In the ward, Li, who rushed back from a neighboring city, looked at his father who was lying on the hospital bed, speechless for a while.

"Creatinine value 1280, uremia stage 5, that is, the late stage." The doctor left after talking about the condition.

"Go find your boss and borrow some money." Hearing the words of the second uncle, he was far from knowing that he was at the end of his rope.

Li's second uncle is an extremely proud person, he never shows an embarrassed side in front of his juniors, when Li's salary is only enough to supplement the family, it is the second uncle who takes out 2,000 yuan a month to buy medicine for his father, but the money is basically used by his father to gamble, he only feels that his body can not support it will buy medicine and take medicine, which is also found out after Li.

"Let you take your medicine and injections on time, and don't eat messy things! Is watermelon, a drink that you can eat as a diabetic? All three of us brothers are sick with the same disease, why is it that only you, the youngest, are doing this! The second uncle was furious at his father in the ward, and the father turned his head like a stubborn child and did not speak.

After a period of bitter scolding, the second uncle told him to leave and left, he skipped work on the way to work.

It was at this time that Li began to discover the horror of this disease, as well as the horror of his father.

"Don't gamble."

"Is it more for me to play a hundred yuan a day in a little mahjong!" The father will be scolded by the second uncle and sprinkled on Li's body.

"Isn't our family poor now?" Actually, I don't want to say that my salary is less than 100 yuan a day.

That night, my father, who had some difficulty walking with him, walked around in the small garden under the hospital building, "Money is not a problem, I am only twenty, and I can always pay it off, but you have to take good care of your body, I only have you as a spiritual support." ”

The affectionate words made the father choke, and two months ago, the beloved girl and the divorce were separated.

However, the nightmare of departure has only just begun.

The company borrowed 10,000 yuan to leave, and relatives who had been taken care of by their own families visited and got a total of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

"You take the money." The uncle, who had just come out of the bank, handed the money he had withdrawn to Li, two thousand five hundred yuan. "Don't be too little, my disease is the same as your father's, it was inherited from your grandmother, and your aunt's health is not good, so that's me."

"Can you go see him?" My aunt used to have breast cancer and knew about it.

"Don't go! What am I going to see him for? Uncle suddenly became irritable.

"You're his eldest brother, so let's talk a few words about him."

"Then you are still his son, and he listens to you when you speak?"

“…… I'll write you an IOU. "I don't know what to say, so I let the topic go.

"It's enough for you to have this heart, forget it." patting Li's shoulder, the uncle pushed the old-fashioned 28 bicycle and left.

Back at the hospital, my father was smoking a cigarette at the entrance of the building.

"There is no taste in the mouth......" Seeing Li's eyes staring at the Chinese cigarette in his hand, his father explained a little softly. The food in the hospital is unpalatable, and I ordered it at a small restaurant outside. ”

"You still dare to eat from a restaurant?" My father's illness requires oil and salt, not to mention that many dishes will aggravate the condition, and my father can only keep muttering that the dishes in the hospital are unpalatable and tasteless.

After reluctantly calculating the accounts, I only gnawed two buns a day and found that it was not considered hospitalization expenses, and my father's food, drink and tobacco money would be more than 100 yuan a day, "It's okay, I can hold ......

I can only comfort myself like this.

"You don't know, even if I have a little strength, I crawl out, I don't want to listen to the second brother come to talk crook......edly," in the ward, the father said to the relatives who came to visit him with tears in his eyes, these days the second uncle often comes to the hospital to go through various procedures for him, and every time he comes, he is indispensable to scold.

"See no, that's ungrateful." Leaning against the wall with his hands on his chest, he said to himself who was watching this scene expressionlessly.

With a monthly living allowance of 2,000 yuan for several years, the second uncle was running back and forth for all the size of the hospitalization, in exchange for such a sentence.

"How can you not have health insurance?" Relatives asked with a sigh.

“…… I forgot to hand it in. The father wiped his tears and pretended to be pitiful.

"Heh......" Li sneered in his heart, before that, his father's original words to him were like this, "More than 100 yuan a year, Lao Tzu won't go to play a little mahjong?" ”

At this time, my father frequently brought up the topic of divorce.

"What good girl would you look like would be willing to follow me?"

"What does it have to do with me when you marry you?" I had to be amazed by my father's brain circuits.

"Wake up, he's just using you as a tool to pass on the lineage, does he care if you're looking for a person or a pig?" Patting himself on the shoulder, he sneered.

"You only have dialysis as a treatment for this disease, three times a week, 400 yuan at a time, if you don't have medical insurance, no matter how rich you are, you can't survive." The doctor's ultimatum came.

"Then it won't be cured, how can I have so much money......" Under the medical expenses of up to 100,000 yuan a year, my father's face was like ashes.

"Let's go to a Chinese doctor." The doctor shook his head and walked out of the ward, leaving his father to speak, he knew that there was an elder in the family who had been rejected by major hospitals across the country for uremia and asked him to go home and prepare to die, and it was a Chinese medicine doctor who cured him. "If Chinese medicine says it can be cured, we will treat it, and if it can't be treated, forget it, I can't afford the cost of dialysis of 100,000 yuan a year."

In the face of reality, Li also had to bow his head, and his father agreed silently.

That night, Li received a call from his mother.

"How's he doing?" It's not a tone of concern, it's cheerful.

"The hospital can only go dialysis, and I am ready to go to see a Chinese medicine doctor."

"That's how his illness is, leave him alone, it will drag you for the rest of your life."

"No way, who made him my son." After a short silence, he spoke into the phone, "There's a question I've always wanted to ask you, why, those men ......"

"No, it's all your liar." Mother's tone was hurried.

"But what do I see for myself?"

“…… You beat me! The mother cried out with tears in her heart.

Yes, I've figured it all out.

Father is a short-tempered person, fighting people is not light or heavy, from the memory fragments of childhood there is a picture of the mother being beaten by the father with a stick, and there is no gentle and considerate husband in daily life, open your mouth and your mother B shut up and fuck you M, and the mother is young and beautiful, in such a bad life situation, if there is suddenly a man, a little bit better to the mother, as long as a little bit......

"He said I was fooling around with men and calling me a bitch, did he ever tell you that he took his cousin home and had sex when I was pregnant with you? He also discussed with me that he would keep his cousin as a second son! The mother on the other end of the phone no longer had any scruples and said, "I drove his cousin away after you were born!" ”

No problem, everything makes sense......

Just like Li said, no matter what, it is his biological father, and the disease still has to be seen.

After several tosses, Li took his father to find the Chinese medicine doctor who had cured the elders in the family.

"Old doctor, I'm looking for you as a dead horse."

"You can say this as a patient, but I, as a doctor, will do my best to treat you as long as you come." From the time he spoke, he felt that this Chinese medicine doctor was very reliable, and after the diagnosis of Chinese medicine, a reasonable and evidence-based treatment plan also convinced Li.

"You're different from him, he's just uremia, and you also have diabetes, high blood pressure, heart and other messy little problems, so it's more difficult to treat." The old Chinese medicine doctor pointed to the elders who accompanied his father and said, "To cure your disease, you must take it together with dialysis and Chinese medicine, otherwise the medicine will be useless if it is light, and you will be gone if the medicine is heavy." ”

"The human body is like a house, your current wall has rotted, use dialysis as a pillar to support the house from collapsing, and then use Chinese medicine to rebuild the wall." The old Chinese medicine doctor stretched out his hand and gestured three fingers, "You can cut off dialysis in three months, and then continue to take Chinese medicine, and your body will slowly get better, you see that he is not alive now." ”

Looking at the elder with a ruddy face and shiny silver hair, he couldn't tell that he had been a patient in the advanced stage of uremia.

"Okay, we can still pay for three months of dialysis." The words of TCM gave Li great confidence, and he began to be full of hope for life......