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Qiao Hao moved into the duty room, and the excuse was to prepare for the attending physician exam, but the real reason was that he didn't want to leave the hospital where Shi Dongdong lived, and he didn't know when he would need him.

Sure enough, not long after, Shi Dongdong sent a message, telling him that he would put the picc under control this morning.

Qiao Hao just finished an all-night shift, and replied "I will definitely come" with two dark circles under his eyes.

When they arrived at Shi Dongdong's ward, the three nurses preparing for intubation were already fully armed and ready to pull Shi Dongdong to the intubation room. When Qiao Hao entered the door, he could clearly see the instantly relaxed expression on Shi Dongdong's face due to joy.

The dependence shown in that small detail made Qiao Hao feel in a trance, as if the person in front of him was still the boy who was waiting for him to go home with him after school, his eyes shone brightly the moment he saw him go out of the classroom door.

The so-called picc tube is the central venous catheter that Shi Dongdong mentioned before. It is a special infusion tube installed to prevent blood vessels from being damaged by chemotherapy drugs. It penetrates from the arm vein and is directly inserted into the large vein at the heart.Such an operation sounds very intimidating, so when Shi Dongdong asked Qiao Hao if it hurt to do this, Qiao Hao hesitated.

There were a total of five people standing in the catheterization room at this time, three nurses and two family members.Qiao Hao looked at Aunt Yu who was nervously pinching her handkerchief and slightly raised the corners of her mouth, trying to make her relax with a smile.

But the other party immediately seemed to cry, and his eyes and nose began to turn red.

"Aunt Yu, you go and wait outside, you make me scared." Shi Dongdong lay on the bed, stretched out his hand to hook the woman's clothes.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, they said they have hired the best nurse in the hospital to help you. I just feel that the air conditioner here is a bit cold." Aunt Yu sniffed and forced herself to be calm.

"It's good that Qiao Hao stays with me alone." Shi Dongdong said again, this time, he felt like a child throwing a temper tantrum, and insisted on asking adults to leave.The nurse who was spreading the disinfection pad glanced at Shi Dongdong quietly, there was a slight strangeness in her eyes, but she quickly returned to normal, focusing on the work in front of her.

Seeing that Shi Dongdong turned away from her, Aunt Yu finally reluctantly left.

It wasn't until he heard the sound of the door closing that Shi Dongdong said to Qiao Hao, "Aunt Yu has taken care of me for many years and treated me like a son. If she sees me being bloody and bloody later, she will definitely cry and convulse."

"It's not that exaggerated," the little nurse who was handing the tools interjected, "At most, there will be a little blood oozing, and our head nurse has nothing to say about her skills, so how can I make you suffer!"

"Did you hear that? Don't scare yourself." Qiao Hao smiled at Shi Dongdong, and held his hand to give him some encouragement.

Shi Dongdong's hand was slightly cold, and when he was held, he shrank subconsciously, but not by much. At the end of the short movement, he stiffly stayed in Qiao Hao's hand.

Both of them were a little stunned by their actions. Qiao Hao realized that he shouldn't be so proactive. Shi Dongdong was surprised, surprised at how naturally Qiao Hao shook his hand.

But these were all interrupted by a sentence from the head nurse. She said to Shi Dongdong, "For the length and position of the intubation, I may need to insert the needle from your right elbow. Is there a problem?"

With just this sentence, Qiao Hao had no choice but to let go of his hand, because what he was holding was Shi Dongdong's right hand.

Shi Dongdong was a little embarrassed, bit his lower lip, and then asked the head nurse hesitantly, "Is my left hand bad? I still want to draw..."

"After the tube is inserted, you can still draw with your right hand. As long as you don't move too violently, your right hand is still the right hand of a normal person." The head nurse is wearing a mask and her voice is a standard mezzo-soprano. , sounds a little cold.

"You are not a bold and unrestrained painter, are you? Painting a portrait is like dancing. With a swipe of a brush, the arm turns 360 degrees." The little nurse teased Shi Dongdong.

Qiao Hao smiled gratefully at the little nurse, knowing that she was helping the patients.

The little nurse slowly turned her face away, feeling a little shy.

Shi Dongdong didn't speak any more, watching his arms being sterilized and covered under the isolation cloth, leaving only a hollow round opening on his elbow.

The nurse began to apply iodophor on the exposed skin of the round mouth. Although it was not the first time for Qiao Hao to see this minor operation, Shi Dongdong saw that Shi Dongdong's originally fair skin was turned yellow and black with layers of iodophor. My heart gradually became nervous, and I only prayed that the head nurse could get the needle in place.

With the help of the cuff, Shi Dongdong's blood vessels quickly became prominent. The head nurse acted decisively, and after spotting the needle, he stabbed straight in. Shi Dongdong's eyebrows were knotted, and his eyes were closed. After a while, he quickly grabbed a real object.

It was Qiao Hao's hand. He changed the position according to the direction of the operation. This time, he held it tightly without separating it.

"Relax, relax!" the head nurse yelled softly.

Shi Dongdong slowly withdrew the strength from his hand, but Qiao Hao on the other hand held it tighter.He knew that Shi Dongdong couldn't use his strength, so he should pass on some strength to him instead.

The needle had been swimming in Shi Dongdong's blood vessel for a long time, and the head nurse pulled out the guide wire from the needle, pressed the guide wire with her finger, and kept sending it into Shi Dongdong's body. After disappearing, some blood oozes from Shi Dongdong's arm.

The head nurse compared Shi Dongdong's shoulder, and said to him, "Turn your head to my side, and try to lean on your shoulder."

Shi Dongdong had to open his eyes and turned his head to the opposite direction of Qiao Hao.Before turning away, he glanced at Qiao Hao, as if wanting to confirm that the other party would not leave, his eyes were almost begging.Qiao Hao had no choice but to hold his hands tighter.

Shi Dongdong turned his head, the side of the neck was stretched by the muscles, a section of collarbone was exposed at the collar, slender and pale.Qiao Hao couldn't move his eyes, he just felt distressed at the moment.

"Did you hear the sound of water?" The head nurse poured some saline into the tube and asked Shi Dongdong.

Shi Dongdong closed his eyes and shook his head.

"You can open your eyes, it's almost healed." The little nurse next to him smiled.

"Thank you, your skills are awesome!" Qiao Hao praised sincerely.

"That's right, our head nurse was on vacation and was called over." The little nurse was a little proud.

"Xiao Liu, you come to bandage." The head nurse was very serious, and coldly called the little nurse who was speaking, and then stepped aside by herself.

"Will my hand be useless in the future?" Shi Dongdong suddenly asked the nurse who was helping him bandage the wound, several of the sterile cotton balls were stained red by the blood oozing out from before, at first glance, the box was full of blood red.

"It is true that we must pay attention to phlebitis. We should flush the wall of the tube on time every week, do not exercise our arms, wrap it in plastic wrap when taking a bath, and do not soak it. As for painting, it is enough to stop, not just for this tube, yours. Sickness also requires more rest." The unsmiling head nurse seriously urged, with a sense of majesty in her tone.

Shi Dongdong looked at his arm that had been wrapped with transparent film, and sighed softly.

Qiao Hao pushed him back to the ward.

Shi Dongdong in the wheelchair was a little depressed and didn't say a word along the way.Aunt Yu followed them without making a sound, but her eyes were clearly crying.

Qiao Hao's heart was also heavy, and he didn't know how to comfort him.Because he knew that the tube placement was just the beginning, and the chemotherapy drugs injected into Shi Dongdong's body through this tube would be the real challenge. Qiao Hao was only worried about whether he could bear those side effects.

Fortunately, the journey from the intubation room to the ward was not long, and the silence lasted only a few minutes.

As soon as he entered the ward, there was a sour smell.

"You can't make egg drop soup! It's you! What the hell can you do!" The bald man with eight beds shouted hoarsely at an old woman with white hair until his veins popped out. , Under his hospital bed, a basin of yellow-brown liquid was collected in a blue washbasin. Judging from the splash marks on the side of the basin, it was obviously spit out.

"Oh, why don't you call a doctor when you vomit like this!" Aunt Yu was a little frightened and worried that the dirt would make Shi Dongdong uncomfortable, so she hurriedly picked up the broom in the ward.

"It's not contagious!" he yelled at Aunt Yu with his bald head and blushing face.

"Please calm down, don't shout at the old man like that." Qiao Hao blocked Aunt Yu behind him, accusing the bald head of being rude. In the ward, such noise is really disrespectful to other patients.

"Calm down! You guys...cough cough...you guys gave me only Dolantin! I'm going to die of pain! I can't eat anything! My brain cancer is terminal, and I'm about to finish my game! I'm so calm! ..." As the man said, his entire upper body fell out of the bed, and this time he vomited more violently, a pile of dirt sprayed out from his mouth, and the bed was in a mess.

"I'm sorry, doctor, I'm sorry, I'll clean up right away! Soon, soon..." The white-haired woman apologized again and again, a few strands of hair hung down her haggard face, and her face was as pale as her hair.

"Quick! Hahaha..." The man leaned over and laughed convulsively, and threw the quilt under the bed like crazy, "Hurry up and take me in! My fucking life is really boring! Hurry up!"

The old man with seven beds turned his back, his wife was not there, the old man seemed to have bad ears, and seemed ignorant of this hysterical scene.

As for Shi Dongdong, Qiao Hao couldn't bear to look at him, but saw that he had already sat back on the bed by himself.

A doctor came in, and two or three people supported the bald head who was still writhing restlessly, and gave him an injection after a while of pushing and shoving. The old lady watched the bald head slowly calm down and closed his eyes, crying into tears , crying while cleaning up the previous mess.

Qiao Hao silently closed the bed curtain and walked to Shi Dongdong's bedside.

"Does the place where the tube is buried hurt?" Qiao Hao asked him.

"It doesn't hurt. I just showed it to the nurses. In fact, it doesn't hurt after taking anesthesia." Shi Dongdong smiled at him.

"Why don't you go to a better hospital?" Qiao Hao pulled a stool and sat beside Shi Dongdong.

"Because you are here," Shi Dongdong said lightly, "I can find you immediately for anything, maybe I can transfer to your department if my breathing is not smooth in the future, like An Ning, being your patient is very happy... ..."

"Shi Dongdong!" Qiao Hao glared at him.

"Just kidding, where is the cure? Anyway, my dad has the ability to invite a bunch of famous doctors outside for consultation... And in case something happens, it's better to be here than in another place." Shi Dongdong originally wanted to say that it would be better than dying in a foreign land. But seeing Qiao Hao's expression, he changed his words.

"Don't talk nonsense." Qiao Hao wanted to sigh, but finally held back.

It was Shi Dongdong who sighed, he sighed softly, but what he said was, "Don't worry."

Qiao Hao raised his head and looked into the man's eyes, but it was rare that there was no playfulness in his eyes.

Shi Dongdong continued, "Since the treatment is decided, I won't be scared so easily. I'm mentally prepared. Don't underestimate me."

Qiao Hao nodded, on the surface it was just a nod, but there seemed to be a stream of air in his throat, rushing towards his cheeks, so he could only resist secretly, but the air rushed straight to his eyes, so he had to lower his head, not wanting to. Let Shi Dongdong see the reddened eyes.

In the field of vision, the head of the picc tube that had just been inserted into Shi Dongdong's body was abruptly exposed outside the pale skin. Qiao Hao slowly stretched out his hand, and lightly touched the transparent sticker covering it with his fingers.