Chapter III
Scene: Still in a community cafΓ©.
The doctor is communicating the details with her husband,
Husband: "Let's confirm again, you have to start being hospitalized tomorrow, right?" β
Dr. Zhang's eyes were calm: "Yes"
"If it's too late, it won't work, and there will be no way to operate on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year"
"I'll call the person in charge of the people's hospital here."
I tried my best to think of the questions I needed to ask.
"Dr. Zhang, what stage of my dad's disease does this belong to now? Is there a few years that can be lived without surgery? β
"Let's put it this way, this virus is strong, it will only take 1-2 years after surgery, and 3-5 months without surgery" Dr. Zhang looked at me calmly, I don't know if he is trying his best to stay peaceful, or if he can be a doctor in the first place.
Sitting across from you is the daughter of a patient who may only have 3-5 months left to live!
The first time I was tired of this peace, me.
I wish he could squeeze out a few words of comfort.
It didn't work out as I wanted.
"Then, Dr. Zhang, how long will it be like my dad" I was deflated.
"3-5 months without surgery" only listened to Dr. Zhang repeat this sentence.
"Can I drink reishi soup?"
"Yes! But the effect is unknown. "Eat less greasy," Dr. Zhang added.
Scene, in the car.
In the car. On the way home.
I didn't say a word, and my husband focused on driving.
Turning to look at me at the traffic light, my hand stroked my hair, and I shook my shoulder impatiently.
"You can also have surgery, which means that the situation is not very serious"
"This is an expert in Shanghai, skilled, rest assured"
Scene: Downstairs in your house.
The car went downstairs to the house.
Get out of the car with a straight face.
My husband trotted all the way and chased me to the door.
Didn't bring a key. The husband took out the key to open the door.
Scene: At home.
I went in to change my slippers and sat on the couch.
Stand up and go to the bathroom to wash your hands and face, and then sit on the sofa.
Scene: Kitchen
My husband is washing vegetables: spinach, greens, fish...
I got up from the couch and walked to the kitchen door, leaning against the door frame.
"Go to the rest party, go watch TV" My husband turned to look at me,
"Don't think about it," he said, looking down into my eyes. They tried to make me laugh, but they didn't dare.
βγγγβ I leaned on his shoulder and began to cry.
My husband patted me on the back like comforting a little doll: "Oh... Oh"
Hearing the cry, the son chased him out of his room and asked urgently, "What's wrong with my grandfather?" What do doctors say? β
The husband waved his hand and motioned for his son not to talk again.
My son put his arms around my husband and me, and let me cry heartbreakingly.
In 2019! Memories of Chinese New Year's Eve!
βββ scene: A newly opened hotel next to the downtown park, after 3 corners, arrived.
My dad and my mom arrived, sitting and drinking tea.
My mother-in-law arrived and chatted with my parents over tea.
"Coming, coming", and a friend of my husband's family who lives out of town and his wife greeted our family of three together.
Cold dishes came on the round table: small yellow croaker in oil, celery, small river shrimp, pork liver with sesame oil, and jellyfish with coriander.
I didn't eat much.
I watched my dad eat the vegetables, and he had a good appetite.
The waiter brought a plate of glutinous rice dumplings filled with fried bean paste, and my father picked one up and ate it.
I tried my best to say softly, "Dad, can you not eat this oily glutinous rice dumpling?"
"This can't be eaten, that can't be eaten, what else can I eat" glared at me, and my father said loudly.
The couple who were friends from other places next to me stopped the chopsticks and looked at me and my dad.
γγγγγ I... Keep your head down. I didn't know what to eat.,Put it in your mouth and chew.γγγ Chew... Chew...
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw my husband leaning next to a friend from out of town and whispering in a low voice. My friend listened, nodded while watching, and looked at my dad.
"Come, father-in-law, eat, eat more"
My mother-in-law, who has always had a good appetite and regards eating food as the primary method of maintenance, health care and longevity, turned to my father and pouted at us.
"What's the matter with eating more on Chinese New Year's Eve," my mother-in-law scolded us in Mandarin with a foreign dialect.
My husband touched me with his elbow, saw that I was silent, picked up his mobile phone and leaned in front of me and whispered: "Yiqing City has been closed"
"Ah, what is the lockdown? Does it mean that you can't get out? Can only stay there for the New Year? I came back to my senses and asked him.
"You can get in the city, but you can't get out of the city," a friend from out of town answered.
Talked about the protection of yiqing, and didn't dare to go out to play, what should I do if it is transmittedγγγγγ A table of family and friends immersed in a discussion.
Scene: Hotel.
After eating, I moved off my stool.
When I stood up and put on my coat, I looked at my father: "Dad, we'll send you later"
"Oh", Dad sniffed.
When I was young, I smoked too much chalk ash, but I actually smoked too much cigarettes. Often half-coughing "cough. Cough.. β
I zipped up my coat and looked at it.
Wore an old dress today.
γγ Voice-over....
In previous years, I had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, I liked to wear a new dress, do a hairstyle in the morning to go to the barber shop for 2 hours, blow long hair flowing type, go out of the barber shop, will pluck a pinch of hair and smell the tip of the nose, walk on the street, with fragrant flowing hair, I really want to learn to whistle now.
Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the dinner is held in the restaurant, and the appearance should be energetic, not lacking in fashion, self-superior, and leisurely.
In previous years, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner to the morning of the first day of the new year was the time I enjoyed the most. The whole family eats food together and watches the Spring Festival Gala together.
I am grateful to my ancestors for inventing this festival where you can relax your whole body.
Walk with your parents to the parking space.
"It doesn't matter if it's a holiday when you're sick"
Getting into the car, I drove.
I sent my parents back to my house.
"Dad, the doctor said that he would start living in the People's Hospital tomorrow, and the doctor recommended by his classmates has already said hello.
Need to get a shot every day"
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I cautiously went back and explained that I was worried that my father would not agree to go to the hospital on the first day of the new year.
Mr. Xiao is sometimes very stubborn, I have to listen to him since I was a child, and he is what he says.
"Oh, okay" "Ahem" Dad coughed and promised me.
"Then I'll pick you up tomorrow at 7 o'clock?"
The half-blind mother is like the shadow of her father, and she gets it wherever she goes. Don't let her go? Don't even think about it.