Chapter 14 Money Lasts Life
I'm now lying in a hospital bed every day with a lot of tubes in my body. When a person is unconscious, the tongue will retract, and blocking the trachea will affect breathing, so when a person is unconscious, he should bypass his mouth and open a hole in the trachea, which is called tracheotomy in medicine, and the human body absorbs the air through this incision. I can't even breathe on my own, I can't chew, I can't swallow anything, I have to put a tube in my nose, the tube is very long, and I have to break the food prescribed by the doctor with a wall breaker, and then send it to the stomach through this tube, and there is also a tube on my body, which is the urinary tube.
I have a rehabilitation session every day at noon, and a special rehabilitation therapist massages and moves my joints to prevent muscle atrophy and joint adhesions. The throat has no swallowing function, so the trachea is incised, and the phlegm that comes up in the trachea needs the help of others, using self-made simple tools, through physical principles, to suck out the body, this operation has a certain technical content, and to insert one end of the tube into the trachea, my family can't get down, so I hired a nurse. A widow old lady in her 60s. He talked a lot and had a loud voice, showing off in the ward every day, saying that he had taken care of big people. How well you take care of yourself, etc. Every day at about 3:30 a.m., the nurse would come to the ward to give me a small injection, saying that it affected the nerves, and whenever a young and unfamiliar nurse walked into the ward to give me an injection, my wife would ask if it was a trainee nurse, and she would not allow me to be the object of the trainee nurse's practice. Every morning, the ward had to be ventilated, and in the winter, when the windows were opened, it was too cold in the room. So every time it was time to ventilate, my brother would push me in a wheelchair and walk outside the hospital corridor.
Compared to the hustle and bustle of the corridor, the ward is really a pure land. In the corridor, many family members of patients sit directly on the ground, the opposite side of my ward is the intensive care unit, there is a single room next to my room, the other rooms are multi-person rooms, through the crack in the door, I see the beds in the room next to each other, each bed is lying on the person, the body is also full of tubes, the bed is separated by a curtain. In the middle of the corridor is the nurse's station, and there are a lot of cartoons on the wall, all of which are about brain diseases, and my brother said that he can see these cartoons every day, and he feels that his head hurts, and there are many people in the corridor who are pushed in wheelchairs like me. Every day, you can see people being pushed out of the intensive care unit, covered with a white cloth as if they were on TV, and then many people jumping up and crying.
I did another full body examination, the results were very ideal, the blood in the bleeding spot in the head has been absorbed, my wife has not been with me in the hospital for the past few days, and my daughter does not sleep with her at night, always sleeping. It's almost the New Year, there is a joyful atmosphere on TV, it seems that this Spring Festival is going to be spent in the hospital, life is so bloody, God always likes to joke with humans, regardless of place or time, even if it is in the hospital, even if it is going to be the New Year. It wasn't me, it was in the hallway, in front of the private room next to me.
A young mother knelt on the ground with a little boy, crying and kowtowing to an old lady opposite, the young mother pleaded and said, Auntie, please, please don't rob us, the child can't live without a father, the child is too young. The aunt on the opposite side also knelt on the ground, used her hands to help the young mother and child, and also cried and said, "Don't do this, child." Your child can't live without his father, but I can't do without my son, I can't let you, if I do a good deed, the result is to pay for my son's life, then I am willing to be a wicked person.
The husband of the young mother, who is doing sales in an elevator manufacturer, has good performance this year, has just been promoted to business supervisor, and has just paid a bonus before the Spring Festival, and a family of three has bought a house in Spring City. As soon as the young couple discussed, they used the bonus to buy a car. A colleague in the unit got married. I'm usually too busy with work, so I put the wedding in front of the New Year. Just mentioned that the new car has not yet passed the honeymoon period, the young mother's husband drove to the wedding, but there was a car accident in the middle of the road, rear-ended a large truck, hit the head, and was rescued in the intensive care unit for several days, and finally saved his life. The patient living in the single room next door to me also had a cerebral hemorrhage, I heard my brother mention it before, and he is also the owner of a company, in his 40s, like the surname Lin, Mr. Lin's mother, more than 1.40 meters tall, hunchbacked and one eye is not easy to use, very young, he was widowed, the old man also died of cerebral hemorrhage, and he has been living with 4 children until now. Mr. Lin, there are three sisters above. Dr. Lin graduated and started a successful business. The old lady took this son as a baby bump.
Originally, Mr. Lin and the young mother's husband couldn't fight, if they have similarities, it is that they are of similar age, Mr. Lin was pushed out of the intensive care unit after his life was out of danger, and the husband had just been sent to the intensive care unit.
I remember that there was a child's play in Feng Xiaogang's Tangshan earthquake movie, where a stone slab pressed my sister and younger brother, and I could only choose one to survive, and my mother chose my younger brother. The fate of Mr. Lin and the others is also facing a choice, and only one person can survive. And this selection is absolutely unfair, and Mr. Lin is destined to win from the beginning. God just wants to make that young mother even more desperate and let that child know that society is cruel.
Mr. Lin and the husband had a high fever at the same time, and their body temperature remained high, and they were tested by the hospital. They have a virus in their body, and the high fever is caused by this virus. The virus is rare in clinical practice, and hospitals simply do not stock drugs to destroy the virus. This drug is very difficult to use, so there are no pharmaceutical companies that make it. There is a company abroad that produces it, but that country is on the other side of the world, and even if that company has stock and delivers the medicine here, it is difficult to say whether it can be rushed. After extensive contact with doctors, it was confirmed that a hospital in a neighboring province had the drug.
Last month, in the hospital in the neighboring province, there was an old man who also found this virus in his body, and his body temperature was also high, and the eldest daughter of the old man searched all over the country and failed to find this medicine, and finally there was really no way, so he ordered it from abroad and airlifted it back to China, the old man did not wait for the medicine, and finally the hospital kept the medicine in refrigeration, the drug was expensive, and the people in need helped the family sell it.
The medicine was found, but a new problem came, the drug was only enough for one person's share, and now it was two people who needed the drug. If it is in the order of first come, first served, the medicine should be used by the husband who was in the car accident, there are a total of 5 medicines, 10,000 pieces, a total of 50,000 yuan. This small family is not rich in the first place, and the bonus just given is used to buy a car. The young mother had to go around raising money. It was easy to raise enough 50,000 yuan, Mr. Lin also had a high fever, the same virus needed the same medicine, Mr. Lin's mother heard in despair that she had found the medicine, it was like grabbing a life-saving straw, and she heard that the young mother was raising money, he and she directly called to triple the price, and he directly bid 150,000, which was enough to destroy the young family. The seller chooses to sell for a higher price.
When the young wife learns of her husband's life, she has the money taken away from her. I had a nervous breakdown, so I knelt in the corridor and prayed to the old lady.
All the people in the corridor were silent, all of them were moved by the cries of the young mother and the little boy, but who can't say anything, you can't find fault with the old lady, it's all life, who can be so selfless as to give up their own life.
There is a voice in society that it is a blessing for people to live with a pure heart and few desires, and to eat bran and vegetables. That's when you don't encounter real difficulties, and when you encounter money to continue your life, you know the importance of money.
In a flash, I woke up, and it had been more than 10 days, and all the diseases that the hospital could treat me had been treated. Now that's all that's left for rehabilitation, and you need to go home to recuperate or go to a rehabilitation center. The doctor has urged me to be discharged as soon as possible. The hospital wards are so tight. I'm in a good mood, I'm recovering quickly, and I'm able to raise my arms high when I'm lying flat. When I checked the ward, the doctor told me that in just half a year, I should be able to run all over the floor. I had to be discharged from the hospital in the afternoon, and the ward was ventilated as usual in the morning, and my younger brother still used a wheelchair to push me through the corridor as usual.
As we were about to pass through the intensive care unit, the door to the intensive care unit opened, and a bed covered with a white cloth was pushed out of the intensive care treatment. The young mother threw herself on the bed with her son and cried. His husband passed away, and the door to Mr. Lin's ward was closed. There was silence in the hallway.