Resumo do episódio 24 de Thank You Doctor
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Li Shi Lei’s wife, Lin Ruo Yun, gathered their son, Li Song, and daughter, Li Jie, at home to discuss his treatment. Li Song insisted on aggressively saving his father, suggesting a nasogastric tube, believing it could extend his life for another six months. Lin Ruo Yun explained that she had visited numerous hospitals, and all the doctors agreed that Li Shi Lei’s illness was irreversible, leaving him with only six months at most.
She did not want him to continue suffering, especially since Li Shi Lei himself had expressed a desire to pass away with dignity, refusing any medical interventions to prolong his life. Lin Ruo Yun emphasized that true filial piety encompassed not just respecting but also obeying a parent’s wishes. She then led them back to the hospital.
At Li Shi Lei’s bedside, Lin Ruo Yun gently showed her children his hands and feet, which were covered in needle marks from over a decade of continuous illness. Doctors were struggling to find suitable spots for new injections. She conveyed the immense pain etched on Li Shi Lei’s face, even though he had lost the ability to speak over 600 days ago, she could still hear his silent plea for release.
Lin Ruo Yun tearfully begged Li Song and Li Jie to let their father go and spare him further torment. Both children were deeply distressed by their father’s condition and requested more time to deliberate, suggesting they maintain basic treatment for now. They acknowledged the gravity of the decision, knowing it concerned their father’s life. Meanwhile, Bai Shu, aware of Xiao Yan’s neck discomfort, searched his house at night.
He quietly entered Little Guang’s room, inadvertently waking him, to retrieve a neck pillow he had given Little Guang for his birthday the previous year. Little Guang playfully protested, noting the pillow was too large for him and had never been used, and reminded Bai Shu that as a gift, it was now his property. Bai Shu playfully dismissed him, claiming it was "heaven's will" that it was unused.
The next morning, Bai Shu presented the neck pillow to Xiao Yan, attributing the gift to Little Guang as a thank you for their amusement park visit. Xiao Yan was surprised, wondering how Little Guang knew about her neck issues, to which Bai Shu suggested Xu Yiran might have mentioned it. The pillow fit Xiao Yan perfectly, and she asked Bai Shu to thank Little Guang. Later, Tang Hua and Lin Zhi noticed the neck pillow on Xiao Yan.
Observing Bai Shu's overly excited demeanor earlier, they suspected he had used Little Guang’s name to give the gift. Xiao Yan, feeling somewhat embarrassed, quickly left to make her rounds. Lin Ruo Yun remained vigilantly by Li Shi Lei’s side, refusing to rest despite her pale appearance. Exhausted, she eventually fainted in the hallway on her way to the restroom. Xiao Yan immediately rushed to her aid, providing her with glucose.
Once she regained consciousness, Lin Ruo Yun recounted her romantic 40-year love story with Li Shi Lei. She described their accidental meeting in Shanghai when she suffered from acute appendicitis and Li Shi Lei was her attending physician. She felt an immediate, profound connection, as if they were old friends, finding solace in his professionalism, responsibility, patience, and meticulous care. He was a "beam of light" saving her from despair.
Their deep conversations revealed them to be soulmates, with Li Shi Lei understanding her completely. Lin Ruo Yun moved to Shanghai, and Li Shi Lei became a distinguished internal medicine doctor. Their love deepened, built on mutual admiration and dependence. They had their eldest son, Li Song, in their second year of marriage, followed by their daughter, Li Jie, in their fourth year. Despite having children, their love remained idyllic and “otherworldly.”
As a teacher with annual breaks, and embracing a Western "free-range" approach to parenting, Lin Ruo Yun traveled with Li Shi Lei twice a year, aiming to explore "every corner of the world" while they were young. Li Shi Lei often gave her hundreds of red roses for her birthdays, filling their home, though he frequently forgot their children's birthdays. Their bond was characterized by deep affection, rare disagreements, and minimal separation over four decades.
Lin Ruo Yun sadly reflected that the man who knew her best was now slowly slipping away, "leaving her in his forgetting way." She asked Xiao Yan if she perceived her as a cruel and heartless woman for wishing to let him go. Xiao Yan assured her that her deep love for Li Shi Lei was evident, and advised her to rest. Later, Lin Zhi discovered that Lin Ruo Yun had shared her love story with Li Shi Lei online.
Tang Hua expressed skepticism about the story, but Lin Zhi found it genuinely romantic. Jiang Shan interjected, reminding them that as nurses, they should not gossip about patients' private lives, recalling previous admonishments. Despite Lin Ruo Yun's wishes, Li Song and Li Jie decided to proceed with inserting a nasogastric tube for their father. As Tang Hua prepared for the procedure, Xiao Yan and Lin Ruo Yun arrived, stopping her.
Xiao Yan sternly reprimanded Tang Hua for attempting such a procedure without the full consensus of the family and without consulting her, as Li Shi Lei's primary physician. Jiang Shan tried to defend Tang Hua, suggesting she acted out of concern for the children's wishes. Xiao Yan, however, stressed the importance of separating personal feelings from medical practice and emphasized that a consensus among family members was crucial. They decided to await the family's final decision.
Lin Ruo Yun called her children home for another discussion. Li Song and Li Jie reiterated their stance, stating that their father was not one to give up easily and would want to fight for life as long as there was hope, a belief reinforced by their consultations with many doctors. Lin Ruo Yun countered that Li Shi Lei's extensive brain damage and organ failure meant that continued survival would be a torturous existence, worse than death.
She urged them to respect scientific reality. The children remained unyielding, asserting they would care for him even if he had only one day left, and offered to take over his care, telling their mother to rest at home. Li Song then spoke to Xiao Yan, expressing their frustration. Xiao Yan reiterated her understanding of both perspectives, acknowledging that there was no right or wrong way to express love in such a situation.
However, she emphasized that the family needed to reach a consensus for any medical intervention. She also advised against transferring Li Shi Lei, citing his fragile condition and the potential for life-threatening complications. She suggested they could seek other medical opinions if they doubted her advice. Feeling that Xiao Yan was subtly siding with his mother, Li Song became even more frustrated.
He told Li Jie they should transfer their father to another hospital and contacted another hospital director for consultation. Lin Ruo Yun, undeterred, called Xiao Yan again, expressing her unwavering resolve to honor her promise to Li Shi Lei not to let him suffer. She declared she would not yield to her children and warned Xiao Yan that she would take her own measures to prevent the intubation, even if it negatively affected Xiao Yan or the hospital.
True to her word, Lin Ruo Yun published an article online, accusing her children of torturing Li Shi Lei. The article quickly went viral, attracting media reporters to the hospital, who were met by Lu Ping'an and Tang Hua trying to block their entry. Hospital director Jiang Zhongjing supported Xiao Yan's handling of the situation and offered to personally intervene.
That same night, Li Song and Li Jie confronted Lin Ruo Yun, accusing her of exposing their private family matters online and making them targets of public criticism. They stressed that their efforts were solely aimed at prolonging their father's life. Lin Ruo Yun remained unyielding, declaring she would fight them to the end. Jiang Shan and Bai Shu discussed the escalating family conflict.
Jiang Shan criticized Lin Ruo Yun's stubbornness and selfishness for airing private family matters publicly, stating that such actions ignored her children's feelings. Bai Shu, however, suggested refraining from judgment, acknowledging that they didn't know Lin Ruo Yun's full experience and that they must have true feelings after 40 years. Later, Li Shi Lei’s condition suddenly deteriorated, and he suffered acute heart failure. Xiao Yan and the medical team quickly initiated resuscitation, and he was eventually stabilized.
Lin Ruo Yun, Li Song, and Li Jie rushed to his side. Li Song and Li Jie desperately pleaded with their mother not to let their father die. Overwhelmed, Lin Ruo Yun finally relented and agreed to the nasogastric tube, regretfully accepting that her "last effort" to protect him from suffering had failed. She requested a moment alone with Li Shi Lei.
Holding his unresponsive hand, she remembered how he could still respond a year ago, expressing her profound heartache over his repeated struggles with life and death. She tearfully apologized for her failure to shield him from pain and vowed that he would remain forever in her heart, even if his illness had caused him to forget her. She bid him farewell, asking him to wait for her in the next life.
Emerging from his room, Lin Ruo Yun handed Li Song and Li Jie a list of Li Shi Lei’s daily needs and care instructions, urging them to attend to him with the same dedication she had shown. She warned them that caring for such a patient was far more challenging than they could imagine and could lead to their own emotional collapse, offering them sleeping pills to cope.
With a final glance at the door to his room, she left the hospital. After the family reached a consensus, Bai Shu reflected that while the family dispute was painful, its online exposure transformed it into a significant social topic. He noted that in an aging society, discussions about elder care and end-of-life choices sparked by such cases yielded positive societal value. Xiao Yan admitted she still felt uneasy about the resolution.
She acknowledged that her previous inclination would have been to support Lin Ruo Yun's decision to "fight to the end," but Bai Shu's influence had gradually shifted her perspective towards prioritizing life. Seeing her contemplative, Bai Shu gently advised her not to dwell on it, reiterating that there was no absolute right or wrong in such deeply personal and difficult decisions. In other events, Tang Hua's mother had arranged several blind dates for her at the hospital, causing awkward encounters.
Lin Zhi commented that Tang Hua’s mother, driven by anxiety, was likely to continue her efforts. Tang Hua, utterly exasperated, called her mother, threatening to sever their relationship if the matchmaking persisted. Overhearing this, Chen Zhi offered to pretend to be her boyfriend, boasting about his acting skills. Tang Hua immediately rejected him, exclaiming that her mother would "jump into the Huangpu River" if she ever brought him home.
Lin Zhi suggested Xu Yiran, but he explained that he couldn't, having recently pretended to Tang Hua's mother that Lin Zhi was his fiancée. He then advised Tang Hua to reconsider Chen Zhi, highlighting his reliability. With no other viable options, Tang Hua reluctantly approached Chen Zhi, asking him to be her fake boyfriend.
