Chapter 51 Section 24

At 11:45, the first form received by the Newport Hospital laboratory was a routine blood sample analysis signed by Dr. Mayer, in which "unexplained coma" was filled in the "cause" column.Usually only five tubes of blood are drawn for a routine blood sample, and only five tubes of blood are recorded in the laboratory records, but according to Dr. Test tube, just in case." Sino Edward later said that when she saw the name on the laboratory test sheet, she felt familiar. It was not until she went to the emergency room and the patient that she remembered that this "socialite" named Mrs. Sunny von Pro was once in the hospital. Was admitted to Newport Hospital this time last year with the same condition.

At 12:30, Dr. Mayer had the nurse on duty administer the first glucose injection to Mrs. von Prow, a routine procedure for comatose or unconscious patients, who often suffer from hypoglycemia.Soon, the patient's condition stabilized and he was transferred from the emergency room to the intensive care unit.Over the next 12 hours, there were about four more glucose injections and one drip. At 1:30, Sino Edward had just finished his lunch when he was notified that Dr. Mayer needed more blood samples from the patient.Sino first went to the laboratory to fetch syringes and test tubes, but was stopped by Dr. Mayer on the way to the intensive care unit.

"Whatever you are doing now, please stop immediately," said the doctor. "I need to know the insulin level in Mrs. von Prov's blood, and I need it now! And, with your first blood sample." That is, the injection Glucose previous blood sample. Xinuo looked distressed: "Doctor, you should know that we can't make insulin, and the samples are sent outside, usually to the Boston Medical Laboratory, which is the fastest, and it takes two weeks to get the results." , from Newport, Rhode Island, to Boston, Massachusetts, just an hour and a half by car. "Then," Dr. Mayer shrugged helplessly, "frozen that batch of blood samples quickly."

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the analysis results of routine blood samples were sent to Dr. Meyer's desk: blood sugar was extremely low, only 29 mg per 100 ml of blood, potassium content was low, and barbiturates were extremely high, reaching 1. 06. Aspirin, alcohol and other routine examination indicators of comatose patients were all close to zero.But in the urine test results received hours later, aspirin levels were as high as 156%. Things always go relatively slowly over the weekend, and Christmas time, and Dr. Janice Galliday, who treated Mrs. Sunny von Prowe for the same condition at this time last year, didn't see him until 8:30 on a Monday morning. old customers.Sunny is still in a deep coma.According to author William Wright's book, The Von Prow Affair, Dr. Galidy issued yet another insulin test order, this time including a C-peptide analysis. C-peptide is an amino acid chain in the middle of the insulin molecular structure, and it is also the only difference between natural insulin and artificial insulin, so the results of C-peptide analysis should give the respective contents of these two different insulins.Generally speaking, natural insulin is the insulin produced spontaneously by the human body, and artificial insulin is the synthetic insulin injected into the human body.Strangely, when people got to the bottom of the case later, no one saw the test sheet, and of course, no one saw the results.

Forty-eight hours passed, and Sunny von Prowe still showed no signs of awakening.It seemed that Newport Hospital was powerless, so the patient was transferred to Bryan Coma Specialist Hospital in Boston. Three days later, on December 26, the day after Christmas, Dr. Janice Galliday officially notified the patient's husband that the results of the CT EEG scan showed that his wife might have difficulty recovering from the illness. Waking up from a coma, that is to say, is very likely to become a "vegetative person" from then on. "Besides, there's only a fifty percent chance of Sunny's survival. I mean," Dr. Galidy said, afraid he wasn't speaking clearly enough, "the other fifty percent is—death."

Herr Clos von Prowe wept. William Wright wrote in his book: "However, to this day, no one can guess which 50% Mr. von Prowe's tears are for." The above events were pieced together based on the records of the first instance of this case, the same below.