Golden Time Golden Time Chapter 81

After dinner at home, Suhyuk was ready to return to the hospital. 

There was nothing special for him to pack, and everything needed was  at the lodging.

"Do not come out." 

"Do you take a break the next weekend?" 

At his mother’s asking, Suhyuk smiled bitterly. Of course the parents could not notice it. 

"I do not know. I'll call you when I’m off." 

When Suhyuk went out, the couple followed. 

As soon as Suhyuk was about to open his mouth, his mother said first, "The weather is so good that I want to take a walk with your dad." 

At her words, Suhyuk was no longer able to discourage them.

Their walking course was exactly up to the bus stop. 

The bus arrived and Suhyuk got on the car, looking at his mother and father. 

"I'll give you a call." 

Mom, folding her husband’s arms, waved her hand. 

"Suhyuk, try to be tactful when you work. When something happens, call me right away." 

His father was only looking at him without saying anything. 

“Bye for now!”

The bus that carried the Suhyup left right away. 

The bus was not crowded when he got on, but the more it passed by the bus stops, the more people got on. 

The empty seats were all occupied, and the bus was crowded with standing people.

When he looked out the window,  the people's voices inside the bus overflowed into his ears. 

A man bragging about his salary increase, and some talking about dating.

At that moment, a woman frowned at a loud voice. 

It was because the elderly man behind Suhyuk was blowing his nose. 

"Grandpa, here you’re.” 

Did he use up all the tissues? 

The woman who had frowned her face  gave him a disposable tissue.

"Thanks, student." 

Suhyuk's head swung back toward him.

 A grandfather, head down, kept blowing his nose constantly.

Suhyuk opened his mouth, "Grandfather, it's not good to blow your nose so often." 

When one blows his nose hard, the eustachian tube connecting the nose and the ears could not function, which could cause pain in the ear or ear canal. The mucous membrane can also weaken, which can lead to nosebleeds.

After blowing his nose, the old man lifted his head. 

At the same time, Suhyuk’s eyes grew bigger. 

“Epistaxis’

The reason why the girl gave him the toilet paper was because he was pouring nosebleed.

When Grandfather slipped his head backward, Suhyuk opened his mouth. "Are you okay?" 

"I’m okay. It will go away." 

"Grandpa, do not lean back. Just tilt your head forward." 

If the head was tilted backward, blood could enter the respiratory tract and cause aspiration pneumonia. 

Fortunately, the grandfather followed Suhyuk well.

When he tilted his head forward, blood dropped from his nose. 

Though he blocked it with toilet paper, the blood was still flowing over his hand.

 "Grandfather, hold your nose with two fingers and push it hard." 

"Then will blood stop?"

While he was blocking his nose with a tissue, he followed his words. 

Suhyuk looked at him quietly. It passed about five minutes.

Suhyuk knitted his brows slightly. 

Though he thought it was not a big deal, the bleeding did not stop.

The blood amount was significant. 

After all, Suhyuk, standing up from his seat, elbowed his way to the old man.

"Did you hit somewhere or hurt?" 

No, suddenly it came out like this." 

It was not easy to see these bleeding without a facial impact. 

“Do you have bloody nose as a usual?”

The old man shook his head, saying "I've had no problem like this for years. Perhaps because I worked all night?" 

He was a plastering worker at construction sites.  

"I think you should go to the hospital." 

At his words, the old man shook his head. 

"That would be better over time," he said.

 "No, it won’t get better,” said Suhyuk.

At his words, the old man smiled bitterly because he didn’t feel it necessary to pay the enormous medical fee for his treatment at the hospital. 

As the old man didn’t reply, Suhyuk opened his mouth again, 

“Grandpa, don't you think there's a lot of blood coming out? It could damage your body. Shock. It could cause you more medical cost.” 

Suhyuk continued to persuade him. 

The blood did not stop and the blood amount was too much. 

And finally Suhyuk decided to frighten him. 

"I know some died because they shed too much nosebleed." 

It was a lie. He has never seen it before. But it was also a rare occurrence.

Loss of consciousness due to massive bleeding, which caused the patient’s death during transportation to hospital.

At his words, the grandfather's wrinkled eyes grew bigger. 

There was a stir in his mind. 

Really?" 

Suhyuk nodded his head. 

"Yes, that’s true. Get off with me at the next stop."

The hesitant old man nodded. 

At that moment, there was a recorded voice saying the next stop was the entrance to Daehan Hospital.

***

Suhyuk and the grandfather visited the emergency room. 

“A patient with epistaxis”

Oh Byeong-chul, who was watching the charts, shook his head dumbfoundedly.

Now Suhyuk began to bring a patient from outside, not content with taking care of the usual emergency patients. 

Suhyuk put the grandfather right in bed. 

"Were you a doctor?" 

At his asking, Suhyuk laughed and nodded his head. 

The expected disease was anterior bleeding.

 It was a frequent disease that occurred when the mucosa weakened to seniors. 

But it is a bit different this time. Even bleeding from the front often stops. 

He didn’t see excessive bleeding like this. What for?

Stopping questions like that, Suhyuk decided to stop bleeding first

“Grandpa, please wait a moment." 

Suhyuk moved to the emergency room. 

“A patient with epistaxis?

Oh Byeong-cheol came to Suhyuk who was taking all the necessary stuff. 

"Yes, bleeding does not stop. I think we should stop the blood first."

After saying that, Suhyup looked at Oh.

He was asking for his consent.

"Can you even do the nasal packing?" 

Suhyuk nodded, and Oh shook his head. Is there any first aid this guy can’t do anyway?

 "Yeah, try it." 

As soon as Oh said that, Suhyuk approached the old man.

So did Oh, who was worried that he might make a mistake.

“Grandpa, I'm going to give you first aid, You may be a bit uncomfortable when I do nasal packing."

Nasal packing is a technique that compresses bleeding sites by inserting gauze coated with Vaseline into the nostrils of the nose. 

However, it was the thin compression sponge that came in hand. He used it instead of gauze. 

It was compression spun that it inflated while sucking in water or blood, and was able to compress the bleeding site and the nasal cavity. 

"Hold on a second." 

The grandfather nodded, and Suhyuk’s hands moved. 

The compressed sponge caught in a thin tweezer came into his nostrils.

 His face was getting thicker and wrinkled due to the pain.

 "Be patient a bit more. it'll be over soon." 

As soon as he said that, the procedure was finished. 

And blood running down from the nose stopped. 

Oh Byeong-cheol, who watched him from behind, shook his head.

It seemed natural as if Suhyuk had spent years packing the nostrils. Master of nose packing?

When Oh thought about it, Suhyuk said. "Do you feel blood passing through your neck?" 

That meant the packing did not fit properly. 

That's because the sponge did not properly compress the nasal passages, so it's bleeding. 

Fortunately, the grandfather shook his head. "I do not think there is such a feeling." 

Suhyuk smiled at that. Now the bleeding was cured.

Next, he had to find out why the excessive bleeding occurred.

 "Why?" 

He asked himself the question. 

At the same time, the names of various diseases passed through his head.

 At that moment Oh Byungchol opened his mouth, "Maybe isn’t it something like thrombocytopenia?" 

He couldn’t understand why he asked it, because he found he was discussing it with an intern.

He just could not help but doubt his capabilities that he had cultivated while working at the emergency room so long. 

Suhyuk shook his head, though. 

 It is not that kind of disease that he thought. 

"If you test it, the result will come out. So do the blood test first.”

Instructing Suhyuk like that, Oh moved again to take care of a man walking with limp to the emergency room. 

"Grandpa, I'll try some tests for you to see why the blood is so much."

 He just opened his mouth. "Does that cost a lot of money?" 

Suhyuk took a deep breath. Was it the reason why he hesitated to go to the hospital? 

Suhyuk, wearing a blank expression a moment ago, made a smile now. 

He decided to get some clues on the cause without having him go through the tests.

It would not be too late to do the test when my stupid head can hardly figure it out. 

"Grandpa, do you have any such aspirin or warfarin?" 

Aspirin? And what the hell is warfarin?

"Have you ever been in a hospital recently?"

 "I went to the hospital last week." 

Suhyuk’s eyes shone. 

"What did they say at the hospital?" 

"Oh, I don’t know…”

He shook his head after he had been thinking for a while. 

"I know what the doctor told me ... I got an injection and a medicine." 

"What is the name of the hospital?"

 "True Hospital." Suhyuk smiled at that.  

"What is your age and your name?"

 "I'm 69 years old and I'm Lee Byungchul." 

"Okay, stay here for a while."

 Suhyup moved with the grandfather back in the emergency room.

 Oh, who was seeing a bruise patient, said to Suhyuk, "Hey, where are you going instead of doing the test?”

"I'll come back after I make a call.”

Oh knitted his brows. Making a phone call in the presence of a patient he has to take care of?

“Hey, you ..."

 "Ooops…” Oh's head turned back to the moaning of the patient. 

"Sorry."

Peering at Suhyuk once again, Oh started to see the patient again.

 "Please give me the number of True Hospital”

At Suhyuk's request, the 114 operator gave him the number.

 Suhyuk dialed directly. 

"Yes, this is True Hospital”

"Hello, this is the emergency medicine department of Daehan Hospital. 

Age 69, the patient’s name is Lee Byungchul. He had a medical treatment prescription there a few days ago.”

"If it's urgent ..."

Suhyuk cut out the reply deliberately to get the information quickly.

 "It's an emergency. I'm in a hurry." 

"Just a moment." 

It did not take long time. There came out a voice from the othe end.

“He was diagnosed with angina pectoris." 

"Of course, he has received a prescription drug?" 

"Absolutely." 

"Thank you." 

Suhyuk, who hung up the phone, looked at the grandfather sitting and laughed.

He found it out.

Chapter end