Chapter 26 first quarter

It is the winter of 2004 now. The Siberian cold snap hit the Northwest Territories again.After a day and night of strong winds, the snow fell overwhelmingly.The long midwinter hangs over Sand City. There is a wind every year, blowing from spring to winter.Sand City in the Gobi Desert is a place where the wind blows stones, but it looks enchanting and charming on a winter night after snow.The high-rise buildings have colorful neon lights flashing, the dim yellow street lights on the side of the street are dim and dim, and the snow light reflects the slowly passing car lights into a deep and blurred atmosphere, like fireflies lingering under the starry sky in summer, singing and drifting, Stir up the hustle and bustle of the night in the city with bunches of faint blue glare.

The operating room on the eighth floor of the Surgery Building of the Second People's Hospital was brightly lit, and from time to time, the sharp crashing sound of various instruments on white porcelain plates broke the tranquility of the winter night. This is the last operation scheduled by the surgery today.Lying on the operating table was the mother of Maizi, a nurse who had just been seconded to the surgery department. It was to save her mother that she asked to be temporarily seconded from the internal medicine department to the surgery department.However, she was so restless that she couldn't concentrate on the operation at this moment.

Lying on the operating table is Maizi's only relative, and they have experienced countless winds and rains together.Now my mother is struggling with death, and her heart is also struggling.She especially didn't want to see the sharp scalpel cut on her mother, and then look for the broken pieces under the incision, and the doctor put them back together again, followed by the stitching of the wound.Mother must be in pain.Although she was unconscious and injected with anesthesia, Maizi could still feel her mother's pain clearly.Those things that were cut or rummaged on the mother's body were so reckless, as if what lay there was not the body of a still living person, but a pile of tatters, which could be rummaged through, picked up and mended at will.Maizi couldn't bear to witness this scene with her own eyes, those things seemed to poke her heart one by one.On several occasions she even refused to obey the doctor's orders to hand over additional scalpels, hemostats and forceps.She hoped that the attending doctor, who had the power of life and death, would show mercy to her mother.

The patient's injury was too serious, and the attending doctor was already sweating profusely because of nervousness.He couldn't wait for the necessary equipment to be handed over from the nurse for a long time, so he gave the dull Maizi who was standing beside him a hard look.In the end, he had to let another nurse take over Maizi's job. At this time, Maizi walked back and forth in the aisle outside the operating room uneasily.She didn't know if her mother would be able to get out of danger, so she had to use this kind of mechanical walking to force herself to calm down. The operation took more than eight hours.At nine o'clock in the evening, the patient was finally pushed out of the operating room and sent to the observation ward as a first-aid room.That ward is next to the doctor's duty room.

The repair of a comminuted skull fracture is extremely difficult. In addition, the patient has multiple fractures, and her physiological indicators such as blood pressure and heart rate once dropped to the lowest limit.The rescue process of more than eight hours was full of dangers.It was a race against death.Now the patient and the medical staff have persisted, and the operation was relatively successful, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The patient was lying flat on the hospital bed, still in a coma, with white bandages or plaster casts on his head and body, and catheters, infusion bottles, oxygen tubes, blood pressure instruments, etc. Breathing is even.Maizi's hanging heart fell to the ground for a while. She recovered from her dullness and thanked the doctors and nurses who hadn't had time to take off their protective masks.

Xiao Liu, a nurse who was about Maizi's age, turned her head while washing her hands and said, "No need to thank you. We have been busy since noon and we haven't had dinner yet. Would you like to treat everyone to supper?" "Yes, you should treat me. First, we have worked hard for your mother's operation for nearly a day, and we wish your mother a speedy recovery; second, you have just been transferred to the surgery department, so why don't you express our friendship?" Another young man The male doctor took the call. Maizi smiled apologetically and said, "I'm in a hurry here, why didn't I think of making dinner reservations for you? Well, you choose a place, and we'll have dinner right away."

Li Chenguang, the director of surgery, took off his white coat and said, "Everyone, don't make a fuss. Maizi stays to take care of the patients. Today's supper is a treat for everyone. Let's go to Little Sheep Hot Pot City to eat boiled mutton, and then go to Balala Entertainment City to have a game." All night, how about it?" Nurse Xiao Liu curled her lips and said, "Director Li is eccentric, Maizi has just been transferred, why do you take care of her affairs!" A middle-aged female doctor winked at Xiao Liu: "Who cares who treats guests, you just go along, and you don't have to pay the bill."

According to the regulations of the hospital, the elevators in the surgery building open at 8:00 a.m. and stop at 8:00 p.m.But the old man watching the elevator at night often hides somewhere to be lazy.Everyone could only take the stairs, so they all changed their clothes and started going downstairs. Li Chenguang walked at the end.Seeing that other people had gone down to the seventh floor, he turned around and said to Maizi, "I'll send Xiao Liu back to take care of the patients in a while, you can find us in the entertainment city." "My mother is like this, how can I be in the mood to play? I won't go today."

"Are you really not going?" Maizi shook his head. "The operation is under general anesthesia. She shouldn't wake up tonight. You should rest for a while!" Maizi still shook her head. "I'm leaving?" Maizi said nothing. Li Chenguang also left. Soon, the doctors and nurses on duty went to rest.The surgery building suddenly fell silent.Everything is asleep. What a long cold night!At some point in the morning, Maisui woke up for the first time due to severe pain, but she couldn't open her swollen eyes at all.She tried to turn her stiff body, but couldn't move.It took her a lot of effort to lift the right hand with the needle inserted, and the catheter and oxygen tube rattled and rattled.Maizi, who was lying on the edge of the bed, was startled. She raised her head and called out in surprise, "Mom, Mom, are you awake?" Maisui put her hand on her daughter's and stopped there.She muttered in her mouth, her voice was indistinct.Maizi put her ear close to her mother's mouth, and finally heard her intermittent words: "Jade bracelet, jade bracelet... your father..." But she didn't finish a sentence, and the unbearable pain caused her to pass out again .

"Doctor Zhang, my mother woke up just now!" Maizi went straight to the doctor's duty room. Doctor Zhang on duty rushed to the observation room with a stethoscope and checked the patient.She raised her head and said to Maizi: "Your mother's trauma is not fatal. We have treated her ribs, hip bone and left leg bone fractures, and no intracranial congestion or fluid accumulation was found during the treatment of the head trauma. But during the operation She is not in good condition, she must be too weak or has some disease, which is likely to be flared up or aggravated by this injury. If complications arise, it may be life-threatening. You know what your mother had in the past ?"

Maizi shook his head.The attending doctor had asked her about these words before the operation.In Maizi's memory, her mother had never been in a hospital, and she rarely saw a doctor. She usually went to the pharmacy to buy two aspirin tablets for headaches and then it was over.Therefore, Maizi couldn't show the doctor's reference to her mother's previous medical records when rescuing her mother. In the hospital, Dr. Zhang hits it off with Maizi, and she is a trustworthy elder.Moreover, Dr. Zhang also has a daughter who is about the same age as Maizi, who is studying for a master's degree in the provincial capital.The girl in front of her, who should have been carefree, is facing a terrible predicament. She wants to help her, but there are many things she can't do.In fact, she could only express a little concern and sympathy, or pity, for Maizi's current situation. At this time, Dr. Zhang looked at Maizi with eyes full of reproach: "Young people nowadays don't know how to be considerate and caring about their parents. I heard that you didn't have a father when you were young. Think about how difficult it would be for your mother to raise you alone!" Doctor Zhang's words made Maizi bow her head, feeling deeply guilty.Thinking about it carefully, she really did too little for her mother, and sometimes she did deviant actions just to deliberately anger her mother.If the mother really can't wake up this time, he will...Maizi dare not think about it anymore.She looked up at Dr. Zhang with teary eyes and said, "My mother, she...is she still alright?" "You are studying nursing. I can't hide some things from you. Your mother's condition is not optimistic. According to her current situation, her dying life cannot be simply attributed to a car accident. I heard from Director Li that I invited you from the provincial capital. The specialist will arrive the day after tomorrow to give your mother a comprehensive consultation. How did she react when she woke up just now?" "She moved her hand, then said jade bracelet, and mentioned my father." Doctor Zhang pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that your mother's condition is really serious. But she seems to have something on her mind, and she won't fall down easily. You have to cheer up and take good care of her. If her pain is too severe , you can give her a sedative." Doctor Zhang patted Maizi's shoulder kindly, and told her some precautions before leaving the observation room. Maizi sat on a wooden bench beside the hospital bed, subconsciously stroking the jade bracelet on her wrist. The jade bracelet belonged to my mother. She had treasured it for many years, and it was only handed over to Maizi last week.Maizi knows the truth that gold and silver are valuable but jade is priceless, but that refers to jade articles that are valuable for collection.As for mother's jade bracelet, Maizi didn't know its origin, moreover, there was a crack on it, and it was likely that it would break from the crack with a slight bump.Although the cracks are subtle and covered up with light green paraffin, anyone with a discerning eye can see it, and it cannot be hidden from the eyes of experts.In other words, even though it was once priceless, because of that crack, its value has been greatly discounted.Maizi didn't understand why her mother hid it so secretly for so long.If it really has any value, it doesn't lie in the jade bracelet itself, does it? Maizi still remembered that ordinary night a week ago, when her mother solemnly called her to sit on the edge of the bed, took out this jade bracelet from the interlayer of the closet, and said: "It was left to me by your father back then, now Leave it to you. Your father is in Shacheng, maybe you can see him one day." Maizi looked at her mother in surprise, as if meeting her for the first time.Yes, what mother said really surprised Maizi!In her memory, she has no father.Since she was a child, her mother never mentioned her father's name. Even now, when she solemnly put the jade bracelet on Maizi's hand, she still didn't mention her father's name. From that day on, Maizi knew clearly that she had a father and that he lived in the same city as herself, but she didn't know who he was.When she put on this jade bracelet, she thought her mother would tell her everything, but before her mother could say anything, their conversation was interrupted by the lady from the neighborhood committee who came to collect the property fee.Later, Maizi received a call and went out, and she and her mother never found a suitable opportunity to talk about it.At that time, Maizi didn't take it seriously. She felt that she could spend a lot of time with her mother as long as she wanted.But at this time, her mother may leave her at any time... Now, Maizi, who was waiting in the ward, began to regret it.The mother was struggling on the verge of death, and when she woke up for the first time, she mentioned the jade bracelet and her father.Perhaps, mother has treasured this cracked jade bracelet for so long, and everything about her father is what she cherishes. During the long night of cold winter, Maizi who was guarding the hospital bed was very scared.She was afraid that her mother would never get well again, and she would leave herself alone in this world; even though she knew that there was a person called "father", the mother and daughter lost the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart talk. There will always be only speculation, what kind of regret and pain this will leave Maizi! ... A sense of fear of helplessness hit Maizi, and she didn't know if she had the courage to bear all this! In the middle of the night, Li Chenguang, reeking of alcohol, returned to the surgery building alone.He staggered into the observation room, glanced at the wheat ears lying motionless on the hospital bed, walked straight over and took Maizi's hand and said, "You... dance with me...!" Maizi said, "It's so late, what are you doing here if you don't go home?" "I want you to dance with me!" Li Chenguang waved his hand, not allowing Maizi to speak any more, and pulled her to spin in the ward, twirling, from the ward to the dark place in the corridor.