Chapter 2328
Charlie nodded and said, “Then, you must be drinking tonight. right?”
“Yup,” Jacob said with augh. "I''ll certainly drink a little. Why?"
Charlie then said, "Oh, I have some business to tend to this afternoon. If it''s convenient for you, I want to use your carter.
Jacob handed the car keys to Charlie without any hesitation and said, "Of course it''s convenient for me! G o ahead and use it. It just so happens that I
will drink a ss or two tonight. If I drive, I would have to find someone to drive me home. It''s much more convenient to just take a cab." 7
Charlie nodded and took the car keys from Jacob.
ire, who was standing at the side, said, "Dad, I''ll be going to my officeter. I can send you to the association on the way."
Jacobughed and said, "Wonderful! I can save on the taxi fare, then!”
After Jacob and ire had left, Charlie took the pills out, put them into an inconspicuous shoulder bag, and left the house.
He got into Jacob''s car and went straight to Graham''s
vi in the suburbs.
Meanwhile, at the Silverwing Hospital, after Doris had sent the lunch box to her mother, she immediately went to the office of the director of the
nephrology department to ask about her father’s current condition. 6
Dr. Spears, the sixty-something-year-old director of the nephrology department, pushed his sses up and said seriously, "Miss Young, I have to be
frank. Your father is not doing very well right now. His kidney haspletely failed..."
"We now have to perform peritoneal dialysis on him every day and hemodialysis every other day. Hisplications are getting worse and worse.”
"I went over to do a check-up on him this morning and found that his condition today has worsened aspared to yesterday.”
“Yesterday, I told your mother that there are about twenty days left for the transnt window, but after another evaluation this morning, I personally
feel that the window may have to be shortened to about fifteen days." 3
At this point, Dr. Spears sighed and said helplessly, " There are still fifteen days left in the transnt window. Excluding the time for pre-operative
preparations, you have at most twelve days to find a kidney source. If you can''t find one, there''s truly nothing we can do. Our hands are tied.” 4
Doris''s tears flowed out of her eyes and drenched her cheeks instantly.
She hurriedly wiped away her tears
and asked anxiously, "Dr. Spears,
how did my f father''s condition
decline so significantly? That kidney.
he has naw was just transnted
two years ago. You were the one
whocdid the transnt surgery for
hiea; and I remember that you said
that he would not have a
life-threatening condition for at least
quite some time, but it’s only been
two years..."
Dr. Spears said helplessly, "This situation is indeed greatly beyond my prediction. I also do not understand why his kidney would have failed so
quickly. I tried to investigate whether there are any signs of idental ingestion of any toxic substances, but I have not found any clues.”
Doris pursued, "Dr. Spears, what kind of toxic substance can cause a person''s kidney to fail so drastically?"
Dr. Spears replied, "Some herbal
medicines haye strong
nephrotoxicity; such as Aristolochia
aka Dutchman''s pipe. Our country ~
has longmioved this ingredient out
of the fredical code, but there are
still some unscrupulous doctors
wha would secretly add this>
agredient inside their prescription in
der to increase the efficiency of
the drug on the patient''s body, which
Subsequently leads to serious
damage to the patient''s kidneys.”
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With that, Dr. Spears sighed and continued." Haphazardly buying and taking health care products a s well as listening to unverified health care tips
are also the major causes of kidney failure among the middle-aged and elderly in recent years..."Content is ? 2024 N?velDrama.Org.
"Moreover, these patients are easily fooled by unscrupulous TVmercials, advertisements, and the so-called health gurus,cking the ability to
discern truth from false." 3
"For example, the father of our director of thoracic surgery has always despised him as a Western medical doctor and trusts the traditional medicine
wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, he doesn''t have the ability to distinguish good doctors from the bad and always blindly believes in those health
programs on TV." 5
"Last year, he felt that he had some
frequent urination problem, so he
went to theshop to purchase a pack
of medicife''ording tothe =<
content t Of the health program and
secretly drank it three times a day.
AfteMhree days, he was rushed to
tb€ hospital because o acute kidney
failure.” "In less than 48 fours, he
passed away." s