Chapter 5: Warm Me Up for Ten Seconds
"Isn't that the most obvious clue?"
"Obviously you're big!" I got out of anger and couldn't stand it anymore when Zuocai kept insulting my IQ in different ways:
"Think about it yourself, in the diary you just showed me, in addition to the paragraph mentioning the hospital, where did you mention that she was sick?"
Shi Zuocai was silent for a long time, and then clicked on a diary with some impression on my memory.
[100,000 reasons to like Mr. Ho 10/11]
[#1122# Mr. He is going on a business trip tomorrow for three days. Because I was worried that I would not eat properly and take medicine, I plastered all kinds of sticky notes on the refrigerator, wardrobe, and bedside table at home. Mr. Ho is really a considerate man. 】
I was silent for a long time, and then smiled:
"Excuse me."
"That's just part of the story. In fact, the blogger has also mentioned some details related to her illness in her diary many times, and the time span is very large, from three years ago to a year and a half ago, she saw the words 'injection and medicine', which can basically determine that she has some kind of disease that requires long-term treatment. The most obvious one is this one. ”
[100,000 reasons to like Mr. Ho 3/01]
[#164# When I was a child, I was most afraid of injections, and every time I got vaccinated at school, I would pretend to be sick and not go to school, but now I am used to getting injections every day, and I can't help but sigh about the reincarnation of cause and effect. But what! The person who gives me the injection at home every day is Mr. He, who used to want to be a medical student, so he is quite good at this aspect, and he is very gentle when he gives the injection, and he will not feel pain - the needle that I dodged is returned to me ten times and a hundred times, but I am not afraid of injections at all now, and fate is really a wonderful thing. 】
Looking at this diary, a few inspirations flashed through my mind:
"That's right! I remember, and it was also mentioned in her other diaries that she often seemed to have low blood sugar, so He Yu prepared a lot of glucose at home...... Do you think her illness is anemia or something? ”
Shi Zuo thought about it, shook his head and said it shouldn't be. I was a little unconvinced and asked him why.
"I've seen that diary you mentioned, but there's another one here."
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[Passing by the fried chestnut stall that I like to eat. I've been told not to eat more, but now it's okay to eat as much as you want. 】
I was stunned when I saw this line of words, this woman was told not to eat more sugar fried chestnuts, I think it was because of the high sugar content of fried chestnuts, but why can't people with low blood sugar eat things with high sugar content?
"Although your claim could explain the effect of the 'injection' – that is, the injection of glucose to raise the blood sugar concentration. But it can't explain her 'can't eat too much sugar'. So I think there should be something else hidden in her illness. ”
"And what do you think it should be?" I'm confused.
Shi Zuocai touched his nose and frowned slightly.
The following statement is just my personal speculation, and it is not necessarily true. I think she might be diabetic. ”
"Diabetes? Isn't it, Ah Cai, I don't have culture, don't tease me, isn't diabetes a disease that only grandfathers and grandmothers get? ”
"Not really." Shi Zuocai shook his head calmly, looking at his expression, I knew that this guy was going to give me a new round of popular science education again.
"There are actually two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2. The elderly you just mentioned often suffer from type 2 diabetes, which is mostly caused by unhealthy diets...... On the other hand, it often appears as a teenager. Because this diabetes is hereditary. ”
"Type 1 diabetes is different from type 2 in that the body of patients with this disease is inherently unable to produce insulin, and they must be injected to lower their blood sugar ......"
"That's not right!" I interjected:
"She obviously has low blood sugar, and diabetics are called diabetes because of high blood sugar, right? You explain that she can't eat sugar, but you can't explain her hypoglycemia......"
"On the contrary, it is precisely because she is diabetic that she is more likely to have symptoms of hypoglycemia than the average person."
Shi Zuocai's words made me stunned, I asked him why, and he directly opened a new web page, collecting information and explaining to me at the same time.
"The first thing you have to understand is that people's blood sugar is mainly regulated by insulin.
Insulin is what is used to lower blood sugar.
The main characteristic of diabetics is that the insulin in the body is insufficient, simply put, when the body's blood sugar becomes high, insulin is needed to lower blood sugar, but insulin does not act. When the blood sugar is lowered, insulin starts to lower the blood sugar instead.
It is this dysfunction that makes diabetics more susceptible to hypoglycemia.
Look at this: a normal person's fasting blood sugar concentration is lower than 2.8, but a diabetic person can be judged as hypoglycemia as long as it is lower than 3.9. ”
After listening to the explanation, I finally came to my senses.
In this way, the fact that she has to take medicine and injections every day can be explained.
When this puzzle piece emerged, the image of this mysterious woman gradually became clear in my mind.
A woman with congenital diabetes needs daily insulin injections to survive, and she can't consume too much sugar - it is precisely because of diabetes that her body is far weaker than ordinary people, and she may often have symptoms of anemia and dizziness.
She broke up with He Yu for so long, and judging from the diary, it seems that she has always lived alone. The little bird that was carefully cared for in the cage will be expelled one day, I don't know if it will be able to fly?
I suppressed the uncomfortable feeling in my heart and continued to return to the reasoning of the left and the time.
"In this case, insulin injections every day are indeed a lot of expenses. Not to mention that she's still at home and behind closed doors......"
"So we're going to find out more about the possibility of that financial source." Shi Zuocai said calmly.
I thought about it for a moment and said:
"Could it be because He Yu has other jobs, or is it stock speculation, buying lottery tickets and winning the lottery...... or something"
"It's unlikely. The reason is simple: this woman's blog content is all about He Yu, and the only time they socialize is when He Yu comes home from work - that is, every night. When He Yu returned home, he not only had to be responsible for dinner, but even the housework was taken care of. If he had a second job at night, the two would hardly have interacted for a day, and she wouldn't have been able to write that much. Unless, the content of the blog written by this woman ...... It's all fake. ”
I pouted:
"Maybe people are really writing nonsense, she's actually a schizophrenic who needs to be recognized by others......
"The symptoms of schizophrenia are not like this, you should be talking about multiple personality disorder."
I glanced at Shi Zuocai suspiciously, I didn't know what he was doing blindly, and sighed:
"Okay, I'm just casually proposing a possibility, and I don't think this assumption is likely to be true, after all, the math teacher still has to correct homework when he gets home, so how can he have so much time to work part-time."
"In that case." Shi Zuocai suddenly leaned on the back of the chair of the Internet café and breathed a long sigh of relief:
"There should be only one last possibility left."
"What possibility?"
"Possibilities between verifiable and unverifiable."
Shi Zuocai said lightly:
"She has a job of her own."