Surgery Godfather
Chapter 878 - 776 Go Buy Ten Pigs_2

Chapter 878: Chapter 776 Go Buy Ten Pigs_2

After finishing his shift, Li Guodong didn’t have to participate in any surgeries. He took two standardized training students and rode in the hospital’s dedicated vehicle to Nandu Medical University to buy a pig, which was a serious task that demanded perfection.

The purchased pig had not only to be the right breed but its heart size also had to be roughly similar to that of Teng Xinmei’s heart.

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Wandering around the hospital to familiarize himself with the environment, Teng Shaokui found a relatively secluded spot and pulled up Boss Li’s number on his phone.

Boss Li was also from North Bridge County, from a township next to Teng Shaokui’s. He was a small-time contractor—the quite small kind—with about a dozen workers under him, and he himself also had to participate in the labor.

It had been five years since Teng Shaokui had worked at a construction site with Boss Li. Teng Shaokui was strong, able to do the work of several men, and he also had a robust constitution, never missing work due to illness. He was honest and hardworking, taking on any dirty or exhausting task without complaint or grievance, just like an ox, which earned him significant appreciation from Boss Li.

Moreover, there was a time when Boss Li had taken on a small project where the payment for wages was delayed, causing the workers to strike and refuse to work. Yet, without their labor, Boss Li couldn’t collect the payment due from his clients, leaving him frantically trying to resolve the situation. But the workers wouldn’t budge, and they all walked away.

At that moment, Teng Shaokui didn’t leave. He and Boss Li continued to work together until the installment payment from the clients was received, at which point the workers were called back to resume the project.

So, all things considered, Teng Shaokui and Boss Li shared some bond, which is why Teng Shaokui felt there was a chance of borrowing the money.

The house Teng Shaokui lived in now was built with the money he had earned on the construction site at that time. Later, for various reasons, Teng Shaokui returned to his hometown.

He had heard that Boss Li was now in Guizhou, working on the construction of a highway and in desperate need of workers. However, that news was from two years ago, and he didn’t know whether the highway was completed or if workers were still needed.

He dialed the number, but the call wouldn’t go through, and it always showed as "busy."

After trying for a full hour, still no luck, Teng Shaokui felt a chill in his heart; Boss Li was his greatest hope, the person most likely to lend him the money. There was little chance of borrowing from anyone else, including relatives and friends.

With Boss Li’s phone currently unreachable, Teng Shaokui sat in the hospital garden’s gazebo, evaluating each number in his phone’s contact list, feeling extremely blocked and uncomfortable.

On his side of the family, no one really had much money, and most wouldn’t lend any; those who might lend would perhaps give three to five thousand at most, which was already being as benevolent and righteous as one could expect.

As for his wife’s relatives, having his wife ask to borrow money was out of the question if they wanted her to get treated; it simply wasn’t going to happen.

What a predicament!

Even if the doctors were willing to go ahead with the surgery, they could only help delay for a few days; eventually, they would need to be paid back. Money! Where could he find the money?

People won’t die from being stopped up with feces and urine, but they can indeed be killed by a lack of money.

With nowhere else to turn, Teng Shaokui aimlessly wandered the hospital. After several rounds, he returned to the quiet spot and started flipping through his phone contact list again, trying Boss Li’s number once more.

Finnaly, the call connected, but the voice on the other end was a stranger who claimed to not know Boss Li, then hung up with a string of curses.

With this lead gone, Shaokui’s panic began to set in. He wandered the hospital, lost and utterly without direction.

Desperation can lead one to drastic measures, and he even considered some ridiculous ideas. He had heard that contact numbers for selling kidneys could be found in hospital bathrooms, so he really went into the bathrooms, one by one, and even took note of the phone numbers scribbled on the back of the toilet doors.

But then he thought about it: these things were unreliable. All alone, with his daughter still in the hospital, what if he got scammed, lost a kidney, and didn’t get any money, or even worse, lost his life? What would become of his daughter, his family?

Teng Shaokui discarded this absurd idea, and only when it was dark did he finally return to the ward.

Rushing back to the ward, Xinmei saw her father’s complexion wasn’t great: "Dad, are you okay?"

Teng Shaokui answered, "I’m fine, just a bit of diarrhea from the change in water and food. Don’t worry, I’ll get better on my own."

"Dad, be careful, it’s cold with the air conditioning on at night, make sure you cover yourself with the blanket and don’t drink water randomly outside," Xinmei cautioned her father like an adult.

"Don’t worry, I’m as tough as iron, it’s nothing serious," Teng Shaokui nodded and said, his mind constantly calculating.

The surgery issue, Doctor had agreed to arrange it as soon as possible, but that was just a verbal agreement, without money, if they conducted the surgery and the patient absconded, wouldn’t the hospital suffer a huge loss? Teng Shaokui understood this much.

So, he had to find a way to get the money, later ask a few more people, find Boss Li’s new number, and hope to get in touch.

Then, relatives and friends, ask each one, borrow as much as possible, regarding the wife, whether it’s feasible or not, lay out the situation clearly, try as much as possible, without holding out too much hope.

The house at home, see if it can be mortgaged, apply for a loan at the credit union, there are also some tea oil, rapeseed oil, and a store of rice grain at home, everything like pigs, chickens, and ducks, sell them all, anyway the daughter’s illness must be treated.

Bankrupt the family, sell everything in sight, the illness must be cured, Teng Shaokui is that stubborn.

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Li Guodong had already purchased ten pigs upon arriving at Nandu Medical University, the animal department there was responsible for delivering them to the door, Li Guodong had set the time and place with them, and came back to report to Yang Ping.

"Professor, I measured with the surface ultrasound machine, the hearts are about the same size as Teng Xinmei’s heart, the people there said they are pigs from the Tianpeng Project, the best experimental pigs nationwide, they asked if we’ll often need more? If we do, we can contact them anytime, all their pigs are now quality guaranteed, top breeds from the Tianpeng Project," Li Guodong excitedly reported.

"Not bad, once the surgical instruments arrive, we’ll start work, I’ve already got the room, you take a few students to set it up, you’ll mainly command, for moving stuff we have colleagues from the Logistics Department, just set it up like an operating room, go to the warehouse and pick an old operating bed, anyway you know, the things from the operating room, the patients’ surgeries can wait, delay it a little, wait for my notice," Yang Ping instructed Li Guodong.

Li Guodong was very adaptable, knowing what to do, he took a few students to arrange the laboratory.

Ruixing was swift in action, Huang Jiahui had delivered the equipment, although she had now been promoted to manager of Ruixing’s South China Region, she personally delivered the equipment for Yang Ping’s surgery and was personally on site.

Having one’s own medical device company is beneficial, no need to ask others, draw a design, and a few days later, the device is delivered into the hands, fully packaged and sterilized.

"Professor, there are five sets in total, all sterilized, these are power Rotary Cutters."

Yang Ping took out a power Rotary Cutter, opened the packaging, tore open the inner wrap and the sealed film, very good, he only designed the instrument drawing and didn’t design the actual process, all these had to be done by the engineers.

"Professor, look, there’s a polymer material coating on this," Huang Jiahui introduced.

Yang Ping gently touched the surface of the instrument, "With these coatings, the instrument is like wearing an invisible cloak, it won’t disrupt the echogenicity of the esophageal surface ultrasound and won’t create artifacts in the ultrasound image."

"Engineer Chen has already done a lot of testing, under the ultrasound there are absolutely no artifacts, and the instrument’s coating can be used about two thousand times without any wear. Engineer Chen made a total of 9, with three different diameters and angles, based on different sizes and angles of the cutter heads," Huang Jiahui explained.

Yang Ping was very satisfied with the instruments and put them away, "Manager Huang, tell Engineer Chen, I’m very satisfied."

Jiahui was very pleased, "Engineer Chen also said, based on your surgical approach, he wants to design an ion knife for intracardiac surgery for you to use, it would be better to use an ion knife for such surgeries in the future."

"Performing myocardial ablation with a low-temperature ion knife in blood, while the heart is still beating, without stopping the circulation and not going on extracorporeal circulation, can produce bubbles. Bubbles can cause air embolism, and if we use an ion knife, it might be quite difficult to remove the bubbles. Tell Engineer Chen, when he has time, he can also design an endoscope for use in intracardiac surgery and see how it can eliminate the effects of ’red-out’," Yang Ping also had many ideas but was not an engineer after all; some details had to be handled by engineers.

Jiahui was also very familiar with engineering technology, "Engineer Chen said he would find a way to eliminate the bubbles, but there wasn’t enough time, and it would take a very long time to technically achieve it, at least over a year."

"There’s no rush, let him research it slowly, we will do the animal experiment tomorrow, when the time comes, you can come over and help," Yang Ping directed.

Jiahui packed up the equipment, "Dr. Song has already told me, I will be there on time."