Chapter Twenty-Four: Love Without Borders

Inscription: The light rain in the heavenly street is as moist as the grass is close but there is none

Xiong Jun stayed awake all night, and his wife and daughter were also frightened, because Xiong Jun's father, an old man from the countryside, had a cough all night and a fever when he was in the city for the New Year this year. Every cough of the old man was like a burst of thunder, rolling through their hearts, frightened, frightened, and fearful.

Xiong Jun repeatedly compared the analysis of the signs of the new crown pneumonia and felt that the old man was likely to be recruited, and the one who was recruited may have been infected with diabetes and high blood pressure when he went to the hospital a year ago. Xiong Jun called some friends for help, and with the help of his senior reporter's network resources, he wanted to get a hospital bed for his father and apply for a fast track to diagnose the old man. However, to his surprise, hospital resources are already very tight, all hospitals are waiting for beds, and the nucleic acid testing kits issued by superiors are also limited. Some patients are just waiting, and mild symptoms are dragged into severe cases, and severe cases are dragged into death!

Xiong Jun was very anxious, he sat down in front of the computer in the study, quickly typed on the keyboard, analyzed the current epidemic situation and its consequences, and prepared to publish an article criticizing the current evils.

His wife came over and persuaded: "Don't compete with the officials, as the saying goes, the arm can't twist the thigh." Now it is important for the little people to save their lives, and we must also protect ourselves!

You hurry up and find a way, it's important to save your father! ”

Xiong Jun dialed the 120 emergency number, but he couldn't get in for a long time. There are too many people calling 120, about 15,000 a day. He had no choice but to ask Li Ming for help and explain his father's illness.

Dean Li gave him an idea to ask Xiong Jun's father to go to the emergency department of the hospital every day to do emergency treatment first, and then wait for testing in the emergency treatment, and then strive for hospitalization after the test. Dean Li said, "I can arrange an ambulance for you to pick up your father for emergency treatment every morning." ”

For three consecutive days, according to Li Ming's suggestion, Xiong Jun sent his father to the hospital for emergency treatment, taking medicine and injections. But his father's condition did not improve.

The old man said to Xiong Jun: "Xiong Jun, you have also done your filial piety, I am almost eighty years old, I don't think I will toss, I will go back to my hometown, and if I die, you will bury me in the mountains of your own house." "The elderly refused to be ambulated, refused to go to the emergency department of the hospital, and refused to be tested and sampled.

Xiong Jun looked at his father's sparse white hair, deep-set eyes, bulging cheekbones and deflated cheeks, watched his father panting with difficulty, and his withered branch-like hand, gesturing on his chest, groping for a while, took out his social security card from the inner layer of his clothes, a few rolls of cash wrapped in an old handkerchief. The father gave these items to Xiong Jun.

Xiong Jun's heart is like a knife.

After a while, the old man stopped breathing.

Xiong Jun bowed his head and wept silently. He recalls his father's life as an ordinary farmer. Before liberation, his father was a strong man; After liberation, there was a natural disaster and he almost starved to death; During the upsurge of the People's Commune, he participated in countless water conservancy projects, and on the wall of the old houses in the countryside, there were several activist awards from his father; He was the first in the village to sign and press his fingerprint.

Before the Spring Festival, Xiong Jun took his father to Wuhan for the New Year, so that he could enjoy the excitement, prosperity and happiness of the Spring Festival in the big city, but he didn't expect to make a mistake that he regretted for the rest of his life. If the elderly are allowed to spend this Spring Festival in the countryside, they may be luckier than coming to the big city, at least they can escape the catastrophe of the new crown pneumonia! The happiness of remoteness, simplicity, and poverty may have more meaning of life than the lively, prosperous, and rich life!

He looked at his father's remains, and his heart was as cold as ashes------

Yao Lin, a retired professor in Jiahe Community, has been admitted to the hospital for more than two weeks, initially with mild symptoms, and then transferred to the intensive care ward, and he is in a terrible mood.

After Professor Yao Lin was hospitalized, he experienced the fear of being infected with the new crown pneumonia, felt the numbness brought about by the daily deaths in the ward, and endured the despair of hovering on the verge of life and death after being transferred to the intensive care ward. He also witnessed the difficulties and responsibilities, courage and responsibility of doctors and nurses. As an intellectual, he was always worried about the rise and fall of the nation and the survival of the state. He thought that after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, the country used a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to prevent and fight the epidemic, and the new crown patients were hospitalized and treated, and everything was free. At the same time, our country reported the epidemic to the relevant institutions in the world in a timely manner, and notified the relevant countries, which reflects the responsibility of a responsible major country, while it has increased the burden on the country, and I am deeply ashamed!

In the intensive care ward of the ICU of Fumin Hospital, Zhu Yi, Sun Aibing, Wu Aichun, and Liu Xinxin are making every effort to rescue the old professor Yao Lin. Yao Lin refused treatment. He thought that he was so old that he would die without regrets, and there was no need to waste the country's financial, manpower, and material resources.

Zhu Yi communicated with Professor Yao Lin for a long time, hoping that he would cooperate with the treatment. He said: "The supremacy of people's lives and people's health is the principle and spirit of the higher authorities in epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic. ”

Yao Lin still insisted on refusing to accept further treatment. He said, "I'm an old bone, a rotten wood, and you can use your limited resources for patients who need them more." ”

When Zhu Yi had nothing to do, he thought of his sister Zhu Jing.

Zhu Jing is a psychiatrist and a psychological counseling professional, and if she asks her sister for help, she may be able to relieve the depression in Professor Yao Lin's heart.

Zhu Yi answered Zhu Jing's phone, put the headphones on Professor Yao, and said, "Dr. Zhu Jing, my sister was also your colleague, and she wants to nag with you. ”

Professor Yao Lin's nervous and stubborn expression suddenly eased a lot, and he said, "Oh, then I'll listen to her." ”

Zhu Jing said, "Professor Yao, if you have any troubles, just tell me." ”

"I have only one thought, go with the flow, don't let the medical staff spend too much energy and time on me, and don't waste medical resources on me, there are more patients who need to be treated," Professor Yao said. ”

Zhu Jing's heart sank after hearing this. She said: "Professor Yao, I just watched TV, the Party Central Committee held the highest level of meeting, set up a special epidemic prevention leading body to deal with the new crown pneumonia, and the whole country is supporting the frontline epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic. We will certainly win this war without the smoke of gunpowder. If you can be cured and discharged from the hospital, this is the greatest encouragement for other new crown patients! ”

Professor Yao Lin felt a burst of warmth in his heart, sighed, and said: "Now that medical resources are too precious and scarce, I don't have to waste the country's resources at this age, so I decided not to treat them anymore!" ”

Zhu Jing said: "If you can be cured and discharged from the hospital, you can also do something for this epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic. ”

Professor Yao thought, yes, although I am old, the knowledge in my head is not old, and I can turn the knowledge into common sense of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic science, and make a contribution to epidemic prevention.

Zhu Jing said: "Now the epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic has been united. Let me tell you about two little things that just happened. A primary school student donated his New Year's money to the Red Cross. The primary school student's parents, both medical staff, had not seen their daughter on the front line for four weeks. When they learned that their daughter had donated 500 yuan to the state, they cried, but at the same time they were happy, and they said: "Usually we always complain about our daughter's hypocrisy, and we don't know how thick the sky is. Through this incident, they feel very down-to-earth, because they are relieved of their daughter! ”

Professor Yao Lin nodded slowly, relieved. He looked at the medical staff around him. They wore heavy, airtight protective suits, isolation suits, several layers of gloves, and wore masks for so long that their faces and noses were strangled. Liu Xinxin had a few band-aids stuck to her cheeks. They go into the intensive care unit for five or six hours at a time. They examine patients, give injections, administer medicines, and change urine and feces sheets. Zhu Yi did not leave the front line in the intensive care ward for four consecutive weeks, Sun Aibing did not rest for 23 days, Wu Aichun stayed in the intensive care room day and night, and Liu Xinxin once fell asleep while walking and suddenly leaning against the wall! What are they for? For money? For the sake of fame? For the sake of the official? For the job title? Neither! They're doing their duty, they're robbing people from death! Yao Lin thought of this, and his faint eyes were full of tears.

This morning, Yao Lin saw several videos. A vegetable farmer drove a tricycle and delivered the vegetables in his greenhouse to the hospital, only saying that I had grown it myself, and it was very fresh. The peasants left without leaving their names. There is also an old Communist Party member, a retired worker, who saw that the new crown pneumonia epidemic that the country is facing now is so severe, and donated part of his savings! When Yao Lin thought of this, he felt that he was too small and humble.

Zhu Jing said: "There is another thing that happened in the Jiahe community where you live. Taxi driver Luo Wu, courier Liu Xuexin, security captain Lei Sen, cleaner Chen Kezhen Wang Weijie and his wife, community grid member Wang Bo, community security commissioner An Daoji, initiated the establishment of my help volunteer service team, you only need a phone call, respond to requests, family affection and hope are around you, right by your side! ”

Although Yao Lin was alone, he felt that he was surrounded by relatives and good people, and he was immediately relieved. He seemed to see oases in the dry desert, and he seemed to see clear springs in the cracked loess. He said to Zhu Jing: "I know all these people you mentioned, and they usually help me a lot, they are all ordinary people at the bottom, and they are willing to stand up at critical moments, amazing, amazing!" ”

Zhu Jing said: "Actually, you are also a soldier, although you are infected with the new crown pneumonia and are now in the ward, but you are fighting against the virus!" You are an expert in virology, although you have left your teaching and research position, you are a virology intellectual, you should not bow to the new coronavirus, you should cooperate with the medical staff to actively treat, and use yourself to prove that the new crown epidemic is not terrible, the virus can be overcome and defeated! ”

Yao Lin's spirit is much better. He said guiltily, "I'm ashamed! I have been engaged in virology research all my life, and my results have been mediocre, and I have been helpless against SARS virus, Ebola virus, H1N1 virus, avian influenza virus, African swine fever, etc., and I have not made any academic contributions. This time the new crown pneumonia happened around me, I was actually knocked down by a stroke! I'm ashamed! ”

Zhu Jing said: "The courier Liu Xuexin will send you a bouquet of flowers, which is the greeting of their volunteer team, and the Wanjia community is making a special condolence card for you!" ”

Yao Lin was grateful. He thought that he must persevere, he must endure, and he must be cured and discharged. In the face of a national crisis, I can also give full play to my professional advantages to carry out epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic science publicity to the public, so as to show my gratitude to the country.