Animals all over the world love me

When Brian Hawkins heard Zhuang Mu's decisive answer, hope suddenly surged in his heart.

To be honest, the reason why he came to Douglas Animal Hospital to find Zhuang Mu was because he learned from other animal doctors that Zhuang Mu's suturing skills were particularly good.

In the words of other doctors, Zhuang Mu's suturing technique can be said to be the hand of God.

Moreover, not only one doctor recommended Zhuang Mu, but almost all the doctors he visited recommended Zhuang Mu.

The doctors were unanimous, and all of them said that if the dark horse wanted to recover to [-]% to [-]% of its previous horsepower, then it might be possible to go to Zhuang Mu.

Otherwise, the dark horse's racing career is basically over.

Although dark horses cannot compete, they can still be used as stallions to breed offspring with excellent bloodlines.

But pedigree is not everything. It does not mean that the offspring of top racehorses must also be top racehorses.

The matter of genetic inheritance is too mysterious, it's all about playing with probability, you can't let the black horse really give birth to a large group of foals, and then select the best ones, right?

The feasibility of this method is low, even if Brian really wants to do it, the dark horse's body can't bear it.

It is precisely because there are no top racehorses with good purebred qualifications that the price of racehorses is much higher than that of other animals.

Therefore, the best way at present is to heal the broken tendon of the black horse, and this is the most valuable solution.

However, this plan is too much to test the doctor's medical skills.The black horse's tendon rupture was too serious, and ordinary doctors couldn't cure it at all. Even surgery couldn't restore the black horse's tendon to its usual strength.

Therefore, everyone tacitly asked Brian to go to Douglas Animal Hospital to see Zhuang Mu for treatment.

Zhuang Mu's suture is now at the top of the pyramid in the field of veterinary medicine.

The medical field pays the most attention to strength, strong ability means strong ability, and others can't deny it even if they want to deny it.

At the beginning, Brian was a little hesitant about the doctors' recommendations, otherwise he would not have consulted several tendon specialists in succession.

Until a doctor showed him the video of Zhuang Mu's operation, which was the video of the spinal cord tumor that Zhuang Mu had performed at the National Veterinary Doctors Symposium that day.

The doctor specially transferred to Zhuang Mu's stitching process for Brian to take a good look at it.

Brian is not a medical student, and his knowledge of animal medicine is probably limited to how to deal with lice in cats and dogs.

After watching the video, Brian had to admit that although he couldn't understand the various complicated techniques in the video, judging from the speed of stitching and the beauty of the neat wound, Zhuang Mu's strength must be good.

This is the simplest form of analytical dialectics.

If the stitching is not strong, it will definitely be stitched wrong at such a fast speed, and it is impossible to have such beautiful stitching marks.thought Brian.

So, he immediately made an appointment with Zhuang Mu's outpatient clinic with Douglas Animal Hospital.

Before coming, he had already prepared himself mentally. Even if he could only restore [-]% to [-]% of his horsepower, it would be a great joy.At least in this way, this dark horse will not really become a stallion.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Mu actually told him that the dark horse could return to its original state!

"Doctor Zhuang, if you can cure this dark horse, I'll give you whatever you want. The car, the house, nothing is wrong." Brian said boldly.

He is from a wealthy family in California, and his ancestors were the top wealthy families in California from his grandfather's grandfather's generation, so there is a lot of heroism in his words.

The education he has received since he was a child is that if you want people to do things with all their heart, you have to be willing to spend money, which is why he said what he just said.

What's commendable is that he doesn't have that feeling of arrogance and domineering of the rich second generation.Although he said that he would give Zhuang Mu a house and a car, his eyes were full of sincerity.

After hearing what he said, Zhuang Mu replied with a smile: "I don't like houses and cars, so you don't have to be so polite."

"That won't work! If you cure the Duke, I must thank you very much!" Brian's attitude was very firm.

Seeing that he was so determined, Zhuang Mu felt a little funny: "But I really don't like cars and houses!"

"So what do you like?" Brian asked.

Zhuang Mu thought for a while: "The corpse."

"What?" Brian blinked, wondering if he heard it wrong.

"Animal carcasses, preferably dead wild animals that are seriously ill." Zhuang Mu replied.

"Corpse...body..." Brian was stunned, looking at Zhuang Mu with a look of bewilderment.

This guy, can't be a pervert, right?How could someone make such a weird request?thought Brian.

Are all veterinarians like this?no!

Obviously, when those experts heard that I was going to give them their cars and houses, they were all very happy.I have never heard of a doctor asking for an animal carcass so strange...

"Doctor Zhuang, are you kidding me?" Brian smiled dully.

"No! Dissecting dead animals helps me better understand the evolution of various diseases." Zhuang Mu said.

Brian: "..."

"It's okay, I was just joking with you! Don't worry! I will try my best!" Zhuang Mu shook his head and laughed.

"I'm not joking, Doctor Zhuang, don't worry, as long as you can cure the Duke, I will definitely find your body!" Brian said immediately.

"...OK." Zhuang Mu nodded, dumbfounded.

"By the way, Dr. Zhuang, when can the Duke have the surgery?" Brian asked.

"Observe it for a few days. The place where the tendon is ruptured is inflamed. It needs anti-inflammatory treatment before surgery." Zhuang Mu said.

Brian nodded.

After a few days, Duke Dark Horse's inflammation had been suppressed by the medicine, and Zhuang Mu checked Dark Horse's physical condition again.

After confirming that the current state of the black horse is suitable for surgery, Zhuang Mu asked the nurse to arrange the operating room.

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In the operating room, the black horse was completely paralyzed and lying on its side on the operating table.

In general, local anesthesia is all that is needed in the case of a human tendon rupture.Brachial plexus anesthesia is used for upper limbs, and spinal anesthesia is mostly used for lower limbs.

Because it is difficult for animals to stay quietly on the operating table, they can only be given general anesthesia.

In fact, there is another difficulty that has to be mentioned in performing surgery on animals, and that is the size of the animals.

Animals, especially wild animals, such as elephants, giraffes, and seals, vary in the location and size of their internal organs due to different species.Moreover, when performing surgery, the requirements for the operating room are also different.

If you want to perform surgery on special animals like giraffes, you have to temporarily build a special-sized operating table every minute.

These kinds of problems are a test of the medical facilities of the hospital and the medical skills of the doctors.

Because the dark horse is very tall today, the doctors and nurses involved in the operation are positioned differently from those dealing with small animals.

In order to better cooperate with the work of the chief surgeon, the nurse can only stand on the same side as the chief surgeon, because the horse is too big to stand in other positions to cooperate with the chief surgeon at any time.

But standing on the same side, nurses have to be very careful, and have to follow the movements of the chief surgeon to fine-tune their positions at any time.Because in addition to accepting the orders of the chief surgeon at any time, she cannot prevent the chief surgeon from performing the operation.

Fortunately, small things like expanding and fixing surgical incisions in the United States can already be done with the help of instruments.

Otherwise, one more assistant will be needed to pull the hook to expand the incision, and the intraoperative positioning will be more complicated.If you stand too far away, you cannot assist the chief surgeon, and if you stand too close, you are afraid of hindering the chief surgeon.

Zhuang Mu picked up the scalpel and cut open the skin, muscles, and fascia of the black horse's leg in a grasping manner until the ruptured extensor tendon was completely exposed.

The black horse's extensor tendon rupture is very serious, and the fracture is uneven.

Zhuang Mu carefully reconstructed the stump. Although the tendon can regenerate, if too much tissue is removed during the operation, it will have a great impact on the prognosis.

The dark horse is going to return to the game, so the requirements for the tendon are very high.

After the ends on both sides of the tendon rupture were processed, Zhuang Mu used the stainless steel wire pull suture method to suture.

Due to its special texture, the stainless steel wire can minimize the reaction of the tendon connective tissue to the suture and avoid the occurrence of tendon adhesion.

Moreover, the stainless steel wire has very good toughness, which is very suitable for cases such as horse racing that have high requirements on tendons and high tension at the ends.

Of course, this is just the hardware part, as long as a slightly experienced animal doctor knows these points, the key depends on whether the surgeon's medical skills are good or not.

The same method, used by different doctors, the results can sometimes vary by thousands of miles.

Of course, Zhuang Mu's suturing technique is nothing to say, he sutured the ruptured extensor tendon very quickly and steadily.

The tendon suture operation was not a major operation, so Zhuang Mu successfully completed the dark horse operation in a short time.

"Okay, let's roll out the sedative!" Zhuang Mu said to the nurse after putting a plaster on the black horse's affected limb.

After hearing this, the nurse responded, and immediately went out and called two people to push the black horse to the ward together.

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In the ward.

Brian looked at the black horse's leg fixed with plaster, and asked Zhuang Mu nervously: "Doctor Zhuang, did the operation go well? The Duke should be able to recover, right?"

"Of course, didn't I tell you earlier?" Zhuang Mu nodded.

In fact, other doctors generally would not give such a definite answer to pet owners, because no one can say anything about a disease, and it depends on the prognosis after the operation is successful.

The reason why Zhuang Mu dared to say this was because his knowledge of tendons was far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

He is very confident in his tendon suturing skills, and he is even more familiar with the dark horse's tendon tissue.

Before the operation, he also spent a lot of time looking up the sports intensity of the horses and the requirements of the horses for tendon toughness.

In addition, he also consulted the information on horse anatomy in the Douglas Animal Hospital.

It can be said that Zhuang Mu sutured the tendon of the black horse, and it felt like a mathematician who had been studying mathematics for decades was doing college calculus mathematics problems.

Perhaps calculus requires a lot of brainpower to learn for other junior high school students, and even high school students, and they may not be able to master advanced mathematics well.

However, for mathematicians, college calculus is not much more difficult than elementary school math problem 11.

The reason is that there is no one else but familiarity!

"Because the affected limb is immobilized by plaster, it will feel very uncomfortable, so don't stimulate it. It's best if it stays still, which is more conducive to the recovery of the tendon." Zhuang Mu confessed to Brian.

"Doctor Zhuang, how long will it take to leave the hospital?" Brian asked.

"The steel wire can be removed after ten days, and the fixed cast can be removed in about fifteen days. Then I can be discharged from the hospital," Zhuang Mu said.

Typically, tendon ruptures of this magnitude require three weeks to remove the cast.But Zhuang Mu is very confident in his medical skills, and two weeks is enough for the dark horse to recover basic walking functions.

Of course, if you want to run, you still need time to rest, so that the ruptured tendon can heal better and stronger.

When Brian heard that he would be discharged from the hospital in half a month, he was overjoyed and thanked Zhuang Mu repeatedly.

Fifteen days later, the Duke of Black Horse removed the fixed plaster cast, and the affected limb really recovered the basic walking ability.

The radiographs showed that the ruptured extensor tendon had basically healed, at least no signs of rupture could be seen from the X-rays.

Brian couldn't read X-rays, so Zhuang Mu specially took a picture of a healthy extensor tendon from another horse for comparison.

Now Brian understood.Or to be more accurate, at least from the picture, there is no difference between the tendon of the dark horse and the healthy tendon.

No, it should be said that there is still a big difference.

Because black horses are top racehorses, their tendons are thicker and stronger than ordinary horses.

"Doctor Zhuang, thank you so much!" Brian thanked Zhuang Mu excitedly.

"You can't exercise vigorously in the future, you can only take a walk first, then jog, step by step. Don't be in a hurry, or the second break will be troublesome." Zhuang Mu instructed.

"I know, I know, don't worry about Dr. Zhuang, I will definitely pay attention! Thank you so much!" Brian nodded quickly.

After a pause, he asked again with great anticipation: "By the way, Doctor Zhuang, if everything goes well, how long will it take to return to the competition?"

"If you recover well, it will take about nine to twelve months. To be safe, it's better to rest for a year." Zhuang Mu replied.

After all, the dark horse is a ruptured tendon, and high-intensity competitions have particularly high demands on the tendon, so adequate rest is necessary.

"Okay, I see. Thank you, Dr. Zhuang!" Brian thanked again.

"Okay, I have something to do, so I'm sorry. You go through the discharge procedures and then you can take him out of the hospital." Zhuang Mu said.

Brian nodded after hearing this, and then suddenly remembered something, and immediately said: "By the way, Doctor Zhuang, you said before that you want animal carcasses, I have already contacted a friend to find them, and they should be delivered in a few days." coming."

Zhuang Mu was planning to leave the ward, but when he heard Brian's words, he turned around and came back, and asked in surprise, "You really went to find the dead animal?!"

"Yes! As I said before, as long as you cure the Duke, I will definitely thank you!" Brian said with a smile. After a pause, he looked at Zhuang Mu hesitantly, "Doctor Zhuang, Are you kidding me when you say you want wild animal carcasses?"

"That's not joking with you. I really need animal carcasses for research. I just didn't expect you to really look for them." Zhuang Mu shook his head and replied.

"That's good." Brian sighed.

In order to collect wild animal carcasses for Zhuang Mu, he spent a lot of money.Of course, money is just a trivial matter to him, mainly because the wild animal corpses are too special, and it took him a lot of effort and a lot of favors to find them.

"What wild animals are there?" Zhuang Mu asked.

"It's the wild animals in the United States! Like North American bison, red deer, and pronghorn antelope." Brian replied.

"Bison, red deer? Wait a minute, where did you find the wild animal carcasses?" Zhuang Mu asked suspiciously, frowning slightly.

Don't buy it from the black market?Zhuang Mu thought to himself.

The animal black market in the United States is even more rampant than in China.

The U.S. government has explicitly banned the black market trade in wild animals, but the U.S. has a vast territory, and there are basically no people living in many places. The outskirts of many rural towns are forested and mountainous areas. There are too many places for animal traffickers to hide.

Unlike China's side, there are people everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will be discovered.

"I asked a friend to find a wildlife protection organization and bought it from them," Brian said.

"Wildlife protection organizations sell wild animals?" Zhuang Mu looked surprised.

Knowing that Zhuang Mu must have misunderstood, Brian quickly explained: "They originally refused to sell it. Because according to the normal process, these wild animals collected from the wild will usually be cremated or buried if they die. I am It took a long time to find someone to talk to their person in charge before they agreed.

When they send the animal carcasses over in a few days, members of the animal protection organization will come with them to see if these animal carcasses are being used for formal medical research.Don't worry, Dr. Zhuang!I know what you're worried about, I won't do anything illegal! "

After listening to Brian's explanation, Zhuang Mu felt relieved.

There are many wildlife protection organizations in the United States, and their daily work is to protect the wild animals in the country from being stolen by poachers.

However, poachers are cruel and mercenary, how could they stop because of the existence of protection organizations.

The two sides can only continue to fight wits and courage.

During this period, if people from animal protection organizations encounter wild animals killed by poachers in the wild, they will usually store them for centralized processing, so as not to be sold by poachers.

The wild animal carcasses that Brian found for Zhuang Mu came from here.

About four or five days later, Brian really brought a truckload of wild animal carcasses.