Love Comes Secretly After Their Contract Marriage novel Chapter 551

"Elliot is fine. It's good news."

"What good news?” Yvonne clenched her hand as she held her phone.

Elliot was in a vegetative state, so there would not be any good news.

If there was any good news, it could only be that he had woken up.

Could it be...

Yvonne's breathing became tense, and there was faint anticipation in her heart. She hoped that what Shane was about to say was just as she thought.

"When the nurse went to take Elliot's body temperature today, she found that Elliot's heart rate suddenly increased for a while. We don't know what caused it,” Shane replied.

Yvonne was a little puzzled. "His heartbeat increased? What kind of good news is this?"

She thought that Elliot would actually wake up.

She got excited for nothing! Yvonne was a little disappointed in her heart.

"Of course it's good news. The breathing and heart rates of normal patients in vegetative states are very slow, and they remain at the same frequency. So

logically, it wouldn’t change unless they wake up. So there must be a reason for his sudden increase in his heart rate. As long as we figure out the reason and do something about it, Elliot might actually wake up," Shane explained in detail.

Yvonne stood up abruptly from her chair when she heard that. She could not contain her excitement. "Is i t really possible?"

"The possibility is very high," Shane replied.

Yvonne's eyes were tearing up with joy. "Then... Why did Elliot's heart rate increase today?"

"I don’t know yet,” Shane sighed regretfully.

Yvonne pursed her lower lip. "Could it be that someone said something to him? Or maybe someone went to see him?"

She gave a wild guess.

Shane shook his head. “No, no one went to see him today, not even Henry. So it’s even more impossible for anyone to say anything to him."

"Since no one went to see him and no one said anything to him, how could his heart rate increase for no reason?" Yvonne asked.

Shane smiled bitterly, "This is what I haven't been able to figure out."

There were two types of vegetative states: one was brain-dead, while the other was the ordinary vegetative state.

A brain-dead patient in a vegetative state could no longer be considered alive. For patients like that, no matter what happened in the outside world, they would not have any reaction at all. That was because patients who were brain-dead would never wake up.

Ordinary vegetative state patients were different. Their brains and bodies would still be alive, but they could not find their consciousness to return.

However, if there were any external factors that could make them feel something, they would experience certain reactions, such as increased frequency of breathing and heart rate, or the shaking of their limbs. If they could find out what triggered the patient and stimulate them with it, they would have a high possibility of waking up.

Elliot was in an ordinary vegetative state. Dr. Carter gave an affirmative answer six years ago, because Elliot’s body cells and brain cells were still active. The reason why he had not woken up was because they still could not figure out what would trigger him to wake up.

On the other end of the phone, Yvonne did not say anything. It was only after a while that she frowned and said, "Could the nurse have said something to Elliot?"

"The nurse?" Shane raised his eyes.

Yvonne nodded. "Since no one else had seen Elliot today, the only person who had seen Elliot was the nurse. I heard that the nurse in charge of vegetative state patients has a task they need to do every day, which is to tell the patients something interesting to increase the perception of patients to the outside world, so maybe..."

She did not continue.

But Shane already understood what she meant, and h e patted his forehead. "Now that you’ve mentioned it, that is very possible. As a doctor, I can't believe I overlooked such an important point."