Golden Time (JungYong)

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The nurse stared at him with wide eyes. 

"Oh, don't you know about it? It's hard for any one other than a leukemia patients guardians to see them. I think you could prepare the presentation well with just the patient's data." 

Suhyuk laughed bitterly. That's the kind of situation that he expected when he asked the nurse.

He was the first patient Suhyuk took since he came to the hospital. 

Though he could not treat him directly, he wanted to see the patient's face even just once, which was regrettable. 

So Suhyuk was forced to look at the monitor again. 

The nurse looked at Suhyuk quietly. Thanks to him she could recall the forgotten medical record. She could have been disciplined for that. 

'Well, let me do him a favor…'

"I'm now going to check patient Im Jinmook. Would you like to come with me?"

Suhyuk hastily looked back at her. The nurse was smiling a little. 

"I have a condition instead," said the nurse. 

"Condition?" 

"Yes, please keep it to yourself that I let you come with me."

Suhyuk nodded pleasantly.

Suhyuk, dressed in aseptic clothing, entered the room along with the nurse. 

A 42-year-old male patient Im Jinmook.

The nurse smiled as she looked at him.

"How are you feeling today, sir?" 

Despite his haggard face, he answered with a smile. 

"Very good. I want to brush my teeth everyday. I don't feel refreshed by just rinsing my teeth alone."

"You don't get any bleeding out of my gums, right? You can probably brush your teeth gently now, but don't forget to ask the doctor about it."

The nurse carefully checked the patient's condition. 

Suhyuk looked at him from behind quietly and recalled his examination record from a little while ago. 'Did it say that he was overall in good condition and that he received chemotherapy because there were no complications? He received a bone marrow transplant for radiation therapy.'

A smile flickered in Suhyuk's eyes. One month? It seemed that he could be discharged by then.

At that moment, the name of a disease suddenly passed through his mind.

'HIV'

Whenever he saw reports about leukemia on TV, he naturally came to think about HIV.

Can HIV be used to repair leukemia? Leukemia produces and inhibits the production of normal red blood cells and platelets by overproduction and proliferation of immature white blood cells. As a result, the defense system of the body collapses, resulting in complications such as sepsis, anemia, and difficulty breathing. HIV is the opposite. HIV is a disease where the white blood cells are destroyed while leukemia is one where white blood cells increase abnormally.

A poison is cured by a poison. The HIV virus that destroys white blood cells is put into a disease that increases white blood cells. In other words, genetic information (the HIV virus) is planted into the blood stem cell to treat leukemia. Theoretically it is more than possible, but it is not as easy as one thinks. If one can dp the research successfully, treatment of leukemia will be easier and the pain suffered by the patient will be significantly reduced. In fact, it was a project implemented seriously in foreign countries. One in five responded favorably.