The doctor was about to say something, my phone rang again, the doctor signaled me to answer the phone first, I picked it up, because I was still crying in tears: "Chen Jiao, what's the matter?" She was obviously stunned, and said: "I'm in the oncology department, where are you?" I went out to see that she was less than 10 meters away from me, she was wearing a blue sweatshirt and black jeans, and the childishness on her face had long disappeared after a few years of not seeing her, replaced by a kind of coldness. She now feels like she's confident from head to toe.

She hung up the phone after seeing me, without saying a word, bypassed me and came to the doctor's office, my mother was still crying, she came to my mother's side: "Aunt Liu, I heard Wang Shuo say about my uncle, and my uncle will be fine." "Xiaojiao, why are you here?" When we used to go to school, we liked to go to Baojun Mountain on weekends to play, and our parents knew each other. "I just arrived, come and have a look. My mother nodded and said to the doctor, "Doctor, what is your suggestion now?" "I recommend chemotherapy plus conventional treatment, and the early stage of chemotherapy can control the patient's condition. "Then I'll go and talk to my son, thank you. My mother told me to walk to the end of the hallway.

Chen Jiao turned her head to me and asked, "Wang Shuo, what is my uncle's situation like now?" I was still thinking about the side effects of chemotherapy from hearsay, when I heard someone call me, I looked up and said, "Ah, oh, now the doctor says that it can't be operated, it's too close to the bronchi, and I can only choose chemotherapy and conventional treatment." But I heard that all my hair will fall out after chemotherapy. "Don't do chemotherapy, now that the cancer cells haven't spread, chemotherapy will only kill the right good cells, and it's best to treat them routinely." ”

The mother wiped her tears and said to Chen Jiao: "Xiaojiao, you study medicine, your uncle is no different from usual except for coughing, and he doesn't feel any problem, what is your suggestion?" Chen Jiao listened to her mother's words, turned her head and said to her mother: "Aunt Liu, it's best not to have chemotherapy now, chemotherapy uncle will be more painful, although uncle looks fine now, but once the cancer cells spread, it may be impossible for people to get out of bed in 1 week." ”

When my mother heard Chen Jiao say this, tears flowed down again, and I was also worried when I heard it, and I didn't dare to imagine what my father would become after the cancer spread. When I was young, I rarely heard about cancer, but I didn't expect cancer to come to my relatives, who were still my closest people. I talked and asked my mother to accompany my father, and Chen Jiao and I went to say hello to my father and then went downstairs to eat, and on the way I asked Chen Jiao: "Why are you back?" GZ is so far away from here, it's not good for you to take leave during your internship. "I shouldn't have applied to Sun Yat-sen Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University in the first place, and the internship was also assigned to me in GZ, forget it, don't talk about me, come, this is for you." Chen Jiao stretched out her hand to give me a bank card, and I looked at her with a surprised face: "What are you doing here?

She said with a straight face: "Wang Shuo, let me be honest with you, do you know how much cancer treatment costs? Conventional treatment alone costs at least 200,000 yuan a year, not counting traditional Chinese medicine." Although I only have tens of thousands of dollars here, there is only so much I can help you. After saying that, he handed the bank card to me again and motioned for me to accept it.

I refused: "I appreciate the kindness, now that my family still has money, we must have been in business at XJ for several years." I took out a cigarette and lit it and took a puff: "You also know, the situation of my family, I asked my mother yesterday, there are more than 1 million at home, there is no problem." ”

Seeing that I refused, Chen Jiao didn't say anything, put the bank card into her card wallet, reached out and snatched my cigarette and still stepped on the ground to extinguish it: "Uncle just found out lung cancer, you still smoke, cancer has a certain genetics, don't smoke, don't forget, your grandfather also died of cancer." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then I remembered that my grandfather did die of cancer, rectal cancer, and I didn't know that it was rectal cancer until a week before I died, because I used to study in other places (where my dad did business), my parents were doing business outside, and my grandfather lived with my uncle. When we received the news that Grandpa was dying and rushed back, Grandpa had already passed away.

Came to a home-cooked restaurant, Chen Jiao ordered a few dishes, whispered something to the boss, and walked to sit next to me: "Wang Shuo, now that my uncle has been diagnosed, what are you going to do next?" I thought about it, "I should accompany him." When I said this, Chen Jiao's face darkened, "Accompany him? Let my uncle think that he has no days to live? You can't use your brain? Uncle just has Aunt Liu with you, you should go to work and go to work." Let him live a normal life, so that his condition can be better helped. ”

Yes, I didn't think about it as well as hers, and I must still be just a hairy kid in my early 20s, and my consideration of things was too one-sided. "Chen Jiao, thank you. If it weren't for you, I would have stayed at home with him. ”

The meal was finally ready, and we took the food into the ward, where my mother was accompanying my father to watch an anti-Japanese TV series. Dad can eat and drink now in addition to coughing, seeing him and his mother watching TV talking and laughing, I am not sure if he understands his test results, recalling that day my father and I talked so much, I felt uncomfortable for a while, calm down, I smiled and said to my parents: "Dad and Mom have eaten, today Chen Jiao ordered Daddy's favorite bean curd, but because you are coughing now, you can't eat chili peppers." Dad looked at Chen Jiao: "Xiaojiao, I just called your father, he didn't know you were coming, he thought you were at work, you didn't tell them?"

Chen Jiao was flustered, she was afraid of my father since she was a child, maybe she will never forget the scene where my father beat me with a wooden stick, it was the kind of wooden stick with a diameter of 3 cm. "Uncle, I heard Wang Shuo say that you suffer from emphysema, so I came to see you, anyway, it's not a particularly serious illness, so I didn't tell them, I came to see Wang Shuo by the way, we haven't seen each other for several years. ”

My mom and I looked at her suspiciously, wondering why she said my dad had emphysema, but she saw the look in our eyes and said, "Let's eat, or the food will be cold in a while." "We later learned that emphysema also coughs and coughs up blood, which is similar to my dad's symptoms now, and she said this just to reassure my dad.

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Jiao was about to return to GZ, I sent her to the car and said to her: "Chen Jiao, thank you, I can't send you to the airport, you have a safe journey, call me when you arrive." She said to me, "I understand, go back quickly, it's okay, I'll always be by your side." He smiled at me. All I remember for so many years was her crying and her angry expression, and I hardly ever saw her smile at me, and for a moment I froze, not knowing what to say to her, until the car left, and I was still thinking about her sentence I will always be by your side.

Looking at the departing car, I took out a cigarette, Chen Jiao's angry expression suddenly appeared in my mind, I laughed, took the cigarette down, and threw the remaining cigarettes in my pocket into the trash, on the way back to the hospital, I kept thinking about whether I would continue to go back to work in the previous factory or find a new job, thinking that I had walked to the gate of the hospital.

When I got back to the ward, I saw the doctor next to my dad and said, "Emphysema can only be cured slowly, don't smoke or drink, and eat something light." "I knew my mother must have gone and told the doctor. I sat next to my father, and discussed with my father about fishing skills, my father loved fishing, and the more he talked, the more energetic he became, at this moment, the door of the ward opened, and a girl about my age walked in and asked, "May I ask who of you is Uncle Wang Kangwang, I will send something." I got up and said suspiciously, "Here, what did you give? We didn't buy anything." The girl took a small casserole and put it on the cabinet: "Didn't you order pigeon soup for 10 days in our restaurant today? ”

Mom looked at it and said, "I didn't expect you to know how to replenish your father's body, and you know that you can't keep up with nutrition in the hospital." "I haven't booked it, could it be that Chen Jiao ordered it?" I turned to the little girl and said, "Are you the home-cooked restaurant at the door?" The little girl nodded: "Yes, I just ordered it at noon today." With that, she walked out of the room. At this time, I remembered Chen Jiao's words when she left: I will always be by your side.