A Home for Veterans Chapter 24: Visits (I)
Tan Xiaohong has been really busy lately, not only busy submitting resumes and looking for jobs, but also often going to the hospital to visit her sick mother, and her boyfriend, who has just been talking for a short time, still has some misunderstandings, thinking that she is deliberately alienating him these days. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info On this night, when she hurried back to the military compound where she lived from school, it was already the lights of thousands of homes, and there were few cars on the road.
Tan Sen was filling the black chicken soup in the thermos bucket, and when he saw Xiaohong coming home, he hurriedly said to his daughter: "The food I left for you is buckled on a plate on the dining table, it is not cold yet, you can eat a little casually, and we will go to the hospital to see your mother in a while." ”
"Put the food first, and then eat it when I get back from the hospital."
"How can you go to the hospital hungry, you eat quickly, I'll wait for you!"
Xiaohong swept the clouds, and ate a bowl of rice in a few minutes, without knowing the taste.
The compound of the camp of the comprehensive department is very close to the hospital, only ten minutes away on foot, under the reflection of the street lamps, the shadows of the trees on the sidewalk, the pedestrians are sparse, the father and daughter walk silently, their hearts are like a piece of lead, heavy.
Yin Ling has been feeling swollen and uncomfortable in her stomach recently, mainly because she feels uncomfortable in her liver, and she went to the hospital for an examination the day before yesterday. The doctor told Tan Sen, who accompanied Yin Ling to see a doctor, that according to the preliminary diagnosis, Yin Ling was suffering from liver cirrhosis, but it was not very serious, and she could go home to recuperate slowly after a period of treatment in the hospital.
"Did you not go to work in the afternoon to stew black chicken soup for your mother?" Xiaohong saw that her father was in a bad mood and had nothing to say.
"No, after I stewed the black chicken soup at noon, I went to work, and it was hot again after work in the afternoon."
"Is Mommy very sick?" Xiaohong asked again worriedly.
"The doctor said it's not very serious, you don't have to worry!" Tamsyn comforted his daughter.
"I once read in the newspaper that my mother cut her liver to save her son, and if my mother's liver disease was serious and she needed someone else to cut her liver to save her, she would cut half of my liver to my mother."
"The problem is not as serious as you think, if it really comes to that point, you can't cut your liver if you cut my liver, you are still young, and there are still many things to do in the future."
"No, cut me, my mother gave me my whole body, shouldn't I cut half of her liver to her!" Xiaohong said, a little anxious.
Tan Sen smiled with relief and said to Xiaohong: "It seems that your mother is really very sick, and the doctor said that after she is treated in the hospital for a period of time, she can slowly recuperate and demobilize at home." ”
"Mom's health has always been fine, how could she suddenly get cirrhosis?"
"Your mother had acute hepatitis when she was a school teacher, and it was mainly malnutrition and fatigue at that time, but it was quickly cured. She got sick this time, I think there may be two reasons, one is that she sometimes has too much on her mind and thinks too much, especially recently because of the advertising lawsuit in the magazine, her heart has been unhappy, although this matter was later mediated by the court, your mother only compensated the plaintiff with some money, but she no longer trusts the main leaders of her unit and some colleagues, especially some people who have fallen into the well for her, and she is angry, this is what people say. Second, since your mother became the deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine, she has been socializing a lot and drinking diligently, which has caused relatively great damage to the body, mainly to the liver, and this is what people often say about 'alcohol hurts the liver'. ”
"Does my mother's illness take a long time to treat and recover?" Xiaohong asked Tamson again uneasily.
"It is necessary to have a relatively long treatment and rehabilitation process, treatment is one thing, and there is a more important aspect, which is to nourish, liver disease patients must maintain a good mood, and the second is to keep up with nutrition."
"Let's prepare more delicious food for my mother, and besides, I won't give her more fun in the future."
"I already knew you were a filial daughter!" Tamson praised Xiaohong.
Yin Ling's roommate, a sallow-skinned, kind-eyed old lady, saw Tan Sen and Xiaohong enter the room, greeted them, said that they were going to the patient's lounge to watch TV for a while, and then went out in a funny way.
Yin Ling, who was wearing a hospital gown, looked a little haggard because she heard the doctor say that her illness was not finally diagnosed, and she was still under some pressure in her mind, unable to eat, and not resting well.
Xiaohong took a bowl of black chicken soup and brought it to Yin Ling and said, "Mom, hurry up and drink it while it's hot, this is what Dad stewed for you without a break at noon." ”
Yin Ling lowered her head and drank chicken soup, and Tan Sen said to her: "The medical conditions and living conditions in this hospital are good, you can live here for a while with peace of mind, and when you are basically cured, you can go back home and recuperate slowly." ”
Xiaohong saw that Yin Ling was in a state of mind and intended to amuse her mother, and said on the side: "The conditions of the hospital affiliated to our school are very bad, the heating is not hot in winter, and the dean said that the hospital can only admit patients with high fever when it is cold, so that everyone will not feel cold; In the summer, the air conditioning is not cold, and the dean said that when the weather is hot, the medical staff should keep a cold face on the patients, so that everyone will not feel hot. ”
Tamson smiled and said to Xiaohong: "Your mother has inherited too many literary cells from you, you can always make up a story to make us laugh." ”
Yin Ling drank a bowl of black chicken soup, put down the bowl, refused to drink it again, and her mental state seemed to be better. She told Tamson that the editor-in-chief of her magazine had come to see her in the hospital in the afternoon, and that the editor-in-chief's hypocritical behavior and lukewarm words made her angry. Her colleagues knew that she had a deep conflict with the editor-in-chief, and only one female editor with a good relationship came to the hospital, and the others did not show up.
Xiaohong pretended to be childish on the side and asked Yin Ling: "Mom, you said that in the past, there were many people who rode horses and patted horses, but now all officials ride in cars, why are there so many people who pat horses?" ”
Yin Ling drank the chicken soup, she felt a little more comfortable, she listened to Xiaohong's words, couldn't help laughing, pointed her finger at Tan Sen, and replied to her daughter's words: "Ask your father, let him analyze it from a philosophical point of view." ”
Before Tamson could say anything, Xiaohong's mobile phone rang.
"No, I don't have time tonight, I'm in the hospital with my mother." She told the other party.
"I don't need you to accompany me here, you can go about your business!" Tamson urged Xiaohong on the side.
Xiaohong lowered her head and whispered a few words to her mobile phone, then looked at her mother, then at her father, and said "I'm sorry" with a red face, before reluctantly leaving.