Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
At the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center.
The sun reached into the meeting room, illuminating its interior.
Fresh air blew through the two open windows.
The gentle morning sun felt as if a pretty woman’s chiffon dress had just caressed their skin, causing some to have the urge to grab it with their hands.
Everything looked incredibly beautiful, except for Damon’s sad face and the tears streaming down his face.
The phrase ‘two streams of tears’ was commonly heard among Chinese. But not everyone had seen someone cry streams of tears before. Shedding a few tears, yes. Crying nonstop with unbroken streams from the eyes? No.
The doctors from the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center had seen many things. However, it was still slightly surprising for them to witness the White South African, Damon’s tears flow down in neverending streams.
There was already a small water puddle on the coffee table before him. It was as if someone had spilled tea on it.
“I… am sorry… I really can’t hold it… Doctor Morris… sob…” Damon cried until he started to twitch.
Doctor Morris comforted him while feeling a little awkward. “Damon, Damon, it’s alright. Please don’t worry, everything is under control…”
“I… I know. I just can’t help it…” Damon wiped off his tears and flicked his hand. They were surprised to see an actual splash of reflective crystals fly through the air. They dropped on the floor like water pearls before they produced a small splash.
“Damon, it’s just a simple surgery…”
“I know… sob…”
“This is the world-leading Achilles tendon repair team. You should be happy that you can get the best treatment …”
“I know… sob…”
“Damon, surgical treatment is the best way. You are willing to receive the surgical treatment, right?”
“Yes… I do… Hic…”
All Chinese doctors in the room looked at each other at a loss. If watching this muscular white athlete with a good body figure crying was something funny in the beginning, now, his crying just caused them headaches.
He was basically crying all the time.
“Damon, are you in pain?” asked Ji Tianlu.
The interpreter passed the message to Damon before translating what Damon said, “I’m not in pain. I just… I don’t know…”
“Can we start?” Ling Ran had sat down in boredom for at least ten minutes. Although he had just witnessed a miracle of anthropology, it was still… very boring.
Damon raised his head in a dazes and looked at Ling Ran. Then, he cried again.
“This is your MRI scan.” Ling Ran was characteristically stoic, and he was also highly immune to tears. Some men could be easily controlled by women’s tears, but Ling Ran was definitely not one of them.
After all, he was a who watched how his father, Ling Jiezhou was voluntarily controlled by his mother, Tao Ping’s tears.
As for a man’s tears? They were not worth any money.
Ling Ran knocked on the LED panel and said in a tone as if he was about to announce the grand finale, “We’re going to have to perform the preoperative analysis either way. Let’s start.”
The medical records in China for patients required the doctors to fill in details such as preoperative discussions, preoperative analyses and preoperative consultation. But there were not many hospitals that followed the procedure, especially when it came to medical records of a patient who received a department’s main surgical method, because those were usually performed according to the standard plans, and hence, there was no meaning and value to analyse and discuss the patient’s condition.
The few cases which needed preoperative discussions usually meant that the patient had complicated conditions, and high risks were involved in the surgery.
They had performed a preoperative analysis for Damon’s Achilles tendon repair because he came all the way from another country.
Ling Ran did not have many surgeries assigned to him right then, so he did not refuse to carry out the discussion. He just felt bored and urged them to start.
Ji Tianlu cast a glance at Damon. He, too, felt that it was quite hard to appease Damon within a short period of time, so, he said, “Let’s start now. Ling Ran, please pay attention as well. Today, we are not here for an internal discussion. The main point of this discussion is that we have to introduce the situation to Mister Damon and Mister Morris, explain our surgical plan, and get their consent.”
Zhu Tongyi nodded as he listened. He looked like a respectable, elderly man as he sat in the main seat. He said, “We can only carry out the surgery after obtaining their approval. This is the minimum requirement.”
Although they have not come into contact for long, Zhu Tongyi knew Ling Ran quite well.
He knew that Ling Ran would only get serious and start thinking when a surgery was involved. The nerves in Ling Ran’s mind would not get stimulated when it came to other matters.
Ling Ran heard the main point in Zhu Tongyi’s words. He touched his chin and said, “I usually let Lu Wenbin get the signature for the informed consent form.”
He then turned his sight to Yu Yuan.
Yu Yuan showed an awkward but polite smile, and she used her hands to push her black-framed glasses.
“Sob, sob…” Damon’s tears had yet to stop. With the added sound effects, he became the center of attention again.
“Damon!” Doctor Morris showed an inquiring expression.
Damon whimpered and said, “He said my MRI…”
“Your MRI is totally fine.” Ling Ran understood Damon this time. He replied in English. He then said in Mandarin, “The only thing we need to consider now is the questions about the details.”
“What questions?” Damon inquired straight away.
“First, do you want to reinforce your sutures?” Ling Ran pointed at the rupture on the MRI scan and said, “The benefit of reinforcement is that it will secure the sutures. But it can also result in secondary injury, and it will slow down recovery.”
“Secure or slow down recovery?” Damon repeated, and bigger tears could be seen on his face.
Doctor Morris coughed and said, “What is the possibility of the secondary damage? How great is the delay on recovery?”
Everyone looked at Ling Ran. This was obviously a crucial question, and among all the people in the room, only Ling Ran had truly performed Plan A before.
Ling Ran pondered and said, “I don’t know.”
“NOOO?” Damon wailed with an exaggerated expression.
“I have no idea,” Ling Ran said with certainty, “I have no patients who suffered from secondary damages or had a delay in their recovery after receiving reinforced sutures. But because the sample size is too small, so I can’t just say the possibility is zero.”
The group of people listened to the translation before they stared at each other at a loss.
Damon stopped crying and asked, “What about my surgery?”
Ling Ran kept a straight face and said, “There were still be some risks.”
Damon looked at Morris pitifully.
Doctor Morris nodded gently and said, “I will recommend reinforced sutures. But you own the right to choose.”
Damon wiped off his tears. “Then, I’ll choose reinforced sutures.”
“Okay. But I have to inform you beforehand. If we find out that your Achilles tendon is not suitable for reinforced sutures, I’ll use another suture method.” Ling Ran still had a straight face on. He was unlike other doctors who looked friendly and kind.
Damon, on the other hand, became more confident with Ling Ran. He narrowed his eyes, and a few more drops of tears flowed out. He said, “As long my Achilles tendon can recover, I’m okay with any method.”
“I understand. Wipe off your tears.” Ling Ran felt uncomfortable watching him cry. He passed some tissues to Damon.
“I’ve always been a person who cries easily.” Damon took the tissues, wiped off his tears, and blew his nose.
Ling Ran could not help but said, “You can consult the Ophthalmology Department after this.”
“Okay, thank you, Doctor Ling.”
Right after Damon finished speaking, a beep was heard.
A Treasure Chest appeared in front of Ling Ran, along with the notification that he received the chest because of Sincere Gratitude.
Ling Ran could not help but be stunned.
He received a Sincere Gratitude Treasure Chest just like that?
Could this… be counted as a red envelope before the surgery? Were all South African people so… courteous?
And it was a red envelope that he could not find it in himself to reject!
Ling Ran subconsciously opened the Basic Treasure Chest in front of him. He saw a brilliant light, and a bottle—
Wrong. It was a skill book that appeared:
[Experience in Regional Anatomical Dissection: Gained the experience of dissecting one hundred feet.]
Ling Ran swung his hand and used the regional anatomical dissection experience book. He also took the chance to look at Damon’s left leg.
Previously, he received the experience of dissecting three thousand upper limbs from an Intermediate Treasure Chest. Compared to one hundred foot anatomical dissections, the experience he had on the upper limbs was thirty times higher. Because of it, the coverage was also wider.
However, it was incredibly difficult to get the experience of dissecting feet one hundred times these days.
If a doctor were not in a research department, did not lead any big projects, and did not get any support from good platforms, it would be difficult for him to find one-hundred dead bodies. Even if he wanted to look for feet alone, it was still very difficult.
Ling Ran could not help but took a look at Damon. It should be said that this was the easiest Sincere Gratitude he had ever received. The item he received was also very suitable to be used in this very surgery.
Yet, Damon was frightened by Ling Ran’s staring. The tears that had just stopped started to flow out quietly again.
