The nurse would appear in Zhang Heng's ward at regular intervals to feed him water and food, help him turn over, and deal with his excrement.
Around the twelfth day, Zhang Heng basically only ate liquid food because he was suffering from intestinal syndrome. His abdomen kept growling, and the sound of liquid flowing could be heard in the cecum area. Coupled with the loss of oral mucosa, he could not swallow solid food. He could only eat some boiled rice paste and inject nutrient solutions to survive.
Even so, on the fourteenth day, he began to have blood in his stool, and his stool was filled with mucus and blood. He also began to lose a large amount of hair. The female doctor had also canceled other house calls and focused all her energy on Zhang Heng.
She basically stayed in the ward all day, watching the progress of Zhang Heng's condition on the other side of the glass window and making corresponding treatment plans.
In order to stimulate the growth of Zhang Heng's bone marrow cells, the female doctor also injected Zhang Heng with the newly developed growth factor. But just like what the doctor said when he first entered the quest. At present, human medicine had no effective treatment for radiation because the damage was at the molecular level. All hospitals and doctors could do was to prolong the patient's life as much as possible, treat various complications as much as possible, and pray that the human body's powerful self-healing ability could help the patient overcome this difficult time.
On the twentieth day, the female doctor walked into the sterile ward wearing a protective suit to observe Zhang Heng's physical condition up close.
When she entered the door, she found the latter lying motionless on the hospital bed with his eyes wide open, looking like a corpse.
The female doctor was shocked and quickly turned her head to look at the instrument on the side. She saw that Zhang Heng's electrocardiogram was still normal, and when she saw Zhang Heng's eyes moving, she knew it was a false alarm.
"You will be fine." The female doctor comforted him.
Perhaps impressed by Zhang Heng's heroic spirit in the face of pain, the female doctor had a particularly good impression of him. Although a doctor's mission was to save the dying and heal the wounded, she did have her own selfish desires, likes, and dislikes. At this moment, she had a strong desire to save the man in front of her.
However, because she had been by Zhang Heng's side for a long time, her impression of Mrs. Dima had declined. She still remembered that when they first met, Mrs. Dima begged her with tears in her eyes. She didn't want to be separated from her husband and hoped that they could stay in the ward together. This touched the female doctor very much.
And that was exactly what she did a few days ago. However, when Zhang Heng was transferred to the sterile ward, Mrs. Dima's true colors began to be gradually exposed. The female doctor noticed that while Dima was still fighting with death, his wife was flipping through fashion magazines outside. It seemed like she was studying which coat and bag to buy. This made the female doctor feel a little unacceptable.
Fortunately, Mrs. Dima was still very concerned about her man's life and death. She would ask the female doctor about his physical condition almost every day.
The female doctor didn't know how to evaluate the couple's relationship. She knew that she shouldn't get involved in other people's private affairs, but now that she was standing by Zhang Heng's bed, she couldn't help but have an evil thought. She wanted to tell Zhang Heng what she saw in the corridor, but after that, she felt that it was a little too cruel.
Perhaps this man was trying so hard to survive because of his wife and child. If she told him about this now, wouldn't it directly harm him? Therefore, in the end, the female doctor swallowed those words back into her stomach, turned around, and left the ward.
Zhang Heng didn't know that he almost suffered the "breakup" of the couple's relationship. At this moment, his attention was focused on his body and the dark shadow in the depths of his consciousness. As for the former, he didn't have much of a solution. All he could do was continue to receive treatment in the ward.
Considering the layout of the ward now, Zhang Heng sometimes felt like an old vampire who was dragged out of the coffin and placed under the fluorescent light. Fortunately, although Zhang Heng's condition had been deteriorating, he didn't feel the threat of death.
As for the dark shadow in the palace, Zhang Heng let his consciousness dive several times, but just like the first time, he still couldn't see what it looked like. Zhang Heng also considered entering the palace, but once this idea appeared, he couldn't get rid of it. At critical moments, Zhang Heng would always think of the voice that advised him to wait. So, he had been wandering outside the palace since then.
On the thirtieth day, a whole month had passed since Zhang Heng was hospitalized. Zhang Heng had also been tortured by the pain for a whole month. Since he couldn't eat, he could only inject nutrient solutions into his body. As a result, he lost a lot of weight. Now, he weighed less than 90 pounds, and he looked like a skeleton.
Other than that, his liver, kidneys, and other internal organs also had problems. Fortunately, Zhang Heng managed to survive, but no one knew if this strong man could survive the next one.
Even the receptionist, who played the role of his wife, felt a little desperate as she watched Zhang Heng's physical condition deteriorate. She felt that she might not get her salary anymore, and her dream of traveling was getting further and further away. Perhaps the only good news was that she now had enough money to buy an imported coat.
However, Zhang Heng could feel that from the thirty-fourth day, his body began to show signs of improvement. This change was so subtle that even the female doctor, who had been paying attention to Zhang Heng's condition, did not notice it. With Zhang Heng's current control over his body, he felt the change immediately.
From this moment onwards, Zhang Heng heaved a sigh of relief because he knew that he had survived the most difficult hurdle of all.
After another week, the female doctor finally noticed that Zhang Heng's condition had begun to improve. This surprised and delighted her. Before this, she had been worried that Zhang Heng might not be able to hold on. Now, it turned out that the man in front of her was stronger than she had imagined.
This was like a signal, meaning that Zhang Heng's body, which had been passively beaten up before, was finally going to fight back.
In the following days, Zhang Heng began to recover quickly. By the forty-ninth day, he could get out of bed, support himself against the wall, and try to walk. Four days later, Zhang Heng began to eat some softer solid foods, and his body could absorb more energy from them. While his stomach was adapting, Zhang Heng began to prepare for rehabilitation.
His efficiency surprised the female doctor. On the fifty-sixth day, Zhang Heng moved out of the sterile ward, and after another week, he even began to lift some small dumbbells to restore his muscles.
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