Chapter 21 Visitation The old mother made a request

It's a bit complicated to talk about why you don't go to the hospital and go home. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A few days later, one morning, it was just dawn, and the old mother couldn't sleep because of something in her heart.

She got up to see that the pale blue sky was now inlaid with a few remnant stars, and the earth was hazy, like a light veil shrouded in silver-gray.

Because she was worried about her daughter's catkins, she came to the hospital's special care room early and stared at it, there was no one left, where did she go? Which doesn't think about the good, my daughter's illness is not a vegetative state.

So, she happily asked the nurse on duty in the nursing room, "Is the patient with the head injury in the intensive care room already healed?" Discharged early. ”

"I want to be beautiful," the nurse on duty in the nursing office listened to the old mother's inquiry, and felt funny, the old man in his sixties was still so naΓ―ve and naΓ―ve, "Can a vegetative person be well, maybe he will not wake up for the rest of his life." However, as a nurse, she could not answer like this, that is, "I am out of danger and have been transferred to a general ward." ”

"I'm not discharged from the hospital!" When the old mother heard what she said, she was happy for a while, although she was not discharged from the hospital, she was transferred to the general ward, indicating that she was almost well and could take care of her daughter.

To tell the truth, which mother doesn't want her daughter, although it can't replace the pain, she accompanies her daughter to talk, and asks about the situation when she was beaten, what caused the two of them to suddenly turn their faces and commit this murder.

If you are beaten to death, close your eyes and don't know everything, but you know, it is still your mother who suffers, who can share the pain, and who is willing to carry it alone. Perhaps, everyone has a story in their hearts, some of which can be shared with others, and some of which can only be savored alone.

So, she went to the general surgical ward and stared at it, which was bustling with three beds in one ward, and her daughter's bed against the south wall.

She looked at the catkins flying, at this time she was recuperating with her eyes closed, it was better to lie on the bed to rest, don't go to the ground too early, after all, she was bleeding too much and needed to recuperate, and when her mother came home and stewed some chicken soup to replenish and replenish, she shouted; "Daughter! Daughter! ”

However, he shouted several times, but he didn't see the catkins flying and answered, why did the dead girl sleep like that, her mother came, and her eyes didn't even blink. "The two of you have a conflict, you are beaten, how can you blame your mother, I didn't agree at the beginning, I didn't listen to persuasion, I deserved it!"

"What deserves it?" At this time, the nurse came with an infusion bottle, and the patient wanted to take an intravenous drip, and when she saw that the old man was angry, she asked.

"She was angry with her mother, she ignored her shouting, and she didn't even say yes."

The nurse hung the infusion bottle on the shelf and replied with a smile: "It's good to be able to speak, it's hard for a vegetative person to speak!" ”

"It turns out that a vegetative person is like this," the old mother immediately became angry and complained to the nurse: "What is the cure if you can't speak?" ”

"Who said it was cured," the nurse did not admit, "but he was out of danger and transferred to a general ward for treatment." ”

"Then I'll go to the doctor, and I'll have to ask," she wondered, is it really like the doctor said, her daughter will never wake up in a vegetative state for the rest of her life. She was scared, afraid that she would serve for a lifetime, and that it was really better to die than to live, so she must ask the doctor, and walked out of the ward, came to the doctor's office, and shouted again and again; "Doctor! Doctor! ”

When the attending doctor heard the shouting, he thought there was an emergency, and immediately ran out, looked up and saw that it was an old mother, and asked, "Which hospital bed are you a relative in?" ”

"Why did you change the doctor again?" The old mother pointed casually, "That's the woman, the woman with a broken head." ”

"Whew!" The doctor nodded, he was clear, and immediately replied: "We are a general ward here, it is normal to change doctors, what do you need to know to come in and talk?" ”

"It turns out that it is not the same system as the intensive care room."

"Yes!" The doctor nodded, "It's full of recovering patients. ”

When the old mother heard about the recovery, she asked the doctor with concern, "It means that my daughter's head has been cured and is recovering." ”

When the doctor saw the old mother asking, of course, he had to explain the treatment to the patient's relatives. "I can't say that I am cured, I can only say that I have been rescued by the hospital and out of danger of my life."

The old mother was not convinced, and said with certainty: "What is the danger, she is not sick in the first place, but she has been hit in the head." ”

"Not sick!" The doctor looked at the examination report sent from the intensive care unit and explained: "Yes, judging from the examination results, all the physical organs of the patient's body, such as the heart, liver, lungs, spleen, stomach, and kidneys, are within the normal range and will not affect eating and drinking. ”

"Great!" After listening to the doctor's introduction, the old mother was secretly happy in her heart, and asked, "You can go home, right?" ”

The doctor shook his head, and before he finished speaking, "However, the head was hit, and the injured part was the command organ, where the nerves were intricate, and he was unconscious, unable to speak......"

"I can't speak," the old mother said worriedly, "You can treat your daughter's inability to speak, and completely cure her unconscious, or you can say it." ”

"It is unlikely that a vegetative person will be completely cured," the doctor wanted to say, but he stopped talking and did not explain too much, some of the words were medical terms, and the old lady in the countryside could not understand them at all, and finally said: "It can only be cured like this." ”

"That's fine...... the old mother couldn't understand the doctor's words, thinking that since her daughter was cured, she should get out of bed and move, that is, she complained: "What is cured by lying on the bed like this, I can't wake up when I shout, I don't even blink my eyes, I won't be unconscious like this for a long time." ”

"You want to be like a normal person!" Doctors are engaged in clinical experience, and in previous cases they tell themselves, that is, to say a set of theoretical knowledge, "Vegetative is a special state of the human body similar to the state of existence of plants. With the exception of some instinctive nerve reflexes and the ability to metabolize matter and energy, cognitive abilities (including the perception of one's own existence) have been completely lost, and there is no active activity.

This phenomenon is called phytoplasmic state, irreversible coma. The brainstem of a vegetative person still has a function, and when it delivers nutrients to its body, it can also digest and absorb it, and can use this energy to maintain the body's metabolism, including respiration, heartbeat, blood pressure, etc. It can also produce some instinctive reflexes to external stimuli, such as coughing, sneezing, yawning, etc., exactly the same as normal people.

However, the body no longer has consciousness, perception, thinking, etc., and the higher neural activity unique to human beings. The EEG appears as a stray waveform. The vegetative state is not the same as brain death. Brain death refers to death of the whole brain, including the brainstem. Brain-dead, no involuntary breathing and heartbeat, EEG shows a straight line. These are common sense in medicine. ”

The doctor talked about so much medical knowledge, but the old mother didn't understand a word, and the more an old lady from a rural area explained, the more confused she became, she didn't understand medical terms.

What can the doctor do, if it is serious, it will bring ideological pressure to the patient's relatives, so he can only arrange it objectively and say: "If you want to achieve complete soberness...... It may take a while, but someone needs to be in charge of coming to the ward every day to accompany the patient, feeding the patient with water, feeding, oral medicine, and taking care of urine and urine. ”

"What......" The old mother heard what she said, and thought to herself, I have to serve myself every day, that is a bitter thing for this old woman, serving the feces and urine is small, and I have to feed and drink, wipe my body and take a bath. It is too inconvenient to eat and live in the hospital, and the cost of eating for the two of them is dozens of yuan a day, as well as medicine, examination, treatment, and even the nurse needs money to measure the body temperature.

If you stay unconscious, how much will it cost? He asked, "Please think of a way for my daughter to wake up soon...... ”

"Wake up quickly, it's easier to say," the doctor, out of professional ethics, how could he say that it was normal for the patient's relatives to ask for it. However, treatment requires money and is difficult to do without cost. I had to explain the treatment plan in order to solicit opinions, "If you want to recover quickly, then transfer to the hospital for treatment, transfer to the big hospital in Zhongzhou City, and see if they have a better way, we are a county-level hospital, not to mention the poor conditions, after all, the capacity is limited." ”

"Transfer to the hospital!" When the old mother heard about the transfer, she was even more scared, an old lady who was born and raised in the countryside had never been far away, not even to the nearby medium-sized cities, not to mention the provincial capital Zhongzhou, and asked casually; "That'...... Is there a way for that big hospital? ”

"Is there a way not to know." Doctors are not easy to answer, because there is no absolute limit for vegetative people, and the vast majority of people have a poor prognosis and a high mortality rate. However, nothing is absolute, and it is undeniable that miracles will occur, and there is a very small possibility of recovery.

He seemed to be overwhelmed by his old mother's worries, in a word, it is difficult to do things without money, and the hospital is not his own, nor is it a free hostel. It seems that what is said is a prevarication: "As for the way...... They can open the skull to see which nerve has been broken and then reconnect it, but there is no guarantee that the patient's consciousness will be completely restored. ”

"What!" The old mother was surprised when she heard this, and suddenly, a leaf stuck to her face, she looked up, and at the end of the inpatient building, the dead leaves and confetti blown by the wind were rolled into the air, like a kite with a broken string, floating upstairs, fluttering, flying up and down.

She looked out the window at the strong wind, imagining that she grew up in the countryside, suffered since she was a child, suffered all her life, and was afraid when it came to spending money. Besides, the sudden hearing of her daughter about to open her head made her even more worried and scared, and she had never heard of it.

However, I heard the local doctor in the countryside say that the nerves are the meridians, and they are lines that cannot be seen or touched. The nerves in the brain are quite complex and sensitive, and if you are a little careless, you can touch the peripheral nerves...... How dangerous it is for the serious to lose their lives and the light ones to be disabled for life.

And there is no guarantee that consciousness will return to normal, that is, I am worried and asks: "It must cost a lot of money to transfer to the hospital for surgery, can I not transfer to the hospital, and I will not have the risky surgery." ”