102 Eye 2 (1/2)
”Heo”
Heo Jun nodded his head with surprise.
It was not an ordinary treatment.
But Ganghyuk looked placid.
At least others thought so.
'Ah, I am terribly anxious.'
He had never had eye operation.
It was poker face that kept him in this terrible situation.
If the doctor in charge of operation showed anxiety, it would make the others more afraid.
”Yeoni, do you have the hooks that I gave you?”
”Yes.”
”Give them to me. I will put them on the lids. Make them open.”
”Ah, you open the eye forcefully.”
If you want an eye operation, the eye should be exposed.
Yeoni nodded her head as if she understood what he would do.
Ganghyuk placed the hooks as if he had known everything about the operation.
But in his mind, he was thinking what to do next busily.
'When I was a medical student… I need to remember… They had two a.s.sistants.'
At that time, he did not understand ophthalmologists.
At a small operation for eye and why do they have two or three a.s.sistants.
Surgeons open the chest or the stomach with an a.s.sisting intern.
But Ganghyuk felt differently when he came to see somebody else's eyes.
'If I let them open, the corneas would be gone.'
Corneas are not durable.
If they were not protected with tears or if they are not protected by the eyelids, they would be damaged forever.
Ophthalmologists prescribe eyepatches to patients who cannot close their eyelids properly because of facioplegia.
If they were forced open like now, they would be damaged. It was for sure.
'I make this operation to keep his eyesight. So, they should not be damaged.'
Ganghyuk gave the hooks to Yeoni and looked at Heo Jun.
Heo Jun and his fellows were his students. He made efforts to teach them in the Naeeuiwon.
He thought that he might be a dumb if he did not use them.
”Dr. Heo.”
”Yes, I am listening.”
”Could you help me?”
”Yes, of course.”
”Then wear a mask and gloves. Wear the cloth, too.”
Ganghyuk pointed a cloth from the backpack that Dolseok carried.
It was a Joseon style operation cloth that Ganghyuk had designed. It could not be worn because of too short sleeves.
In Joseon, n.o.blemen had to wear a cloth with long sleeves even in summer.
However, Heo Jun did not complain about the cloth and changed the cloth quietly.
”Wow.”
It seemed that to work in the Naeeuiwon gave him much stress.
His abdomen muscles were completely gone.
Heo Jun smiled with embarra.s.sment.
”Heo, being a public servant is not easy.”
”But you must be paid well. Haha”
”Yes, this belly is from that high salary.”
Heo Jun pointed his belly that the operation cloth could not cover.
He seemed to be proud of this belly.
Yes, it was not Korea in the 21st century but Joseon in the 16th century.
There were so many people who were starved to death… It was a luck to entertain the rich life to make a belly.
”What should I do?”
Heo Jun came to Ganghyuk with a full setting.
He sat down in the opposite side of Ganghyuk. It was a good place as the first a.s.sistant.
”Spray water so that the eyeb.a.l.l.s don't get dry.”
”Yes, it is not difficult.”
Heo Jun answered looking at the syringe that Ganghyuk gave him.
Heo Jun made hemorrhoids operation in the Naeeuiwon.
Therefore, it was nothing.
”If it bleeds, please wipe it with this.”
Ganghyuk gave a cotton bud to Heo Jun.
It was unfamiliar to Heo Jun because he had not used it in hemorrhoids operation.
Heo Jun asked as Ganghyuk had already expected.
”Do I wipe blood with this rather than gauze?”
”If we should use gauze in eye operation because of the amount of blood, it might be a big accident.”
Ganghyuk smiled remembering when he was a medical student.
The professor made a fuss when he saw two drops of blood.
'The minor departments (excluding internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, and pediatrics) don't have the guts.'
Surgeons who do not move at all if not the table death think the professors in other departments are chickens.
”Aha, I see.”
With Ganghyuk's smile, Heo Jun smiled, too.
”I will start now.”
”Yes, Scholar Baik.”
He started the operation in a comfortable mood.
It helped Ganghyuk great deal, as he was not afraid of the eye operation any more.
His brain became clear.
He could remember the textbook that he had read when he was a medical student.
'It is not perfect, though.'
He could supplement his memory with his knowledge on anatomy.
The operation is not fixed as machine a.s.sembly.
'I need to cut the cornea.'
Ganghyuk started to cut the cornea with the scalpel.
He was very cautious.
'It must be 2 to 3 mm deep. If it goes deeper than that, it would make a big accident.'
He did not want to destroy somebody's corneas.
A fortunate thing was that Heo Jun and Yeoni were very good a.s.sistants.
Yeoni opened the eyelids without movement and Heo Jun wiped the blood as quickly as possible.
When he thought that he might block the eyesight of Ganghyuk if he put the cotton bud, he sprayed water rather than using the cotton bud.
'Good. Good.'
Ganghyuk could make a good start.
He could finish cutting successfully.
It was neither too deep nor too shallow.
He made the perfect circle along side of the circ.u.mference of the cornea.
”Good. Now I need to open this section.”
”Eo?... We cannot see the gap.”
As Heo Jun mentioned, the cut between the cornea and the white was too small.
Ganghyuk gave them an answer after a few moments' thought.
His experience as a surgeon gave him a hint.