Chapter 574: Chapter 573: Restoring the Original State

Time flew by in a flash, and soon it was Wednesday.

Sometime after three in the afternoon, Meng Yao and Ye Lin finished assisting an attending physician from the plastic surgery center with a procedure. Exhausted and hungry, they dragged themselves to the second staff cafeteria to eat.

After getting their food, the two found a quiet spot to sit down.

Ye Lin quickly shoveled in two mouthfuls of rice and then gulped down half a bowl of soup, which finally settled her stomach a little.

"Sigh. After getting used to the Boss’s surgeries—so fluid and graceful they’re a pleasure to watch—seeing other doctors operate just feels awkward and uncomfortable. I can’t help but feel anxious for the doctor and the patient."

Meng Yao swallowed a few bites of her food and chuckled softly. "The Boss is on a completely different level than them. The contrast is so stark, of course you’d find it hard to watch anyone else."

"We’re just nurses. We just need to do our jobs."

Ye Lin sighed again and asked, "Mrs. Meng, is it true the Boss will rarely be performing plastic surgery from now on?"

Meng Yao nodded. "I heard his ambition is to become an all-around surgeon. He’ll be rotating through other surgical departments to learn."

"As for plastic surgery, he’ll probably cut back to just one or two procedures a month!"

Ye Lin pouted. "In that case, Mrs. Meng, won’t we be like orphans in the plastic surgery center, ordered around to do menial work all day?"

Meng Yao smiled. "It won’t be that bad."

"When the Boss goes to other departments to learn, he’ll still be performing surgeries, and he’ll still need surgical nurses."

"As long as we don’t fall behind and can keep up with his growth, there’s a good chance we’ll become part of his regular surgical team."

Meng Yao added reassuringly, "You’ve known the Boss longer than I have. You should know he’s a classic case of ’cold on the outside, warm on the inside.’ He’s loyal to people he’s worked with."

Ye Lin pouted. "That may be true, but the Boss has never made us any promises. It leaves me feeling a bit insecure."

Meng Yao tried to persuade her, "Lead surgeons in a surgical team always prefer to work with people they know, people they’re familiar with."

"Here at our Affiliated Hospital, there are at least ten surgical teams that have been partnered for over a decade."

"The prerequisite is that we can’t fall behind."

Meng Yao also pointed out, "For the Boss to become an all-around surgeon, he’ll be treating all different types of patients. The demands on us will be many times higher than just staying in the plastic surgery center."

Ye Lin said, a little guiltily, "Mrs. Meng, even though I like to have fun, I do make time to study and practice my skills..."

Just then, Ye Lin heard a phone ring from Meng Yao’s direction and asked nervously, "They’re not calling us back to work, are they?"

Meng Yao took her phone out of her pocket and glanced at it, shaking her head. "No, it’s the Boss."

"Bo— Mr. Yan..."

"Oh, I see. Tomorrow at eight in the morning..."

"Okay, I’ll let Ye Lin know."

Meng Yao put her phone away and said to Ye Lin with a light smile, "We’ve got a new job. Tomorrow, eight in the morning, Little Red House!"

"It’s for that doctor from the United States, Dr. Kevin Vega. A brain tumor removal. The surgery is scheduled for eight hours."

Ye Lin’s face fell. She said miserably, "Add in the pre-op OR prep and the post-op cleanup, and that’s at least eleven hours."

"We’re going to be exhausted again tomorrow."

Meng Yao chuckled. "Ye Lin, you need to have the right mindset."

"Given the Boss’s caliber, the surgeries he takes on from now on are all going to be high-difficulty, time-consuming major operations."

"We need to get used to this kind of workload."

Meng Yao then made a money-counting gesture and said, "It’s tiring, sure, but the pay is pretty substantial."

That perked Ye Lin right up. She declared, "For that limited-edition handbag I’ve been eyeing, I’ll give it my all!"

On Yan Feifan’s end, after calling Meng Yao and discussing tomorrow’s surgery with Mr. Vega for a while, he returned to his office in the Little Red House with Feng Jian.

Dr. Qiu Ge’s focus had shifted somewhat toward her research project on hypnotic audio, so her surgical team wasn’t available to assist Mr. Vega with the surgery tomorrow.

So, Yan Feifan had asked Xv Fang, along with Meng Yao and Ye Lin, to fill in tomorrow.

Not long after he arrived at his office, he heard a knock on the door.

Then, Feng Jian led in a young man in his early twenties, accompanied by his parents.

This young man was the first patient Yan Feifan had seen in his new office, referred by Mrs. Yu.

He was a patient with hyperhidrosis of the hands.

Hyperhidrosis of the hands is a condition caused by an overactive thoracic sympathetic nerve, resulting in uncontrollable, involuntary sweating that has little to do with the weather or temperature.

Medically, this is called focal hyperhidrosis, which primarily manifests as sweating in the hands, armpits, head, and feet.

In southern China, the incidence of palmar hyperhidrosis reaches 4.36%.

In mild cases, the hands feel slightly damp to the touch. In moderate cases, writing will dampen the paper. In severe cases, sweat will drip from the hands.

Palmar hyperhidrosis is generally a congenital condition that worsens during adolescence and can affect people of all ages.

As for its cause, genetic factors may account for about 20% to 50% of cases.

This young man, Wu Chengye, had already undergone a minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery to sever the sympathetic nerve that caused his hand sweating.

"Mr. Yan, hello!"

After handing his surgical records and a stack of test results to Yan Feifan, Wu Chengye introduced himself. "My hyperhidrosis wasn’t actually that severe. It was a mild case, the kind where your palms are just clammy."

"But I’m an eSports competitor, and the uncontrollable sweating in my hands was seriously affecting my performance."

"So, I went and had this sympathectomy, which is said to be a permanent cure for hyperhidrosis."

"I just didn’t expect..."

Wu Chengye took off his T-shirt, a bitter expression on his face. "This side effect is too severe. I’m living in misery every single day."

As he removed his T-shirt, Yan Feifan saw a clear line of demarcation on the young man’s upper body.

Below his pectoral muscles, his skin was soaking wet, and eczema and heat rash blisters from the excessive sweating were visible everywhere.

In contrast, the area above his pecs was completely dry, with some spots even showing signs of peeling due to excessive dryness.

"Mr. Yan, my hands don’t sweat anymore since the surgery, but now I have severe compensatory sweating below my chest."

"I start sweating at the slightest provocation, soaking my clothes. I can’t even sit still."

"The upper half of my body is sweat-free while the lower half sweats nonstop. The surface temperature difference between the two parts can be up to ten degrees. It’s like living in two different worlds of ice and fire, and it makes me especially drowsy."

Wu Chengye pleaded, "Mr. Yan, I want to go back to how I was before. I could tolerate the mild sweating in my hands."

"This current situation is just unbearable."

"Mr. Yan, can you... can you reconnect the sympathetic nerve that was severed?"

The sympathetic nerve is part of the body’s autonomic nervous system. It isn’t under conscious control and independently regulates physiological activities such as sweating.

Severing a sympathetic nerve is easy; reattaching it, however, is anything but.

A surgical sympathectomy is an irreversible procedure. What’s more, this young man’s surgery was six months ago.

’I wonder if internal nerve nourishment can be applied to sympathetic nerves? The feedback from the volunteer checks in the research group has been quite encouraging.’

Yan Feifan quickly reviewed the surgical and examination records the patient had provided. He mulled it over for a moment, then said, "First, we’ll run a test to see if the distal end of your severed sympathetic nerve has atrophied or become necrotic."

"If the severed portion is still functional, there’s still hope of reversing it..."

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