NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 465 - 465: Doctor, I'm Sure I'm Sick!
Chapter 465: Chapter 465: Doctor, I’m Sure I’m Sick!
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After injecting 40 ml of 50% dextrose intravenously, the patient slowly opened his eyes a few minutes later.
He looked around drowsily, his face the picture of confusion.
At that moment, Chen Cang saw the man and smiled, “Awake now?”
The man nodded, took a look around, and focusing on Chen Cang’s white coat, curiously asked, “Am I in the hospital?”
Chen Cang nodded with a smile, “Yes, the emergency resuscitation room.”
The man sat up with some effort, “Doctor, what happened to me?”
Chen Cang replied, “Hypoglycemia caused the coma.”
The man was immediately startled, “That’s not right. How could I have hypoglycemia? I’m diabetic! I must be in a diabetic coma!”
The man’s words made Chen Cang burst into laughter.
Xu Dongdong also looked somewhat puzzled. Right, the patient has diabetes, he has high blood sugar, and he had been drinking; how could he suffer from hypoglycemia?
After all, to most people, alcohol, being the essence of grains, is supposed to be nutritious after one drinks it. How could it possibly cause hypoglycemia?
Chen Cang laughed again, and seeing that the man had stabilized and there was nothing much to worry about, he said to Xu Dongdong, “Come on, let’s take him to the observation room.”
As soon as the man heard that, his face changed, “No, no, no, Doctor, I feel like I’m sick. You must not have finished the examination, right? CT scans, MRI, blood tests, and all that. I think we should check thoroughly!”
“Really, I must be sick; otherwise, how could my high blood sugar suddenly drop to hypoglycemia? Every day after meals, it’s around fifteen. There must be something you haven’t figured out! Doctor, I’m about to get married, if I really have some serious illness… you can’t delay the bride!”
With a serious expression on his face, the man was deathly afraid that Chen Cang would take him out of the resuscitation room, “Doctor, I think the resuscitation room is safer. Just in case anything happens to me, you can respond in time!”
“Actually, I’ve been feeling weak lately. There must be something wrong. Right… Now we can test for genes, right? Should I have that checked too?”
The man’s speech left Chen Cang and the others dumbfounded!
They were somewhat at a loss for words!
Where do you find someone who keeps insisting that they’re sick?
Little Lin and Lele were also struggling to hold back their laughter.
Seeing Lele trying to contain himself so hard that his face turned purple and his heavy body shuddered, Chen Cang, not wanting the kid to suffocate, quickly told Lele, “Lele, go notify his family. The patient is now fairly stable.”
At this, Lele hurriedly ran out. If you looked at him from the front, you would definitely see the flesh of this several-hundred-pound creature shaking with laughter, his facial features distorted in mirth, laughing inhumanely!
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At this time, Big Fatty stood at the entrance of the resuscitation room, full of regret that he had drunk the night before.
The more he thought about it, the more guilt he felt!
Just then, a rush of hurried footsteps sounded, and as Big Fatty looked up, he saw it was his brother’s parents and fiancée approaching.
Taking a deep breath, Big Fatty said, “Uncle, Auntie, and Lingling, you’re here!”
The middle-aged man looked serious as he gazed at the man, “Big Fatty, how is he doing now?”
Big Fatty shook his head, “I don’t know, he’s in the resuscitation room. Uncle, it’s all my fault! I didn’t keep an eye on him…”
The man shook his head, patting Big Fatty on the arm, “Don’t feel guilty. I know my son; he’s no good. He must have been unable to control himself and went drinking again!”
The middle-aged woman glared at the man, “Okay, this is not the time to get angry.”
The young woman beside them looked worried!
That’s how people are, full of trepidation. The closer something wonderful is to happening, the more they worry something bad will happen.
At that moment, Lele finally stopped laughing at the door, pushed it open, and saw a group of people staring at him.
Lele asked, “Who is Zhang Xiaogang’s family?”
Then, the group hurriedly responded, “I am!”
Seeing so many people, Lele advised, “Come with me. Don’t be noisy inside; the patient is alright now.”
With one sentence, everyone breathed a sigh of relief!
As long as it’s nothing serious, that’s good, that’s good!
The four people quickly followed Lele inside.
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At that moment, the patient was still there explaining to Chen Cang the fact that he was ill!
“Doctor, please check carefully, I really am sick!”
“Don’t let it get delayed…”
A group of people watched Zhang Xiaogang bouncing around energetically, giving orders while sitting on the bed, looking vibrant in every way—hardly the image of a sick person… But! If one really had to point out something amiss, it seemed like his brain wasn’t working properly…
Could it be an aftereffect of the coma?
Because Zhang Xiaogang kept insisting he was ill!
Urging Chen Cang to give him a thorough checkup!
The four people who had just come in were suddenly a bit stunned.
Everyone looked on at the scene with blank expressions, at a loss for what to do.
It was only… the man’s fiancée, Lingling, who showed a look of sorrow upon seeing him like this!
Could it be that he was having second thoughts?
Was he pretending to be sick to avoid marrying her?
Was he really…
At this thought, Lingling’s face grew sad, and she felt somewhat wronged as she turned to leave.
Since women are more sensitive, the man’s mother, a middle-aged woman, seemed to sense something off and quickly turned to hold onto Lingling, “Lingling, don’t be hasty, let’s see what the doctor says.”
At this time, Zhang Xiaogang’s father stepped forward, glanced down at his unreliable son, then looked at Chen Cang: “Doctor, what’s the situation with my son?”
Chen Cang looked up, saw the middle-aged man, and said, “It was a coma caused by low blood sugar, nothing serious. After going home and resting well, he should be fine. He’s probably been too busy and tired lately, and hasn’t been resting well, so it triggered this. Oh, and for the future, it would be better to avoid alcohol!”
Hearing what Chen Cang said, Zhang Xiaogang replied, “I have diabetes, high blood sugar, and I drank so much alcohol, how could it be low blood sugar?”
Chen Cang, feeling helpless, asked, “High blood sugar, then did you take your medicine this morning?”
The man nodded, “Yes, I manage it very well, I take metformin orally every day.”
Chen Cang smiled, “It’s good that you took metformin. If you had been taking insulin shots, you might have had a problem today!”
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man said, “Since when did you have diabetes? I had no idea!”
Lingling sighed, “Uncle, Auntie, he found out during a physical examination last year. The doctor said it was not serious and to try taking some metformin.”
After hearing this, the middle-aged couple couldn’t help but sigh, unaware of this fact!
The man smiled awkwardly: “Dad, Mum, I just didn’t want to worry you.”
Chen Cang continued, “Metformin is the most commonly used sugar-lowering medication and unlike other sugar-lowering medications, metformin doesn’t cause hypoglycemia. But metformin reduces the absorption of sugar and inhibits gluconeogenesis, and under the combined effects with alcohol, caused the occurrence of low blood sugar.”
As he spoke, Chen Cang continued, “Right, drinking alcohol does not raise blood sugar, and alcohol is not the essence of food.”
“The human body gets sugar partly from the sugar in food, and partly from proteins and fats converting into sugar, a process called gluconeogenesis.
You haven’t been eating lately, and with insufficient blood sugar intake, at times like this your liver glycogen breaks down to release sugar to maintain your daily consumption.
Alcohol not only inhibits gluconeogenesis but also suppresses the breakdown of liver glycogen, which caused the hypoglycemia.”
After hearing this, the man suddenly came to a realization!
And Lingling, looking at Zhang Xiaogang, couldn’t help but say, “Zhang Xiaogang, you’re not trying to stay in the hospital because you don’t want to marry me, are you?”
After saying this, she turned and walked away!
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaogang got out of bed and was about to run…
Chen Cang couldn’t help laughing. Now there was no need to worry about not leaving the emergency room.
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