I am the Rebirth System: The Heroine Transformation Plan

"What? Do you have too much money to spend?"

Fan Kunshan was tying his tie when he heard Luo Yeqing say that he had spent more than a thousand yuan on a genetic screening package and wanted him to do it too.

"A good sister of mine didn't get screened and gave birth to a child with thalassemia. The child will need blood transfusions and iron removal for the rest of his life, so I went to get checked for peace of mind. The doctor said that it would be useless if I did it alone. If both I and you carry a bad gene, the child is more likely to inherit it."

Luo Yeqing paused, suppressed a physical nausea in his heart, and pretended to be calm and said: "Husband, you should also go for a check-up. It is better to spend a little money in the early stage than for the child to be sick for life and become a burden on the family. And I told our mother, and our mother also said that we should do a screening."

Fan Kunshan was unhappy that she acted first and asked for his permission later, but he thought that his mother would definitely nag him if she knew, so he said, "Okay, okay, it's okay if it's not our Sisi. I thought it wouldn't be such a coincidence that it happened to our son. Since our mother said she wanted to do it, I'll check it out on the weekend."

"Hubby, don't blame me for spending money recklessly. It was mainly because Sisi was the first child at that time and didn't understand a lot of things..."

Luo Yeqing's tone was a little aggrieved, but he sneered in his heart.

When Sisi was found to be a girl, she was not told to stop working and stay at home to take care of the pregnancy like they are doing now.

You say that the two children are the same, but in the end they are different.

When Fan's mother heard that she would give birth to a sick child that would affect the whole family, she thought that this was the first boy in their Fan family and she had to be extra cautious. Therefore, she accompanied her daughter to do a full set of genetic screening.

Two weeks later.

"What, a quarter risk?"

All other test results were normal, except for SMA, for which both of them were one in fifty gene carriers.

SMA is a recessive congenital infant disease, the full name of which is spinal muscular atrophy. It is caused by recessive inheritance of chromosomes, which leads to gene mutation.

This mutated gene causes abnormal atrophy of neuron cells in the child's spinal cord.

If the pregnant woman is a carrier of the SMA gene and her husband is not, the fetus may be a carrier of the SMA gene but will usually not develop the disease.

If both husband and wife are carriers of the SMA gene, the risk of the fetus developing SMA will increase significantly to 1/4.

Common symptoms of SMA include muscle weakness and atrophy in the limbs. If symptoms of SMA appear in infancy, the prognosis is usually poor.

As the disease worsens, the baby may experience problems such as difficulty swallowing and lung infection. Respiratory failure is the main cause of death in SMA babies.

"You have to think carefully. The chance of one in four is still very high. Fortunately, the fetus is still young."

"Doctor, this baby is a boy, and the previous children didn't have any diseases. What if this disease is not inherited?"

Fan's mother couldn't accept the fact that she had finally had a grandson, but the baby had to be aborted.

"We respect the patient's wishes. You also said that although the chance is high, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be..." The doctor pushed his glasses up and looked at the family of three, "But you have to think about it. If the child is diagnosed with the disease, he will have to take medication for life, and the cost of the medicine is not low. Most families cannot afford it."

Luo Yeqing had just been looking down at his phone, and when he heard the doctor's words, he looked up and asked, "Is it covered by medical insurance now?"

The doctor nodded: "The injection used to cost 70 yuan per injection, but now it seems to be yuan per injection. It is injected once every four months, and it needs to be injected for life."

Luo Yeqing: "Well, I just checked, this injection also has side effects, headaches, back pain, vomiting, allergies, infections, meningitis, etc... But there are also oral medicines, which have fewer side effects and are cheaper."

Fan Kunshan was puzzled: "There are cheaper ones, why do you have to get an injection?"

Luo Yeqing glanced at him and said, "The cheap ones are only relatively cheap. The original price was over 60,000 yuan per bottle. Now that it is included in the medical insurance, it costs over 3,000 yuan per bottle. I need to take two or three bottles a month."

"I heard that a certain country has developed a special medicine that can improve the patient's motor function and survival rate with just one injection. But one injection costs 16 million. Mom, husband, if this child really inherits the disease, do we have so much money to treat him? Do you dare to take a gamble?"

Luo Yeqing said these words calmly, and her hand unconsciously touched her belly again.

Fan Kunshan was silent for a while, and suddenly realized a question: "Doctor, if the probability of our two being carriers is high, does it mean that any future children we have may also get the disease?"

When Fan Kunshan asked this, Fan's mother also felt puzzled.

Does this mean it’s better not to have children in the future?

But how can having only one granddaughter be enough?

The Fan family cannot be extinct because of this disease.

The doctor looked at Luo Yeqing and said, "It's possible. But you also said that we have a healthy daughter. We are very lucky compared to those families whose first-born screening results show problems."

What this means is that since you already have a healthy child, you don't have to worry about not having a successor and don't need to be so anxious.

Fan and his partner were thinking about something, and Luo Yeqing said, "So in order not to take this risk, I decided to abort the child."

When Fan Kunshan heard this, he turned to look at her.

Luo Yeqing's eyes were slightly red and there were tears in them.

"Don't be sad, honey," Fan Kunshan hugged her, "Sisi is enough for us. It's all my fault."

It was true that Luo Yeqing felt upset.

After all, it was she who decided not to have the child in the first place.

Being held by Fan Kunshan, she felt sick but also relieved.

What Xie Lingdang said turned out to be true.

The Fan family actually gave in so easily.

"Thank you, Bell."

"Alas, I just increased the probability of this genetic test. Your child...didn't live long in his previous life."

In the previous life, the child was diagnosed with SMA type 1 and died less than five months after birth.

The Fan family would not spend money on treating a sick child like him.

This will also save the child from being born without a mother and being tortured to death by his own genetic defects.

When Luo Yeqing heard this, his body stiffened.

Then he took a deep breath and gently pushed Fan Kunshan away: "I'm fine, doctor, when can we arrange the surgery?"

The doctor looked at her, then at Fan Kunshan, and took out a form from the drawer and pushed it in front of them:

"This is the consent form for surgery. Fill in your personal information after you check it and both of you sign it. We will arrange the surgery in the next two days."

After leaving the hospital and sitting in the car, no one spoke and the atmosphere was depressed for a while.

"You have to be careful. Knowing that there are risks in having a child with him, I guess the Fan family should consider changing the reproductive means."

Just now when Fan Kunshan was asking the doctor questions in the clinic, she noticed that there was something wrong between Fan's mother and him.

"Well, I see."

It was only a matter of time before they fell out, but before that, she had to make some preparations.

Two days later, while lying on the slightly cool operating table, Luo Yeqing calmly said to the doctors: "After you treat this child, just sterilize me."