Chapter 9: Turning the Tide of Safety
The hospital was exceptionally quiet late at night, and I couldn't stand the hunger, so I ran to the vending machine next to me and bought a bucket of instant noodles.
The boiling water room is on the far left of the floor, the bathroom is on the far right, and Mina's hospital room is in the middle, with four beds in it, and the only people living in it are me and her.
In order to save 100 yuan in bed fees, I went to ask the nurse to borrow a stool and prepared to last all night.
Alas! I don't know if Mina will be in danger!
While pulling the noodles, I sighed with emotion, 20,000 yuan, after removing the operation fee and bed fee, there is only 3,500 yuan left.
It's so expensive to see a doctor!
I don't know if Mina will have so much money back to me when she wakes up.
"You're going to come to me!"
The girl sprang out and repeated the phrase at my side.
I resisted the urge to splash her noodle soup and went straight into the hospital room.
According to the mobile phone, it was already 1:35 p.m., and only the nurses' station and the corridor were still on energy-saving lights on the entire floor.
On a night in March, it was extremely cold, and I was wearing only a tweed, and I was lying on the edge of the bed, so cold that I couldn't sleep.
"Cold!"
I was scrolling through Weibo when I heard Mina shouting this.
"Is it cold?"
I got up and touched her hand, it was cold, there was no sign of waking up, her pale face, her brows were wrinkled together.
Maybe it's because it hurts too much after the surgery!
The quilt in the hospital was indeed thin, and after thinking about it, I gritted my teeth and went to the nurse's station.
"Sister nurse, do you have any extra quilts here, my friend's hands are a little cold."
There were two young nurses on duty at the nurses' station, one of whom went to the ward rounds and the other stayed at the nurse's station.
"No, isn't the air conditioner in your ward turned on?"
The nurse listened to me and asked me about it in turn.
"Do you still have air conditioning blowing in your ward?"
And such a good thing? Then why didn't you say it earlier, it caused me to freeze for a few hours!
"Xiao Xin, this young lady said that the air conditioner in their ward is not turned on, you go and take a look."
It just so happened that the little nurse who was doing the ward rounds came back, and the young lady who was guarding the nurse's station asked her colleagues to go back with me.
"It's really not open!"
Xiao Xin turned on the lights in our ward, and I saw that directly above each bed, there was an exhaust port for air conditioning.
"Let's see if the air conditioner is on."
The nurse fumbled around the electricity distribution room on the side for a while before returning to our room.
"Like, there's no reaction!"
I raised my hand and touched it, but I didn't feel it at all.
"I'll do it, get out of the way!"
The little nurse got to Mina's bed, blocked the stool I was sitting on, stood up, raised her hand to probe the exhaust port, and nodded to me.
"The air conditioner has been turned on, it's just warming up, it's going to take a while, so let's do it, I have an electric kettle here, you can use it for your friends first!"
As she spoke, Xiao Xin took out a beige hot water bottle from the spacious nurse's uniform and handed it to me.
"No, I'll cover her with my coat first!"
I shook my head, I don't even know where to put this hot water bottle.
"It's so cold at night, you should still wear it!"
Seeing the reason for my refusal, Xiao Xin smiled and lifted Milai's quilt, intending to put the hot water bottle next to her waist.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, she froze.
"What's wrong?"
I hurriedly followed to the side, and when I saw the situation under the quilt, my heart pounded and I reached the abyss.
Xiao Xin pressed the button of the bedside emergency notification, and 5 minutes later, the emergency doctor and the nurse ran over.
"What's the patient's condition?"
"After the operation, I was bleeding profusely, I was unconscious, and I needed to rush into the operating room!"
"How long has this been the case?"
The doctor turned his head and asked, and it took me a long time before I realized that he was talking to me.
"I don't know, I didn't pay attention!"
"We entered the operating room at 7:40, came out at 9:43, and at 10:30, I see that she is fine!"
My mind was in a mess, and I could only pick up what I knew.
The lights outside the operating room were dim, and the hospital, which was supposed to be quiet, was busy here.
Doctors, nurses came in and out, constantly communicating with me.
Every time, the news brought is not good.
"If the blood still can't stop, then her uterus has to be removed, you know?"
The doctor's words made me fall into the abyss.
The surgical consent form that was delivered to me felt like it weighed a thousand pounds.
Removal of the uterus?
Wouldn't it be that in the future, there will be no fertility?
I leaned against the wall, grabbing my hair as I hit my head against the tile in front of me.
How did it get to such a serious point?
If this is really done, what will Mina do in the future? She's only 26 years old!
"Do you want to save her?"
The girl, who came to me again, was still tugging at my sleeve and tilting her head to look at me.
I left her, went to the other side, and started to call Han Yunduo, but Han Yunduo didn't answer the phone.
"No one can save her, listen!"
The girl followed, repeating in her mouth:
"Tick-tick-tick-tick-"
"Shut up!"
I clutched my ears and shouted.
"Is Mina's family here?"
The nurse's voice rang out again.
"I'm here, how is she doing now?"
I immediately grabbed the nurse's arm, expecting her to tell me that Mina was out of danger.
"There's really no way, you better sign it, otherwise, her life will be in danger."
The nurse shook her head and asked me:
"Do you think life is important, or is a woman's fertility important?"
"I know, but can you fight for it again?"
It's not that I don't understand this truth, but if there is still a chance, even if it is only a 0.01% chance, we should strive for it, right?
"You've only got five minutes to think about it, and we're really doing our best!"
The nurse gave me an ultimatum:
"If I wait to come out and you don't sign, then we can't guarantee her life, do you understand?"
I sat down on the ground directly, and the operation notice was grabbed in my hand, and every word on it seemed to me to be terrible.
"Tick-tick-tick-"
The girl walked up to me from the side, her head tilted, her eyes bulging, in the dim light, shining with joy:
"Do you want to ask me?"
I looked up at her, and for a moment, immediately grabbed her arm:
"I beg you, save my friend!"
Whatever it is, as long as I can turn Mina's situation around, I'm willing to fight for her.
"Are you sure?"
The girl's mouth was slightly open, her face was incredulous, and her hand was very my arm.
"I'm sure, what do you want me to give you in exchange?"
I gritted my teeth and nodded, ready to swap with him.
"I want you to gamble!"
The girl put her face next to mine, and smiled very badly:
"Not only will I save your friend, but I can also make you rich and make you and her rich, okay?"
"You just need to help me save her, get rich, you don't have to-"
I shook my head and refused, at this juncture, you don't tell me, you still have to let me buy lottery tickets.
"No, you must get rich, you can't refuse!"
The girl's face suddenly became hideous, let go of my arm, and pulled me directly by the collar:
"You're going to win a lot of money, a lot of money!"
"What the hell are you?"
I couldn't figure out what the girl in front of me was. Obviously, she was like a fog behind Mina, but near me, she was like a person.
"I'm an elf!"
The girl put away her hideous expression, returned to her original listlessness, and tilted her head to look at me:
"You should remember me, Anning?"
"How do you know my name?"
As soon as I said this, I was relieved, she had been with me, so many people had called my name, she knew that it was a matter of course.
"And so it was!"
The girl frowned, a little confused, and a little cautiously touched my face, from the center of her eyebrows to her chin, she touched it very carefully.
"You can help me save Mina first!"
Now, the first priority is to get Mina safe.
"Her name is Mina?"
The girl tilted her head and looked at the ground, as if she were talking to me, as if she was talking to herself.
"If you can't save her, I promise you, I won't count!"
The first time I worked with something like this, I didn't know how to suppress it.
"Good!"
The girl squinted and smiled, it was the first time I had seen her like this.
Soon, her bulging eyes regained and she walked past me in a daze, through the door of the operating room, and disappeared in front of her.
Five minutes later, the nurse came out.
"The bleeding has stopped, and the patient is safe for the time being!"
This time, the news brought by the nurse was good news, and my hanging heart was finally put down.
Returning to the ward again gave me the feeling of being in a different world.
This time, there was no problem with the air conditioner, and I sat on the edge of the bed, not daring to be sloppy at all, and stayed until dawn.
I was so sleepy, I don't know when, so I fell asleep.
"Tranquility!"
It was Mina's voice, and I immediately jumped up from the chair, but because my leg was numb, I fell directly under the bed.
"How are you, is there anything else uncomfortable?
I pulled her to ask questions, and tears almost came out of my eyes.
"Am I spending a lot of money?"
When Mina woke up, the first thing she asked was about money.
Speaking of money, I haven't paid the cost of last night's surgery.
"As long as people are okay, money or something, you can make it again!"
I comforted her, afraid that she would be cranky.
"An Ning, I only have 300 yuan on me, you-"
Mina tugged at my sleeve, and suddenly she couldn't speak.
"It's okay, I have it, you can pay me back slowly!"
I grabbed her by the arm, helped her to lie down, and asked her in a pretended relaxed manner:
"Are you hungry, I'm going to buy you breakfast?"
After leaving the door of the hospital, I immediately regretted it, where did I get the money now!