Chapter 36: Her True Heart
Talia was nervous looking into the health conditions of her grandfather. She went through the hospital her grandfather likely is taking his treatment and found the security of the hospital’s system was pretty lax.
’Is it okay for hospitals to not invest more in cyber security? Shouldn’t they protect the confidentiality of the patients?’
She wondered and tried to search for her grandfather’s name but was surprised to get no results about her grandfather. For a moment she was happy but then she realised the serious issue there.
She was sure this is the hospital her grandfather would go for yearly medical checkups for as long as she remembered. And this hospital is computerised for decades and her grandfather’s name must appear at least in those general checkups list.
So upon further digging, she found out her grandfather’s medical report. Science was not her strong subject and all the medical terminologies made her head hurt and she had to search in the internet about everything in the reports.
Who knew human body had this much minerals she was sure she learnt in chemistry in it and they all had to be at particular level too? And what’s with all those other... Things... ECG, EEG, ACR, GFR, Creatinine, albumin and whatnot.
She searched for everything and the normal range and the conclusion made her head spin. Her grandfather has chronic renal failure with underlying heart conditions and he currently is very very sick. She never thought this would be this serious.
Grandpa only had at most ninety five days to live? And this report is a week old and that means...
Talia’s hands tapping on the keyboard trembled and she cupped her hands over her mouth and did breathing exercises so that she won’t hyperventilate.
After composing herself for a while, she looked for the possible treatments available for his conditions and nothing seemed optimistic.
Except... Kidney transplant!