Chapter 32: The Sleeping Lover
"Luo Ling, where are you? We're all crazy looking for you. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" Xu Xiaoya's eager words came from the other end of the phone.
"Don't worry, something happened to me, but I'm safe." Qi Luoling said calmly.
"Thank goodness we're all dying."
"I just called Zaishan, why can't I get through?"
"Mr. Cui......" Xu Xiaoya's words were a little evasive.
"What's wrong with Jae-seon?" Qi Luoling became nervous.
"He had a car accident on his way to find you." Xu Xiaoya snorted.
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When Qi Luoling looked inside the ward through the mirror window of the ward. Several doctors and nurses in green clean suits were busy at the bedside. Choi Jae-sun, who was wearing a hospital gown, slept quietly in the hospital bed.
He slept peacefully as before. The sunlight fell on his angular countenance, casting a black shadow like a perfect classical Greek sculpture. She burst into tears, reaching out her palm to touch his presence through the glass, feeling his warm body.
"How did he get into a car accident?" Qi Luoling asked with tears in her eyes.
The driver was attacked and knocked unconscious, and when he woke up, he called Mr. Cui and told him that he was injured and robbed by gangsters. Mr. Cui intuitively felt that there must be something strange about this matter, so he will call you immediately. He knew that you couldn't get through the phone, so he was in a hurry. Crazy and drove to find you, but he didn't expect that because he was in a hurry and drove fast, he had a car accident and the sidecar overturned off the bridge together. By the time the rescue arrived, he had already become like this. Xu Xiaoya, who was behind her, whispered.
Qi Luoling's tears fell silently from her face.
The door to the ward opened, and a tall doctor came out, he undid the mask on his face and said, "Who are the patient's family members?" ”
Qi Luoling eagerly greeted him and said, "I am, how is the patient?" ”
"The patient's brain was damaged due to a car accident, and although he had spontaneous breathing, his pulse, blood pressure, and body temperature could be normal, he did not have any speech, consciousness, or thinking ability. That is, he is now in a special coma. The doctor said.
"Do you mean he's in a vegetative state?" Xu Xiaoya asked.
"What?" Qi Luoling's feet went limp, and she almost fell to her knees.
"It cannot be understood that a person who has been in a coma for more than 12 months can be defined as vegetative. Even if they are vegetative, it is possible to wake up successfully. So, you can't be so pessimistic. He also only temporarily lost the function of consciousness, the function of neurons is reversible, once the neurons are activated, the brain will be stimulated, and consciousness will be generated. Now you can come in and see him. The doctor comforted her.
Qi Luoling followed the doctor into Choi Jae-sun's hospital room.
With white walls and a white hospital bed, she looked at her lover who was as pale as paper as if she were in a different world.
On the bed, he closed his eyes quietly, but he was suddenly unknown in the face of her arrival, the body that was still alive seemed to be the same as before, but it had lost its vitality.
"Don't be sad, everything will be fine. I think he should have sensed your coming. Xu Xiaoya said softly.
"Doctor, how long will it take for him to wake up?" Qi Luoling looked back at the doctor helplessly.
"That's not good. After all, it varies from person to person. The doctor spread his hands helplessly.
"Is there any good treatment?"
"There is no special way to wake up a vegetative person. As a patient, there is nothing more than the meticulous care and persistence of relatives. However, arousal in a vegetative state can be carried out through five sensory pathways through which the brain receives information from the outside world, including sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and physical pathways. ”
"So what should I do?" Qi Luoling asked.
"He usually likes what you do for him?"
Qi Luoling suddenly remembered a moment of her past life, remembered Choi Jae-sun when she met at a bar, paused, and said, "He likes me to play piano music for him." ”
"That's great, you can play the piano for him, stimulate his brain, and maybe he'll wake up one day." The doctor was a little excited.
"Music can also be used as a means of therapy?"
"Of course, I specialized in the effects of music on the nervous system in my early years. More and more scientists are devoting themselves to the study of music. They found that music can cause ups and downs in people's thoughts and feelings, and can effectively stimulate the nervous system, which in turn can change people's emotions."
"But he's in a coma, can he sense the music?"
"There is no doubt that even people with severe brain injuries who have been in a vegetative state for a long time can perceive the peripheral world. Their neuronal information exchange is not zero, but only a little slower than normal. “
The doctor continued: "Music therapy acts on the auditory nerve, producing auditory stimulation to the patient, promoting the enhancement of brain bioelectrical activity and the potential ability to adjust the cerebral cortex; It can also increase blood flow in most areas of the brain, thereby improving clinical symptoms; The melody and rhythm of music can also regulate the limbic system and brainstem reticular activation system, speeding up the recovery of consciousness. However, I think in the end, it is because music relies on the power of love to awaken the sleeping and closed heart of the patient. I want you to spend more time with him, and possibly play him some music that he likes, which will help wake him up. ”
Qi Luoling didn't understand the doctor's terminology, but she understood the last two sentences and nodded.
After the doctor and Xu Xiaoya left, Qi Luoling sat on the chair next to the bed, quietly watching Cui Jae-sun for a while, and after a while, she gently closed his left hand in her palm, closed her eyes, and recalled the scene of their acquaintance.
The acquaintance of the two began with the melancholy score of the devil, as the devil said in the dark, it was his love that guided her to the mission of life, to become the brightest star in her sky.
But will he wake up now? If I find all the music of the devil's sorrows and play it to him, will he still wake up? Perhaps he will be like the German officer's soul judged by the devil and thus burned to death by the flames?
She didn't know all this. What she could know, though, was that the pain of death was nothing compared to the pain of the moment.
If only his soul could take his place, then his only wish is to be able to enter his world after death, enter his soul, and curl up in it, staying there forever.
Midnight came, and she sat in that chair in a daze.
The empty and broken heart travels through this world, and the empty and lonely is the main theme of the night. A thin mist descended on the earth, and all the sounds seemed to merge into one long sound, and finally formed a melody, a melody of sorrow and sorrow. All things on earth tremble in the melody.
A cold teardrop slowly dripped down, Qi Luoling wiped it with her hand, and she actually cried silently, even if the demon heard this sad music, he would cry when he saw this desolate night.
Suddenly, someone sighed softly in the dark, obviously this was not her sigh, let alone Choi Jae-sun's sigh.
Whose sigh is this? She stood up and searched in the darkness, where the rooms in the night fog seemed to float. The bleak moonlight shone in through the window, and there was no one else in the room except his own long figure.
But at this moment, she understood that it was a sigh from the devil.
She looked around, everyone was sleeping, she stood alone in the face of this sleeping world, feeling lonely like never before......
Early the next morning, Qi Luoling came alone in the hospital garden, sitting on a wooden chair with paint off.
The garden was green with a few small nameless white flowers, and the lush leaves beside it were rustling in the wind. There were a few small birds chirping in the branches.
The morning sun shone on her right arm, and it was exceptionally warm. She rubbed the butterfly birthmark thoughtfully.
Xu Xiaoya walked out of the inpatient hall of the hospital and came to her side.
"Just now, the hospital gave Mr. Cui another full body examination, and everything is normal in him, except that he is still unconscious, and he still remains asleep."
A few sparrows flew to the ground beside them, looked around, and took a few steps with their heads held high. Xu Xiaoya waved her hand impatiently, and the sparrows scattered in a hurry and flew to the tree next to her.
"Xiaoya, I've decided to leave. I hope you will take good care of him for me. Qi Luoling said.
"Where are you going?" Xu Xiaoya asked puzzled.
"I want to find the rest of the score." Qi Luoling looked at his butterfly birthmark and said lightly, "Look for the complete movement that will wake him up." ”
Xu Xiaoya looked at her for a long time, and then nodded silently.