Chapter 10: Sleepwalking

The nurse glanced at me and asked me to come and help, but I was about to take the old horse's arm, but the old horse suddenly fell to the bed, and put the pen and book under the jacket.

The nurse screamed that it was broken, for fear that the old horse would hurt herself by mistake, so she pounced on it and went to pull the old horse, and then asked me to go out and call someone.

I panicked and ran to the duty room, called two other nurses, and the three of them carried the old horse together to snatch the pen from under him.

The nurse brought a restraint belt and wanted to tie up the old horse, afraid that he would get up in the middle of the night and toss blindly, but the old horse saw that the nurse was really moving, so he lay down on the bed very obediently and continued to sleep, which saved him from the disaster of restraint.

I thought that the old horse was awake halfway, and when I saw that I was in trouble and afraid of being punished, I began to pretend to be asleep. After the nurse left, I tried for a long time before I realized that the old man was really asleep.

The rain had stopped outside, and the light was getting brighter, and I took the book from the old horse bed and flipped through it, and found a word written on one of the pages.

There are a lot of strokes in this character, but the writing is crooked, and it should be written by the nurse when I went out to call someone.

I didn't see what it was for a while, but I didn't recognize it for a long time in the not very bright light outside the window, it was a word "roll".

Get lost? This word is very inexplicable, what does he want to express? Do you tell the nurse to get out or let me go? Can your mind still connect with reality when you sleepwalk?

I don't understand, but after dawn, I ate breakfast and drank my medicine as usual, and then took out my chess and beckoned the old horse to come and play. We were chatting while playing chess, and I told him about his sleepwalking yesterday, and he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that he couldn't sleep well, so it was.

I'm very strange, if a normal person sleepwalks often, someone around him will definitely find out, and according to Lao Ma's statement, the frequency of his sleepwalking is almost once a day, such a high frequency, someone should have found it a long time ago, how come I don't know it until now?

Lao Ma explained that his wife died early, and since his son got married, he has lived alone for more than 20 years, and no one has noticed that it is normal.

At first glance, his explanation is very reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, it is wrong, according to his statement, it can only explain why his family did not find it, but how can a place like a mental hospital not be found?

This is 24-hour human supervision, not to say whether the care of the hospital is really dedicated, after all, people are tired, but to say that no one finds such a high frequency of sleepwalking, it is a bit too much.

Besides, I just screamed last night, and it wasn't very loud, and the nurses noticed it and rushed over to check it. So I suspect that the hospital is deliberately hiding Lao Ma's condition. I'd love to help me figure out what's going on, but I don't have a clue about my own business.

Time passed quickly, and after two weeks not only did things not make any progress, but I was almost unable to hold on. I guess it's because I took too much medicine, and I seem to have something wrong with my spirit.

After taking the dosage for about a month, my whole mental state is muddy, and sometimes I begin to wonder if I am mentally ill, and I suddenly don't know what I am doing and why I am doing it.

Just when I was hesitating to leave the hospital for a while to rest, things took a turn for the worse.

Although during this time, Lao Ma sleepwalked almost every day, but because the pen had been taken away by the nurse, no matter how much he turned over my quilt, he could not find anything that could allow him to write.

In the past two days, I suddenly felt that he seemed to be a little anxious, as if something had to be written. He used to go back to sleep after he lifted my quilt and couldn't find the pen while sleepwalking, but recently he started pacing back and forth in the room, and it was getting longer and longer.

During the day, I took advantage of the nurse's inattention to take a fountain pen and hid it in a gap in my bed. One is out of curiosity, and the other is also to get a good night's sleep, and he has been tossing and sleeping hard every day recently. After dark, I stayed up until the second half of the night, and I didn't see the old horse start sleepwalking, I couldn't hold it anymore, and I fell asleep with a squint, and I don't know if the old horse didn't sleepwalk at night, I slept directly until dawn, not to mention how comfortable it was.

Early the next morning, when the old horse had finished washing and saw that I had not woken up, he came to call me, and after waking me up, the old horse went to breakfast. I quickly got up and opened his book, and sure enough, I found the words he wrote in it, and when I saw it, I was immediately terrified, and it read: Get out of my body.

What does that mean? Could it really be that as Lao Ma said, there is another person living in his body?

I tore this page off, not intending to let the old horse know. Lao Ma's mental state is now very normal, the nurse has said last time that he is about to be discharged, if he is allowed to see these words, it is estimated that he will really be trapped in a mental hospital.

The meeting was held as usual after lunch at noon, and it was still some boring discussion of the disease, but it was the woman who took notes that made me pay special attention. I'll admit she's good-looking, but that's not the main reason I pay attention to her.

During these two weeks, I didn't see her at all except for the time of the daily meeting. What surprised me was that even though she was there every time we had a meeting, I never heard a word from her, I always buried my head in notes, and I never saw her wear overalls.

After the meeting, I asked Lao Ma about her situation, and Lao Ma said that she seemed to be a counselor at a psychological counseling agency, and he had talked to him a few times before, and he didn't know why she came here every day to take notes. I asked the old horse again how long she had been going on, and the old horse said that she had been there since before he was admitted to the hospital.

Lao Ma has already set up the chessboard and wants to fight two games with me, but he has been losing to me recently, and he is very unconvinced. I said I wouldn't be able to go today, and when I saw that the woman hadn't left, I walked over to her. She was talking to the nurses when I interrupted them and said, "Excuse me. ”

The nurse and she both looked at me in surprise, and I didn't know what to say, so I had to bite the bullet and say, "Can you take a step to speak?" ”

The woman glanced at the nurse, and with the nurse's permission, she followed me to the side where there were fewer people.

"What's the matter?" She asked me.

"I want to ask you personally." I say.

She asked, "Who?" ”

"There used to be a doctor who was the attending doctor here, I don't know what his full name is, everyone else calls him Lao Ma, do you know?" I really can't help it, the whole hospital staff doesn't know, I can only use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, try my luck, if she doesn't know, I really don't know what to do.

The woman looked at me with a look of surprise and said, "How do you know about the old horse?" ”