Chapter 13 manly doctor

An An accompanied her mother to the obstetrician for a routine checkup. After taking off the culottes, my mother sat on the examination table with her legs spread wide apart.The doctor put on gloves and took out tools. "Mom," An An said by the door, "I want to see it too." Dr. Shi glanced at his mother and asked, "Do you mind?" Mom thought for a while and said, "I don't mind. An'an, you can come in, but you can't touch the equipment." An An stood beside the doctor, raised her head, and looked at her mother from a new angle. "Doctor Shi, what are you doing?"

The doctor's fingers penetrated into the mother's body, and An An opened her eyes wide. "I'm touching the baby's head to see if he's growing well." Mom's belly is round.I heard that there is a child inside, waiting to come out and play with An An in the car. 'Doctor Shi, what are you touching now? " The attending doctor smiled kindly at An An, "Uterus! The womb is the baby's sleeping bag in the mother's womb. You have slept in it before." "Doctor Shi, what is that?" "This is a small lamp. Look, it's dark inside Mom's belly. I can see the inside with a small lamp."

My mother was lying there, listening to the conversation between the old and the young, and remembered a book that An An loved to read - "The Mystery of the Human Body".An'an put her finger on the picture and muttered to herself—"The food goes in here—this is the mouth—then slips down, this is the esophagus—then stir it here, there is sour in it This is the stomach... here, oops! It stinks to death, this is the large intestine, stir it, it becomes poop! Come out!" Today, he took another practice class on the mystery of the human body. The doctor smeared a paste-like mucus on Mom's bare stomach, and rubbed the paste with something.Blurred shadows appeared on the fluorescent screen.

The doctor measures the size of the fetus' head. "Doctor Shi, can you tell if it's a man or a woman?" Mom asked. The doctor smiled, a little treacherously, and said: "I can only see that it's a baby. I can see that he doesn't have two heads and six feet. As for whether it's a boy or a girl—you must know?" Mom shook her head indifferently. "That's right!" Dr. Shi turned off the ultrasound, "People have plundered the world to the limit, don't you think it would be better to keep a little bit of secrets, a little bit of surprise to nature?"

Mother looked at this famous German doctor carefully in a little surprise; he obviously never told the mother the sex of the fetus.Doctor Shi is about fifty years old, with curly black hair and a pair of particularly soft eyes. "Don't forget to take your daily vitamins..." the doctor ordered while recording the examination results. "Doctor Shi," my mother interrupted abruptly, "do you perform abortions?" The doctor was stunned - down, shaking his head. "No, never." "Why?" Mom has the habit of breaking the casserole and asking the bottom line.

"I love life! I am only responsible for welcoming life into this world; I don't cut off any life." Dr. Shi replied simply. "So," my mother asked hesitantly, "will you be willing to sterilize me after I give birth?" The doctor's soft eyes smiled, "Of course I'd do it if you absolutely insisted, but, dear Andres' mother, I'd spend the whole afternoon trying to convince you not to have a vasectomy—" "Why? I only want two children. After giving birth to my second child, I will be thirty-eight years old, and I am not too young. Why not have a sterilization?" Mom was really surprised.She recalled the Taiwan Adventist Hospital run by the Americans. When she was in Huaian'an, the nurses routinely asked her if she wanted to have a vasectomy after giving birth.

"Because," Dr. Shi said leisurely, "sterilization is irreversible. Think about it, life is impermanent. If something happens to your child, if you want to regenerate, it would be impossible to have a ligation. What a pity! You can Take contraceptive pills, or install a contraceptive device, of course, the best way is to have the man sterilized, because the man's vasectomy is not only a simple operation, but also can be recovered at any time..." "A woman like you," Dr. Shi looked at his mother, "why don't you have a few more?" Mom was tongue-tied and speechless—"I-I-I'm thirty-eight—"

"What is thirty-eight years old!" The doctor said sincerely, "You have the ability to raise children, and you have the time and wisdom to raise them... A woman like you doesn't have many children, who should have them?" "Alas!" Dr. Shi continued with a half-smile, "You liberated women are the hardest to deal with!" "How many children do you have?" Mom asked unconvinced. The doctor smiled: "Five!" "Oh——" Mom lost her voice. One sunny afternoon, my mother and a few aunts and six wives were drinking coffee at Erica's house.Erica's son, already in graduate school, came home on weekends, like Santa Claus with a big bag of dirty laundry for his mother to wash.When there was a special report that could not be written, Erica went to the neighbor’s house to ask for help for her son—anyway, some of the neighbors had Ph.D. in economics, Ph.D. in Psychology, Ph.D.

"Want a man to have a vasectomy?" Erica almost spilled the coffee, "I couldn't take medicine back then because I was allergic to the medicine, and then I installed a contraceptive ring, and my vagina kept getting inflamed, so I had to beg my husband to have a vasectomy—you Do you want him to?" The three aunts and six wives all stared wide-eyed and asked in unison, "No?" Erica shook her head: "He would rather beheaded!" Heidi also shook her head: "I don't want to either." Susan bravely concluded: "A man lacks confidence in himself, he has to rely on 'that' for affirmation."

The three aunts and the six women sipped their coffee and nodded with a feeling. At the dinner table that day, Mom was very attentive to Dad. Not only did she prepare white wine and prawns for Dad, but she also forbade An An to eat on Dad's shoulders. After dinner, my father was about to push away the chair and get up, but was held down by my mother. She said seriously: "Sit down. I have something to discuss with you." "What's the matter?" Dad's expression also changed.He knew what disaster was coming when he saw his mother's expression.He sits down.

Mother carefully repeated Dr. Shi's words, and then began to prepare the speech all afternoon: "So the most ideal way is for men to undergo sterilization..." Dad calmed down and said, "Okay, I'll go!" "Men's vasectomy is very simple, it takes a few minutes, and it's not painful—" Mom continued to recite. "Okay, I'm going to have a ligation!" "Also, vasectomy doesn't affect a man's ability, don't have any psychological barriers, a confident man—" Mom suddenly stopped and looked at Dad fixedly, "What did you just say?" Dad shrugged: "I thought it was a big deal! I'm going to have a ligation! Why are you so wordy." He pushed away the chair and went to the living room to play with his son.The laughter of the father and son chasing each other resounded in the living room. Mom sat blankly on the chair.