Chapter 2201: Chapter 2201: What Kind of Monster
Student Pan, who hasn’t left yet, exclaimed at Student Xie’s prowess.
The patient was sent back to the emergency department. After all other test results were available, the doctor reviewed all the reports to determine the treatment plan.
However, this ultrasound result is unlikely to be incorrect. Taking the report from the nurse’s hand, Doctor An’s face appeared somewhat serious: a molar pregnancy requires a prompt suction curettage. The surgery requires a family member’s signature.
But this patient is a bit troublesome. Doctor An tapped on the report.
When Sister Weng heard the nurse saying her husband and mother-in-law had arrived, she picked up the blanket wanting to bury herself.
Doctor An walked over to push the patient and explained the situation: "Your condition requires surgery. You can’t delay any longer; if the bleeding gets worse, you could die, and there’s also a fear of malignant transformation."
Sister Weng was scared stiff by the mention of cancer. Dr. Xie’s diagnosis was correct; it’s not only ectopic pregnancies that are frightening.
"Your family is outside. I can go and tell them you need surgery. Is that okay? Of course, I promised not to discuss your privacy with others," Doctor An said. At this moment, the doctor could only do their best to gain the patient’s trust, only to save a life.
"Go ahead," Sister Weng poked her head out from the blanket and asked the doctor again, "Can this happen in normal marital relations?"
"This molar pregnancy, medically speaking, doesn’t have a specific cause. It might also be related to your recent physical exhaustion," Doctor An said. When doctors must be truthful and scientific, the issues of a woman’s pregnancy basically have nothing to do with which man it is.
Upon hearing this, Sister Weng sighed in relief and expressed to the doctor that they could approach her family.
Doctor An went out to meet Mother Lv and Mr. Lv.
"What is a molar pregnancy?" Mother Lv, hearing this term for the first time, asked the doctor about it.
Simply put, a molar pregnancy can be described as what ancient people referred to as a "monster fetus." Its biggest characteristic is the absence of a fetal heartbeat, meaning it’s not life. It’s not a child nurtured from a fertilized egg but a "monster" formed by abnormal proliferation of placental cells after a woman’s pregnancy.
How strange is it? When it is extracted from the patient’s uterus, it appears as a cluster of bubbles like grapes, hence the name molar pregnancy. This is why Xie Wanying previously asked the patient if there were other things in the discharged menstrual blood. If there are things that look like bubbles, ten out of nine times, it’s a molar pregnancy.
A molar pregnancy can directly kill a normal fetus within the same uterus; it is extremely rare for a fetus to survive after a molar pregnancy is diagnosed clinically. A molar pregnancy should be immediately cleared, as Doctor An said, due to fears of malignant transformation.
Fortunately, the current patient’s molar pregnancy is not yet large enough to prevent an abortion; suction curettage can be performed.
After hearing the doctor’s description, Mother Lv and Mr. Lv’s faces drastically changed. They couldn’t understand how Sister Weng suddenly became pregnant with a "monster."
Mother Lv pulled her son aside and whispered, "She’s been with another man outside."
Mr. Lv said, "Impossible."
Compared to his own mother, Mr. Lv trusted that his wife wouldn’t do such things.
"You just don’t know," Mother Lv was about to be angered by her son, saying, "You’re busy with business outside; what do you know? She often sneaks out alone behind your back, without even bringing the child. I’m the one taking care of the child. Tell me, can you let her give birth to a monster? Isn’t this something that the man outside let her conceive? I advise you, don’t acknowledge it. Otherwise, if word gets out, people will say you’re impotent for letting a woman bear a monster fetus."
