Surgery Godfather
Chapter 1359 - 1030: Take the Opportunity to Perform a Minor Surgery

Chapter 1359: Chapter 1030: Take the Opportunity to Perform a Minor Surgery

In the afternoon, Professor Yang conducted his routine rounds in the main ward area, and then he went to visit Aisha in the ICU. The little girl’s vital signs were stable post-surgery.

Brian was also granted permission to visit the ICU for the first time after the surgery. Seeing Aisha awake and her vital signs normal, he was once again overwhelmed with emotion, and he admired Professor Yang’s medical skills immensely.

Moreover, Brian had an idea; he wanted to donate his Nobel Prize money to Sanbo Hospital. The money had been sitting in the bank unused, initially intended for his granddaughter’s treatment, which never occurred. Now, Brian intended to use this money for a special research project at Sanbo Hospital aimed at helping more extracardial children, hoping that children with extracardial conditions from all over the world could come to China for surgery. Although it wasn’t a lot of money, it was still a heartfelt gesture.

After visiting his granddaughter, Brian and Manstein brought a pennant to the doctors’ office. At that moment, Professor Yang was conducting a post-surgery review of Aisha’s surgery with other doctors, an activity meant to accumulate experience, learn lessons, and enhance everyone’s surgical skills.

Brian entered the doctors’ office with the pennant. Since it was his first time presenting a pennant, he was very stiff, and before he got a chance to greet Professor Yang, he stood in front of him holding the scroll of the pennant and bowed at a ninety-degree angle, like a statue frozen before Professor Yang.

Professor Yang was startled by this sudden action; the posture seemed more like submitting a surrender than presenting a pennant and looked quite peculiar.

"Professor Yang, Mr. Brian would like to express his gratitude by presenting this pennant as a token of his appreciation. Please accept it," Manstein, relying on the best of his Chinese skills and a draft prepared by August that he had memorized in advance, articulated.

Only then did the surrounding doctors understand that Brian was indeed there to present the pennant. His sudden entrance and stance had confused everyone initially, and Professor Yang quickly stood up to accept the scroll of the pennant.

However, Brian continued to maintain his posture unmoved, leading Manstein to think he was too absorbed in acting and tapped him, "That’s enough, you can stand up straight now."

Suddenly, pain was evident on Brian’s face, "I---I can’t move now, I can’t straighten my waist at all right now."

Manstein immediately went to assist him, and several other doctors quickly came to help. They supported Mr. Brian as he sat, but he couldn’t move his waist at all. He maintained his strange posture as he requested to be helped to the side, where he continued to lean on the edge of the desk with both hands, his complexion deathly pale.

"Lumbar disc herniation or spondylolisthesis?" Professor Yang instantly made a diagnosis from the symptoms.

It was likely a lumbar disc herniation or spondylolisthesis causing segmental instability. Either the disc protruded suddenly compressing the nerve root, or the lumbar segments shifted excessively with soft tissue entrapment, preventing repositioning, leaving him only able to maintain this posture. In layman’s terms, his lumbar was stuck.

"I usually don’t dare to bend like this, I forgot about it today, and now I can’t get up. There’s also severe swelling pain in the back of my left leg," Brian grimaced as he spoke, his expression extremely pained.

At that moment, all the doctors present realized this, as all were well-trained and highly professional.

"Support him to the ward, let Dr. Liang come down to implant a pain pump for him, and then take him for an MRI to see what’s actually going on." Yang Ping instructed the doctor beside him, and everyone immediately sprang into action.

Manstein saw his old friend being embarrassed by presenting the pennant, even though a comprehensive plan had been prepared. They were supposed to open the pennant, read the thank-you letter, and then take a group photo, but now there was no spare time for those activities as everyone was focused on his condition.

Hearing Yang Ping’s instructions, Manstein agreed with this preliminary diagnosis; it seemed that if this was indeed the case, his old friend couldn’t avoid having surgery in China.

"It’s been many years, so every time I don’t dare to bend over. Sometimes when I bend down to pick up paper scraps from the ground, I can’t stand up straight. I always thought I had a strained back, but today the symptoms are especially severe, it feels like my waist is broken," Brian said, sweat drenching his forehead.

A wheelchair was brought over, but Brian couldn’t sit in it; he decided to walk to the ward himself. With everyone’s help, he awkwardly made his way step by step to the ward.

Everyone then helped him to lie on his side in the hospital bed, still maintaining that position, unable to move his spine, with any slight movement causing bone-deep pain.

After he rested a bit, Liang Fatty hurried over with equipment, and with the help of a Standardized Training Student, he quickly implanted a pain pump for pain relief. Considering Brian’s condition, ordinary pain relief methods wouldn’t suffice, prompting Yang Ping to go directly for a pain pump.

After the pain alleviated, two young doctors took him to the radiology department for an MRI. Manstein followed behind, not expecting his old friend’s back to give in like this.

The results of the lumbar spine MRI showed prolapse and slipping of the L4/L5 intervertebral disc, with a large prolapsed nucleus pulposus pressing tightly on the left nerve root, which was significantly swollen. The slipping of the vertebrae had already reached grade II; this condition necessitated surgery, not only to remove the prolapsed disc but also to perform a reduction and fusion on L4/L5.

"Old buddy, you’re really fortunate this happened at Sanbo Hospital," Manstein congratulated Brian.

Brian thought Manstein was mocking him at a time like this, but on consideration, he realized it was true. This condition had been developing for years and was bound to happen sooner or later. Having the onset at Sanbo Hospital and getting the surgery from Professor Yang, wasn’t that lucky indeed?

"I agree with you; this is indeed a stroke of luck," Brian took it in stride, only concerned that his granddaughter was safe, as nothing else mattered much to him.

Manstein added, "Consider it a minor surgery done while visiting China."

"Just heard the doctors describe it, the surgery doesn’t sound minor at all. They need to remove the prolapsed disc, take out the remaining disc tissue between the two vertebrae, then implant bone tissue between them, and finally insert special screws to firmly fix the two vertebrae together, ensuring they are permanently joined," Brian said, curled up in bed in a side-lying position, having gathered quite a bit about his surgery during the trips back and forth for tests.

Under these circumstances, it wasn’t about whether he wanted surgery or not; it was mandatory. Otherwise, he would have to return to Sweden and let the Swedish doctors handle it. Swedish doctors perform only a few lumbar surgeries per year, each with impeccable educational backgrounds and flawless theoretical knowledge, but with such low surgical volume, their practical skills couldn’t match those here. In the past, even if in excruciating pain, Brian would never have stayed in China for surgery; he would rather crawl back to Europe. But now his perception had completely changed, as he no longer trusted the capabilities of those high-and-mighty lords.