Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 778: About Being Sick

Chapter 778: About Being Sick

Thanks to everyone for your concern; I am truly grateful. My health is no longer a major issue.

Actually, if we really must talk about it, perhaps there never was a major issue at all...

Here’s what happened.

On the morning of December 31, 2021, the last day of the year, I suddenly felt unwell and my temperature was 38.5 degrees Celsius, so I took a taxi to the fever clinic at the hospital.

As usual, they started with a nucleic acid test. While waiting for the results, the doctor prescribed Lianhua Qingwen and asked me to wait in the observation room of the fever clinic.

After taking Lianhua Qingwen, my temperature rose instead of falling. Seeing that I was getting worse, the nurse urgently called the fever clinic’s doctor, who then put me on an antibiotic drip.

——I found out afterward that the fever clinic had prescribed medications that were irrelevant to my condition both times.

While on the drip, my fever became more severe. By the time the nucleic acid test results were ready and I could enter the hospital, my temperature had reached 40.5 degrees Celsius, and I was utterly disoriented, so I was rushed to the emergency room.

The emergency room doctor asked about my symptoms and then checked my blood. He preliminarily determined I had a viral infection. However, when he saw my electrocardiogram, his attitude changed. He called doctors from other departments for a consultation. One doctor, likely from cardiology, looked at my electrocardiogram, asked me if I felt chest tightness, and after I nodded, the hospital issued me a critical condition notice.

They diagnosed me with viral myocarditis.

Then, I was moved to the ICU. The ICU used aggressive methods not common in general wards to reduce my fever. By that same evening, my fever had subsided. Then, I started experiencing severe diarrhea.

At that moment, the head of the ICU stood by my bed and shared a potentially useful piece of trivia with me.

Acute viral gastroenteritis can sometimes present symptoms that closely mimic those of viral myocarditis.

During an acute onset of viral gastroenteritis, if a fever occurs, the "high fever" state might mask the "diarrhea" state, making it difficult to diagnose.

In other words, "You thought I was myocarditis, but actually I’m a gastroenteritis that looks like myocarditis."

Even though that’s said, the symptoms of these two diseases do indeed look very similar.

Plus, what if the virus entered some bizarre territory!

"You think I am a gastroenteritis that looks like myocarditis, but actually I am a myocarditis that looks like a gastroenteritis that looks like myocarditis," like that...

Or it might just be both myocarditis and gastroenteritis!

So, the ICU head insisted that I remain in the ICU for a few more days to completely rule out the possibility of myocarditis.

After the 31st, I was hospitalized until the 6th. Except for the last two days when my fever subsided and I could transfer to a general ward, I spent the rest of the time in the ICU.

Honestly, I felt very awkward in this ward where you’re not allowed to get out of bed.

Imagine that you’re in a room where your fellow patients could pass away at any moment, while you just have a case of gastroenteritis...

Even if you can’t help but attend to your needs in bed, you feel too embarrassed to rush the nurses...

Especially since... you really could manage on your own, but the ward rules don’t allow it...

It really is torture!

The ICU’s monitoring devices were also very concerned about my body. They firmly believed there was something abnormal with my throat’s data—or that it was incorrect for someone in the ICU like me not to have a tracheal tube, and it gave off an alarm every few seconds.

It was really noisy.

I begged the nurses to turn the thing off, but they told me that if the "parameters exceeded" the range, the device would alarm, and it’s specifically designed not to allow shutting off individual monitors.

This is probably what they call a "foolproof design"...

But for me, it was practically like being tortured...

Add to that an arterial line and a central venous catheter, and I couldn’t move at all.

I was just someone with a severe case of gastroenteritis...

Fortunately, I was discharged from the hospital yesterday.

You don’t need to worry about updates; the ICU costs nearly ten thousand a day, and I’ve already gone bankrupt, so I have to work hard. However, the long ICU stay was truly torturous. Please allow me a couple more days to catch my breath before I continue updating.

Also, I have gradually received your gifts. The flower baskets are also very beautiful. Thanks for the blessings.