Chapter 2539: Listen to the Doctor

The head of Xiao Yu, lying on the hospital bed, shows no visible injuries. It makes the child look like a little angel who has simply fallen asleep. This might be one reason why part of the family does not believe the child is gone.

Shan Shan recalls her injured left hand. She once mistakenly thought her hand was fine. It wasn’t until the doctor sister showed her the X-ray and revealed the truth: her hand was actually broken.

Having experienced this herself, Shan Shan now prefers to trust doctors and medical instruments. The child raises her head, looking at the doctor sister Wen: What’s wrong with Xiao Yu?

Explaining what brain death means to a little kid is very difficult. Consider that even the elderly present have yet to listen to what the doctors are saying.

Xie Wanying looks at the little friend with a gentle gaze, speaking softly: "Xiao Yu hasn’t left us. She will live forever in your heart and mine."

The death of a person doesn’t equate to disappearing from this world. The real time of a person’s death can be traced back to when they vanish from the memory of others.

It sounds like comforting words, but at the same time, it’s an existing fact, necessary words of comfort. The hope is to encourage those still living to muster the courage to live on for those who have passed away.

The doctor sister doesn’t lie to her. Shan Shan understands, eyes reddening, tears welling up, her small nose sniffing to keep the tears from falling.

If the world’s most adorable little sister were gone, she would only be alone in the future, with no sister behind calling her ’sister, sister.’ Frankly, a person fears losing family, just as they fear becoming lonely.

The grandparents say Xiao Yu hasn’t left, that she’s been lying here as if she hasn’t left everyone, but can this really be okay?

Shan Shan’s small eyes are fixed on the medical instruments examining her sister, thinking.

Don’t assume children are mindless; children always seriously attempt to understand the world with their own thought processes.

The elders think her sister is sleeping. Shan Shan doesn’t see it that way. Xiao Yu doesn’t sleep like this. Xiao Yu would kick the covers and drool in her sleep; these little bad habits would make her sister laugh. Now Xiao Yu, lying in bed, is completely motionless, not sleeping.

"Dad, Mom."

Hearing the elder daughter’s voice, the child’s parents immediately lean in to listen to what their daughter says.

"Listen to the doctors." Shan Shan says each word deliberately.

Upon hearing this, the four elders are most shaken. Several elders fix their gaze on this child’s small face.

Shan Shan has a resolute look as she gazes at her sister: She doesn’t want her sister to die like this; she wants her sister to "come alive" again, which means they must listen to the doctors.

The pediatricians and teachers are right; children have a resilience beyond adult imagination.

When the family wants to have solitary time with the patient, Xie Wanying and his classmates walk to the doctor’s office. It is said that the teachers are continuing to discuss the child’s medical case. To the patient and their family, perhaps a diagnosis from the doctor feels like an end. To the doctors, the discussion of the case is never-ending.

At the doorway, they hear Senior Cao speaking.

"There’s no time to lose. This child’s heart is also close to failing." Cao Yong points out.

Don’t be misled by the newspapers suggesting it’s possible to use machines to maintain brain-dead patients indefinitely, as if brain-dead patients with machine support will never die.

Way off the mark.

Brain death is a process leading to the cessation of heart and respiratory functions. Modern medicine is not as miraculous as laypeople imagine; it’s impossible to use machines to grant a person eternal life.