Chapter 230: Chapter 231: Night of the Returning Spirit? (Extra for 3000 monthly votes)

The girl continued to speak, “It was hard enough to calm my mom down, and she only fell asleep after taking a sleeping pill, but just an hour ago, I suddenly heard a lot of noise coming from next door, so I quickly got up to check.”

“As soon as I entered the room, I saw my mom screaming her head off, and everything on the bed had been thrown on the floor!”

“When my mom saw me come in, she said, ‘Daughter, look, behind you, they’ve come again!’”

The girl felt her arms as if she were scared.

Not to mention him, even Chen Cang and Lele were trembling a bit upon hearing this.

Chen Cang couldn’t help but mutter to himself.

The girl went on, “I was about to speak when my mom suddenly pointed behind me and shouted loudly, ‘Go away! I’m begging you, please go away!’ But when I turned around, I couldn’t see anything…”

“I was terrified at that moment and said, ‘Mom, are you getting muddled?’”

“But my mom just clutched at my clothes and wouldn’t let go, saying, ‘It’s right there, right there…’”

“I was about to speak when my mom started to run outside, shouting as she went, ‘Don’t chase me… Don’t grab me!’”

“Then we chased her here.”

That was the end of the story…

Chen Cang felt a bit of a shiver himself, and shook his head quickly at the thought.

He was a doctor; how could he indulge in superstitions like them?

At this time, Lele and a few nurses were already scared and huddled together, afraid to speak.

Chen Cang, pondering a change in the weather, asked, “Has the old lady had any illnesses before? Has she taken any medication? Such as sleeping pills, painkillers or anything like that?”

The girl wasn’t very old, probably the youngest in the family, and shook her head, “No, my mom is usually very healthy. She rarely takes sleeping pills, just in case someone needs one at an unexpected time. She barely takes painkillers and is usually in good spirits, going to the senior activity center every day to sing and dance. Oh! Right, she has high blood pressure. She’s had it for over a decade, but she’s always taken her medication.”

Chen Cang thought it over, ruling out a history of mental illness and no diseases that would affect her mental state. After much consideration, he said, “Let’s get a CT scan of her head!”

The daughter nodded, but still seemed frightened and uncertain as she asked, “Okay, but… doctor, is it possible my mom is possessed by a ghost? Seeing things that are unclean?”

Before Chen Cang could respond, the daughter went on, “Doctor, you’ve seen a lot. Should I find a Taoist priest tomorrow to perform a ritual?”

Chen Cang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, “Let’s first check if there is anything wrong with the patient’s head.”

By this time, the old lady was possibly worn out; she didn’t make a sound and seemed to have fallen asleep.

Chen Cang followed for the CT, fearing there might be some issue.

But soon, the CT results came out, which were surprisingly unexpected to Chen Cang.

No significant abnormalities (Report: multiple cavities in the bilateral basal ganglia and semioval center).

The daughter also said, “My mom is really alright.”

At this point, the girl said, “How about this, doctor? Give my mom a tranquilizer shot, let her have a good sleep, and if she’s fine tomorrow, then there’s no issue. If not, I’ll find a master to perform a ritual.”

Chen Cang thought about it again and said, “I think we should do an MRI…”

The girl’s husband was getting impatient, “You’re taking this too far! CT now, MRI next, what are you trying to do?”

Upon hearing this, the girl said, “Doctor, please don’t mind him, I’m fine with whatever, but… don’t make us undergo excessive diagnostics. Let’s do something meaningful. You see what state my mom is in; as her child, I’m really worried!”

Clenching his teeth, Chen Cang insisted, “I feel there’s still a problem, and I strongly suggest you get an MRI of the head before leaving. If there’s no problem then, I won’t stop you guys.”

The daughter clapped her hands, “Let’s do the MRI then, think of it as a health check-up!”

After finishing, he sent the man to pay the fee, and since it was late with no one around, the MRI was quickly done.

Chen Cang looked at the scans and instantly breathed a sigh of relief, finally, there was a new finding!

The clear images showed an infarct in the old lady’s temporal parietal lobe on one side of the brain.

Chen Cang, looking at the scans, knew the cause. The temporal lobe, which manages a person’s emotions and psyche, was affected. An issue there could very likely lead to hallucinations.

Chen Cang called the girl over and said, “You see, it’s a stroke that’s causing the old lady to have hallucinations, not something filthy possessing her. She must be hospitalized for treatment.”

The boy skeptically said, “Isn’t a stroke supposed to cause… paralysis? What about the drooling, slurred speech, and numbness in the limbs? How could it be like this!”

Chen Cang shook his head: “The brain is the command center for all functional activities of the body, including our eating, drinking, excretion, our thinking, and our psychological, spiritual, and conscious activities. Therefore, theoretically, a variety of symptoms can appear after a stroke, including changes in personality, memory, and even psychiatric anomalies.

But even with the variety of symptoms, some are still characteristic. For instance, paralysis often only appears on one side of the body or face, with bilateral limb paralysis being quite rare. What’s more distinctive is the onset of a stroke—its sudden onset and rapid progression to peak severity have significant clinical diagnostic value.”

“So, your mother’s condition is an acute temporal parietal lobe infarct, which suddenly caused emotional dysregulation, leading to a series of illnesses!”

The girl, upon hearing this, instantly breathed a sigh of relief!

“You scared me to death, I thought she had been hexed or something! So… doctor, what do we do now?”

Chen Cang turned and looked at Lele, “Lele, call the Department of Neurology, tell them we have a patient with an acute cerebral infarction who needs to be admitted to the hospital immediately.”

As Chen Cang thought this, he explained, “The reason I asked you to get a CT scan first is because CTs are more effective within a short period after cerebral hemorrhage, and they’re cheaper, costing less than two or three hundred, which serves as a screening tool. But an MRI costs nearly nine hundred. However, its effectiveness in detecting acute strokes is better than that of a CT, so that’s why I arranged it in this order.”

The girl shook her head, her face finally calming down: “Doctor, it’s okay, as long as I know what’s wrong with my mom.”

Soon after, Dr. Zhang Lingyun from the Department of Neurology came down and transferred the patient to his department.

Busy until three or four o’clock, this strange patient was finally taken care of.

The nurses were still somewhat in disbelief: “Dr. Chen… do you think it’s possible that she was possessed by a ghost, and then suddenly had a stroke?”

Chen Cang was left speechless: “In the future, stop with the superstitions, you’re scaring the patients!”

After finishing, Chen Cang returned to his office.

Recalling the patient from before, Chen Cang also smiled. The girl was understanding, and it was really rare to have a patient willing to cooperate with further examinations.

Usually, if the CT scan doesn’t reveal anything, they won’t get further checks, and they’ll misunderstand the doctor for over-testing.

However… the symptoms exhibited by human illnesses are sometimes incredibly strange, especially in cases of auditory and visual hallucinations.

Sitting in his office, Chen Cang suddenly remembered he had something else to do, so he turned on the only computer in the office that was connected to the internet, about to log into his WeChat.

This computer hardly ever got shut down, and was terribly slow. Chen Cang jiggled the mouse, and suddenly the screen lit up. He had just logged in when he was taken aback!

Damn!

I finally understand why my WeChat has been sending out photos to others!

I didn’t log out after using WeChat here two days ago!

And last night, Qin Yue was on the night shift!

Realizing this, Chen Cang was itching with irritation, “Good for you, Qin Bootlicker, just you wait till I deal with you tomorrow!”

ps: For now, five updates, thank you all for your support…

ps, recommending a book,”Ancestor Simulator”by Zhong Cheng. Little did he expect that after becoming the ancestor on the ancestral tablet, the real golden finger finally appeared in front of him!