said just now was a bit too direct and perhaps it would be difficult for the patient's family to accept it.

Adrian Tang looked at her and said, "The pain from each cut is decreasing. Only by repeatedly cutting the wound with one knife after another can a person be dragged to death."

The young doctor still had the sentimentality she had acquired from school, and even though the person she admired was Director Tang, she still couldn't agree with the situation. She believed that she should give the patient and his family time to slowly and peacefully accept the situation.

There is no need to convince each other on conceptual issues; it is meaningless.

Adrian Tang is not actually in the ocular trauma group. Like Mr. Xu, he is not fixed to any group and can handle all kinds of injuries. Generally, there are no simple injuries in his hands. He was brought up by Mr. Xu with difficult and complicated diseases, and he is not used to treat ordinary minor injuries and diseases. This also shows that Adrian Tang has many difficult cases. He has seen too much despair and pain.

The surgical indications in this case are not strong, and the prognosis is predictably poor. Vitrectomy, silicone oil filling, and silicone oil to maintain low intraocular pressure, the best level of vision that the patient can achieve should be to maintain the current light perception. It is very likely that the patient will have a strong light perception, or even no light perception.

But the sense of light is hope, and that faint white is still a color, preventing us from sinking into darkness forever.

This was the best Adrian Tang could do, to preserve a little bit of light for him.

"I was wondering why you are so busy now?" Chen Lin came to Adrian Tang's house carrying a bag of lunch boxes and asked as soon as he entered the door.

He was Adrian Tang's college roommate and also an excellent ophthalmologist, but he did not stay in the public hospital. Instead, he opened his own ophthalmology hospital, which now has several branches and is very successful.

Chen Lin didn't see any slippers on the shoe cabinet, so he opened the cabinet and took out a pair.

"I've always been busy." Adrian Tang came over and threw him a new pair of shoes: "Wear these."

Chen Lin came in after changing his slippers: "When are you going to come out to help me? What's the point of being a little doctor in the hospital? Wouldn't it be comfortable for us to work together if you come out? Half of it is yours."

He would persuade Adrian Tang from time to time, but Adrian Tang remained unmoved over the years.

Chen Lin originally wanted to have a meal at Adrian Tang's place, but when he passed by their university on the way, he stopped by a restaurant he used to frequent and got some takeaway food.

Halfway through the meal, Chen Lin suddenly remembered to ask, "Is Miles Tang on duty today?"

Adrian Tang said: "Moved away."

"Move away?" Chen Lin asked before he smiled. "Are you angry again? I thought you two were really funny. What happened this time?"

Adrian Tang had been working all day with patients who had no hope, so he was already in a bad mood. This made Chen Lin even more upset when he asked, "You are over 30 years old, can you stop being so gossipy?"

Chen Lin blinked and laughed: "I just said a few words, brother."

"I don't want to hear a word." Adrian Tang said expressionlessly.

Chen Lin was unmoved: "Are you really coming back this time? No way?"

Adrian Tang ignored him and poured himself a glass of water.

"Are you two kids? You're breaking up at the age of 800? You two are so adorable. My wife and I can't even have an argument now. We're so tired, how can we still have time to quarrel?" Chen Lin said with a smile. They have been friends for many years, so there is no need to be cautious when talking to each other.

Adrian Tang was annoyed by him, and finally all his rationality, maturity and restraint were broken. He turned around, took an ornament from the entrance cabinet and threw it at Chen Lin, his face full of impatience: "I really tried hard not to kick you out."

Chen Lin caught the ornament thrown to him and still smiled shamelessly: "I think you two are still busy enough, and you still have time to be childish."

Chen Lin was making a fuss, but after that he calmed down and said a few truthful words: "Hey, Brother Yan, outsiders shouldn't B*tt in on the relationship between a couple. It's boring. But with our relationship, I won't treat myself as an outsider."

He said to Adrian Tang: "Xiao Tang has been spoiled by you. He has a lot of bad habits. No matter how rare it is, he is spoiled like this. He is a mess. He looks like a decent person outside. He looks like a very good person. You can't find any fault with him. But I really feel bored with you. You are ignorant."