Chapter 2162 - 2122: What Awaits Is Death

Dr. Smith returned home and was indeed worried that Ye Qiu might report him to the police, which would be troublesome.

However, he didn’t notice any police officers coming to find him.

Yet, when he woke up this morning, he suddenly felt very unwell, like he was coming down with a cold.

Dr. Smith thought his physical condition was quite good, so why was he feeling unwell?

Moreover, he gradually felt exhaustion throughout his body and hurried to measure his temperature, finding it was only around thirty-eight degrees Celsius.

Given the situation, Dr. Smith knew he needed to return to the hospital for an infusion.

He struggled to return to his hospital, and during a check-up in internal medicine there, it’s typical for Americans to undergo blood tests for such cases.

Now Dr. Smith too had a certain amount of blood drawn, after which a female nurse administered an infusion to him.

However, soon after, an internal medicine attending doctor hurriedly came to find him.

"Dr. Smith, you need to be mentally prepared."

Mental preparation?

The other side didn’t understand what this sentence meant.

This internal medicine attending doctor felt strange, as news of Dr. Smith suffering from severe stomach cancer had just circulated a few days ago, and now, how did the other party suddenly recover?

And now with the fever and cold, the blood test unexpectedly revealed AIDS virus, showing positive results.

Nowadays, medical blood tests are getting faster and more accurate.

So, at the first moment, the attending doctor felt there was no mistake.

"What mental preparation?" Dr. Smith asked strangely.

"Just now during your blood test, it was discovered you have AIDS."

AIDS?

This disease that makes people fearful, appearing as terrifying as cancer, now he discovered he actually has AIDS.

How is this possible?

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Typically, one contracts such a disease either through blood transmission or that type of transmission, but Dr. Smith maintained strict standards in his life.

He had a stable partner and always took necessary precautions.

Now they say he has such a disease?

Dr. Smith pondered repeatedly, feeling it was impossible.

"Definitely impossible, the blood must be wrong."

Dr. Smith said weakly,

Now he felt increasingly unwell.

"Therefore, we’re preparing to test your blood again."

They drew another sample from Dr. Smith and took it to the hospital laboratory for examination.

Soon after, the results were the same, all showing positive.

In such a situation, how could there be a mistake?

The attending doctor and the female nurse looked at Dr. Smith during his infusion, saying: "Dr. Smith, we just tested your blood again, and the results are still the same."

Still the same?

How could this be?

Even though Dr. Smith knew that contracting AIDS, timely treatment and control might mean not dying immediately.

Because initially, it might enter a clinical outbreak phase.

However, over time, the human immune system would certainly be overwhelmed, ultimately waiting for death.

How could it be like this?

Dr. Smith no longer listened to what the attending doctor beside him was saying, sitting silently alone.

If he had such a disease, it meant he would fall from the high status of a white elite, a talented graduate of Harvard University, possibly directly into the lower strata.

He would lose many things, possibly everything.

And the only things waiting for him would be suffering and death.

After the attending doctor and the female nurse left, the attending doctor knew that, given Dr. Smith’s situation, knowing he had such a disease, he naturally understood the outcome.

Thus, there was essentially no need for further explanation, just a reminder of his situation.

Before the morning even arrived, everyone in the hospital knew Dr. Smith had AIDS.

As for how he contracted it?

People could only rely on speculation.

Of course, in America, privacy is very well-protected, and now Dr. Smith is rumored to have AIDS, it is certainly not fake.

Some people speculated he was promiscuous.

Some speculated he was a drug user.

Some speculated he was gay, and so on.

Anyhow, Dr. Smith’s former positive image suddenly turned negative, and if this continued, he might not be able to withstand the pressure.

Although outwardly it might be said these types of patients would be respected.

But, in reality, there is rejection from top to bottom.

Unless they genuinely don’t understand the situation.

AIDS can be said to be a severely harmful communicable disease, caused by infection of the AIDS virus (HIV virus). HIV is a virus that attacks the human immune system.

It primarily targets the most important CD4T lymphocytes in the human immune system, massively destroying these cells, causing loss of immune function.

Thus, the body becomes susceptible to various diseases and could develop malignant tumors, with a high mortality rate.

The average incubation period for HIV in the human body is 8 to 9 years, and before developing AIDS one can live and work for years without any symptoms.

HIV-infected individuals may take years, even up to 10 years or more, before developing into AIDS patients, as the body’s resistance decreases significantly, causing various infections such as herpes zoster, oral fungal infections, tuberculosis, enteritis, pneumonia, encephalitis caused by special pathogenic microorganisms, severe infections caused by pathogens like candida and pneumocystis, and subsequently malignant tumors, chronic consumption, eventually leading to systemic failure and death.

After HIV infection, the first few years to over a decade may have no clinical manifestations. Once developed into AIDS, the patient can exhibit various clinical manifestations.

Generally, early symptoms resemble common cold or flu-like symptoms, such as general fatigue, loss of appetite, fever, etc. As the condition worsens, symptoms increase such as skin and mucous membrane infections, single herpes, shingles, purple spots, blood blisters, hemorrhagic spots, etc.; later gradually invading internal organs, causing unexplained persistent fever for as long as 3 to 4 months; symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, persistent diarrhea, bloody stools, liver and spleen enlargement, concurrent malignant tumors, etc. Clinical symptoms are complex and variable, but not all patients exhibit all these symptoms. Lung invasion common symptoms include difficulty breathing, chest pain, cough, etc.; gastrointestinal invasion may cause persistent diarrhea, abdominal pain, wasting, weakness, etc.; it may also invade the nervous system and cardiovascular system.

However, looking at Dr. Smith’s situation, previously found to have brain cancer, he hadn’t been diagnosed with this, why was it suddenly detected now, and already starting to manifest?