Dr. Zhang's "quarantine" was earlier than most.

At that time, everyone was still immersed in the joy of buying New Year's goods and welcoming the New Year, and when he didn't know the term new coronavirus, he had already participated in the preparation of the isolation ward.

From the division of wards to the stockpiling of protective equipment, the hospital is preparing in every way it can think of it. Medical staff have also begun to receive training to familiarize themselves with the operation of the instrument. In 10 days, together with the ward, they completed the "construction" little by little.

Because it had to take care of patients with the new coronavirus, the hospital emptied the entire building as a protective building, leaving only one ward, which was the team that Dr. Zhang followed at the beginning.

During the time on standby, the entire ward was empty, and the sound of his footsteps would echo loudly in the corridor, empty and desolate. The whole ward was waiting silently, just like me.

The central hospital is a designated hospital for the new coronavirus, and the entire isolation ward is Dr. Zhang's workstation, and he has been in this isolation ward since the day of its construction, witnessing everything that happened there.

Until the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he and this ward welcomed the first confirmed patient, Old Tang.

Dr. Zhang said: "Old Tang followed me into the protective building, the isolation ward is on the second floor, and the elevator from the first floor to the second floor only takes a few seconds, but I feel very slow. There were only two people in the elevator, me and Don, and neither of us spoke. I went out of my way to look at Old Don's eyes, but those eyes were very hollow, and I didn't know whether they were afraid or overwhelmed. ”

Dr. Zhang glanced at Rob and said, "Actually, I want to say a few words to him, but I don't know how to say it." He knew he was diagnosed, and I knew it, and he understood what that meant, and I did. He didn't look at me, maybe he was used to the people who were around him these days. He just watched dumbly as the number on the elevator went from 1 to 2. ”

The elevators opened, and Tang waited for Dr. Zhang to go out before getting out of the elevator.

Entering the isolation ward and closing the security door, the medical staff need to do some basic examinations for Lao Tang. When taking the temperature, the nurse was a little nervous, so Dr. Zhang took the temperature of the instrument to Lao Tang.

"We used an infrared induction temperature gun, but wearing two layers of gloves, my hands were particularly inflexible, I accidentally pressed the wrong button, the temperature gun turned off and on, I said I'm really embarrassed, the operation is not particularly proficient. While taking his temperature, he took the opportunity to talk to Lao Tang, and I asked him, how do you feel? He raised his head, his eyes were obviously stunned, and even a little panicked, he looked at me fixedly, and said the first sentence, aren't you afraid of me?"

"I pointed to the protective suit, and said, I'm still afraid of you in all this? But you, don't you be afraid of me like this?"

Old Tang's expression moved stiffly, perhaps squeezing out a smile. But he couldn't tell the difference with a mask, and he said, "I'm very grateful to you, since I was diagnosed, you were the closest person to talk to me." I was stunned at the time, Xiao Luo, if it were you, you would also have that strange feeling, it was very complicated and indescribable. ”

Rob nodded.

Dr. Zhang also said: "Because of his illness, Old Tang can't contact others, and others dare not contact him, which is a very real and inescapable feeling of being isolated and locked in a cage." Suddenly from a normal person to a confirmed patient who is being tracked by the epidemic, the change in this role came too quickly. Confirmed patients are admitted to the hospital for isolation, which is different from the general feeling of going to the hospital after being injured. ”

"If you are injured, you will be in pain, and the hospital will have a complete and skilled process to deal with it, but from the feeling of Old Tang, he is just a little feverish now, almost the same as the symptoms of the common cold, but he was suddenly isolated in a small room, unable to go out for half a step, and no one can see him. There is no buffer, no transition, and when you find it, you will be controlled, and it is actually difficult to accept it in your heart. And during the days of isolation, no one may have entered Old Tang's room to talk to him. Thinking about it like this, I felt some sympathy for him, and I patted him on the shoulder and said, you don't have to worry, we are friends when we come here. ”

When he heard this, his body gradually relaxed, and I asked him how much he knew about this disease, and he shook his head with a very blank expression, saying that he didn't know much about it, but he only knew that it was very contagious, very similar to SARS back then. I told him that it was very similar to SARS, but when we faced SARS back then, the protective measures were 12 layers of masks and the legendary Banlangen powder, which is different today than it was back then. ”

"Actually, when I said this, I was also weak-hearted. In such a big battle and environment, it is impossible for people not to be afraid without experience, without measures, without knowing what to do. The only thing I can refer to is SARS back then. At that time, I was still in high school, and the whole country was talking about fighting SARS, uniting as one, and I had no idea. But now, I am the one on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus, and I have become part of the fight against the epidemic. ”

Rob said: "At the time of SARS, I wasn't in kindergarten! ”

"Looking back now, I realized that more than 5,000 people were diagnosed with SARS. That is, more than 5,000 people were infected under the protective conditions of that time. In fact, SARS is not very contagious, it is highly pathogenic, and the root cause of that battle was inadequate protection. With the progress of the disease, the level of attention and protection was gradually improved, and the protective clothing on my body today was born. ”

Rob nodded: "The people who fought against SARS back then are the same as us today, facing a new type of epidemic, everyone is the first time. ”

After Dr. Zhang finished talking about SARS, he went back to Tang, "I told Tang frankly that he knew a lot more about this disease than I did. Only when you get sick does you know what the symptoms are, what you feel, and what changes are happening in your body. And I haven't seen it, let alone gotten it, you're my first case. To be honest, I don't have any effective treatment right now, please understand, but trust me, I'm going to face it with you, okay?"

He couldn't discuss specific treatment options with Don because there was too little data for them to refer to. At that time, the first version of the national trial plan for the epidemic had not yet been launched, there was no so-called treatment plan at all, they had no medicine available, and they did not know what would work.

"I also know that I don't know anything about saying this, and if we face it together, it's actually very risky, which is equivalent to revealing that I don't know in front of my own patients. But from the moment I received Don Sr., I didn't treat him as a patient, but wanted to be friends with him, which I did on purpose. ”